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Both has intelcountrries romance. It showed how difficult in many way. The obstacle, challenges to endure and overcome. Feeling and fate brought them together, but….

The drama tells the story of a fallen princess forced into a political marriage with a corrupt prime minister. She faces numerous dangers but strives to survive to protect herself amidst the conflicts of national loyalty, personal vengeance, and true love. Meanwhile, the prime minister, outwardly ambitious to become a treacherous official, secretly harbors a desire to serve his country, its people, and the world.

(Source: Your Drama Jiejie on Facebook)

-~~ Adapted from the web novel "Tao Hua Zhe Jiang Shan" (?????) by Bai Lu Cheng Shuang (????).

The three kingdoms of Dayan, Xiyan, and Nanyue fought for many years, and the Weibei army led by Murong Jing He, the prince of Dayan, who had excellent combat power, suffered heavy losses in the Western Yan army and returned to the court in triumph to receive a reward, was betrayed on the march route, was framed, caught off guard, and the entire army was annihilated. The court is treacherous and the dark tide is rising.

As the center of the whirlpool, Jing He never gave up on investigating the truth of the incident, finding out who is behind the scenes, and comforting the heroic souls of the fallen soldiers. The dead warrior Mei Lin became the only "dead chess" on Jing's chessboard and revenge. Although Mei Lin is a dead soldier, he has a tenacious will to survive, and in order to get out of the dark factory, she and Jing He launched a turbulent struggle.

Jing He made extreme use of the beginning to gradually recover his sincerity. Mei Lin went from ignorance at the beginning to the beginning of love. In the confrontation between the two "chess players and chess pieces", the sadomasochistic love is deep and they cannot love.

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~~ Adapted from the novel "Chun Hua Yan" (???) by Hei Yan (??). Edit Translation

Same vibes
Smart FL
Strong ML
Desert Setting
Also Alen Fang is being Alen Fang
Fl is after revenge
Hidden motives
Secondary Couples be needing their own 16 episode drama

Very similar vibes, gentle stories about innocent and pure love affection. Pace and conclusion are similar, with open endings, positive in both cases. For me jbls are top, the time of fever being kbl is outshining the majority of korean bls

Both series are sweet bl's about the struggles in showbizz. But in 25 Ji, Akasake de both main characters are actors and in city of stars only one of them is an actor. The biggest similar thing is that they are both BIG GREEN flags. <3

Both dramas follow a teenager from a rural setting, as she grows up and becomes a woman.
In both dramas the heroine has a past hurt she needs to get over as she finds out who she wants to be and what she wants to do with her life.
Both dramas focus heavily on friends and family.

Both are 20th century historical korean dramas, with a setting/theme of theater as central part of plot.

Musical theatre/Theatre a central part of plot in both.

Even the actress (Kim Yoon Hye) is playing a side character in both.

I think anyone into theatre or musicals could enjoy both.

They're airing at the same time and they're both pulpy action-comedy crime BLs where one person wronged the other in episode one.

- NLB is about many girls coming from different states to get married because of marriage alliance. Each of them gets married to a prince. The drama is about their married life with laughing and crying and getting close to each other.
- While PM is about 4 sisters coming to another state to find a perfect husband to get married. Each of them encounters their ML. Their romance bloom and they get married.

-Strong Female Lead
-Big Family with Mostly Females
-Female Empowerment
-Starting a business (Pastry to eventually starting a restaurant)
- Sisters/Cousins finding Grooms
-Making a name for themselves in the Capital

-Multiple leads
-Big Family
- Women Moving to a new city
-Finding Husbands
- Starting their own business( Restaurant)
- Comedy
-Dealing with family related issues

Both dramas acted by same ml
Both have similar plot of time travelling
In both dramas leads trying to change fate by amending their past mistakes

They both give off similer vibes and atmosphere, they are both about two high school boys that fall deeply for each other, In both dramas, the main characters have very strong chemistry and tension towards each other despite being very young. In both BLs the main characters did excellent performances for their roles