The Bride of Habaek

📊 Series Specifications

Network tvN
Episode Runtime ~65 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 16
Original Language KO
Creator Yoon Mi-Kyung

The Bride of Habaek (2017)

Created by Yoon Mi-Kyung
⭐ 3.5 / 5 (92 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 16 Episodes 🏷️ Drama, Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Yoon So Ah is a pragmatic neuropsychiatrist who carries a tremendous financial burden to run her own practice. Her family has been tasked with serving Ha Baek, a reincarnated water god, for many generations, and So Ah is forced to do the same. Ha Baek starts to develop feelings for So Ah, but he has competition for her heart from Hoo Ye, the CEO of a resort company, who clashes with So Ah over a piece of land but then falls in love with her. Can a relationship between a mortal female and a god have a future?

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Episode 1

The god Ha-baek, heir to the throne of the Water Kingdom, comes to the human world and meets psychiatrist So-ah, who mistakes him for a patient.

E2 Episode 2

So-ah doesn't realize she's descended from servants of the gods. After a sudden kiss from Ha-baek, she starts to hear strange things.

E3 Episode 3

So-ah becomes mentally unstable after hearing the voices of plants and bugs. Yeom-mi suggests the cause might be guilt over failing to help someone.

E4 Episode 4

Ha-baek's divine power returns as he saves a falling So-ah, but it proves to be only temporary. So-ah finally believes that Ha-baek is a god.

E5 Episode 5

So-ah is riding in a car with Ha-baek and Soo-ri when the brakes fail. Ha-baek saves her with his power, which only returned in her time of need.

E6 Episode 6

After Bi-ryum threatens to drop So-ah from a bridge to test Ha-baek's power, she asks what her ancestors did to make her deserve this fate.

E7 Episode 7

So-ah visits Hoo-ye and opens up to him after an argument with Ha-baek. Ha-baek later tells So-ah that she can sell the land.

E8 Episode 8

Ha-baek realizes that Hoo-ye is a demigod and suspects he has something to do with Joo-dong's disappearance. So-ah frets about the land sale.

E9 Episode 9

Ha-baek finally meets Joo-dong only to find he has lost his memory. On the day Hoo-ye came to the human world, Joo-dong was struck by lightning.

E10 Episode 10

Joo-dong regains his memory and gives the third sacred stone to Ha-baek. Joo-dong says Hoo-ye unintentionally caused his memory loss.

E11 Episode 11

Ha-baek presses So-ah when he misunderstands her relationship with Hoo-ye, but she pushes back. He realizes his feelings and opens up to her.

E12 Episode 12

Mura tells So-ah how her ancestors became servants of the gods in order to convince her to allow Ha-baek to return to his own world.

E13 Episode 13

Ha-baek returns to find out why the sacred stones are in the human world. He tells So-ah he wants to love her so that he can properly say goodbye.

E14 Episode 14

Mura lashes out at Ha-baek when the reason for Hoo-ye killing Bi-ryum's subordinate Mo-myung comes to light. Hoo-ye remembers it all and disappears.

E15 Episode 15

So-ah watches the sunset with Ha-baek and admits that she wants to see her father. As they spend time together before their parting, Hoo-ye shows up.

E16 Episode 16

Yeom-mi identifies the person from her dream as So-ah's missing father. Ha-baek worries about So-ah after he returns to his world.