Stand by Me

Both set in 90s, slice of life and focused on friendship, love, dreams, and family. The trope is similar as well (friends to lovers or enemy to friends to lovers). Especially, both female leads liked the second male lead first before falling for the male leads.

Both stories follow a girl who’s forced to grow up too fast because of emotional damage, and both show how she learns to “act normal” while carrying pain no one sees. Stand By Me shows it through Qiqi’s loneliness and pressure at home and school, while Had I Not Seen the Sun shows it through the lasting impact of a single traumatic event, but both are about a girl trying to survive in a world that doesn’t notice she’s hurting.

This is also a drama that depicts that not everyone have the same environment and facilities to make their lives better but some people in you life play such an important role that they can help you pull yourself out of the slump.

~ Both series are based on present and past story which revolves between 90s and 2000s

~ Based on novels

~ Jolly Male lead and Capricious Female lead

~ In both series the FL start taking her studies seriously and plans to go to University with good grades.. they both face different kind of difficulties on the way

~ Possessive ML who care a lot about FL

~ Ups and downs of friendships and family dilemmas

~ ML thinks that now FL is ahead than him and he stands no future neither equal match for her.

It deals with familiarity of relationships between parent and child and child to young adult. It also deal with how to navigate the world while trying to figure your place in this complex emotions of a teenage

Both features a protagonist (XiaoYao/QiQi) with a rather difficult personality owing to her childhood neglect.

Both explores her relationships with 3 guys: one a protective Brother (CangXuan/XiaoBo), a sweet sweet Lover (TuShanJing/ZhangJun) and a Friend who somehow always manage to turn her worries into nothing (XiangLiu/ChenJin).

- school dramas,
- bad boy ML,
- complicated family problems,
- bold FL,
- youth problems,
- melancholic reminiscence vibes