The First Frost

Before the age of nine, Jiang Mu lived a sheltered and pampered life as the beloved little sister, while Jin Zhao was the brilliant older brother everyone admired. But everything changed when her parents divorced. Her father left for Thailand with Jin Zhao, and it was then that Jiang Mu came to know that her brother was adopted. Refusing to let him slip away, she traveled to Thailand alone to find him. When they met again, the graceful boy she once knew had changed. The brightness had faded, replaced by a sharp-edged young man hardened by the streets. He fought in underground rings, raced through dangerous tracks, and lived in a world full of risk that was completely unfamiliar to her. Though she had longed for this reunion, facing him left her uneasy. The brother she had run toward without hesitation now felt like a stranger.

From strangers to lovers, Jiang Mu approached him with steady determination. Though Jin Zhao resisted at first, retreating from her warmth, he eventually gathered the strength to face his feelings and chose to walk toward her instead. Life had been too bitter in his inferno, and he wished to keep Jiang Mu away from that darkness. But she risked everything, walking firmly toward him, determined to bring him back to their homeland, back to family, back to home.

Together, they created their own way of meeting in the middle. From then on, he became the sun, she the moon, shining together, day and night, never to be parted again.

Both are second chance romances in which the leads break up after one breaks the other's heart, then reunite years later and slowly fall in love again.

Both the female leads are reporter. The male leads very supportive of FL. The couple were childhood friends. They lived together by coincidence. Both female leads has biological mom that did her wrong, but a biological father that was very sweet and loving to her

- Both are modern c-dramas with an emotional and kind of dark vibe.
- Both are school dramas (the school part is only in flashbacks in The First Frost tho).
- In both, the ML act a bit mean/indifferent at first (tsundere).
- In both, the FL is still haunted by something from the past and is cold at first.

Similarities:
-FL and Ml get separated in their childhood , then reunite later in life with some grudge and things to talk it out
- FL family in both are shitty (one would say TFF FL family is worse) and are the reason why they got separated
- FL and Ml destined together
- yearning component ?

Fl is shy, ML is calm in both dramas.
Both ML are green flag
In both dramas there is no breakup and the main couples are too sweet.
They will give you butterflies every time.
Both dramas have happy ending.

If you like The First Frost vibe (slow and deep) then you have to watch The Forbidden Flower. Also similar to have some kinda trauma and etc. (YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT)

Stars Edward Chen. I started watching The First Frost and wanted to rewatch Lesson in Love where I fell in love with Edward Chen. In The First Frost he is a supporting character and not as good of a role for him, but, still I got to see him.

While watching The First Frost, seeing the female lead bottle up her sadness and carry the weight of a rough past — believing she doesn’t deserve happiness and instinctively rejecting any that comes her way — you may find yourself feeling a deep urge to just be with her, to tell her that everything will be okay.
And that is what hooked me into watching The First Frost
And if that feeling resonates with you, you’re likely to experience the same emotional connection with the female lead in Marriage Contract.
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What links them isn’t plot — it’s emotional resonance.
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To be frank, of all the dramas that I had seen before watching The First Frost, I could not get the above-mentioned emotions that got invoked while watching Marriage Contract and boy , I am satisfied to see The First Frost.

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Also,
The First Frost has a feel-good ending
But the Marriage Contract is a bit more emotional overall and has an open-ended climax, but I am pretty you won't regret watching it.

- Both FL's have gone through something traumatic surrounding family
- Both ML's help FL heal. In Come and Hug Me the ML is traumatised
- slow burn, melancholic, hurt/comfort vibes
- calm ML and FL
- Both FL's want to be artists (a dancer and an actor)
- both couples have to fight against a villain that is family to one of the leads
- ML protects the FL

- Both FL's have gone through something traumatic surrounding family
- Both ML's help FL heal. In Castaway Diva ML has trauma as well.
- Both FL's want to be artists (a dancer and a singer)
- both couples have to fight against a villain that is family to one of the leads

- Both FL's have gone through something traumatic
- both couples help each other heal.
- broken female leads and one broken male lead.
- slow burn and melancholic vibes
- calm ML and FL
- FL's have abandonment issues

Again fl with mental health issues, fl lost someonesh loves, ml and fl meet after years, and they were friends in Highschool

They have the same tortured female lead that life goes hard on and are resilient about it. The story involves the ML loving from a far unconditionally and doing everything they can to make the female lead life better even without them knowing.

#people who had feeling for each other before and meet again
# male lead loved female lead forever but did not say it until they meet again as adults
#male lead is a green flag