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Chinese and Taiwanese dramas that are short length/mini dramas (usually >15 mins per episode).
Thrillers, crime, procedurals, legal, and mysteries.
pretty and/or unusual/unique aesthetics relating to costumes, sets, lighting, or cinematography.
The delightful or not so delightful trope! At least one of the leads loses their memory at least once.
characters with mental or physical disabilities, mental illness, chronic illnesses, and more.
plost centered around or leads who are involved in the arts - painting, music, writing, dance, theatre, stage magicians, entertainment, etc..
My favorite sort of happy ending stories - the leads are together and parents (adopted/biological child/children and/or pregnancy). Also included…
Unconventional MLs on the gray side - villains, antiheros, playboys, red flags, and bad boys with a heart of gold.
Childhood connections, childhood and earlier meetings, separations during and toward the end, basically any stories that ultimately feature…
endgame pairing isn't the usual "met as children and loved forever" - the leads have romantic relationships and even marriage with…
One or both of the leads are a parent and don't know it. Includes the FL concealing her pregnancy intentionally or unintentionally from the…
reversed stereotypical gender roles including domineering or strong FL/weak ML, matriarchal husbands, reversed societies, mpreg, characters…
characters who are humans with some magical power or who gain power from a magical object they possess.
Romances between step family, in-laws or adopted (not blood related) siblings, and the occasional related one.
two brothers are both romantically involved and/or in a love triangle with the FL.
Arranged marriages, forced marriages, fake relationships, and contract relationships of all sorts that ultimately lead to love.
For when you're in the mood for screaming at your screen after it goes black. Cliffhangers for second seasons that never happened, endings up…
plots driven by FL's/ML's quest for revenge for something that happened to them or their family.
characters appear to be someone other than who they truly are due to body/face swaps, power swaps, identity swaps, false identities, hidden…
people entering or coming from video games, VR, books, tv shows, manga, dreams, or parallel worlds, or set within those worlds with self aware…
a character was raised as a weapon, assassin/killer, and/or tool by someone who planned to use them for some purpose. AKA leads with the most…
interracial and intercultural romantic relationships, either the leads or supporting characters.
Dramas and movies I loved and would very much recommend! If there's more than one season/movie, only the first is listed.
Pairings where the characters are emotional opposites, one cold and one warm or one introvert and one extrovert.
school settings, youth dramas, & main characters who are students or teachers
Dramas and movies based upon a true story, ranging from historical figures to events, to varying degrees of accuracy.
For when you're tired of dramas in which the ML sacrifices everything and the FL doesn't seem to even love him as much. Here are FLs who definitely…
the leads are in an established romantic relationship and then break up, divorce, or plan to divorce only to fall in love all over again.
Romances between a supernatural non-human lead and a human lead.
angels, gods, grim reapers, goblins, genies, fairies, demons. AKA a lot of xianxia here.
characters who transform into both humans and animals (includes nine tailed foxes).
main characters with scars, particularly those that are significant to the plot or the romance.
ML or FL is believed to be the fulfillment of a prophecy that says they will end the country/world/a person or are thought to be bad luck.
Couples with large height differences, guaranteed to make the heart flutter!
Plots centered around food, restaurants, cafes, bars, and cooking and/or characters who are chefs/cooks.
