When Lee Hang-jo wakes up in a deserted shaman’s house, she spies a handsome man she’s sure must be the Grim Reaper. She wouldn’t be the first person to die in that ruin, so assuming she’s already dead seems logical. The hardworking Hang-jo, played by Jo Bo-ah, is in the spooky structure because she’s assigned to oversee its demolition. She’s a low level public servant, so eager to prove her worth that she foolishly ventures into the decrepit building alone. Her lack of caution is noteworthy. She’s given to risky behavior. When she’s rescued by a fellow worker, the mysterious man has disappeared.
Given that the title of this supernatural fantasy is Destined With You, viewers can expect that Hang-jo and the mystery man have some complicated kind of destiny. They will meet again—and again—until they resolve their fate. The man she pegged as the Grim Reaper is actually Jang Shin-yu, a successful lawyer played by Ro Woon. He happens to own the property she wants to demolish. Their lives were already entangled before meeting in the shaman’s house. As part of her job Hang-jo recently mediated a tense situation between construction workers and concerned neighbors. Things were about to get violent, when a construction worker fell from one of the higher floors. That man’s death became the subject of a lawsuit against Haum, the mega construction company, which Shin-yu’s firm represents.
They continue to encounter each other despite having little in common. She’s a conscientious civil servant, while he’s a rich lawyer enslaved by an ancient curse. She’s down to earth. He’s not only rich and pampered: he’s having some kind of relationship with a supernatural being which occasionally gets creepily physical. A bloody hand likes to stroke Shin-yu’s neck and has to be told to go away, not today. It’s a curse he can’t shake alone.
While mismatched in this lifetime, they may have mattered to each other in another life. After the shaman’s home is demolished, Shin-yu finds a wooden box that the former inhabitant tells him only Hang-jo can open. It’s possible that with this box she can undo the curses that plague his family. One of those curses is a mysterious disease that’s making Shin-yu’s hand tremble. And it has something to do with how he treated Hang-jo in a past life. Never one to avoid a potentially dangerous situation, Han-joo opens the mysterious box and finds a spell book that will change both their lives.
Ro Woon, a member of the k-pop group SF9, previously appeared in the dramas, Tomorrow, She Would Never Know, Extraordinary You and The King’s Affection, for which he won three KBS awards. Jo Bo-ah appeared in Tale of the Nine-Tailed 1938, Tale of The Nine-Tailed, Military Prosecutor Doberman and Forest, for which she earned KBS Netizen and Best Couple awards.
The drama, which airs on Netflix
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