K-Dramas like The Manipulated

7 shows with a similar feel

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  As You Stood By (2025)Also crime · drama

  When two women plot to end an abusive marriage through murder, an unexpected visitor arrives — threatening to shatter everything they've carefully planned.

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  Gangnam B-Side (2024)Also crime · drama

  When Jaehee, a top call girl at a club in Gangnam, goes missing, Detective Kang Dongwoo returns to crack the case. Prosecutor Min Seojin aims to rise in rank, while the notorious pimp, Yoon Gilho becomes a prime suspect. They unravel a web of secrets and connections behind the case.

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  Bloody Flower (2026)Also crime · drama

  A former medical school dropout claiming to be able to cure terminal illnesses is sentenced to death for the murder of 17 people. Is he a monstrous killer, or a savior holding the cure for humanity?

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  Ling Cage (2019)Also drama

  In the near future, human inhabitants would have been crowded and congested. It was an urgency to stride out to the universe and find a new home. When everything was under progress in an orderly way, dramatic geological transformations erupted over the courses of decades. Humanity was demolished by this disaster and hardly left anything. Until the nature gradually restored calm, people struggled to their feet from ruins and abysses, stepping again onto this familiar but strange earth. But for us people, dominating everything has been rooted into our blood. Are we still masters of this new world?
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  Family by Choice (2024)Also drama

  A youth romance about two men and woman who aren't blood related but treated each other as family during their teens and how they meet again after 10 years.

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  Redeeming Love (2024)Also drama

  After losing her closest family, Jiang Tong makes a powerful comeback, determined to expose hidden crimes and take down the mastermind. Along the way, she becomes entangled in a passionate struggle with her former love, Gao Xiuyu, while her return brings about new fates for those from her past.
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  Trigger (2025)Also drama · crime

  As illegal firearms flood into a gun-free South Korea, a resolute cop and a mysterious partner join forces to stop the chaos from sweeping the nation.

  ★ 4.0 from 3 members4 tracking it here