Northward

The dramas Love Endures and Northward have similarities about friendship from childhood to adulthood. One friend becomes a key figure in their friendship, Ma Siyi (Northward) and Yi Fei (Love Endures). The characters are similar and their family relationships are close. Ma Siyi and Yi Fei who live with their grandmother. The closeness of friendship in Hangtian City (Love Endures) and Hua Street (Northward) and romance of Main Leads

A beautiful female character spins off the main characters arcs ..
a move from a small town to bigh cities,
building futures,
friendships suffer and
secrets are revealed

The CENTRAL ML holds things together in the face of adversity
A central FL supports the ML as well has her own arcs she makes

Ensembles.
First half focuses on the leads in their teen years.
Second half focuses on them further into their adult lives.
In the first half, the male lead likes the female lead's best friend. In the second half, he comes to realize his feelings/fall for the female lead.
Male lead's best friend also has feelings for female lead.
The second female lead disappears at the end of the first half.

Both dramas are centered around family and the children growing. Both dramas happen around the late 1990’s to early/mid 2000’s.

Both belong to the slice of life and melodrama genre and both are realistic with wonderful and natural characters along with excellent story telling that grips you.

In both dramas all characters are close to each other like family and as growing up together they build feelings for achother.

In both dramas all characters are close to each other like family and as growing up together they build feelings for achother.

Both of the series have perfectly captured the essence of nostalgia, taking viewers back to a time when life was simpler and more intimate. The creators of these 2 dramas have gone to great lengths to ensure that every detail, from the fashion(hair style, cloths, not much make up), and technology are accurate to the time period, thereby providing the audience with an authentic trip down memory lane.

uhmm cannot wait. maybe solving mystery cases and many interesting aspect will be it.and the urban social ? i cannot figure it out.

Similar vibes
Both set in the past
They both show the history of China trough the years
Childhood friends to lovers for the main characters
Both are realistic and are showing realistic situations, families and feelings
Both are very family oriented