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Love in Disguise(2026)

Upcoming · tvN

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ComedyDrama
ON AIR: OCT 19Season 1

What to Expect

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Love in Disguise builds its comedy from a single sustained lie: an ex-soldier hiding her identity as a male bodyguard, close enough to her eccentric, wealthy target to catch every contradiction. The humor grows from proximity and prolonged deception rather than quick reversals, so the jokes compound as the cover story gets harder to maintain.

Romantic tension accumulates through the bodyguard dynamic itself, where professional closeness and role-playing keep pushing the two leads together before either can be honest. Exposure would cost her the investigation and whatever feeling has quietly developed, so the disguise stops being just a plot device and becomes the thing holding everything fragile in place.

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Comedy and Drama

Story lane

Comedy and Drama

Commitment

Season 1

Where

tvN

Official Premise

A gender-bending office rom-com where an undercover ex-soldier poses as a male bodyguard to investigate a wealthy, eccentric murder suspect.

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