New stills and a teaser have come out for TVING’s upcoming Spice Up Our Love, with No Gain No Love’s Lee Sang-yi and Han Ji-hyun stepping up from second leads to main characters in this short-but-fun fantasy spin-off.
For context, the teaser begins by re-introducing our romance novelist Nam Ja-yeon (Han Ji-hyun) and re-visiting her near-accident with Bok Gyu-hyun (Lee Sang-yi) in No Gain No Love, when he had tried to apologize for his mean online comments. After blacking out, though, Ja-yeon is shocked to wake up inside the fictional world of her latest novel, inhabiting the body of her heroine.
However, Ja-yeon is further horrified to see that her male lead looks nothing like his namesake Lee Yoo-jin (Three Bold Siblings). Unable to accept that her precious character Kang Ha-joon (also Lee Sang-yi) has taken on Gyu-hyun’s form, Ja-yeon tries to rebel against her own lusty script. But this just leads Ha-joon to become hilariously distraught and he takes her to the hospital, thinking that his lover is unwell.
Our heroine then tries a different tactic, theorizing that she could trigger the story’s end if she plays out the final steamy chapter. Determined and robed, thus begins their bedroom tussle and when Ja-yeon wakes up still in fiction, she goes in for another sultry round. Desperate to find a way back to reality, Ja-yeon even tries to force a character death. But the teaser closes on Ha-joon’s epic save as Ja-yeon curses the male lead trope.
Directed by PD Jung Hoon with scripts by Jo Min-jung, production for the spin-off also had the original series writer Kim Hye-young (Her Private Life) in a creator role. Premiering on the heels of No Gain No Love’s finale, TVING’s Spice Up Our Love will be releasing its two episodes on October 3 and will be streaming internationally on Amazon Prime.
