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.

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

Dramas set in the 1980s–90s that focus on finding one’s dream, self-discovery, and perseverance through life’s challenges. They tell stories filled with family bonds, love, school life, laughter, heartbreak, and regret. Stand By Me centers mainly on youth which includes the friendships, first loves, and struggles of growing up capturing the innocence and bittersweet moments of teenage years. Miles to Go expands beyond youth, blending rural life with the characters’ adult and work lives, exploring how dreams and relationships evolve over time. Both dramas offer emotional depth and nostalgia.

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