2021

Doom at Your Service (Korean: 어느 날 우리 집 현관으로 멸망이 들어왔다) is a 2021 South Korean television series starring Park Bo-young and Seo In-guk. It aired on tvN from May 10 to June 29, 2021.

Tak Dong-kyung (Park Bo-young), an editor for a web novel company, lives a fairly ordinary life until she stumbles into an unexpected fate. All in a single day, she finds out she is dying from glioblastoma and has only three months to live, learns that her boyfriend is a father-to-be and has a wife, gets scolded by her superior at work, and is spied on by a pervert before the pervert falls into a sinkhole.

Drinking her problems away, she happens to see a shooting star from her rooftop apartment and drunkenly wishes for the world to be doomed. Her wish is heard by Myul Mang (Seo In-guk), a messenger between gods and humans. He was born between dark and light: when he breathes, countries disappear; when he walks, the seasons collapse; when he smiles, a life is extinguished. All he has to do is exist for something to fall into ruin. This is not his intention but simply his fate. On his birthday, he gets to choose a human’s wish to fulfill. Sick of his fate, he chooses to fulfill Dong-kyung’s wish to end the world.

Dong-kyung ends up signing a hundred-day contract with Myul Mang, risking everything she has ever known.

Due to negative feedback to a public service announcement on suicide prevention that she created, psychologist He Dun experiences a blow to her career. To cheer up, she meets her best friend at a restaurant where she runs into Qian Kai Yi. He is now hosting a radio program dealing with emotional issues. At his insistence, He Dun agrees to be his collaborator and co-host. As the show gains listenership He Dun’s counseling clinic becomes equally busy.

Meanwhile, her professor Ji Ming Cong becomes wrapped up in a scandal. In trying to get to the bottom of things, she discovers a secret about him. Alas, problems are mounting for He Dun and those around her. Stressed, her sleepwalking disorder returns, forcing a painful childhood memory to come surging back to the surface.

Can the psychologist untie the knot formed in her heart so many years ago?

(Source: YOUKU English Youtube Channel || edited by Lee C)

~~ Adapted from the novel “Nü Xin Li Shi” (女心理师 ) by Bi Shu Min (毕淑敏). Edit Translation

As the only true immortal who possesses pure essence energy, Shang Gu (Zhou Dong Yu) has spent countless lifetimes acting as the head of the four true immortals of the ancient world. The four most powerful beings in existence, these true immortals have become gods in the eyes of the mortals who constantly beseech them for help. Willing to help when they can, the immortals have protected humanity for ages, even going as far as to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. Such was the demise of Shang Gu, who willingly sacrificed herself in a trial which lasted 60,000 years.

Now awake from ages of slumber, Shang Gu has returned as Hou Chi, the High Immortal of Qingchi Palace. With no memory of her past life or former powers, Hou Chi has no idea that she was once loved by Bai Jue (Xu Kai), one of the three true immortals left after she made that ultimate sacrifice. Having silently loved Shang Gu for over 200,000 years, Bai Jue has spent the years she slumbered painstakingly gathering the scattered remnants of her soul. But his efforts to save Shang Gu came at a great price.

Trading his reincarnation for her life, Bai Jue gives everything he is and has for Shang Gu. Only after his soul disappears does Shang Gu remember the love they once shared. Vowing to wait for him, Shang Gu does just that, but will an eternity of waiting really bring him back?

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