The Only One For Me - One Lead Needs the Other
Dramas where one lead needs the other lead to live, to overcome their weakness, or to solve the central conflict in their life. Important here is that it must be the other lead specifically who plays this role for them; no one else will do.
1 - "you are my cure" trope; one lead has a fatal weakness (e.g. my kryptonite list) that the other lead naturally cures OR the other lead is the only exception to this weakness.
1a - common mini-version of this trope: one lead has insomnia that is cured when the other lead is nearby
2 - one lead has a unique power, ability, or identity that the other lead wants to exploit to reach their goals or wants to be around for their own benefit.
3 - "fateful bond" trope - through some pivotal (usually accidental) meeting between the two leads, one becomes dependent on the other. For instance, when a supernatural power is unintentionally transferred from one to the other, or a bond of fate is created between the two.
4 - both leads are exclusively and mutually dependent on each other for some non-romantic reason
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1. Sm:)e
Chinese Drama - 2018, 24 episodes
1 - ML has a severe aversion to physical contact with anyone except the FL
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2. Wo De Nv You Shi Jieyao
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
1 - FL's kiss cures the ML's illness
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3. Your Sensibility My Destiny
Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes
1 - ML's sensory perception depends on him touching the FL
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4. About Is Love
Chinese Drama - 2018, 30 episodes
1 - ML has a severe aversion to physical contact with anyone except the FL
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5. Love Me in Three Days
Chinese Drama - 2022, 24 episodes
1 - FL's kiss is the antidote to the ML's weird supernatural curse
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6. The Only You in The World
Chinese Drama - 2021, 22 episodes
1 - FL's curse is relieved by touching ML
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7. Nu Sunt un Robot
Korean Drama - 2017, 32 episodes
1 - FL is the only person the ML can stand to be around (because he's scared of people and thinks she's a robot)
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8. When Time Stopped
Korean Drama - 2018, 12 episodes
1 - FL is immune to the ML's time-stopping ability
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9. Dragoste... fără Pată
Korean Drama - 2018, 16 episodes
1 - (kind of a slowburn but) FL is the only person ML can touch without triggering his mysophobia
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10. Frumusețea Vine din Interior
Korean Drama - 2018, 16 episodes
1 - ML is the only one who can recognize FL even when she switches into a different body
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11. Sweet Sweet
Chinese Drama - 2021, 22 episodes
1 - when ML eats ice cream made by the FL, his communication disability is relieved
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12. Kuragehime
Japanese Drama - 2018, 10 episodes
1 iirc - FL has social anxiety but it doesn't act up around the ML
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13. Arang and the Magistrate
Korean Drama - 2012, 20 episodes
1 - only the ML can hear/see the FL
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14. About Time
Korean Drama - 2018, 16 episodes
1 - ML is the only one who can extend the FL's dwindling lifespan
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15. My Unicorn Girl
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
1 - ML has face blindness but can recognize the FL
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16. Kakafukaka
Japanese Drama - 2019, 10 episodes
1 - only the FL can cure the ML's ED (yes, that kind of ED... -_-)
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17. Meeting You
Chinese Drama - 2020, 28 episodes
1 - ML has social anxiety, FL is the only one he's comfortable with
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18. My Neighbour Can't Sleep
Chinese Drama - 2019, 24 episodes
1a
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19. Perfect Marriage Revenge
Korean Drama - 2023, 12 episodes
1a
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20. Go Ahead
Chinese Drama - 2020, 46 episodes
1a
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21. Once We Get Married
Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes
1a
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22. Watashi no Tadashi Onichan
Japanese Drama - 2021, 8 episodes
1a
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23. Goblin
Korean Drama - 2016, 16 episodes
2 - ML needs FL to end his curse because she is his destined bride
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24. Something About 1 Percent
Korean Drama - 2016, 16 episodes
2 - ML cannot get his inheritance unless the FL specifically agrees to marry him
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25. Moon Embracing the Sun
Korean Drama - 2012, 20 episodes
2 - ML needs FL to use as a "human talisman" to ward off bad fortune
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26. Lucky Romance
Korean Drama - 2016, 16 episodes
2 - FL thinks that the only way to cure her bad luck curse is by sleeping with the ML
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27. Irresistible Love
Korean Drama - 2023, 16 episodes
2 - FL is the only one who can end the ML's curse
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28. Wen Xiang Xie
Chinese Drama - 2022, 14 episodes
2 - FL needs the ML's scent to gain power
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29. I'm a Pet At Dali Temple
Chinese Drama - 2018, 22 episodes
2 - FL needs to touch ML's necklace to shift into human form
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30. Puppet Prince
Chinese Movie - 2019
2 - FL cures the ML's color blindness (among other things)
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31. Walk Into Your Memory
Chinese Drama - 2019, 24 episodes
2 - FL has the ability to see other's memories, which the ML needs to solve his amnesia
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32. Prince of Lan Ling
Chinese Drama - 2013, 46 episodes
2 - ML(s) need FL's magic blessing to win a war
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33. Supervisor Husband
Chinese Drama - 2023, 22 episodes
2 - FL's kiss cures poison, ML gets poisoned a lot
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34. Rattan
Chinese Drama - 2021, 30 episodes
2 - ML helps FL regain her memory
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35. The Bride of Habaek
Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
2 - due to an old family curse the FL is bound to help/serve the ML
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36. Ultima Misiune a unui Înger
Korean Drama - 2019, 32 episodes
2 - ML needs to help FL find true love in order to return home
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37. Tomorrow With You
Korean Drama - 2017, 16 episodes
2 - ML thinks that by marrying the FL, he can prevent a doomed future
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38. O Odisee Coreeană
Korean Drama - 2017, 20 episodes
3 - demon ML is magically bound to help the human FL whenever she needs it
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39. Wu Ran
Chinese Drama - 2024, 26 episodes
3 - ML is magically bound to feel FL's injury/pain in her place
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40. A Terrifying Cohabitation
Korean Drama - 2021, 16 episodes
3 - human FL swallows the gumiho ML's "bead" which he needs to turn human
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41. Lang Jun Bu Ru Yi
Chinese Drama - 2023, 30 episodes
3 - FL swallows an object that the ML needs to cure himself. he must make her fall in love with him to transfer it back
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42. Cang Lan Jue
Chinese Drama - 2022, 36 episodes
3 - ML & FL become magically bound so that whenever the FL is in pain, the ML will feel it
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43. Demonul Șarmant
Korean Drama - 2023, 16 episodes
3 - ML's demon power is accidentally transferred to the FL
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44. A Good Day To Be a Dog
Korean Drama - 2023, 14 episodes
3 - FL has to kiss ML to stop turning into a dog after accidentally kissing him once
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45. Hong Chun Gi
Korean Drama - 2021, 16 episodes
3 - FL was blind but acquired the ML's vision
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46. Count Your Lucky Stars
Chinese Drama - 2020, 34 episodes
3 and 4 - FL takes ML's good fortune and ML receives FL's bad fortune
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47. W
Korean Drama - 2016, 16 episodes
4 - FL has to shock the ML basically to be able to return to her own world. Later on, the ML also needs the FL to come to the real world iirc
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48. Love Unexpected
Chinese Drama - 2021, 24 episodes
4 - FL feels ML's pain, ML feels FL's emotions
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49. Suflete Pereche
Korean Drama - 2013, 17 episodes
4 - FL stops being haunted by ghosts when she touches the ML; ML needs FL's unique ghost-seeing ability to help him banish a ghost
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50. Flavour It's Yours
Chinese Drama - 2019, 25 episodes
4 - FL and ML trade their sense of taste when they kiss