K-Dramas like The Judge Returns

12 shows with a similar feel

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  The Judge from Hell (2024)Also drama · sci-fi & fantasy · crime

  A cruel and vicious judge, who wields power only for herself, meets a warm and cheerful detective who puts the victims first.

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  Moon Embracing the Sun (2012)Also drama · sci-fi & fantasy

  Years after she's assumed dead by the palace, a young noblewoman, now trained as a shaman, returns to court to reclaim her rightful position as queen.

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  Waiting for You (2025)Also sci-fi & fantasy · drama

  In the Netherworld, a carefree soul named Tong Feng is unexpectedly ordered to finish her cultivation within three months and reincarnate. Her journey across ancient, republican, and modern eras not only tests her fate but also reveals a long-buried connection with the realm’s ruler, Xuan Pei.
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  Secret Diary (2024)Also drama · sci-fi & fantasy

  After rediscovering a diary she lost years ago, career woman Yin Zixi begins recovering memories of a traumatic incident from her university days. Believing her former crush An Yufan betrayed her, she searches for the truth, only to uncover a deeper conspiracy involving the friend she trusted most.
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  Spy x Sect (2024)Also sci-fi & fantasy · drama

  In a captivating tale of sacrifice and rebirth, a brilliant hacker named Chen Ning dies to save humanity from a rogue AI, only to be reincarnated as the leader of a powerful sect in a realm of immortal cultivation. Chen Ning must maintain a low profile while handling new responsibilities and guarding against spies within his sect and the encroaching AI threat. Hidden beneath his cold exterior is a deep care for others, as he navigates a world of martial arts, mystical powers, and political intrigue. With the mysterious system agent Jiang Que at his side, Chen Ning unleashes his true potential and commands both allies and foes. As hidden truths of this mystical world reveal themselves, Chen Ning races against time, merging his hacking prowess with newfound mystical abilities, to thwart an impending apocalypse and save another world from destruction.
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  The Player (2021)Also sci-fi & fantasy

  The drama tells the story of a group of online game experts. Because of a bug, they get drawn into the game. The border between the real world and the gaming world begins to blur.
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  The King's Avatar (2019)Also drama

  When an elite gamer is forced out of his professional team, he becomes a manager of an Internet café and reinvents himself to return to online glory.

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  Back as Immortal Lord (2025)Also sci-fi & fantasy

  Yun Qingyan, a teenage warrior, was dragged into the fairy world for three thousand years before vanishing from the planet three years ago! He became one of the 10 great fairy emperors, the Yun Emperor, thanks to his remarkable talent. However, he made the decision to return to the human world at all costs because he missed his family and was fed up with the intrigues in the fairy realm. His parents and sister mysteriously vanished when he returned to the human world, and he lost his magic weapon and nearly zeroed out his cultivation as a result of an occurrence that occurred during the journey from the fairy world to the human world. He was pursued by major forces throughout this time...
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  我的同桌是校草 (2025)Also drama
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  Fateful Love (2024)Also drama · sci-fi & fantasy

  In a world where the legendary Eternal Jade cures all but carries a deadly curse, Gu Suizhi, cursed to die before turning thirty, devises a plan to make Ruan Shu, the last orphaned daughter of the Ruan family, fall in love with him—her heart's blood being the only way to break the curse. As love and redemption intertwine, they unknowingly awaken the unresolved grudges of their past lives, unraveling a deeper, more complex fate.
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  Love Conspiracy (2025)Also drama

  Heiress Song Zhizhi falls in love with a man from a humble background, only to be betrayed and lose everything in a scandal that leads to her death. Miraculously given a second chance at life, she vows to protect her loved ones and take revenge on her enemies. Teaming up with Ji Baijian, the head of Ji Hong Enterprises, she uncovers long-hidden secrets and sets out to reclaim everything that was taken from her.
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  Tomb of Fallen Gods (2022)Also drama

  The book takes the protagonist Chennan's search for his lover Yuxin 10,000 years ago and the pursuit of the secrets of the destruction of gods and demons as clues, leading to the vast six paths, heaven and earth chess game, and deducing a legend full of blood, heroic and poignant, telling the legends of countless heroes and beauties, and discussing human nature, society, life and other elements.