MC Blocks Shot / Slash / Stab
In a romance drama, one lead uses their own body to shield the other lead from serious danger (e.g., an arrow, bullet, sword or knife slash or stab).
HM = honourable mention for something that doesn't meet the exact criteria, but is similar.
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1. Crash Landing on You
Korean Drama - 2019, 16 episodes
ML and FL. Bullets.
ML shields the FL from a bullet. He gets shot in the back / shoulder.
FL drives a car between a bullet and the ML to protect the ML. She also gets shot.
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2. The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
Korean Drama - 2018, 16 episodes
ML and FL.
ML shields FL from boiling water. He gets a very large burn. She gets a small burn. Their burns line up.
FL gets shot shielding the ML from a bullet. The ML is also shot by a second bullet.
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3. KinnPorsche
Thai Drama - 2022, 14 episodes
BL so two MLs.
Both MLs are injured while protecting the other from bullets at different points in the drama. For one of them, the injury is serious enough to put that ML in the hospital.
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4. Hei Yue Guang Wen Na BE Ju Ben
Chinese Drama - 2023, 40 episodes
ML and FL. So many I lost track.
ML blocks lightning and fire balls (and more that I'm forgetting).
FL blocks a swarm of murderous crows, demon energy and immortal energy (and more that I'm forgetting).
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5. My Demon
Korean Drama - 2023, 16 episodes
FL takes a bullet for the ML.
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6. Ye Ye Xiang Jian Bu Shi Jun
Chinese Drama - 2023, 24 episodes
FL. Sword.
A man attacks the ML with a sword. The FL shields the ML and takes the sword through her abdomen.
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7. Zhang Gong Zhu Zhai Shang
Chinese Drama - 2022, 27 episodes
ML. Sword.
A man attacks the FL with a sword. The ML shields the FL and takes the sword through his back.
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8. The Romance of Tiger and Rose
Chinese Drama - 2020, 24 episodes
ML - Sword.
FL - Attempted. Sword.
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9. Il Re e la Spia
Korean Drama - 2024, 16 episodes
FL arranges to have the ML assassinated, but ends up protecting him from the assassin's sword with her own body.
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10. Story of Kunning Palace
Chinese Drama - 2023, 38 episodes
ML uses his body to block a sword from slashing the FL, and sustains a serious injury on his back.
The ML also grabs a blade with his bare hand to stop himself from hurting the FL.
The ML also stabs his own hand, rather than stabbing the FL's hand.
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11. Alchemy of Souls
Korean Drama - 2022, 20 episodes
ML - Arrow + Magic.
ML puts himself between an arrow amped up with magic and the FL, but that causes the mage who fired the arrow to change its course so the arrow does not hit the ML or the FL. But then the FL (who is being controlled) stabs the ML through his abdomen with a sword.
On different occasions the ML also puts himself between the FL and a dog-like demonic entity that appears to be about to attack her. He also is only able to unlock the power to unsheathe his sword when the FL is attacked - he puts himself and his sword between the FL and the crown prince attacking with his own sword.
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12. The Princess' Man
Korean Drama - 2011, 24 episodes
FL - Arrow.
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13. The Crowned Clown
Korean Drama - 2019, 16 episodes
ML - Arrow.
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14. The Evil Face
Chinese Drama - 2022, 18 episodes
FL and ML. Arrows.
FL gets shot by an arrow while rescuing the ML.
ML gets shot when he uses his body to shield the FL from being shot by a second arrow.
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15. Sciogliendomi dolcemente
Korean Drama - 2019, 16 episodes
FL - Knife.
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16. I Hear Your Voice
Korean Drama - 2013, 18 episodes
ML / FL - Knife.
The ML plans to kill the villain in order to stop him from murdering the FL, but the FL jumps in between the ML and the villain so that she gets stabbed by the ML instead of the villain (preventing the ML from becoming a murderer). The ML drops the knife and the villain picks it up. The ML is holding the FL at this point with his body in between the FL and the villain. It's not clear how much the ML moves after seeing the villain raise the knife and it's not clear whether the villain was aiming for the FL or the ML, but the villain ends up stabbing the ML in the back of his shoulder while the ML keeps his body in between the villain and the FL.
ML - Food scraps.
The ML uses his body to shield the FL from the contents of a bucket thrown at her by an angry client (she is a public defender). The contents turns out to be food scraps.
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17. Yu Jiao Ji
Chinese Drama - 2022, 22 episodes
ML = Phantom / demon attack
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18. Fall In Love
Chinese Drama - 2021, 36 episodes
SML - Bullet.
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19. L'affetto reale
Korean Drama - 2021, 20 episodes
SML - Sword.
One SML (the FL's bodyguard) puts his body between the FL and an attacker with a sword. His back is badly wounded. The same SML also puts himself between the FL and a leather soccer ball flying in her direction at an earlier point in the drama.
The ML puts himself between the FL and a falling porcelain pot.
A different SML puts himself between the FL and dirty water thrown by a lady hanging her washing.
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20. Love Like the Galaxy: Part 2
Chinese Drama - 2022, 29 episodes
FL - wooden stave.
The Emperor sentences the ML to be beaten by wooden staves. When the palace guards implement the punishment, the FL first tries to convince the Emperor to be lenient and then runs to the ML and puts herself between the ML and the guards implementing the beating - telling them to beat her instead if they must.
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21. La Vendetta della Cameriera
Chinese Drama - 2022, 30 episodes
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22. Ru Hua Ru Tu Season 2
Chinese Drama - 2022, 21 episodes
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23. Hi! School - Love On
Korean Drama - 2014, 20 episodes
HM
The FL puts herself between the ML and a truck. She also stands between the ML and humans and angels who threaten him, on different occasions. She also pushes him out of the way of a falling pot and pulls him out of the way of falling books.
The ML pulls the FL out of the way of a speeding car.
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24. Moment at Eighteen
Korean Drama - 2019, 16 episodes
HM
The ML puts himself between a ball and the FL. On a separate occasion he puts himself between a popped balloon with confetti and powder in it and the FL.
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25. Put Your Head on My Shoulder
Chinese Drama - 2019, 24 episodes
HM
The ML puts himself between flying medical equipment and the FL.
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26. Love Better Than Immortality
Chinese Drama - 2019, 40 episodes
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27. Lang Jun Bu Ru Yi
Chinese Drama - 2023, 30 episodes
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28. Lost You Forever
Chinese Drama - 2023, 39 episodes
HM
EP 2 - A male character uses his hand to block light and hot wax from a candle from falling onto the FL's face while she sleeps.
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29. Wu Yu Lun Bi De Ta
Chinese Drama - 2024, 26 episodes
ML blocks a knife stab.