Lighter & Princess (2022)

- game company (sistem game)
- boss authoritarian and cold at first
- Boss similar to Park Seo Joon's character in What's wrong with secretary Kim?
- beautiful trips
- funny and cute drama
- Bai Lu always glorious an excellent actress, this was my first cdrama and I love it.

I thought of Start-Up while watching L&P. Both have good storylines and acting. MLs are both in IT. FL are both nice and sassy although the FL in LP chased the ML a lot more than Start Up. The OST is good in both and added to the show. There is a lot more humour in Start UP in the beginning. The chemistry is similar in that it is slow burn and really good. There is a also a start up in both shows and a time jump.
the SML in Start up is much much more interesting character than Start Up.
Lastly the ML in Start Up is way way nicer than the ML in LP.

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Both stories are about university life, enemies to lovers, super cute!! They're both strongly based on the idea of being your best self and working towards a goal. I love the team dynamic of both couples and they do have some similarities like starting a start up and smart ML and FML.

Both dramas revolve around school and college days
The leads fall in love while at school
The leads are separated due to mishaps and are later reunited
Past love cannot be forgotten sort of dramas
Both give off warm vibes

They are both revenge-melodrama type but L&P revolves around univ days and after, while Innocent Man is more on corporate, chaebol kind of life of main characters esp. the FL. Both have similarities also when it comes to the characters’ social status, both MLs are from a poor family while the
FLs have a higher status in the society.

Angsty is what I love the most and both have it.

Zhang Jing Yi is the FL in both. The chemistry is natural. The relationship had depth. However, BEITD does not have a satisfactory ending.

Both dramas are set during school/college days
The leads have a love-hate relationship at first that turns into romance
The leads are separated due to mishaps showing up but keep loving each other and meet up again in the future
The characters in both have heavy baggages from their past and have been through trauma
The leads become colleagues too

Both dramas have similar elements:

- Enemies to lovers trope with sizzling and natural chemistry
- ML with a "bad boy" image, a smart, cold and alluring guy, difficult, cunning and anti-social personality and self destructive tendencies
- FL is a "good girl", has a big heart
- Realistic depiction of relationships
- Family of FL doesn't approve of her relationship with ML
- Tragic past of ML which left him scarred/traumatized
- ML commits a crime
- FL is a ride or die type of girlfriend
- Contains cute intimate scenes between ML/FL but is also angsty

The difference is: The Smile Has Left Your Eyes is heavier in tone, has a heavier message (on the topic of abandoned children and trauma) and the ending are completely different. TSHLYE is much sadder. But it's one of my favorite Kdramas, especially for people who enjoy the above mentioned elements and more realistic type of dramas.

Zhang Jing Yi is the FL in both. The chemistry is natural. The relationship had depth. However, BEITD does not have a satisfactory ending.

In Both dramas the leads are acquainted in the past( L&P leads are lovers in college but MLH the ML has an unrequited love since childhood)
My little happiness is sweet and fun, while lighter and princess is a little dark and thorough
The leads are reunited while they are older and become colleagues

Parallel as slow burn & passionate romance dramas depicting youth struggles, contemplation, hurdles & setbacks of chasing and achieving dreams from the point of view of intelligent, independent & hard working, strong male & female leads as they influence, overwhelm, light up each other's worlds.

That undeniable natural chemistry can not be beaten in both of these dramas. I won't say that story is similar but rather, a good story, friendship, supportive character, and the main similar part is one lead leaving the other to not let the other suffer in longing. Go..just go watch it. Reading here will spoil the fun.

- Amazing Chemistry between both of the leads
- Both of the novels that these two dramas are adapted from are by the same author (Twentie)
- Both are coming of age stories that just feel very… real.

The story lines are completely different but the way I feel after Watching the male lead in this drama is the same feeling I got from the male lead of go ahead. I can also add the the love in both dramas was deep, amazing and lasted for several years.