Revenge
4 results🇻🇳Completed
Mr. Cinderella 2
BLWeb Series
4
🇹🇭Completed
Laws of Attraction
BLTV Series
7.035
🇰🇷Completed
Payback (Novel)
BLWeb Novel
55
🇰🇷Completed
Payback (Manhwa)
BLManhwa
117
About this archive
At the centre of every title here is a debt. Someone was wronged, and the story follows the attempt to settle it: the plan, the patience it demands, the position that has to be worked into and the price it exacts. A character who is simply angry does not qualify, because the pursuit of retribution has to organise the plot.
Revenge changes a romance by giving one lead a purpose that predates the other person and outranks them. Affection then arrives as a complication rather than a reward. In BL and GL this tends to produce stories about deception at close range, since the target of the revenge is often connected to the person the avenger falls for, or is that person. The tension is not whether feelings will be admitted but what happens when the plan surfaces, and whether someone can put down the thing they have built a life around. These narratives end up asking whether being loved is compatible with being consumed by a purpose, which gives the romance real weight instead of ornament.
Expect backstory released slowly, morally compromised leads and an ending that may cost somebody something. Runs tend toward full series length because the scheme needs room, and both original screenplays and novel adaptations are common.
REVENGE ACROSS THE SITE
There are 4 records under Revenge. By format they are Web Series, TV Series, Web Novel and Manhwa.
They come from South Korea (2), Vietnam and Thailand.
The earliest dates from 2010 and the most recent from 2023. The busiest year is 2023, with 2 of them.
Between them they are carried by 7 different services, most often Naver Series (2), YouTube and One31.
A typical entry here runs 8 episodes of about 40 minutes.
Records tagged Revenge are most often tagged Romance (4), Drama (4) and Melodrama (3) as well.
The longest run recorded here is Mr. Cinderella 2 at 8 episodes.
The most recent entry on this list is Mr. Cinderella 2, from 2023.
Every figure above is counted from this site’s own records and changes as records are added.
