Absolute Value of Romance

In Melancholia, Baek Seung-yoo (Lee Do-hyun) is a former math prodigy who entered MIT at age 10 but became traumatized and voluntarily dropped out, completely withdrawing from the mathematical world.

Melancholia, math teacher Ji Yoon-soo (Im Soo-jung) notices Seung-yoo's hidden genius and helps him overcome his severe trauma to look at math with joy again.

Melancholia centers its entire tragic midsection on a false, malicious scandal involving a teacher-student relationship cooked up by corrupt school board members to ruin Yoon-soo and Seung-yoo.

Absolute Value of Romance (2026) is a lively, fast-paced romantic comedy and tvN’s Melancholia (2021) is a poetic, intense melodrama,If you look past the differences in tone, the two dramas are deeply intertwined by a highly specific subject matter: the world of mathematics

Female leads are in a comparable state of delulu.
One writes an online novel. The other posts on social media.