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Dramas and movies featured reversed stereotypical gender roles including domineering FL/weak ML, matriarchal husbands, reversed societies, characters…
Romances between step family, in-laws or adopted (not blood related) siblings, and the occasional related one.
Dramas and movies in which the characters appear to be someone other than who they truly are due to body/face swaps, power swaps, identity swaps,…
Childhood connections, childhood and earlier meetings, separations during and toward the end, basically any stories that ultimately feature…
Arranged marriages, forced marriages, fake relationships, and contract relationships of all sorts that ultimately lead to love.
Dramas and movies in which the lead(s) have scars, particularly those that are important in relationship to the other lead or to the plot at…
Dramas where one or both of the leads fall hard at their first meeting.
Stories in which the ML and his brother are both in love with and/or romantically involved with the FL.
Dramas and movies in which a storyline or all of the plot revolves around life inside the palace.
When you need romance with a bit more fire - particularly sizzling chemistry, yearning/UST, scenes that makes you wonder where exactly the censors…
Dramas and movies with a love story between a non-human lead and a human lead.
The hardest working guest star - the cliffs that everyone falls off. But never fear! If you're the FL or ML, you'll just come back after a while,…
Sad endings (my definition is the leads don't end up together due to death or separation) and happy endings for the main couple but are otherwise…
Dramas in which one of the leads is believed to be the fulfillment of a prophecy that says they will end the country/world or a powerful person.
Chinese dramas that are short length (15 mins. or less an episode) or full length dramas with 15 or fewer episodes. Also includes Taiwanese…
When childhood connections and true love are not enough for peak romance - dramas and movies in which the characters are connected in a magical…
Dramas and movies featuring characters with mental or physical disabilities, mental illness, chronic illnesses, and more.
"Few things say ‘I love you’ like a bullet to a non-essential area." - NikitaYou know how it goes, for some reason there has to…
My favorite sort of happy ending stories - the leads are together and parents (adopted/biological child/children and/or pregnancy). Also included…
FLs discover they're pregnant and others know but not the ML and/or give birth without the ML's knowledge and he finds out he's a father much…
Dramas and movies set in the country, for when you want to get away from it all.
Dramas and movies involving people entering or coming from video games, VR, books, tv shows, or manga, or set within those worlds with self…
Dramas and movies with angels, demons, gods, grim reapers, goblins, or plant fairies.
Dramas and movies in which the characters have more than one lifetime.
Dramas where instead of an enemies to lovers arc, the leads go back and forth between hatred and love in their relationship.
Unconventional MLs on the gray side - villains, antiheros, playboys, bad boys with a heart of gold, and more.
Dramas and movies in which characters are humans with some magical power or they gain power from a magical object they possess.
Dramas and movies in which three or more guys fall in love with the FL during the course of the plot.
For when you're in the mood for screaming at your screen after it goes black. Cliffhangers for second seasons that never happened, endings up…
The delightful or not so delightful trope! Dramas and movies where at least one of the leads loses their memory at least once.
Dramas and movies with plot centered around or leads whose careers are in the arts - painting, music, writing, dance, theatre, entertainment,…
Stories where the endgame pairing isn't the usual "met as children and loved forever" - the leads have romantic relationships and…
Dramas and movies in which the plot is driven by the FL or ML's quest for revenge for something that happened to them or their family.
Serial killers, crime, procedurals, action, and mysteries.
For when you just need a man or woman in armor or a historical uniform to save the day....leads who are generals, soldiers, or warlords.
Romances between an employer and their employee or master and their servant (excluding bodyguards).
Stories in which the FL physically and/or emotionally saves the ML at least once.
Dramas in which the leads are more than star-crossed - either one of them or their family destroyed the other's family or one of the leads has…
Dramas and movies with a rich lead and a poor(er) lead in a romantic relationship.
Dramas and movies with LGBTQ+ characters, including BLs, GLs, censored BLs, and dramas featuring supporting characters.
