Warning: This story includes light spoilers for the first six episodes of Queen of Tears.

Netflix’s latest South Korean hit, Queen of Tears, paints a familiar picture. An absurdly handsome office worker falls for a helpless intern. Without asking a single thing about her, he immediately vows to support her. It’s overbearing, it’s somewhat controlling, it’s professionally inappropriate—it’s K-drama, baby! When it is revealed that she’s the heiress to the very company for which they both work, however, he is catapulted into an idealized world of lavish riches as they marry and the two drive off into the sunset. It is the most typical of K-drama love stories, known for their unrealistic depictions of romance and bewilderingly beautiful…