You Are My Destiny (2020)

Entertaining big families that come close to heart.
The way both dramas deal with family-only dynamics is peaceful.
Full of comedy.
Heart-filling romances.
Double in-law couples.

Both comedies revolve around a couple who end in a Marriage Of Convenience. The male leads end up falling for the cute female lead by the end from their interactions with her. The ending is different enough, however, so be ready.

another remake of the original fated to love you from Taiwan
This drama is the story of an ordinary girl, Mi Yeong, who has neither outstanding looks, a prestigious college degree, nor any other charming qualities, facing her whole life abruptly changing when love comes knocking at her door. While on vacation, she accidentally happens to spend one night with an unknown rich man and even gets pregnant from that night. Because of this incident, her life will never be the same, and this fateful encounter brings love that transforms this not-so-special girl to an attractive, charming lady.

the original
A really unfashionable working class girl Chen Xin Yi has the desire to tie down her handsome boyfriend to be with her. Due to certain reasons, her boyfriend gets her to go on a love cruise and she started to ponder on how to lose her virginity and tie down her boyfriend. Xin Yi ended up taking cold medicine which made her drowsy and went into Ji Cun Xi's room. Cun Xi is the sole male heir to his family's company and has been in love with his girlfriend, Anna, for a long time. He planned to propose to Anna on the boat but she didn't turn up on the cruise. An island owner added drugs into Cun Xi's drink and Cun Xi became disorientated and returned to his own room. Xin Yi and Cun Xi end up having a one night stand. Xin Yi later finds out that she's pregnant and Cun Xi's grandmother forces them to get married. Will a couple forced to marry for the sake of their unborn child find love with each other?

Both comedies revolve around a couple who end in a Marriage Of Convenience. The male leads end up falling for the female lead by the end from their interactions with her. The ending is different enough, however, so be ready.

25-year-old Moriyama Mikuri graduated but had no job offers. She became a temporary employee but was even laid off. So while she is taking a break right now, Mikuri feels unwanted and displaced. She starts work as a housekeeper for bachelor Tsuzaki Hiramasa by chance. One day, he proposes a contract marriage to her. The two of them get married in secret, but will their married life work out?

On the Japanese remake except few things, it has the same plot as the original Taiwanese version.

Takuya and Rika, who work in the planning department of JTC, a travel agency in the Tokyo metropolitan area, are not very good at socializing, but they lived a fulfilling life alone. However, due to the opening of a branch in Siberia, singles will be dispatched overseas with priority, and Rika who is in trouble asks Takuya for a plan. The two, who have hardly spoken, will get married after only 365 days!


~~ Adapted from the manga "Kekkon Surutte, Hontou Desu ka? (365 Days To The Wedding) by Wakaki Tamiki.

Satoh Aya is known in her company as the 'sticky woman', since she is covered in post-it notes detailing tasks she must complete for others. While she’s being taken advantage of, she never complains. This ordinary office worker ends up meeting Ichijo Kei, the young successor of a large corporation. He’s somewhat eager to marry, as his grandmother, the chairman, feels an heir is required. Destiny plays with Kei and Aya’s fate, allowing them to meet in an unexpected situation. And things get complicated really quickly.

24-year-old Murakami Maiko is a very sheltered girl who has never had a relationship with a guy. It is decided that she will go for a matchmaking session with someone recommended by her father Genichiro who owns a company. The man Hanasato Harumi is 20 years her senior and also a divorcee. Although Maiko is less than thrilled, she discovers when they meet that he is a charming man with an air of maturity and she instinctively makes a move on him. Harumi had intended to meet Maiko once before he turned her down since she is the daughter of the CEO of an important client. However, she turns out to be more than he had imagined. Maiko confounds him the whole time but he is attracted to her straightforward, pure, and dignified nature. He accepts the completed marriage registration form from her on their third date after she presses him for a kiss. They get married despite their 20-year age gap, and their life as newlyweds begins.

Two strangers, both proposed marriage to their respective girl/boyfriend, were rejected on the same day. They decided that the best way to deal with the rejection was to get drunk, real drunk. During the 24 hours of their crazy drunkenness, these two stranger became fast friends and got married... to each other. When they finally sobered up, they embarked on a mission to undo every crazy thing they did while they were drunk and prayed that their girl/boyfriend don't find out.

A reverse romantic comedy about a "shotgun romance" that begins with a one-night stand between a man and a woman who both vowed never to get married in this lifetime.

Kang Du Jun, a seemingly perfect second-generation chaebol from head to toe. Having decided that marriage was not in the cards for this life, he lives for his remaining family and company in place of his deceased older brother. However, his life takes an unexpected turn when he becomes entangled with Jang Hui Won after a wild one-night fling.

Jang Hui Won, a career woman who scores 100 in work but 0 in romance. Scarred by her parents’ divorce and a harsh upbringing under a cold, critical mother, she has shut herself off from the idea of marriage and embraced singlehood by choice. But her carefully structured life faces an unforeseen twist following that one impulsive night.

Entertaining big families that come close to heart.
The way both dramas deal with family-only dynamics is peaceful.
Full of comedy.
Heart-filling romances.
Double in-law couples.

Takenouchi plays an aquarium employee named Kengo, who seems ordinary at first glance but actually possesses a secret that he would sacrifice everything in order to protect. Meanwhile, Ueto plays Risa, a young woman working in the sex trade in order to pay off her brother's debt, though her situation has led her to contemplate suicide. These two characters, both full of despair, meet each other and end up entering a contract marriage purely for its benefits. However, as they overcome various troubles, their relationship begins turning into true love.

Satoh Aya is known in her company as the 'sticky woman', since she is covered in post-it notes detailing tasks she must complete for others. While she’s being taken advantage of, she never complains. This ordinary office worker ends up meeting Ichijo Kei, the young successor of a large corporation. He’s somewhat eager to marry, as his grandmother, the chairman, feels an heir is required. Destiny plays with Kei and Aya’s fate, allowing them to meet in an unexpected situation. And things get complicated really quickly.