Recommendations

-Both have supernatural elements
-In both there are demons and supernatural creatures
-Both are set in a misterious shop
-In both there are time loops and a festival repeating multiples times
-In both a boy sacrifices somenthing for his best friend
-Both have bromance elements, leaning to BL
-The ending is quite similar

In her previous life, Yun Chu, the daughter of a noble family, married into a poor household. She devoted herself to her husband’s rise, shielding his family from every storm, only to be repaid with betrayal, poisoning, and the massacre of her entire clan. She swore that if she were ever given another life, she would make the traitors suffer a hundredfold.

- Both are cute and fluffy comedies with lots of silliness and over-the-top antics
- Both have MLs that are obsessed with the MC
- Both have an office setting (though in BL Drama no Shuen they are actors playing office workers)

Chinese people standing up against the atrocities of the japanese invaders during the war.

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Japan and Korea's biggest names star in this big-scale drama. Nishijima Sho is a Japanese detective whose father was murdered in Korea when he was still a boy. In hopes of discovering the truth behind his father's death, Sho is working undercover in a huge secret organization. Choi Yuna is a Korean woman who visits Japan in search of her missing father. She opens a Korean restaurant with her younger sister, but soon faces the mercy of fate. The couple meets in a corner of Tokyo and falls in love. But what waits ahead of them. A "rondo" of fate, love, and history is about to begin.

Japan and Korea's biggest names star in this big-scale drama. Nishijima Sho is a Japanese detective whose father was murdered in Korea when he was still a boy. In hopes of discovering the truth behind his father's death, Sho is working undercover in a huge secret organization. Choi Yuna is a Korean woman who visits Japan in search of her missing father. She opens a Korean restaurant with her younger sister, but soon faces the mercy of fate. The couple meets in a corner of Tokyo and falls in love. But what waits ahead of them. A "rondo" of fate, love, and history is about to begin.

Japan and Korea's biggest names star in this big-scale drama. Nishijima Sho is a Japanese detective whose father was murdered in Korea when he was still a boy. In hopes of discovering the truth behind his father's death, Sho is working undercover in a huge secret organization. Choi Yuna is a Korean woman who visits Japan in search of her missing father. She opens a Korean restaurant with her younger sister, but soon faces the mercy of fate. The couple meets in a corner of Tokyo and falls in love. But what waits ahead of them. A "rondo" of fate, love, and history is about to begin.

Japan and Korea's biggest names star in this big-scale drama. Nishijima Sho is a Japanese detective whose father was murdered in Korea when he was still a boy. In hopes of discovering the truth behind his father's death, Sho is working undercover in a huge secret organization. Choi Yuna is a Korean woman who visits Japan in search of her missing father. She opens a Korean restaurant with her younger sister, but soon faces the mercy of fate. The couple meets in a corner of Tokyo and falls in love. But what waits ahead of them. A "rondo" of fate, love, and history is about to begin.

Japan and Korea's biggest names star in this big-scale drama. Nishijima Sho is a Japanese detective whose father was murdered in Korea when he was still a boy. In hopes of discovering the truth behind his father's death, Sho is working undercover in a huge secret organization. Choi Yuna is a Korean woman who visits Japan in search of her missing father. She opens a Korean restaurant with her younger sister, but soon faces the mercy of fate. The couple meets in a corner of Tokyo and falls in love. But what waits ahead of them. A "rondo" of fate, love, and history is about to begin.

Both Female Leads:
• are consistently smart & gentle characters without flaws.
• initially prioritises family. Later after falling in love / married, balances challenges between both filial piety and husband's ambition.

Both Male Leads:
• are smart & cunning characters. Able to strategize the means to achieve their goals.
• female lead is his first love! No prior relationship experience.

Overall Plot & Quality:
• maintained good story flow with many intrigues. Didn't disappoint mid-way or towards the end. ??
• female lead & male lead work together as a power couple. Both couples have excellent on-screen chemistry, and also excel in their individual dynamic screen presence.
• both C-dramas have extremely HIGH REWATCH VALUE ???

I loved shine on me because it gave me the same vibe of amidst a snowstorm. They both have men that yearn and are green flags.

Same sense of adventure and action, mixed with comedy. Stories are completely different but both aiming for the same audience.

Set in the year 712 AD during the reign of Emperor Rui Zong of the Tang Dynasty, the grandeur of the Tang Dynasty continues, but beneath the prosperity, hidden dangers lurk, and a storm is brewing. Various forces are on the move, triggering frequent mysterious incidents among the common people. What kind of supernatural mysteries will Lu Ling Feng and Su Wu Ming, the deputy minister of the Grand Court of Justice and the registrar of Qianling, encounter on their perilous journey? The road to the west is unpredictable.

Hua Fu Sheng is a young man who's innocent and obsessed with medicine. He uses unconventional methods that both endear and frighten the townspeople. He is wrongly accused of murder after the death of all of the town’s doctors, including his own father. Clues left behind by his father seem to point to a mysterious "Sacred Book." At the same time, Wen Jue, the daughter of Xichuan’s City Lord, and Gu Tian, a fast-thinking young man good at martial arts and acrobatics, get drawn into the mystery. The three of them head to Xichuan to investigate. Wen Jue uses her family's influence to help Hua Fu Sheng open a clinic, while Gu Tian's quick wit aids them in gathering intel. As Hua Fu Sheng heals the poor, he hunts for the truth, but strange events unfold, and the puzzle deepens. Unknown to him, his arrival has already stirred hidden forces in Xichuan. What will happen, and can this threesome solve all of the puzzles and the larger conspiracy bubbling underneath?

Young girl Chu Chu came from a family of coroners. She meets Prince Xiao Jin Yu, a dignified prince in charge of criminal lawsuit who appeared weak and sickly. Prince Xiao lacks reliable manpower to investigate case, while Chu Chu lacks people to step up, take charge and be a man. Together, they must unravel a shocking case that has dragged on for 18 years.