#Cinderella and the Four Knights

[kdramasforever97]

Me, when becoming too invested in a kdrama:

[dangermousie]

I was looking something else up and came across this and I am howling!!!! This is the most old school kdrama thing ever.

PS what does rebellious like Chernobyl mean? Is he a big fan of the song “Radioactive?”

[crazyk-imagine]

Fic Rec II

One Piece (Live Action)

Roronora Zoro

Liminal space by @paperultra

How to disappear by @zorobff

Vinsmoke "Black Leg" Sanji

Service with a smile by @paperultra

Bring me the sun and I'll give you the moon by @honeydjarin

Hammock by @paperultra

Worth your while by @cow-smells

We need a new lock by @bowieandqueen11

House of Dragons

Aemond Targaryn

It's complicated by @hamatoanne

All of us are dead

Yoon Gwi-Nam

Whipped by @iheartcake123

All of us are dead Master List by @iheartcake123

Harry Potter

James Potter

Cause' your kinda cute by @wingedhallows

Begin again by @pretty-little-mind33

Stay beautiful by @pretty-little-mind33

Gold rush by @pretty-little-mind33

Sunny-side-up by @dearharriet

Why didn't we work out? by @astonishment

Top Gun Universe

Top Gun: Maverick Master List by @fanboygarcia

Javy "Coyote" Machado

The plus one by @beyondthesefourwalls

Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw

A change to everything by @beyondthesefourwalls

Marvel

Bucky Barnes

Divine Retribution by @pellucid-constellations

Little lion man by @wkemeup

Bucky and his arm drabble by @buckyalpine

Twilight

Paul Lahote

Always an angel by @jogetsobsessed

Random

Twilight masterlist by @fishoutofcamelot

X-Men/ Deadpool

Logan Howlett

A little Game by @loving-barnes

Broken and mended by @loving-barnes

Blast from the past by @loving-barnes

Your world by @countlessimagines

Shy by @loonylupinblack3

Tooth and nail by @eupheme

Come on and show me by @eupheme

Lover you should have come over by @imaginedisish

Stay this time by @ddaz3d-and-cc0nfusedd-

My bunny by @imyourbratzdoll

Kurt "Nightcrawler" Wagner

Kurt and his tail by @sanguineterrain

Erik "Magneto" Lehnsherr

Erik Masterlist by @kaznejis

Wade "Deadpool" Wilson

Deadpool as your boyfriend by @titaswrld

Four or five moments by @sunsburns

Misc

Peaky Blinders Master List by @theshelbyclan

Otis Driftwood HC by @soupbabe

Lost Boy by @fandom-imagines-stories

Adults by @panic-at-the-fiction

How the knights would confess by @sketchshack-go-blr

Blue moon boy by @sagesolsticewrites

Code red by @zepskies

Transactional by @sethsclearwater

Bittersweet blunders by @happy74827

Full of adrenaline by @withahappyrefrain

Musicals aren't supposed to have encores by @agentofteamvaliant

Clean Shaven by @your-highnessmarvel

Dating Han by @early2000smovieimagines

Liar by @discopaddock

Mastermind by @pretty-little-mind33

Rules Series by @wholoveseggs (never have I had a series break me like this one, it's sooo good)

In a world of boys, he's a gentle man by @lenacosse

Just be a prick by @thiswaytwoinfinity

Kiss me through the phone by @levithestripper

Beaming by @sunsh1n3s

Call Mom by @foreveraimingtowardsthesky

Piano Man by @jakescakeislateforourdate

Sickenley sweet by @hopefullhearts

Love, love, love all these fics and think everyone here is an incredible writer. I hope you all enjoy these as much as I do!

[ngtskynebula]

Every now and then I remember this k-drama and I'm overcome with my HATRED for what they did to my girl Hawon 🤙The love interest had NO chemistry with her, she'd work much better with Hyeonmin 😭

[faeratil]

Because I have no one in person that I can rant to about my thoughts on Cinderella and the Four Knights (2016), you guys get to hear my thoughts.

First, I put this show on because I had just finished Tomorrow (2022), and I needed something sappy and full of cliché tropes to help distract me from the emotional trauma. I did my best from episode 1 to try and guess who was endgame for Eun Ha-Won based on all of the stereotypes and the way the interactions between her and the Kang cousins were written, and I feel like my original thoughts would’ve been a better ending.

Also with the way that the characters were written, they really should’ve called it Cinderella and the Three Knights because the fourth “knight” wasn’t even really written to be a Love Interest in spite of him being one of the best characters (until stuff happens with his mother and then it’s like being disappointed by your longtime crush and wanting to smack some sense into them).

My thoughts on the characters, though:

Eun Ha-Won

I love her. She deserves the world. She is an absolute ball of sunshine in spite of all the shit she’s had to deal with and continues to deal with straight through to the final meeting she has with Chairman Kang. I think she’s gorgeous, and I hate that she thinks she’s not pretty just because of how the Kang cousins treat her vs Park Hye-Ji. She honestly could’ve made it through the whole show without a Love Interest and I would’ve liked that more than the actual ending. She’s strong physically, mentally, and emotionally. She’s very smart and wants to use what she knows to teach others. She’s so very devoted to family in spite of how her stepmom and stepsister treat her, and even more so how her dad treated her. I would’ve tried to woo her myself if I had been in the show.

Kang Ji-Woon

The bad boy/bully type, the enemies-to-lovers trope, the stalker’s enabler. This man constantly looks like a crying wet puppy, but not in a cute way. He tries to look so sad and pitiful, and he’s an asshole from the get go. From the very start where he rolls his eyes and tries to give Ha-Won his watch when she asks him to apologize for not buying all the food he asked her to prepare at the convenience store, and then scoffs and immediately assumes she’d do anything for money (without considering the fact that she’s dead broke and needs money to survive). You think maybe there’s a redemption when he gives her a bouquet of white roses on the memorial day (I forget what the actual name of that day is called) of her mom’s death. And then you see him being a whiny puppy stuck to the second female lead, enabling her stalker tendencies and hating everyone who doesn’t immediately make Hye-Ji happy. He hates Hyun-Min so much that he also decides to pursue Ha-Won just to make him miserable when he thinks they’re engaged, not even caring about how it might make Ha-Won feel. He keeps doing sweet and caring things that make you think “oh she’s finally breaking down his tough exterior”, and then he just turns around and is an asshole again. He abandoned both Ha-Won AND Hye-Ji on the side of the road on separate occasions and then thought just saying “oh sorry” would fix it. I get that his backstory is sad, and I get that Chairman Kang fucked him over and basically forced him to accept the fact that he’s family, but it’s no excuse for the way he treats everyone else. Also, man needs to learn how to comb his hair and maybe take some allergy medication so his eyes stop watering and his nose isn’t always red.

Kang Seo-Woo

The unrequited love, the pop-star, the male best friend trope. I love him, and I hate that the writers barely gave him a chance. He tried so hard so many times to tell Ha-Won that he liked her. He did so many things to care for her, wrote love songs about her, used his status as a pop-star to help draw crowds away from Ha-Won when she was getting bullied by the girls who thought she was Chairman Kang’s mistress, was a genuinely kind person to everyone including Ha-Won’s best friend, and tried so many times to confess. I wish the writers would’ve taken just a couple more lines to have him say “no, Ha-Won, I’m not writing a love song right now, I’m telling you how I genuinely feel about you” and actually given her a chance to consider him. He saw how much Ha-Won hated the spotlight she got while everyone thought she was engaged to Hyun-Min, and he let pictures of himself in a girls uniform go viral just to stop more pictures of Ha-Won from leaking to the press. At any moment, he could’ve just done with Hyun-Min did and asked Ha-Won to play along with the rumors of them dating, but he actually considered Ha-Won’s feelings (glaring at you, Ji-Woon) and lied about his own feelings to protect her. If I had to choose between the Kang cousins, I would choose Seo-Woo.

Kang Hyun-Min

The spoiled rich kid, the playboy, the fake fiancé, the one afraid to actually love, the object of the stalker’s affection. I wish he had been endgame. They set it up so well in the beginning for him to be endgame. You could tell from the moment he saw Ha-Won beat up the assholes at the bar/party for not paying for the pizza delivery, he was developing feelings. He could’ve easily gone back on his bet with his friends and asked any other girl to go to Chairman Kang’s wedding with him, but he chose to go after Ha-Won, and even went all the way to the convenience store just to try and get her attention. His shock at hearing about BOGO deals with the ice cream was honestly cute, and he was kind enough to sit down with Ha-Won and enjoy the ice cream in spite of being raised directly under Chairman Kang (who makes it very clear what he thinks of anyone who isn’t rich), and he’s actually nice to her. At the beginning he still has that playboy attitude, but even after offering her money to be his date (and being turned down, good job Ha-Won for holding true to your values), he still tries. He picks her up for the wedding, opens the door for her, treats her the way a gentleman should treat a lady (win for chivalry!), and gives her a chance to feel as beautiful as she is. He also is very up front and adamant with Hye-Ji that he wants nothing to do with her, but she keeps showing up and trying to make him feel guilty for not still liking her after having a crush on her when they were NINE YEARS OLD, and it’s been 10 years (she bugs the hell out of me but we’ll get to her). Hyun-Min also is thinking of Ha-Won when he asks Chairman Kang and Secretary Lee to keep it secret from the other Kang cousins that Ha-Won isn’t his real fiancé, because he trusts that they wouldn’t try to pull anything on someone who was already in a relationship (fuck you Ji-Woon for taking that personally and making Ha-Won uncomfortable and confused). He keeps Ha-Won company so she won’t be alone, he goes along with her missions until his pride gets in the way, he buys her a whole wardrobe of clothes because she keeps wearing the same tracksuit for god knows how many episodes and just genuinely tries to make her feel comfortable and taken care of so she can focus on the things she actually needs to do instead of just surviving. I wish that he had seen Ha-Won when she got dolled up in that black and blue dress, he would’ve fallen for her all over again. Unfortunately, the writers decided that the “childhood lovers/first love” trope was more important for Hyun-Min and Hye-Ji, and they had him go back to her even though she was being a stalker after he repeatedly said no. Also hella power move that the heir to the Haneul group in his early 20s would go stand before a board of directors and his grandpa’s wife to save his grandpa’s company after being a slacker playboy up until he met Ha-Won. I love him. I wish he had ended up with Ha-Won. Fuck the writers for putting him with his stalker.

Lee Yoon-Sung

The “fourth knight”, the secretary to the chairman, the by the book character. They never even gave him a chance to be considered a Love Interest, so it kept bothering me that they called it “…Four Knights” and then only made 3 of them potential LIs. He is the most efficient and down to earth of all the guys, he does his job exceedingly well, he respects the absolute hell out of Ha-Won and tries his best to make the Kang cousins respect her as well, he’s a master of tae-kwon-do, he’s deeply loyal to the chairman until a bigger issue comes up, and he’s a very obvious fan favorite. I was very disappointed that the writers made him side with Madame Ji even for the time that he did because he had been so against treating her as his mother after she abandoned him with an abusive drunk father 12 years prior, but I am glad his loyalty to the chairman won out. Also very happy that they included him in their friend group at the end, my man needs to learn to relax (but not with alcohol… my emetophobia did not appreciate the end of the drunk dinner…).

Park Hye-Ji

The second female lead. I cannot stand her. I hate that the writers even included her past the first couple episodes, and I hate even more than they ended up letting her win with Hyun-Min. She’s a very “woe is me” character who acts like she’s entitled to everyone’s attention, especially Hyun-Min’s, just because he gave her a ring when they were 9 and her family got along with the Kang family before her brother died. This girl spends 10 years pining over Hyun-Min after she has not seen or heard from him AT ALL in those 10 years, shows up at his house unannounced when he returns to Korea from studying abroad, constantly shows up wherever he is in public and just looks at him all sad and pathetic like he belongs to her and is cheating on her, she’s been told by him numerous times in basically every episode that he does not want her around and that she should give up even to the point where Hyun-Min has to threaten to never acknowledge her again, she hates Ha-Won for being close to Hyun-Min and then later Ji-Woon, she jumps from guy to guy after Hyun-Min’s threat starting with Ji-Woon because she knows it’ll piss off Hyun-Min the most, she assumes anyone who is nice to her must be in love with her and feels personally attacked and betrayed when they’re like “no I’m just a nice person, I don’t have feelings for you”, blames Hyun-Min for her being so sad and depressed when she’s the one who can’t just fucking get over him from when THEY WERE CHILDREN, constantly tries to make moves and get close to Hyun-Min on the trip and after she moves into Haneul House, and then turns around and is like “I never want to see you again” when Hyun-Min tries to treat her more kindly and tries to explain why he was being such a dick to her. And yet they end up together. Because “childhood love/first love” was more important to the writers than the fact that they made the second female lead a self absorbed entitled stalker. The only thing that comes to mind that puts her in a good light was when she let Ha-Won spend the night, but even that was reluctant and she only started being nice after Ha-Won admitted that the engagement was fake. She should’ve just taken the fashion scholarship to Paris and finally gotten out of the Kang’s lives. If she was alone in a foreign country she might actually learn to rely on herself instead of always expecting Hyun-Min or Ji-Woon to come running.

Hong Ja-Yeoung

Seo-Woo’s biggest fan, Ha-Won’s best friend, an absolute cupcake of a character. I want her to be my best friend. It did annoy me that at the beginning of the trip, she left Ha-Won to do stuff alone just because Seo-Woo wasn’t joining them, but my girl has Ha-Won’s back in every other situation. She was even willing to support Ha-Won and Seo-Woo when the scandal article was published saying that they were engaged when they weren’t. She also was determined enough to get close to her favorite pop-star that she came up with a plan to help him escape his fan girls by wearing her school uniform, and she managed to sneak some photos of him crossdressing as well that he later used to help Ha-Won. She’s been there for Ha-Won through everything and did whatever she could to help even though she herself didn’t have much. I am so happy for her that she gets to be part of Seo-Woo’s management team in the end.

Chairman Kang

Classist asshole who values highly skilled and charismatic employees, but continues to treat them like trash if they stop acting like employees. For him, money buys everything including people, and he has almost completely forgotten what it’s like to actually care about someone until Ji-Woon is on his knees in tears begging him to give his blessings to him and Ha-Won, bringing up how the chairman made his mom leave his dad to remind him of the horrible mistake he made in the past. Chairman Kang talks all the time about wanting the Kang cousins to act as a family, but doesn’t even act like a grandpa to them. He acts like a dictator by threatening to cut them off from everyone and everything if they don’t do exactly what he says. He has good instinct not to trust Madame Ji towards the end, but you would think after 4 failed marriages he would have some way of blocking any future wives from trying to take over the company. I’m glad he finally gave Ha-Won his blessing, but just the wrong cousin.

That being said! In spite of the endgame love interest and the stalker, the interactions were pretty cute and it was entertaining. It was much needed after watching Tomorrow. I’m going to acknowledge that canon has Ha-Won with Ji-Woon, but in my mind I will always pair Ha-Won with Hyun-Min or Seo-Woo, and believe that Hye-Ji would actually go away (and STAY away) after Hyun-Min rejected her at the wedding.

[writersarea]

you know, the most freeing part of writing for a LITTLE BITTY FANDOM is knowing that whoever reads these will just be happy that there's a few more fanfics here and i can do whatever i want

it's like the opposite but same vibe of a super popular fandom where you can write whatever you want because there's so many fanfics that the people who find yours is by accident and looking for very specific tags

like i hold a very small portion of fics in some major fandoms which means i can write whatever shit that comes to mind because everyone else has written all the big things

and i hold a third of fics in a little bitty fandom which means i can write whatever i please because no one else is writing anything

i love writing and fandom

[kdramafeeds]

Cinderella And The Four Knights Masterlist

Cinderella And The Four Knights funny moments 

Cinderella And The Four Knights moments 

Cinderella And The Four Knights OST 

Cinderella And The Four Knights quote 

Kang Ji Woon x Eun Ha Won 

Kang Hyun Min x Park Hye Ji

Lee Yoon Sung x Eun Ha Won 

Kang Ji Woon x Kang Hyun Min x Kang Seo Woo 

Kang Ji Woon moments 

Eun Ha Won moments 

Kang Hyun Min moments 

Kang Seo Woo moments 

Lee Yoon Sung moments 

Park Hye Ji moments 

[sketchshack-go-blr]

I’m back lol anyway here’s some more cinderella and the four knights headcanons before I descend back into ao3

How the Knights would confess:

Kang Hyun-Min: You would know.

Let’s be real. You would know.

He would buy you a ton of gifts and do almost everything for you. Anything he doesn’t do for you, he has a butler or something do for you.

But once he finally realizes he’s actually feeling these things and not just chasing a little game for fun????

oH BOY

the boys got gotten

he’d be the same but a bit more awkward and you’d actually be able to tell

once he does finally tell you, which won’t be long, he’ll take you somewhere private, and tell you straight up

“I love you”

no games. If you reject him, he’ll be messed up for a good while, but eventually he’ll get over it??? Maybe????

Kang Ji-woon:

“Get lost”

Expect him to treat you like Eun Ha-won for a good while

Definitely an “enemies to lovers” type

Would hate you in an endearing way then love you

Only if you can get past his edgy bad boy side tho 🤺🤺🤺 (/j)

Kang Seo-woo:

You, my friend, have exquisite taste

He’s my personal favorite (obviously)

No doubt in my mind that he’d write you a song and then not show it to you until he sings it on stage and has his little hallmark moment where he shouts you out and you go on stage and it’s all cute and aodjapdboafbo

*ahem* moving on

he’d take a little while trying to make sure you feel the same way he does

He’ll do things for you and hang out with you and be there for you gradually until he confesses

its giving ‘childhood best friends and the clear best option but never gets chosen for some reason’

Lemme know if y’all want one for Lee Yoon-sung

[kdramasforever97]

You know a Kdrama is great when you start arguing and have the urge to throw things at your tv. Also the need to pause to absorb everything that just happened.

[onlychristopherbang]

How do people not like this drama like I was a huge fan when I first started watching k dramas I was like obsessed in a way I loved it it's weird no one likes it

[carol-effing-danvers]

just started episode 3 of “Cinderella and the Four Knights” and honestly, I would throw all of these spoiled rich boys away for the grandfather’s hot executive assistant - he’s polite, he’s thoughtful, he’s handsome, he cooks, what more do you want?

[writer-rider-flirty-thirties]

Cinderella and the Four Knights is probably one of my favorite Kdramas ever. I'm happy and sad I finished it in two days. Everyone had so much chemistry and I loved all the characters!!! Also the ending made me so happy!!!! 🥹🥰😘🥰💜😊

On to the next one!

[invadercorey]

my mom is really into this k-drama Cinderella and the four knights. anyways I’m in love with Eun ha-won

[lambchop2xcombo]

Like half of me watching this show is me screaming GIRL JUST HIT HIM

[writersarea]

Once Upon a Pop Star

One Shot

Overall Summary:

Seo Woo thinks he's falling love for the first time only to discover what love really is.

Cinderella and the Four Knights

Rated G

Tags:   No Archive Warnings Apply, Kang Seo Woo, Kang Hyun Min, Kang Ji Woon, Eun Ha Won, Character Study, Aromanti, caro ace character, Asexual Character, Asexuality, Self-Discovery, learning about love, Kang Seo Woo POV

Excerpt

As a pop star, everyone always seemed to be expecting Seo Woo to have some interest in people romantically, or even sexually. It wasn’t like he lacked people interested in him that way, after all. The joys of being a pop star, and even he could admit that the attention was fun.

Who wouldn’t enjoy being fawned over while getting to do the thing they had dreamed about? Writing music he loved, performing on stage, and it was the best he could ask for. Maybe the living situation with his cousins wasn’t the best, but he could avoid them pretty easily. It might be easier if Ji Woon and Hyun Min stopped arguing, but that sounded like a wish that was never going to happen at this rate. Better to avoid the house and let Grandfather deal with their shit rather than him.

The fact that he was never in a relationship also made his manager happy. The amount of drama and scandal that could come from one seemed to be never ending the way the man described it.

Whatever, it didn’t matter. Seo Woo far preferred his music into trying to figure out whatever that mess was. Not that he was opposed to relationships of any sort. It just wasn’t really a priority. Why would it be? He loved his music more than anything else.

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