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Childhood sweethearts who had been separated for many years. They get together again and experience dangerous, life threatening and difficult situations in the face of treacherous foes who wish to use them to gain power. Both are short costume minidramas and feature a handsome couple with independent minded FL.

In The Outsider, a returnee takes over a large business from his half brother, and he falls in love with a young principled businesswoman who has been struggling to start in life. The CEO has to fight enemies outside and inside the company, and the young woman also deals with people who try to use her as a pawn in their power game.
The protagonists are well suited to the story, not looking fresh out of college (although Vengo Gao as CEO Wang has a lighter role than the darker vampire one he plays in recent Snowfall, and Zhang Yuqi as Su Mo is more buxom than cute smiling baby faced) They play strong characters, engagingly.
The cast also features Kira Shi (Zeng Di in ABAY), here in a role that is less antagonistic, even friendly for a change ; and Tian Miao (funny Lu Linjia's mom in ABAY) is Su Mo's mother living in a home town away from Shanghai, where the drama is set.

Also a reunion between parted friends
And many many hot kissing scenes.
Besides which it was also Seven Tan/ Tan Songyun who was playing alongside Jing Boran

Strong ML and and the FL also fakes her death, repeatedly, to return.
Complicated political struggle, and wuxia, many good battles.
Use of poisons to "control" a character.
Romance.

This romance is set in part in Xinjiang around Kanas Lake and Hemu village, close to Altai and features glimpses of the various people who live there. Some parts are shot in other spectacular desert areas of the province.
The romance is about found-again love after a long separation ; both have their own very different jobs but despite the hurdles and separations due to work and responsibilities, they find the way to each other's heart. ML is Jing Boran and FL is Seven Tan Songyun.

Both are about the path of a young man who first pays allegiance to GMD, and next decides to shift to the Communist side, and it is mostly set in Shanghai. But instead of slums, it pictures palaces and instead of a Bank, it centers around the Military Command of the city and its cotton imports and industry.

Both are about a female undercover agent from the Chinese Communist Party ; both are gripping stories (although Sparrow meanders around a mysterious file) and both pay much attention to details filmed.

A romance set in Republican era Shanghai that features undercover agents although more concerned about a revenge plot than about politics. It is less historical, but conveys the Romanticism of that era for Chinese audience. The FL, Jing Tian, is also very fiery, with musical skills despite it is more for dancing tango than playing the piano.

Both are about the struggle of Chinese undercover Communist agents against GMD although not directly in Shanghai and more centered around 2-3 powerful warlords of the time.

Both are based on same historical period with the importance of the Whampoa Military academy, and the rising influence of Communism in and south of Shanghai.

Runyu the God of night and dragon emperor of Heaven realm dabbles with stars and destinies in this long drama, while Rong Yu in The Inextricable Destiny reads star charts and teaches astrology. Both are rather mysterious to start with, although both have an ambiguous love for their chosen one. Are star charts and ba-zi calculated compatibility or Yuánfèn destiny really powerful to explain the evolution of a relationship? Both couples are supposed to be compatible: Jinmi is water element like Runyu, and opposed to fire element in Xufeng ; Jiuling is a fiery wildcat who seems more suited with the rising prince Yinxiao, and to have nothing in common with the cool stargazer. But they will both choose the opposite side.

The story is about a young woman's whose direct family has been wronged but who achieves to right the wrongs. The family relationship is different, but the ML is a marquis, if not at all a villain. It is a very good Historical drama too, although no fantasy or wuxia is involved.