To My Beloved Thief

In times of great hardship, when people were left to starve and corrupt officials ruled, tales often emerged of righteous outlaws – like Robin Hood – who stole from the corrupt rich to help the poor. So, here’s ‘Robin Hood’ of Korea’s Joseon dynasty, ‘Hong Gil-dong’. But who would have ever imagined that Hong Gil-dong is actually… a woman? Our righteous thief, Hong Eun-jo, who is born as an illegitimate daughter between a noble man and his servant, works as a court physician by day. By night, however, she hides behind the mask of Hong Gil-dong and robs granary of the rich and aid the poor. No one suspects the elusive outlaw is a woman. Her secret life unravels when Lee Yeol, a young Prince who prides himself as Joseon’s most handsome man, falls in love with Eun-jo, while relentlessly hunting Gil-dong in the dark. Bound by class divides by day and a nocturnal chase, their entangled fates ignite into forbidden love. In a twist of fate, their souls swap. Yeol must endure the bitter life of low-class, the struggle of womanhood, and the burden of being hailed as the people’s hero. Through living Eun-jo’s world, he confronts the harsh realities of Joseon and discovers a true value worth risking everything for—led by the woman who stole his heart.