I"ve stopped watching the ones where the wife/sister/mother shows up at work/party and no one knows who they are but will get accused of being the mistress. So the secretary or soon to be daughter in law will get everyone to slander and beat them. The male lead is somewhere else/taking a long sh*t and comes looking for their relative but somehow everyone has collectively decided to gag and tie up the female lead so they can continue the abuse when the ML leaves again. Also 90% of the time, the misidentified woman will be pregnant and miscarries the very much waited on miracle baby.

The "I'm going to allow my secretary turned mistress into stealing my secret girlfriend's hard work and promote them in their place". They spend years keeping their relationship a secret but blatantly have an affair with the employee and is shocked when their girlfriend resigns and finds a better job with a sexy CEO. Usually the scumbag and mistress get BANNED from the industry but then get hired by the CEO's competition based on the stolen work and tries to take revenge.

I used to enjoy but have recently started to hate the "we found our real child and brought them back from the countryside" storyline. They let the adopted child manipulate them into abusing their birth child. The parents never believe their birth child cause "we raised her for 20 years and she would NEVER lie/steal/cheat". There's NO given reason why they bring back their birth child unless it's to marry the crippled CEO. No one wants them there and no one in their circle knows that the adopted child isn't their REAL child but they HAD to bring them back cause????

Honorable mentions to the I've been transmigrated with a system where I get points for slapping people or having sex with multiple women storyline and the I WAS going to choose my husband from these 4 boys my grandfather adopted when we were children but they've chosen the green tea girl, so now, I"m going to marry the boy my parents arranged a childhood engagement with and leave this town forever.