Story of Yanxi Palace (2018)

Both feature opera and homoerotic relationships. However, that is just my personal reading of Yanxi Palace. I would say there are homoerotic subtexts in the drama but it does depend on your own reading.

They both are a palace drama with a very interesting storyline. The female lead is pretty and clever.
Produced by the same companny

- smart FL who can outwit everybody else (in the beginning of LOA),
- FL enters palace / court to get revenge for her family / sister

If you like the female lead in Yanxi you will surely love Weiyoung
Both of them are strong, righteous,smart,loyal and with a strong sense of justice.
Every action they take serves a purpose.

The current lead in popular Palace Dramas.
*Main Lead becomes a powerhouse queen
*The relationship between the emperor and future queen is always turbulent until the end
*The costume design is fantastic and the drama between all the concubines, including all the intrigue and in-fighting is a must for a typical Palace Drama.

Both are palace fight. Concubine, ugly politics, Eunice's, power fight. Suppression, Beautiful costume accessary,

I'm a history buff, and although Dreaming Back is a fictional time travelling romance drama, the history of the Kangxi era is seemingly accurate. If you like to watch more about the Qing Dynasty, The Story of Yanxi Palace is a must-see drama about the Palace politics and the strive for power.

Both feature strong female leads that are intelligent and cunning. The storyline is really different and Young Blood is (in my opinion) a smarter drama, but the female leads are somewhat similar.

The story of LuZhen closely resembles that of Yanxi Palace because both FLs started as a palace servants and climbed their way to the top using their skills. Both FLs are smart and able to stand up for themselves.

This is similar to Story of Yanxi Palace only more youthful and low budget. FL enters palace to find who killed her family. FL involved with Emperor's guard and possible link to the Emperor himself.

The story is in certain parts quite similar. Plus there are a lot of plot schemes moved by the main lead, that starts as a servant exactly like Wei Yingluo.

- FL was in love with somebody else first before falling for the Emperor;
- ML and SML are in love with FL;
- struggle inside the palace

Both stories is about inner palace schemes, consorts and the inner struggle of the palace there is love, friendship, schemes, hatred, betrayal and great acting from all veteran hong kong actors one of them is Charmaine sheh (consort Xian) one of my favorite dramas growing up and it's still just as good costume design, story and production!

both are historical, Royal Feast is set in Ming dynasty which was just before Story of Yanxi Palace which is set in the Qing dynasty. both feature same main leads - Xu Kai and Wu Jinyan

In both dramas:
*FL & ML use strategies to overcome the hardships thrown at them by their enemies to get rid of them.
*The love hate relationship between the FL & ML lead them down a path of love.
*The FL has a strong devoted 2nd ML that starts as a love interest front runner (A difference - Story of Yanxi palace does leave you with the question of who the FL really loved for real, which to this day I still ponder on.....)