My Lovely Liar

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My Lovely Liar

소용없어 거짓말 (Soyongeobseo Geojismal) · 2023 · South Korea

WriterSeo Jeong-eun

DirectorNam Sung-woo, Noh Young-sub

Episodes16 eps · ~65 min each

⏱️ Binge Time17h 20m

AiredJul 31 – Sep 19, 2023

GenreRomance · Fantasy · Mystery

Content Rating15+ · Teens 15 or older

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Two leads with impossible chemistry, a second lead who makes it harder to root against him, and a supporting cast that keeps the tarot cafe alive.

Kim So-hyun

Mok Sol-hee

Lead

Hwang Min-hyun

Kim Do-ha

Lead

Seo Ji-hoon

Lee Kang-min

Supporting

Yun Ji-on

Jo Deuk-chan

Supporting

Lee Si-woo

Sya-on

Supporting

Ha Jong-woo

Baek Chi-hoon

Supporting

All 16 episodes — spoiler-light recaps to help you navigate without giving away what matters.

EP 01

The Girl Who Hears Lies

July 31, 2023

Sol-hee’s ability is established quickly and without sentimentality — it’s a burden she’s learned to monetize, not a superpower she enjoys. The bus encounter with a masked stranger is brief but well-staged: she can’t read him, and the camera lingers on her confusion just long enough for the audience to feel it too.

EP 02

The Neighbor

August 1, 2023

The stranger from the bus is now living next door. The drama resists making this feel like a contrived setup — Do-ha’s presence in the building has a logic of its own, and his discomfort at being recognized reads as genuine. Sol-hee tries to use the situation professionally. It doesn’t go smoothly.

EP 03

The One She Can’t Read

August 7, 2023

The central puzzle sharpens: Sol-hee is surrounded by people she can read too well, and Do-ha is the first person in her life who registers as nothing. Kim So-hyun plays the confusion beautifully — not as attraction yet, just as a kind of disorienting silence she doesn’t know what to do with.

EP 04

Testing Him

August 8, 2023

Sol-hee lets Do-ha hide in her apartment and spends the episode actively trying to catch him in a lie. The dynamic is quietly funny — she’s treating it like a case, and he’s treating it like the most normal thing that’s happened to him in years. Kang-min appears at her door, and the geometry of the show’s love triangle starts to take shape.

EP 05

The First Lie

August 14, 2023

Sol-hee finally hears Do-ha lie — and the lie is worse than anything she imagined. The episode doesn’t dramatize the fallout immediately; it sits with Sol-hee’s decision to pull back and the specific shape of her disappointment. One of the stronger episodes in the first half.

EP 06

Unmasked

August 15, 2023

Do-ha steps outside without his mask — with Sol-hee’s help, more or less. The show earns its warmth here rather than just assuming it. Their dynamic has shifted from wary to something closer to collaborative, and Hwang Min-hyun’s physicality relaxes noticeably once the mask comes off.

EP 07

Two People Who Can Trust Each Other

August 21, 2023

Sol-hee tells Do-ha about her ability. He doesn’t flinch. This moment — and the ease of what follows — is the drama’s emotional core: two people who are exhausted by everyone else finding something like relief in each other. The Yeonseo Bakery subplot introduces a thread that will matter later.

EP 08

The Lie She Can’t Accept

August 22, 2023

Sol-hee hears Do-ha lie about the murder — and this time it isn’t ambiguous. The episode breaks the momentum of the romance deliberately, and the show is honest enough to let Sol-hee’s hurt be complicated rather than clean. Deuk-chan’s interference adds pressure from a different angle.

EP 09

Kang-min Steps In

August 28, 2023

Syaon is kidnapped to draw Do-ha out. Kang-min learns Do-ha’s real identity — and then does something unexpected: he shows up to help. Seo Ji-hoon’s quiet decency in this episode is why the second lead works. He’s not a rival in any cruel sense. He’s just a man who chose a different kind of honesty.

EP 10

Keep Her Safe

August 29, 2023

Kang-min warns Do-ha not to let Sol-hee into the danger zone, and Do-ha’s instinct is to agree — which puts him back in the position of hiding things from the one person his silence shouldn’t extend to. The show uses this tension cleanly. The Yeon-mi subplot adds a complication the drama could have done with less of.

EP 11

Bones on a Mountainside

September 4, 2023

Remains are discovered in Hakcheon. The mystery arc tightens — this is the episode where the show stops treating the old disappearance as backstory and makes it the present-tense problem. Kang-min’s professional instincts and personal feelings pull in opposite directions, and Seo Ji-hoon handles that collision without melodrama.

EP 12

Public Suspect

September 5, 2023

Do-ha’s identity is exposed and the internet does what the internet does. The episode captures the particular cruelty of public accusation — the way guilt is assumed before evidence arrives — and Do-ha’s decision to stop waiting and start investigating himself is the most active he’s been in the whole run.

EP 13

The Father’s Confession

September 11, 2023

Do-ha tracks down Eom-ji’s father, who admits he hoped his daughter was dead for the insurance payout — then points the finger at Jae-chan. The scene where this information lands is one of Do-ha’s better moments: Hwang Min-hyun plays the nausea of it rather than the anger, which is the right call.

EP 14

Cleared

September 12, 2023

Jae-chan turns himself in and confesses. Do-ha is formally cleared — but the lingering unease in his expression makes clear the case doesn’t feel finished. The celebration with friends is warm without being saccharine, and the decision to keep investigating rather than exhale is the right dramatic choice.

EP 15

The Silence After

September 18, 2023

Sol-hee wakes in hospital having lost her ability — and has to reckon with who she is without the sound that has defined her entire adult life. Jae-chan’s testimony finally gives Do-ha the truth about that night. The episode is quieter than expected for a penultimate hour, and it’s better for it.

EP 16

The Liar Hunter’s Last Case

September 19, 2023

The finale ties the supporting threads — Sol-hee’s parents, Syaon and Chi-hoon, Deuk-chan’s redemption arc — and lets Sol-hee’s returning ability land as something she chooses to welcome rather than resent. The ending earns its warmth because the show earned it along the way. Sol-hee walks away healed. That’s enough.

Full spoilers ahead — everything that happens in the finale and what it all means.

Who Actually Did It. The real killer of Choi Eom-ji is Jo Deuk-chan — Do-ha’s best friend and the CEO of J Entertainment. His motive is obsessive love for Do-ha, a twisted feeling he never let go of. When Eom-ji, Do-ha’s ex-girlfriend, tried to come back into Do-ha’s life, Deuk-chan confronted her. She fell during the altercation — her death was not premeditated, but Deuk-chan covered it up and spent years letting Do-ha carry the suspicion for it. The reveal reframes every warm scene between the two men in the most uncomfortable way, and Yun Ji-on’s performance in the confession sequence is the strongest he gets all series.

Sol-hee Loses Her Ability. Deuk-chan attempts to kill himself in a fiery car crash — and Sol-hee, who was there, ends up in hospital having lost her power entirely. For the woman who has spent her entire adult life hearing everyone’s lies, the sudden silence is disorienting in a way she didn’t expect. She can’t tell anymore who is being honest. Do-ha, who has never lied to her in a way that mattered, becomes her anchor. He tells her to believe what she wants to believe — that’s how he found peace.

The Last Truth Do-ha Needed. Before Deuk-chan is taken to prison, he tells Do-ha one final thing: on Eom-ji’s phone, before he destroyed it, there was a draft message she had written to Do-ha accepting the end of their relationship. She had thanked him for their time together and acknowledged that making him her dream was a mistake. It is the closure Do-ha had been denied for years — not a vindication, but a goodbye. He attends her funeral and grieves her properly for the first time. Sol-hee goes with him and waits outside, giving him the space he needs without being absent from it.

Sol-hee Retires the Liar Hunter. When her ability returns, Sol-hee takes a long pause before deciding what to do with it. She posts a notice: the Liar Hunter is closing up shop. The reason she gives is the most honest thing the show says — people are more complex than a true/false verdict, and she’s spent too many years listening for what’s wrong instead of trusting what’s right. She keeps the Tarot Cafe running on its own terms. The ability returns, but it no longer runs her life.

Everyone Gets Their Ending. Do-ha returns to music — producing an album with Ethan, the idol he’d been quietly nurturing, and wins another award for Best Composer. Sol-hee’s parents reconcile after years apart; her ability returning at exactly the right moment lets her mother’s true feelings slip through. Syaon and Chi-hoon stop pretending they aren’t into each other. Kang-min goes to Sol-hee one last time, tells her he can’t be her friend anymore, and wishes her happiness — then watches from a distance long enough to see her laugh with Do-ha before turning and walking away. Do-ha proposes. She says yes. The finale ends with them on a bus together — the same way they first met, except this time neither of them is hiding anything.