Amidst betrayal, can Lee Sung-kyung Call it Love?

by solstices

Upcoming Disney+ revenge melodrama Call it Love has just released its main teaser, ramping up the conflicts and the waterworks. Lee Sung-kyung (Shooting Stars) headlines as Shim Woo-joo, our lonely heroine who’s bent on exacting revenge upon the stepmother who once hung her out to dry.

As the saying goes, the axe forgets, but the tree remembers. Woo-joo is still living with the emotional scars of her past to this day, but her stepmother doesn’t even recognize her anymore. As Woo-joo scathingly points out, her stepmother is living a comfortable life, having forgotten all about the past.

Woo-joo barely gets a breather before she’s caught up in an argument with her older sister, Shim Hye-sung, who’s played by Kim Ye-won (You Are My Spring). Hye-sung’s just been confronted with the fact that she’d been the side chick to her boyfriend, while the jaded Woo-joo can’t understand why she’d get involved in such a complicated relationship. But Hye-sung fires back that she doesn’t expect Woo-joo to understand — after all, she’s held no trust for men ever since their father cheated.

Unwilling to passively accept her lot in life, Woo-joo covertly approaches her stepmother’s son. Played by Kim Young-kwang (Somebody), Han Dong-jin is doing well for himself as a chairman, and Woo-joo secures herself a job at his company in order to keep a watchful eye on him. However, he soon catches her following him home, and that becomes the starting point for more — and deeper — conversations.

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It turns out that Dong-jin is well-acquainted with betrayal, too. For a year, he’s put up with his girlfriend’s cheating — we get a glimpse of Kang Min-young, played by Hani (Hit the Spot), in bed with another man. Judging by the amount of soju bottles in Dong-jin’s room, though, he’s clearly not over her. When he wanders onto the road in a blank stupor, Woo-joo has to pull him back to safety, even getting indignant on his behalf.

That’s definitely uncharacteristic behavior towards someone she’s supposed to take revenge against, and her loyal best friend Yoon Joon — played by Sung Joon (Island) — points out just as much. He advises her to avoid getting even more tangled up in Dong-jin’s affairs, but Woo-joo can’t help her feelings. Though she knows she’ll regret it, she finds herself yearning to stay by Dong-jin’s side.

Helmed by PD Lee Kwang-young (No, Thank You) and Kim Ji-yeon, with scripts written by Kim Ga-eun, Call It Love will begin airing on February 22.