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While very different in tone, both dramas center around a male lead who believes himself unable to keep people close to him. Both dramas also deal with sensitive and triggery topics (to different degrees) from the main male lead's past that get resolved during the course of the story. Both dramas are workplace romances, with one male lead's influential mom putting on a cold and disapproving front towards the love interest, but ultimately coming around very easily at seeing the change in her son. Both dramas also briefly portray a major character undergoing and/or discussing therapy (the male lead in Bed Friend, the male lead's best friend in Boss and a Babe).
In both of these revenge-based dramas, the Female Lead is taken in and raised by a woman who lost her daughter. The Female Lead also falls in love with a man who she should logically be avoiding.
Both of these romcoms are screenlife productions, telling the story of a couple through their interactions and activities on technological devices.
Both dramas involve a younger male lead who became a life long fan of the other lead after a simple act of kindness as a high school student. Now that the leads are in college and have risen to stardom (respectively), they find their paths crossing on regular basis, stirring up romance and conflicts involving their different statuses.
Both of these darker melodramatic BL dramas center around themes of love triangles and betrayal, as a group of celebrities navigate intimate and competitive relationships.
Tale #1 of Cheese Sisters reminds quite a bit of how Cupid's Last Wish starts out. Two childhood friends striking up a romance on the family dairy farm of one of them, providing much needed comfort after lead 1's father passed away. In fact, I think that if people hadn't gotten involved and interfered, the same-sex romance in Cupid's Last Wish would've came into fruition in a rather similar manner.
Story #4 of Cheese Sisters bears a lot of similarity to You Are The Cream In My Coffee. One female lead goes to the bakery/cafe that the other female lead runs daily, which initially annoys the her. However, after a well placed beg/bargain, the owner female lead starts teaching the other how to make the shop's goods. However, despite several lessons and succeeding in winning over her crush, she's still quite bad at making it and requires more lessons (not that they're complaining, though).
Both of these GL dramas, from Idol Factory and the same original creator, are sapphic renditions of classic romance tropes/cliches.
Both of these dramas revolve around a main protagonist being raised as the opposite gender in order to bypass a curse/prediction regarding their safety and well-being.
Both of these comedy productions center around a main protagonist and their shower/bathroom thoughts.
Both of these short films feature a very young male lead who ventures on to gay dating apps to confirm/act on his sexuality away from the people in his life that he thinks will judge him for it.
Both of these Thai BLs are more on the crass side of discussions about intimacy as the two male leads start looking at relationships and sexuality.
