Hapimari: Happy Marriage!?

はぴまり ~Happy Marriage!?~ ‧ Drama ‧ 2016
Takanashi Chiwa is an office lady who works part-time at a club because she is in debt. One day, she gets into a quarrel with a wealthy and handsome customer who came to the club and is fired. The next day, a depressed Chiwa is summoned by her boss and finds the rude man from the day before down there. His name is Mamiya Hokuto. Hokuto suddenly proposes a contract marriage with Chiwa. Although she is initially resistant to the idea, she has no choice but to accept. The two of them overcome all sorts of troubles and become a real couple
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Zhang Jing Yi is the FL in both. The chemistry is natural. The relationship had depth. However, BEITD does not have a satisfactory ending.
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Both:
- rich guy and poor girl
- contract/forced marriage that leads to love later on after living together
- annoying ex-girlfriend that tries to break up the main couple
- second lead syndrome
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Takanashi Chiwa is an office lady who works part-time at a club because she is in debt. One day, she gets into a quarrel with a wealthy and handsome customer who came to the club and is fired. The next day, a depressed Chiwa is summoned by her boss and finds the rude man from the day before down there. His name is Mamiya Hokuto. Hokuto suddenly proposes a contract marriage with Chiwa.

Although she is initially resistant to the idea, she has no choice but to accept. The two of them overcome all sorts of troubles and become a real couple.
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Both:
- rich guy and poor girl
- contract marriage that leads to love
- annoying ex-girlfriend that tries to break up the main couple
- second lead syndrome
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The core of this drama is very similar to Hapimari. They begin a fake marriage due to outside factors.

ML is slow to realise feelings. Third-party serves as an incentive to get jealous.

Imagine it's also the same FL.

To conclude, they are very similar but I did prefer Hapimari for some reason.
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Both drama have contract marriage and they start have feeling for each other while living under the same roof.
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