Love in the Moonlight

Both main female and male leads are devoted only to each other. Both are historical with politics, but the main focus is on the love story between the leads.

Both are historical dramas in which the ML is a king and the FL is his servant or working for him in the palace. Both have people plotting to get rid of the king, and are a mix of fluffy anachronistic humor and heavier moments.

I watched Maiden Holmes before Love in the Moonlight, and I am very surprised at how many similarities there are in the plot. Some plot points are carried out in the exact same or very similar ways. Same gender bender and female lead with a dark past falls in love with prince male lead.

Similar vibes and relationship between the main characters. Both shows start off sweet and funny then take a turn into heavier court politics and assassination attempts, with a final happy ending.

Although one is Chinese and the other one is Korean, both have good storyline and some similarities
- Both ML are prince…Strong, smart and did many things to protect FL
- Some gender bender…female dressing as a man
- FL family was wrongfully accused so they have to hide their identity
- Make you want to root for their love

If you like drama series where female lead cross dressing due to certain circumstances e.g. joining military ( Arsenal Military) or palace recruitment (Love in the Moonlight) and the male lead didnt realise until many episodes later that he actually fell in love with a girl.

Both dramas have very very handsome male leads and female leads who looks pretty and also convincing as a young boy. Though the setup, genre, language and era of each drama are different but it is definitely a good rom-com. ???

Character pretends to be a eunuch (FL vs, ML) which causes confusions in other main character's feelings toward them. Mix of light and serious moments. Historical setting.

Kim Boong Do is a scholar who had supported the reinstatement of Queen In Hyun when Jang Hee Bin's schemes resulted in her being deposed and replaced as King Suk Jong's queen consort. He travels 300 years into the future of modern Seoul and meets Choi Hee Jin, a no-name actress who is expecting a career renaissance through her role as Queen In Hyun in a TV drama

Both are historical romances with cute, lighthearted vibes. In both the male leads are really sweet and loveable.

Both female lead roles disguises herself as a man in a historical period.

It is also a rom-com historical drama, but contains more actions. The main girl here also surrounds a birth secret that she does not know of until the romances between the three main characters develop (the other one is a second male lead played by Jang Geun Suk). In LITM, it is Byung Yeon who finds out Ra On's true identity, but in HGD, it is Lee Chang Hwi (played by Jang Geun Suk) who finds the true identity of the main girl. Hong Gil Dong may not be a crown prince, but he is a illegitimate son of a high rank minister. Also, the main girl played by Sung Yu Ri knows martial arts and can beat most of the men she fights. She is a cute strong-willed girl who is free-hearted to all the people she meets.

- Even though they tell completely different stories, these two dramas both have the female leads disguised as males entering the lives of the male leads
- Both female leads help the males through their life crisis'
- To the beautiful you is a fluff drama while the latter is kind of the opposite

Saito Haruomi is a young man who moves from his hometown to Tokyo to attend a university. He begins to live in a lodging place that charges the low price of 10,000 yen per month. On his first day there, he meets a beautiful girl named Kokono. While making conversation with her, Saito Haruomi’s face blushes. He suffers from erythromania, which causes him to blush often. Saito Haruomi is excited to live with a such beautiful girl, but he soon discovers that Kokono is actually a man.

Both are the projects of the younger generation of actresses, Kim Yoo Jung and Kim So Hyun. Aside from the typical wealthy/powerful male lead poorer female lead setup that is so common it hardly counts as a similarity, one thing I appreciated in both, and that I hope will become more common in dramas, is that the characters simply trust each other. There are no major misunderstandings just to bring out the angst, and not too much noble idiocy. It's nice to watch a communicative and trusting couple, that surprised me every time by not falling into the common traps k-dramas lay.

First of both the female leads are crossdressers, and the male leads later on the story find out their a female. Both the story sparks romance between a crown prince and a commoner. Overall the whole concept is quite similar with both stories also having a love triangle.
(PS both are really cute shows and I really enjoyed em!)