The Story of Ming Lan

Both dramas demonstrate the hardships of being a concubine, the struggle for power in the palace/household.

While Si Jin has the element of redoing the past and a higher status/ wealthier family both dramas primarily highlight women's conflicts and struggles within the family. Elder women in both dramas are scheming and continuously hold down the female lead. Much more focus is on her story with the male lead being present but the narrative being told in her point of view most of the time.

-FLs lead a hard life in their previous families and struggle to establish a strong foothold in their newfound families.
-Both MLs before they get their titles had children with some materialistic woman, who troubles who re-enters into their life when they became rich.

Both feature smart, strong heroines in historical slice-of-life stories. Both contain great romances too.

The dramas are differents because The Story of Minglan feels more gritty in some ways. Yet, there are similarities in that both the females leads are smart and astute while the male lead is a capable lord.

We also get to see these couple in their domestic lives.

Strong female lead character. Desipte being in historical times, both female and male lead are highly intelligent and scheme against each other, but become romantic interests in the end.

While these shows are very different, I think there are still some similarities worth checking out.

1. The male lead of both of these shows is a badass who at first has a bit of a bad reputation.
2. Ths male lead is pretty upbeat and loves to tease the female lead
3. The male lead falls first and fully devotes himself to her once he falls
4. The male lead is extremely smart and saves fhe female lead multiple times
5. The female leads are both pretty cool but in different ways. In Story of Ming Lan, she can't fight, but she can scheme and battle indirectly while in Arsenal Military Academy, she can and does fight
6. The male lead gets jealous easily (if your into that)


My favorite part of both shows js the male lead and how he is cool, smart, badass, and most of all, fun. He isn't stiff and boring like so many male leads are. He also genuibly loves the female lead and isnt afraid to show it.

Both series are historical. They have a strong focus on the customs and daily life of the noble families during the time period. The main female lead is also intelligent and headstrong.

If you wish to see another masterpiece, The Ming Dynasty 2019 is considered as one as the male actors playing Emperors Yongle, Hongxi and Xuande are brilliant in portraying the characters.

Yongle in this drama is dark and ruthless by just casting his deadly glance and gaze. His sons and grandson are terrified of him.

I love watching his scenes with his sons and grandson. Although Yongle was a tyrant, he clearly loved his flesh and blood.

1. Ml loves the first
2. FLs plot a lot. They are smart and can see the plotting
3. strong FL
4. ML is jealous of the SML

Not similar
Ming Lan has not Haren fights
Ming Lan is more pure (less miss understanding)

Same actress who portrait MING LAN, but with different temper. Lu Zhen is more upfront front the start.

"To escape her cruel stepmother, Lu Zhen enters the palace as an attendant. She was quickly promoted through the ranks for her pottery-making skill. During this time, she captures the heart of crown prince Gao Zhan. However, she can never be with him as social status and jealous enemies work against her at every turn. She devotes herself to politics and helps Gao Zhan defeat a coup d'etat. Though Gao Zhan can not make her his empress, he bestows her with the highest position in the land, the female prime minister."

Both female leads are smart and strong and well genius
The male leads are both also smart
And if it counts both the female leads are by the same actress.

If you like the drama of wives fighting to win their husband's favor, then you might like Raise the Red Lantern. It delves into this territory. Both are slow pace and show aspects of historical China.

There is a lot of similarities between this two shows. The pace, evil characters, and even the leads. The female leads are strong and resilient but more so in TSOML and not Nyonya but there were still strong moments.

both drama set in different era one is modern another is historic

drama aspects have also a huge different in ming lan families make trouble for couple other side love now families cherish couple relation

so...what aspect is comman in both dramas both couples are understanding and respectful toward each other they maturely handle their issues

initially both girl hesitate to accept boy but boys make that comfort level so the girls can enjoy their life

boys are not like typical husband who have ego or try to use their authority

i'm really impressed with this couple hope people enjoy as much as i enjoyed

thanks