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starring

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and

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. It aired on Channel CGV from October 27 to October 31, 2006 for 5 episodes.

Plot

Baek Joong-won once saved the

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Ehwa from being

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by his fellow villagers. While attempting to escape together, Joong-won fell off a cliff, and Ehwa gave him her blood to save him from dying. Thus, Joong-won was also transformed into a vampire. In modern-day

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, the 350-year-old Joong-won runs a luxurious

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with Ehwa. Though she holds a torch for him, Ehwa can only observe and protect her friend from afar, as he has long closed himself to any new emotion. One day, Joong-won receives a letter from a former lover, a human he had broken up with 20 years ago without telling her the truth about himself. In her letter, the dying woman asks Joong-won to look after her daughter, Ji-woo. After her mother's funeral, Ji-woo finds a photograph her mother treasured very much, and she searches for the man in the photo, her mother's long-lost lover. When she finds Joong-won, she assumes that he is the son of the man in the photo. As Joong-won spends time with Ji-woo, all his emotions which were frozen by time start to melt away, and the two fall in love. Ehwa has difficulty dealing with this turn of events. Meanwhile, a

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who sucks blood from his or her victims is on the loose.

Cast

as Baek Joong-won *

as Ji-woo *

as Ehwa * Lee In *

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as Park Hyung-joon *Ji Dae-han * Kim Kwang-kyu as Inspector Jang ( cameo) *Eun Joo-hee

Original soundtrack

# 인연 Lover # Just Another Daybreak 350년을 기다려온 고독 350 Years Waiting in Solitude # Sad Secret () (Joong-won's Secret) # Never Cry # 그대도... 나처럼 You Also... Like Me (Instrumental) # Forget Me Not - Waltz for Ji-woo (Piano Solo) # 꿈꾸는 소녀 A Girl Who Dreams # Russian Roulette (Tango for Ehwa) # 그대도... 나처럼 You Also... Like Me (Vocal version) # Forget Me Not - Waltz for Ji-woo (Clarinet & String version) # I'll Make You Cry Baby - V's in the House # Bye...Memories of Mom # Point of No Return (End Theme)

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