Recommendations

Both are japanese horror/mystery movies that feature investigations into strange happenings around the country
- deep dives into the history of these phenomena
- trying to uncover the evil in plain sight
- eerie atmosphere
- abandoned buildings, quiet towns
- ambiguous but harrowing endings

Modern man living in ancient china. MC characteristic are similar (smart, funny, cheerfull). The plot hardly revolves around politics too. It gets the same exciting feelings like i was watching Joy of Life for the first time a long time ago.

Just like how Guardians of Dafeng has characters from different paths that bands up to solve cases, the story is similar to Arsenal Military Academy in how it narrates the lives of a group of different people attending a military academy.

Both shows have a similar starting point in terms of plot: FL is older, married and an experienced manager in showbiz who picks the ML and guides them into becoming a star. Bijo to Danshi is about the hard work and challenges involved in this journey and how the FL manages her personal life alongside all of it. There is also a hint of romance, but it's not the main plot.

Psych Hunter is a Chinese drama blending supernatural elements with psychological crime-solving. It’s atmospheric, with intriguing mysteries and dreamscapes but can feel slow at times.

Deep Lurk focuses on espionage and psychological tension, offering fast-paced, grounded storytelling without fantasy elements.

Similarity: Both explore psychological themes and hidden truths.
Difference: Psych Hunter adds supernatural twists, while Deep Lurk stays realistic and action-driven.

Played by Cheng yi and Neo Huo. Deep lurk is really great detective, case solving, suspenseful and thrilling just like The lost tomb 2.

- Empress/Ruler FL
- FL has a harem
- Tsundere ML
- Time travel (standard transmigration in WWLQ, a bit messier in HDJtT)
- Both are comedic minidramas

Same cast Cheng yi and Li yi tong. Love story and bonding. Similar to Mysterious lotus casebook too.

- Female ruler
- FL has a harem of concubines
- ML is a skilled fighter sent to FL to spy/kill her
- ML becomes her favourite concubine
- Flirty FL x Tsundere ML
- Gender role reversal themes

SotSS is wuxia and assassination focused so overall darker and more plot heavy while WWLQ is more of a lighthearted comedy.

Both shows are about two male leads who grew up together and got separated due to family circumstances. They meet up again years later. Both feature traditional Chinese activities - lion dancing in one, and dragon boating in the other.

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Both feature:
• A modern-day office-worker heroine who's been demoted
• An age-gap romance with an older woman and a younger man
• A love triangle where the heroine has to decide whether to date a man around her own age who has a stable career, or date a younger man who isn't financially established

Both feature a woman in a workplace performing a job she'd rather not be because she has dreams of doing something else; but as she continues working, she grows and learns both as a person and as an employee.

Both shows are also workplace comedies featuring upbeat heroines.

if you like your sky, then you may also really like fourever you…
they’re both a story with a group of friends.

Leads communicate through online messages, don't meet in person until the end of the movies. Lies are told throughout both (catfishy).
I personally liked Haru much more than Contact. It gives a better sense of feelings and relationship than Contact does (IMO).