Taz-mania

FL's mother reminds me of the ML's mother in Healer as he was also abandoned by his mother when she remarried. When Healer's grandmother died he ended up in juvenile. His father's friend took him in when he got out of juvenile but abandoned him when he came of age. Healer however never held his horrible mother accountable for being a horrible mother. The drama even included a scene where Healer's mother brought him a winter coat - of course, she gave it to him at the park cause I guess Healer wasn't welcome at her home. At least the FL in The First Frost is (so far as of Episode 15) holding the mother accountable for her actions of abandoning her child. I thought Healer's mother was horrible and so is the FL's mother in TFF. Neither deserve the title of mother. Both mother's had a child with their new husband's and neither Healer or the TFF FL find out about their half sibling for years.

A few others oldies that I enjoyed:
My Little Happiness
The Love You Give Me
The Day of Becoming You
Forever Love (the 2020 drama with Wang An Yu)
Someday or One Day (Taiwanese)
Eternal Love - Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms (Fantasy/Wuxia)
Put Your Head on My Shoulder
Just Between Lovers
Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo
Kill Me, Heal Me (Ji Sung is awesome with his 7 personalities)
Queen In Hyun's Man (2012 time travel)
Le Coup De Foudre

Also, its a 2014 drama but one of my all time favorites is Healer.

I really enjoyed The Story of Kunning Palace (one of my favorite dramas of 2024). Romance between the leads doesn't kick in until later in the drama but it is worth waiting for...

And she was even worse in the novel!

Some excellent short web dramas
Thousands of Years of Love
Provoke (all by director Zeng Qing Jie are good)
A Familiar Stranger
Night of Love With You
Destined to Meet You
The Killer is Also Romantic

Some excellent historical dramas:
The Story of Kunning Palace ( with Bai Lu)
Blossoms in Adversity
Love Between Fairy and Devil
Alchemy of Souls (Seasons 1 & 2) (Korean)
Fall in Love (Republican Era 2021 drama with Chen Xing Xu)
The Long Ballad
Love Like the Galaxy

Some older contemporary dramas:
You Are My Hero (with Bai Jing Ting)
You Are My Glory (with Yang Yang) (all Gu Man dramas are good)
Love is Sweet (with Bai Lu)
Amidst a Snowstorm of Love (with Leo Wu) (most of Mo Bao Fei Bao dramas are good)
Lovely Runner (Korean)
Twinkling Watermelon
Here We Meet Again
Go Go Squid!
Lighter & Princess
A Business Proposal (Korean)
Fireworks of My Heart (with Yang Yang) (has traumatized heroine)
Skate Into Love

All of Zhu Yi novels that have been turned into dramas, have been outstanding. Hopefully, she has many more novel in the pipeline...

I like the ML's plum colored lipstick and the FL's lipstick is a fun color.

Loved the FL's parents in this drama. You don't always get wonderful parents in dramas but they were pure gold.

A couple of others that have more of the tropes (vibe not similar to The Best Thing) that I think are pretty good are the "Prince of Beijing" and "Prince Too Wild" stories (both feature possessive male leads). While both have numerous versions, my favorite versions are with Zeng Hui as he has great chemistry with his FLs.
In Prince of Beijing he's paired with his real life girlfriend Han Yutong who I have found to be a great comedic actress. He and Han Yutong are paired in several other dramas that are good.
https://kisskh.at/779692-prince-of-beijing-circle

Prince Too Wild also has numerous versions but I enjoyed this one best
https://kisskh.at/783814-tai-zi-ye-ta-guo-fen-ye

I also enjoyed the various vertical versions of "Penny/Ex-Wife Strategy" but probably liked the longer web version with Ryan Ren the best.
https://kisskh.at/770343-ai-zai-li-hun-jin-xing-shi

I have found several dramas with the husband/wife team of Bai Xin Yi & Shu Yi Wei to be good.

The comment section on kisskh relating to each of the above dramas includes the links to the compiled dramas on YT - look for Jwells comment, she does a fabulous job of finding links for all of the Vertical dramas. On a positive note, these dramas don't have a lot of comments and her comment is usually near the bottom and marked spoiler. Some of the dramas may have been removed from YT, so you may have to work through the list to find one that still works. They are filmed "vertically" instead of "horizontally" so smaller screen.

These type of dramas are my favorite - no OTT storylines, no angst, no nasty characters, no forced drinking by co-workers, no face slapping, no crazy SFL, etc. Just a sweet romance between the leads.

I recently started watching "vertical" Chinese dramas (short 2-3 hour web dramas) where all of the 2 minute episodes have been compiled and are on YT. A couple of these have a similar vibe to this drama. (As a side note, the ratings for these web novels usually run 1 point lower than regular dramas. As rule of thumb, anything above a 7 is usually good - I have yet to see a rating above 8 - similar to regular dramas where a rating above 9 is extremely rare)

The first is based on novel Gong Ni Lan Qing Kong by Ni Zhe Ban Dong Ren. I have watched 4 different versions of this drama.
My favorite is Love Above the Clouds / Gong Ni Lan Qing Kong
https://kisskh.at/785874-gong-ni-lan-qing-kong

Another version of this novel which was good featured the real life married couple Bai Xin Yi & Shu Yi Wei (they have also starred in several other very good dramas together). Their version of this drama is
Flash Marriage Cold Captain / Shan Hun Gao Leng Ji Zhang Da Ren
https://kisskh.at/780290-shan-hun-gao-leng-ji-zhang-da-ren

Another drama of a similar nature is based on novel Mei Gui Guan Mian by Jiu Jiu Qi
There are at least 2 different version of this drama, with my favorite being
Every Step of the Way
https://kisskh.at/786508-every-step-of-the-way

Another version of this drama was
Mei Gui Guan Mian
https://kisskh.at/763315-mei-gui-guan-mian

Just started watching the drama and am finding it to be very beautiful. I noticed that the FL indicated twice that the ML looks like the ML of My Journey to You (another Zhang Ling He drama) but didn't see that the directors were the same, so calling out that drama seemed a little strange - did I miss the connection between the 2 productions?

Thanks for all of your efforts! They are much appreciate.

I did have a question that I hope you can help with. Do you know the name of the male lead in this drama as I wanted to see if he had any other dramas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrwn5G74vPo&t=7291s
He reminds me of a youthful Shin Song Ruk and Ryan Ren.
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

See Jwells comment near the bottom (listed as spoiler) it includes numerous links.

I agree, Zeng Hui - Han Yutong are a great couple

Fun rom/com. One of my favorite Vertical drama couples.

I also like that their twins were normal children, not super genius like in all of the Vertical dramas that I watched where the couple had children...

Way OTT (which actually I don't mind if the leads have addictive chemistry). Unfortunately, this has all the tropes, drugged ONS, attempted rape, evil family, etc., but lacks the chemistry.

Recently watched the Bai Feng Wen (Jiao Pei Kai) Vertical drama version of this drama. Of the numerous different versions of the drama that I've seen, the Bai Fang Wen version had the most changes to the timeline and storyline than any other version.

Link to the Bai Feng Wen version
https://kisskh.at/778406-after-the-divorce-madame-she-was-amazing