Cat and mouse dynamics in tvN’s Delightfully Deceitful

by Jenzy

The second teaser for Delightfully Deceitful just dropped, and we get to see more of the polar-opposite dynamics between our embittered conwoman Chun Woo-hee (Be Melodramatic) and her empathetic lawyer Kim Dong-wook (King of Pigs).

The teaser opens with Han Moo-young (Kim Dong-wook) telling his client Lee Ro-woom (Chun Woo-hee) that he understands her situation. She incredulously retorts, “You?” to which he responds, “That’s right, me.”

You see, the two have history, which the teaser is quick to explain. In a case where two bodies were found in a burned building, 19-year-old Ro-woom was the primary suspect and charged with 15 years in prison for arson. Lucky for her, she had the bleeding-hearted Moo-young as her attorney.

In the flashback, she asks him, “What do you even do?” Amidst cuts of the crime scene and the courtroom, Moo-young answers her, “As a representative of the law, I fight crime. As a laywer, I defend my clients. And who knows? I might even be able to both for you.”

Even though he successfully gets her acquitted, it doesn’t take long before she’s right back to her old ways, hitting up the casino and concocting a mysterious revenge plan: “I have something to do, and that’s all I care about. It’s none of your business who I use to do it.” But despite his simp exterior, our lawyer is not about to let her commit crimes on his watch, telling her, “I’m not a pushover. Whatever you’re hiding, I’m going to find out what it is.”

We then see shots of Moo-young making good on his word as he follows Ro-woom around, thwarting her plans and in one instance physically blocking her from injecting a hospital patient with a drug. While he knows she only planned to use him to get out of jail, he can’t help his involuntary desire to keep her out of trouble. Things come to a head at the close of the teaser when he finally asks her point blank: “Did you kill someone?” and she coyly responds, “Did I?”

Will Moo-young manage to turn Ro-woon from her self-destructive path? Or will she finally shake him off when her crimes prove too much for him to swallow? Written by Han Woo-joo and directed by Lee Soo-hyun (Shooting Stars), Delightfully Deceitful will premiere on May 29 on tvN.