Our Queen of Tears gets a second chance romance in teaser

by Jenzy

Okay, tvN really needs to stop taunting me and give me this drama already! The latest teaser for Queen of Tears starring Kim Soo-hyun (One Ordinary Day) and Kim Ji-won (My Liberation Notes) just dropped, and with the premiere just around the corner, they’ve spared no tears in their final bits of promo.

The teaser opens with flashbacks between our lovey-dovey leads, the rich heiress Hong Hae-in (Kim Ji-won) and the average Joe Shmoe Baek Hyun-woo (Kim Soo-hyun). When they first got married three years ago, they couldn’t get enough of each other, but now their marriage is what Hae-in describes as an AC you turn on during a summer night — something that never really gives you the temperature you want.

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Now, when Hae-in so much as throws an icy look in his direction, Hyun-woo quakes in fear. On his end, love has been replaced with abject terror. While he might be able to unconvincingly choke out to her chaebol family that he’s *gulp* so happy, when we cut to his reality of screaming, crying, and slaving over dinners like an overworked daughter-in-law, we see that Hyun-woo, indeed, is not happy: “I chose to break my arm by getting married.”

But despite Hyun-woo’s view of his wife as an emotionless tyrant holding him hostage in a loveless marriage, when the teaser shifts to Hae-in’s perspective, she isn’t all what she seems on the surface. “The truth is,” she says while Hyun-woo pulls her out of the way of an oncoming bus, “I was scared.”

So perhaps hope isn’t all lost for our pair of opposites after all. We see Hyun-woo’s jealousy-dar enter the picture when a wealthy investor Park Sung-hoon (The Bequeathed) starts approaching Hae-in with a charming, yet calculating demeanor. And when someone in the voiceover asks our couple, “Weren’t you guys in love three years ago?” the reminder of their past seems to melt the ice between the two.

And slowly but surely, the two start to make steps toward each other again. A vulnerable Hae-in admits, “I just wanted to keep going home with you” while the two rekindle their relationship with quiet moments of romantic gestures: Hae-in leaning on Hyun-woo’s shoulder, him surprising her with a gift.

By the end of the teaser, they’re crying, I’m crying, everyone’s crying as the two run into an embrace that’s narrated by Hyun-woo, “I was confident that no matter what happened to Hae-in, we’d be okay. But now it’s not that easy.” Someone get these two a happy ending! And a box of tissues!

Written by Park Ji-eun (Crash Landing on You) and directed by duo Jang Young-woo (Bulgalsal – Immortal Souls) and Kim Hee-won (Soundtrack #2), Queen of Tears will premiere March 9 on tvN and will be streaming in select regions on Netflix.