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Takenouchi plays an aquarium employee named Kengo, who seems ordinary at first glance but actually possesses a secret that he would sacrifice everything in order to protect. Meanwhile, Ueto plays Risa, a young woman working in the sex trade in order to pay off her brother's debt, though her situation has led her to contemplate suicide. These two characters, both full of despair, meet each other and end up entering a contract marriage purely for its benefits. However, as they overcome various troubles, their relationship begins turning into true love.

### Queen of Tears × Because This Is My First Life

1. **Marriage of convenience** — Both stories revolve around couples whose marriage starts more from circumstances and practical reasons than pure love.

2. **Emotionally distant couples** — The leads initially struggle to communicate and understand each other, making their relationship feel cold despite living together.

3. **Slowly falling in love** — What starts as a complicated relationship gradually turns into genuine love as they begin to understand each other better.

4. **Family pressure** — Both dramas show how family expectations, social status and interference can put a lot of pressure on a marriage.

5. **Love hidden behind everyday life** — Both are really about realizing the value of the person beside you, with small moments eventually becoming more meaningful than the grand romantic gestures.

### Lovely Runner × Twinkling Watermelon

1. **Time travel** — Both stories use time travel to let the characters revisit the past and change things that affect their present.

2. **Youth & first love** — Both have a beautiful youthful atmosphere filled with friendships, school days, crushes and innocent romance.

3. **Changing someone's fate** — The characters travel through time not just for themselves, but to protect or help someone they deeply care about.

4. **Emotional family stories** — Along with romance, both dramas have strong family relationships and emotional moments that make the story more meaningful.

5. **Nostalgic feel** — Both give that warm, nostalgic feeling of wanting to go back to your younger days, with music, friendships and romance making the journey even more special.

Both have same FL played by actress Bai Lu.
Both dramas ML is demon lord.
In both drama FL chase after ML.
Both have cold ML.
Both have funny, cute, intelligent FL.

In both dramas, the leads lost their kids which eventually lead to their marriage go astray. In IHAL, the ML is the one from the rich family while the FL is the rich one in QOT. Both FL became cold after losing their kids. Unlike ML in QOT who have the backbone to stay loyal and ask for a divorce, the ML in IHAL had an affair because he felt lonely. Since IHAL is amuch longer drama, you gonna get a very makjang style drama. It is still fun tho

The first rejecting FL then regretting part is what makes me think it is similar to each other but IMLY had more mature couple

Ianne is a simple hopeless romantic student who can't take love seriously until she met the two guys who'll make her life a little bit exciting as she discovers the meaning of love for her. Art is the popular guy in school who is so emotionless, intelligent, and mysterious

The movie tells the story of a group of senior high school students who invent a new mobile app and call it “Caught in the Act” as part of their school project. The crime-stopping app allows onlookers to report crimes happening in their campus and in their community. While testing the app, they get to witness a crime committed by a syndicate. The app effectively sends a report about the ongoing crime to the authorities. However, the first person to receive it is the head of the police, who protects the syndicate. As the syndicate group tries to cover its tracks, the innocent teenagers now have to decide whether to run away because they are being hunted or face their tormentors head-on.

With a desire to connect to something "greater than themselves," three different stories from Gen Z or Zoomers are formed because of a connection by a café which prohibits them from using social media and their gadgets, and faced and felt the agony and pleasure of being in love.

The film chronicles the life and tragic death of Philippine's national hero former Senator Benigno "Ninoy" Simeon Aquino Jr.

With a desire to connect to something "greater than themselves," three different stories from Gen Z or Zoomers are formed because of a connection by a café which prohibits them from using social media and their gadgets, and faced and felt the agony and pleasure of being in love.

Three stories of haunting secrets, folklore, and urban legends.

Three stories of haunting secrets, folklore, and urban legends.

Wanting to save her family's home and drag comedy bar from repossession, a cisgender woman joins the country's most prestigious drag competition. However, complications arise when she falls for her fiercest rival.

An erotic suspense BL series exploring the lives of four couples as they navigate through love, pain, loss, romance, forgiveness, redemption, loneliness and sorrow. After reports from NASA confirm that an asteroid is set to hit Earth in 7 days resulting in global catastrophe, priorities quickly change and panic ensues.

"Kumusta Bro The Series" is about the intertwined lives of Thirdy, Bench, Dean, Cerwin and Fons, who are trying to chase down each other because of love and romance as they face the challenges of “adulting”.