In both drama, the love story the female leads wrote as teenagers occurs in real life. Instead of falling immediately love like the characters they wrote, they only feel unnerved and cringed.
Both dramas has ML being in love with their longtime male friend. After an accident, ML's soul is transferred to a woman's body. The dramas explore the difference between friendship vs romantic interest, and loving a person for their outside vs inside.
Both dramas started as a contract marriage with an overbearing, manipulative CEO who they can't stand. But after living together, the couples fell in love for real. Also love triangle, and 2nd leads with childhood connection.
Both started off as a cheesy slapstick fantasy comedy. But somehow along the way, deeper social commentaries came through all their nonsense. Gradually, we started to see them as more than one-dimension characters.
Both drama has an older woman at the mercy of a high school student. The younger man ends up falling for the older woman after she helps him overcome his internal conflicts. However, the woman is pining his male relative who is her first love.
Both drama deal with the fallout of a murder by fellow family member and the path to reconciliation.
Both dramas deal with illegal poaching and forest rangers who put themselves in danger's way to protect the wild lives.
Smart main lead has hardship in childhood and is in care of another family. Although the other family is very good to ML, he/she continues to feel like outsider. However, ML finds his/her place in high school because the friends he/she makes.
Main characters are orphans who became best friend like family. To avenge someone they love dearly, they took on new identities: One works in the criminal underworld while the other a business man.
Both FL traveled back in time and met the younger version of their mothers. They later became best friends.
The male leads in both drama solve cases by entering into people's subconscious to find clues. The female leads are Chinese Republican Era policewomen with good fighting skills.
Both dramas have characters from fictional work cross over to the real world to harass the authors into changing their stories.

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