The Sword and the Brocade (2021)

The female lead is both intelligent and witty + daughter of a concubine who becomes the main wife of a prestigious family. The story is similar in a sense that both leads were “forced” into marriage and slowly starts catching feelings. The plot is similar as the female lead is not favoured by her family and the male lead’s family, and therefore having to rely on herself through her smart and quick thinking. There is also a love triangle involved with several mystery to solve.

The dramas are similar in the following ways:
- both dramas emphasize on embroidery and military
-both MLs are smart and the FL helps the ML's career
-Stories both are beautiful and the directing was done perfectly
-both dramas have beautiful ost's

In both The Sword and The Brocade and General's Lady the two main leads are put into a 'forced" arrange marriage. They both give a similar story vibe.

It have similar story all about Concubine. And the main female lead play in both drama as a Concubine

A lot of Haren fights.
Both FLs are not interested in the ML at the begging.
ML love them first

Blooming days has a more week and indecisive ML

Well Well, there a lot of common points between these two dramas, the first is the support of each male lead to female lead , and the big support also of female lead to the male lead, wherever in the family matters or professional career matter , and we can say that both male lead let their wives which both were by arranged marriage to work and the show their face to public ( which was something unusual back then, and the society criticize the wives who work outside and they should only have to take responsibilities of their husband's house) and I really loved this fact : the husband support wife's career.

It has the same plot about the harem fighting of the main lead’s concubine like in 5he story of the yanxi’s palace. It also includes the slow burn romance between the leads. The female character also has guts and playful the like in the yanxi.

Both dramas take place during Ming Dynasty. Displaying all Confucian values and teachings. Orthodox and conservative. Aristocrat families with a lot of family politics. Difficult mother-in-law.

Similar type of settings but both are unique on it’s own. Both the female leads are clever and smart.

Same pairing of older seasoned general and younger woman, daughter of a concubine, who aspires to be valued as an equal and has skills that the ML comes to respect. Same vibe of first love for an older guy.
Also same actress plays obnoxious lady trying to marry ML…

Although the story may appear opposites of each other, the concepts of a female striving for a better life is in both

Similar premise based on common folk (non-royals) and business setting with a strong FL helping the family business to thrive.

Age gap between ML and FL, arranged marriage with a general that gradually turns into a true romance. FL is a concubine’s daughter in a family that uses her and mistreats her.

Both dramas show the love blooms between the main leads after marriage. But Marry Me! is less angst and easier than The Sword and The Brocade. The male lead in The Sword and The Brocade has more than a wife while in Marry Me! the male lead has the female lead as his only wife.

The dramas are not very similar but the chemistry between the leads and how the leads support one another in the drama reminds me of The Sword and the Brocade.