Similarities:
- Both dramas are taken in a school setting (high school/university).
- Both dramas explore emotional healing from past trauma.
- Both dramas portray a supportive friendship group or side characters.
- Both dramas involve academic pressure or life-direction choices that test the characters.
- Both dramas use time skips to show character growth over several years.
- Both dramas include slow-burn romance, where emotional closeness builds gradually.
- Both male leads have the same actor.
- Both male leads are quiet and more reserved.
- Both male leads show care to the female lead but don't express it.
- Both male leads have protective instincts, especially when the female lead is emotionally hurt.
- Both male leads experience significant emotional growth.
- Both male leads learn to open up to the female leads, becoming more vulnerable over time.
- Both female leads are determined and don't easily give in.
- Both female leads are compassionate and have a strong sense of empathy.
- Both female leads act as a catalyst for the male lead’s emotional development.
- Both female leads experience significant personal growth.
- Both female leads initially struggle with their feelings but gradually come to understand and embrace their emotions.
- Both dramas are taken in a school setting (high school/university).
- Both dramas explore emotional healing from past trauma.
- Both dramas portray a supportive friendship group or side characters.
- Both dramas involve academic pressure or life-direction choices that test the characters.
- Both dramas use time skips to show character growth over several years.
- Both dramas include slow-burn romance, where emotional closeness builds gradually.
- Both male leads have the same actor.
- Both male leads are quiet and more reserved.
- Both male leads show care to the female lead but don't express it.
- Both male leads have protective instincts, especially when the female lead is emotionally hurt.
- Both male leads experience significant emotional growth.
- Both male leads learn to open up to the female leads, becoming more vulnerable over time.
- Both female leads are determined and don't easily give in.
- Both female leads are compassionate and have a strong sense of empathy.
- Both female leads act as a catalyst for the male lead’s emotional development.
- Both female leads experience significant personal growth.
- Both female leads initially struggle with their feelings but gradually come to understand and embrace their emotions.
- 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.
- 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.
In 2007, 16-year-old girl Qiao Qing Yu and her family, tormented by rumors about her sister Qiao Bai Yu's death, were forced to relocate from their small county town of Shunyun to the provincial capital of Huanzhou. In order to quickly restore their family's normal life, Qing Yu, with the help of her classmate Ming Sheng, began searching for the true cause of her sister's death. As the truth gradually revealed, Qing Yu was shocked by the injustice her sister Bai Yu had endured and resolved to seek justice for her.
Both dramas was set in the main leads' past lives, not so happy one. The story of young people in love.
Female lead was Male lead first love and vice versa.
ML was a genius but did not know how to treat FL better because he was so clueless when it came to love but did not want to look weak for her.
They would be separated but be together again.
Female lead was Male lead first love and vice versa.
ML was a genius but did not know how to treat FL better because he was so clueless when it came to love but did not want to look weak for her.
They would be separated but be together again.
