Even though it has a different story background, Marry My Dead Body has the same story concept as 7 Days Before Valentine. Where the main character wants to return to his old partner. In MMDB: Mao Bang Yu wanted to visit his old boyfirend, with the help of Wu Ming Han, but unfortunately something unexpected happened. Even though they don't focus on that kind of thing, both are supernatural and the main character communicates with astral beings (spirits) who guide or at least provide good experiences for the other main characters.
They're both dialogue heavy and watch more like plays than television, they both grapple with themes of grief and isolation, they're both stories about young queer men without really being genre-complacent BLs, they both rely heavily on visual symbolism, and they both end on cathartic new beginnings.
If you enjoy morally dubious love interests, unreliable narrators, Faustian deals, and romances with body counts, might I suggest that fans of one will enjoy the other? 7 Days Before Valentine is about a struggling actor while Don't Be Too Emotional is about a university student preparing to take over his family's Traditional Chinese Medicine pharmacy, but the implications of supernatural elements is played in much the same way across both series and to similar effect.
The male leads are both being surrounded by spirits. But also their differences make both series unique. "7 Days Before Valentine" surrounds Sunshine who needs to understand that the world doesn't revolve around him rather to understand who we are and what our purpose is, while at the same time knowing others and understanding them as well. In "The Whisperer", the male lead Khun has always been told that he's crazy and only does "bad things". However, he won't seek revenge towards those to have lied to him, rather show them what "crazy" really is.
Although the plot and the genre and universes are very different (futuristic sci-fi and fantasy), what I find very similar is the insane amount of philosophical references in dialogues. Although said via main characters it feels like a background narrative as they attempt to philosophise every step of the story which doesn't really come to any certain conclusion. Almost like an essay.
