Reborn (2025)

Similarities:
- Same male lead
- Focus on youth and emotional healing
- Lead characters deal with trauma or family issues
- School/university setting plays a key role
- Strong themes of self-growth and resilience
- Supportive friendships help the leads grow
- Slow-burn emotional connection or romance
- Both explore identity, loss, and rebuilding trust
- Emphasis on quiet, introspective storytelling
- Realistic portrayals of teenage or young adult struggles
- Praised for emotional depth and character development

- 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.

- similar vibes but not that heavy (more romance focus)
- both have family issues
- both couples are like shining light to each other
- similar period
- same mother lead of FL

Teen romance interrupted/paused by a suspicious death in the female lead's family.
Reborn's female lead's sister has died, TFS's female lead's mother has died.

- Both dramas are set in high school and focus on a crime mystery
- dark vibes
- FL investigating murder of a sibling
- ML helping FL
- bit of romance
- school bullying

-They are both angsty
-The way the main leads can lean on each other
-"You Protect the world, I protect you" & "Qiao Qingyu, do whatever you want. I'll always have your back"
-Two teenagers navigating justice against adults who could've make their lives better.
-Coming of Age

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.

- shows the impact of having AIDS as a girl in China.
- Female Lead is bullied at school.
- Both have problematic mothers.

Reborn: Family Drama
Go Ahead: Family Drama

Both stories has a REALLY DIFFERENT pattern or plot bit if you look closer to it the message they’re trying to convey are pretty mich the same. It’s how fragile a relationship (family, friendship, lover) is but it is the strongest tie human could have. After all they need those relationship… Both series shows how a toxic relationship broke someone but lead them to understand things better and teach them about how life works… I enjoyed both series but I won’t go for another sea of tears…

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.