- Professional Single - Both leads are sculpture majors.
- Ugly Beauty - The ML is a pap trying to get the inside scoop on the FL's cold celebrity sister... who is actually the warm-hearted FL pretending to be her sister. Sort of business oriented (he's working?), but not in a typical way.
- My Fated Boy - Musician ML, but he's the opposite of broody and definitely not focused on the business side of it.
- To Fly With You - The ML is a competitive figure skater so he's sporty, but atypical sporty?
- Across the Ocean to See You - The ML is a bit uptight and a stickler for rules / ethics when it comes to his job (hotel critic / reviewer), but the FL is the cold, business-focused boss and he is the warm, caring subordinate.
- Accidentally in Love - Musician ML (idol singer) who is sometimes broody, but also sometimes playful. He cross-dresses as a woman to get in and out of situations a few times, which I think is a fun twist worth noting for the purposes of this list.
Modern Cdramas where the ML is not involved in business or STEM and is not a musician, but his job is related to law enforcement, the military or private security, he's athletic, and he's a bit broody (which seems like another typical ML formula):
- Advance Bravely (also atypical for a Cdrama in the sense that it's basically a BL)
- Mysterious Love
- When a Snail Falls in Love
- You Are My Hero
Modern Taiwanese dramas where the ML is not particularly business focused or involved in STEM:
- Be Loved in House: I Do - One ML is an artist who works with metal. The other ML is the business-oriented one who comes in and buys / takes over the studio where the first ML works. It's a BL.
- In Time With You - The ML works at an airport as the lead for a check-in counter team. Work is not his main priority.
- The Masked Lover - The ML is a cop who takes on a personal mission to go undercover as a newbie recruit / executive assistant to expose the criminal actions of the FL's cold triad boss sister... who is actually the warm-hearted FL pretending to be her sister (there is definitely overlap with the plot of Ugly Beauty).
