Dong Lan Xue

Both have amazing actors as main leades.
Both stories are interesting and have a good deep feeling. You get intrigued of what is going to happen next.
The production is so good, everything is well made.

- Strong, powerful, ruthless, and vengeful FL
- Obedient ML that she uses for her revenge and he's absolutely smitten with her (in TLP it's an enemies to lovers)
- Femdom x Malesub
- Sadomasochism vibes
- Antihero MCs (in TLP it's mostly the FL)
- ML is an unfavored son (adopted noble in TLP, low-ranking royal in DLX)
- Palace setting
- Revenge
- Dark and gloomy aesthetics

The dynamic in DLX starts out as mutual benefit while in TLP FL forces ML to become her aid.

- Revenge
- Mistreated ML
- Badass and bloodthirsty FL that lets no one walk over her
- ML comes from a wealthy family (royal in DLX, business family in SoND)
- FL is ML's maid
- ML falls in love first and hard, FL teases him
- Clingy ML
- Us-against-the-world romance
- FL is the mastermind and leader of their revenge while ML mostly obeys her orders
- Power couple
- Both are dark, moody, and melancholic
- Gender role reversal themes in both (more prominent in DLX)