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My favorite sort of happy ending stories - the leads are together and parents (adopted/biological child/children and/or pregnancy). Also included…
Arranged marriages, forced marriages, fake relationships, and contract relationships of all sorts that ultimately lead to love.
reversed stereotypical gender roles including domineering or strong FL/weak ML, matriarchal husbands, reversed societies, mpreg, characters…
Romances between an employer and their employee or master and their servant (excluding bodyguards).
plots driven by FL's/ML's quest for revenge for something that happened to them or their family.
Romances between step family, in-laws or adopted (not blood related) siblings, and the occasional related one.
ML and his brother are both in love with and/or romantically involved with the FL.
Childhood connections, childhood and earlier meetings, separations during and toward the end, basically any stories that ultimately feature…
main characters who are doctors, nurses, paramedics, or firefighters.
Chinese and Taiwanese dramas that are short length/mini dramas (usually >15 mins per episode).
Plots centered around food, restaurants, cafes, bars, and cooking and/or characters who are chefs/cooks.
characters who transform into both humans and animals (includes nine tailed foxes).
youth drama, school settings, & main characters who are students or teachers
main characters with scars, particularly those that are significant to the plot or the romance.
Dramas I loved and would very much recommend!(if there's more than one season, only the first is listed)
For when you're in the mood for screaming at your screen after it goes black. Cliffhangers for second seasons that never happened, endings up…
Thai Dramas that are short length (15 mins. or less an episode) or full length dramas with 15 or fewer episodes.
SFL/SML gives up on the ML/FL and actually moves on, finding love with someone else. May end happily, may end tragically.
The delightful or not so delightful trope! At least one of the leads loses their memory at least once.
Princes or princesses who are raised as a commoner outside the palace, and may or may not be unaware of their own identity.
Romances between a supernatural non-human lead and a human lead.
Dramas that have two or more different endings, either alternate (one tragic, one happy), bonus epilogues/extra episodes set after the drama,…
Sad endings (my definition is the leads don't end up together due to death or separation) and happy endings for the main couple but are otherwise…
angels, demons, gods, grim reapers, goblins, or plant fairies. AKA a lot of xianxia here.
characters appear to be someone other than who they truly are due to body/face swaps, power swaps, identity swaps, false identities, hidden…
the leads are in an established romantic relationship and then break up, divorce, or plan to divorce only to fall in love all over again.
Korean dramas that are short length (15 mins. or less an episode) or full length dramas with 15 or fewer episodes.
one of the leads was raised as a weapon, assassin/killer, and/or tool by someone who planned to use them for some purpose. AKA leads with the…
Unconventional MLs on the gray side - villains, antiheros, playboys, red flags, and bad boys with a heart of gold.
characters who are humans with some magical power or who gain power from a magical object they possess.
MLs with that supernatural white, bright, or unusual hair colors at some point, just because it's pretty. ;)
plost centered around or leads whose careers are in the arts - painting, music, writing, dance, theatre, stage magicians, entertainment, etc..
