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Similar connection through gaming element then falling in love. Although the game here has not advance to VR tech.

Both included elements of leads meeting through VR game. Both contain inside game romance elements and them connecting irl.

Surprisingly anyone else didn't recommend it given the similarities where one of leads parent is harmed due to other lead parent. What more noteworthy in this is fl's attitude towards ml despite given situation.

Two guys who liked eachother in highschool but didnt stay in contact for college meet again as they come to work for the same company.
office romance
bickering/teasing dynamic overplaying sincere feelings of yearning and regret about losing each other in the first place

Japanese Boys Love/LGBTQ mini drama with a chaotic, cute, innocent bisexual main lead that, at the start of the story is dumped or experiences a kind of rejection (in MLMU he learns his crush likes someone else), but soon develops a crush on a guy he swore he wouldnt like
seem wholesome and sweet and funny

The women in a family are reunited due to an event involving the father. They hold a lot of resentment/hate but are forced to deal with an uncomfortable and complicated situation
Road movie vibes
Sister/sibling relationships
Adult main characters in different stages in their lives/professions/different individual struggles

Although *Bon Appétit, Your Majesty* and *Tale of the Nine-Tailed* have different settings and genres, they share several key similarities. Both are fantasy romances that feature extraordinary circumstances bringing the main couple together and use supernatural elements to drive the story. Each drama centers on a powerful, initially cold male lead who gradually reveals a caring and protective side as he falls in love with a strong, independent heroine. The female leads are resourceful and play an active role in shaping the plot rather than simply relying on the male lead. Both series also blend romance with humor, suspense, and emotional moments, allowing the characters to grow through love while facing significant challenges. However, *Bon Appétit, Your Majesty* focuses on time travel, palace politics, and cooking in a historical setting, whereas *Tale of the Nine-Tailed* explores Korean mythology, fox spirits, reincarnation, and supernatural action in a modern world.

both are Sports dramas
FL helps the players to be successful in life as well as in the particular sport
both are very competitive drams
I do recommend this

- queer best friends to lovers who grew up together
- one is a servant while the other one is wealthy
- long time skip until they reunite as adults
- lots of yearning and drama

Very similar vibes dark physiological and taboo anf forbidden themes to it
Both feel a bit morally wrong to watch..
And very GREAT ACTING DONE BY THE CAST IN BOTH SHOWS

This one is basically the straight counterpart of it. They have the exact same title and almost identical plots. In both dramas the MCs travelled to the past and landed in bodies that were connected to the MLs, either through betrothal (in this one) or through a friendship ritual (in the recent Love Destiny).

Both are reverse harem dramas with a cold and calculating FL and a scheming but devoted ML, also including some investigation.

both are set in modern 21st-century monarchy in Korea; one is constitutional, and another one absolute but in a parallel world, a republic;

both are set in modern 21st-century monarchy in Korea; one is constitutional, and another one absolute, but at the end both are dissolved and become a republic

both are set in modern 21st-century monarchy in Korea; one is constitutional, and another one absolute but in a parallel world, a republic;