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It is a college campus story between the leads.
There might be a love square between the 4 characters of the drama.
The chemistry is undeniably strong.
The female lead is cute, quirky and cheerful
The male lead is subtle, shy and kinda quiet.

A world beyond scientific understanding with a group of passionate adults trying to solve cases done by such forces. Zhao Yun Lan and Shen Wei are tasked with upholding peace between deities, demons, and humans, and the story will focus on their friendship that transcends past and present lifetimes.

~~ Adapted from the novel Zhen Hun written by Priest.

Both dramas have similar themes of college students, love, coming of age, friendships, and more.
Both revolve around different age students.

College-aged students find love and relationships and navigating rocky roads between them.
Both are coming of age stories.

College-aged students finding out about life and various coming of age stories told from their perspectives

Both are of the same genre.
Both FLs initially do not have the ability to emote.
Both are peppered with misunderstandings, but also laden with fluff.
Overall, both dramas have very similar vibes, with Ashes of Love giving you a high dose of angst once and Love and Redemption sprinkling angst here and there from the start to the end.

Both FLs are women who are smart and and raised from an early age to be the Commanders/General of large armies to protect China's borders.

First of all.Both dramas are CLASSIC MASTER PIECE in my opinion.
Both drama main leads are dealing with infidelity issues. But totally in different ways.

In secret love affair Female lead is much older than male lead.
My Mister male lead is much older than female lead.

In secret love affair Female lead is dealing with office politics.
My Mister male lead is is dealing with office politics.

Both dramas have many heartwarming and heart breaking moments.

Main similarity, YOO AH IN from secret love affair and LEE SUN GYUN from my mister has insane acting skills.Both are not talking much in both dramas but their expresions talking 1000 words.

Again, same actress and scriptwriter. Kemono is a bit better in presenting "life lessons", soratobu is comparatively more in your face on that. But regardless absolutely great dramas.

- same actress
- same scriptwriter
- both features adult relatioships and realistic conflicts
- both are great, though Nigeru probably has a bit more comedy
- both are romance, though Nigeru has a tad bit more haha

Co-workers (in the food industry) get into a relationship without meaning to be in one. Family, relationships, and friends are affected in different ways.

Both feature a noona romance with a career-oriented older woman and the plucky younger guy she ends up falling for. The chemistry between both leads is great and they both have bits of commentary here and there on what its like for women who are still when well into their 30s or hitting 40

- both are healing dramas.
- the chemistry of the leads are on point.
- both dramas take place in a hospital (in iontbo a psychic hospital and in chococlate a hospice).
- the dramas take place by the sea.

If you liked this drama you would also like this one cause both will give you the same vibe, you'll get to feel the affection of a mother to her child and that mothers can do anything for them. And the twists are also mind-blowing!

Both the male leads hate the female leads at first and falls in love with them by the end.