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Both female lead characters are bubbly writers who fall in love with unconventional men. Because this is my first life the lead man is struggling between PTSD caused by a painful break-up and autism. Yumi’s cells season 3, the lead man has planned a simple life to manage his social anxiety and autism. The arrival of a new element, a charming and full of life woman changes the on surfaced peace they have created with an none-eventfull life The question remains the same how you can help a loved-one to overcome past trauma or atypia in order to accept love and the possibility of a new found unpredictable happiness?

Seo Ji Hye and Jang Nala have lost part of their memories. They are after the missing parts of their past and the truth hiding below the lies and the injustice.

In both stories Seo Ji Hye is looking for the missing pieces, recollecting from her memories the exact events in order to make sense in her current life.
Even though Kiss Sixth Sense has a little bit of fantasy and romance the 2 contents have a dark atmosphere.

2 Thrillers with an intense need to unmask the truth.
Those 2 stories are led by women looking inside their familiy’s secrets.

Chocking event give the push to a woman to go after the truth.
The common point is the drive to unveil the truth, the temptation for revenge.

Both Double Helix and A Round Trip to Love sit in that same “not for the faint-hearted” BL lane—they lean hard into toxic, emotionally intense relationships rather than soft, fluffy romance.

In * Round Trip to Love, the relationship is built on obsession, power imbalance, and cycles of hurt, where love and control get tangled together. It’s very much about characters making bad decisions, hurting each other, and still being unable to let go.

Double Helix gives a similar vibe—messy dynamics, manipulation, emotional damage, and characters who aren’t exactly good people. The appeal in both isn’t “healthy love,” it’s watching how far things can go, how broken the characters are, and whether there’s any kind of redemption (or not).

So the similarity is basically this:
they both explore dark romance where love is intense, destructive, and complicated—definitely not something meant to be taken as a model for real-life relationships.

Both Double Helix and A Round Trip to Love sit in that same “not for the faint-hearted” BL lane—they lean hard into toxic, emotionally intense relationships rather than soft, fluffy romance.

In * Round Trip to Love, the relationship is built on obsession, power imbalance, and cycles of hurt, where love and control get tangled together. It’s very much about characters making bad decisions, hurting each other, and still being unable to let go.

Double Helix gives a similar vibe—messy dynamics, manipulation, emotional damage, and characters who aren’t exactly good people. The appeal in both isn’t “healthy love,” it’s watching how far things can go, how broken the characters are, and whether there’s any kind of redemption (or not).

So the similarity is basically this:
they both explore dark romance where love is intense, destructive, and complicated—definitely not something meant to be taken as a model for real-life relationships.

Sometimes you do not chose the countryside it chooses you. In both of these story citizens are forced to exile to remote places. Moving outside of Seoul it an opportunity to discover a new lifestyle and genuine down to earth folks.

Another "adultery leads to healing with a side of revenge" daily drama ... interestingly enough, Choi Jungyoon is in both. In Amor Fati, she is the FL while in Desperate Mrs. Seonju, she plays the female antagonist/adulteress Sangah. Also in both, the ML's relationship with his son is a big plot point. If you want to see fathers fight for their kids (blood relation be damned) , you'll like Sowoo ... he's similar to Jaekyung in that sense.

However, the tone of Desperate Mrs. Seonju is a bit more comedic than Amor Fati and the author liberally starts assigning birth secrets in the second half... some of which feel unnecessary but besides that, the overarching theme of "family vs ambition" is the same!

Another daily drama that features long lost identical twins ... and one twin taking the identity of the other to get revenge on the main villain, who is also an older woman trying to stay in good graces with the "chairman", and is at odds with his (younger) wife similar to Sanwol and Hwayoung. The circumstances are a little different but I don't want to spoil the entire drama!
Highly recommend because Lee Yuri plays the twins and she's AMAZING at these revenge dramas imo.

Another daily revenge drama ... FL of both get revenge by living as someone else, although Jeongwon does a bit more with her new identity than Jangmi does (WAY more) and Jeongwon acts on her own. A bit unorthodox in the sense that the FL isn't all sunshine and rainbows (like Seorin) but in my opinion that's a good thing ... the FL is calculating and ambitious. Which I actually like in an FL. If you want a break from the "bright personality" FLs I highly recommend this...
The ML also supports the FL although unlike The First Man, the ML is aware that he is being used and is okay with it. A love triangle exists but it's nowhere as one sided as the one in the First Man...

Also recommend if you can handle a drama where the majority of the characters are morally grey and not black and white good vs evil.

Same FL (Ham Eunjung) and the drama is fast paced once the revenge actually starts. It does start a little quicker than The First Man, probably because the drama itself is shorter. The FL is pretty active in her revenge ... a little similar to Seorin in the sense that she moves in silence.

They have the same writer, both dailies are centered around the hospitality industry (the third marriage = restaurant, the first man = hotel + restaurant) and Yoon Sunwoo (Baekho) ALSO plays the ML here. Big difference is he has his own secret revenge arc going that's separate from the FLs... Choi Jiyeon (Youngja) is also in this drama, although her character is extremely unlikeable here lol. The FL Dajeong is a little similar to Jangmi at the beginning although she actually pulls her "revenge marriage" off (and story wise it actually makes sense). You'll see a lot of the same tropes used in both dramas as both are part of Seo Hyunjoo's unofficial "Nth Series", along with The Second Husband.
Personally I liked Seran as a villain, just like Hwayoung there's no limit for as far she will go (and boy does Seran go pretty far) and just like Hwayoung she tends to get the upper hand...

Also Ban Hyojung is a legend, period.

First love. Second chances. Healing.

Both leads were separated because of external factors and each went on to different paths, only to reunite at the end. Through it all, ML remained devoted to the FML.

*ABO Desire* and *Journey with You* are fundamentally linked by the theme of **inevitable gravity**, where the protagonists are pulled together by forces—whether biological or emotional—that they initially struggle to resist. Both stories lean into the **predatory-yet-protective** dynamic, featuring a high-status male lead whose intense focus on the heroine borders on obsession, creating an environment where the female lead feels both cherished and trapped. While *ABO Desire* utilizes the specific biological imperatives of the Alpha/Omega hierarchy to heighten the stakes of consent and fated attraction, it shares with *Journey with You* a core focus on **loss of control**; both narratives explore the tension of a "forced" intimacy that eventually evolves into a genuine, albeit complex, dependency as the characters navigate the thin line between being a captive and being a partner.