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Plots centered around food, restaurants, cafes, bars, and cooking and/or characters who are chefs/cooks.
Dramas and movies based upon a true story, ranging from historical figures to events, to varying degrees of accuracy.
For when you're tired of dramas in which the ML sacrifices everything and the FL doesn't seem to even love him as much. Here are FLs who definitely…
one or both of the leads dislikes/hates/is annoyed by the other when they first meet, but the two later fall in love.
the leads are more than star-crossed lovers - there is bad blood between them. Includes blood feuds in which the lead or their family harmed/killed…
interracial and intercultural romantic relationships, either the leads or supporting characters.
Pairings where the characters are emotional opposites, one cold and one warm or one introvert and one extrovert.
My favorite sort of happy ending stories - the leads are together and parents (adopted/biological child/children and/or pregnancy). Also included…
Romances between an employer and their employee or master and their servant (excluding bodyguards).
ML or FL gives up their royal titles, quest for revenge, wealth, or something similar.
Couples with large height differences, guaranteed to make the heart flutter!
characters who transform into both humans and animals (includes nine tailed foxes).
zombies, robots, human clones, death games, futuristic and/or dystopian settings.
Princes or princesses who are raised as a commoner outside the palace, and may or may not be unaware of their own identity.
SFL/SML gives up on the ML/FL and actually moves on, finding love with someone else. May end happily, may end tragically.
reversed stereotypical gender roles including domineering or strong FL/weak ML, matriarchal husbands, reversed societies, mpreg, characters…
Because the number of episodes of most Chinese dramas can be daunting, these are full length but shorter than average dramas (20 or fewer episodes).…
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.
a character was raised as a weapon, assassin/killer, and/or tool by someone who planned to use them for some purpose. AKA leads with the most…
Dramas that have two or more different endings, either alternate (one tragic, one happy), bonus epilogues/extra episodes set after the drama,…
One or both of the leads are a parent and don't know it. Includes the FL concealing her pregnancy intentionally or unintentionally from the…
ML's romantic rival is himself due to time travel, magic, reincarnation, or a split personality.
Characters who have a human parent and a non human one, or are of human/non human DNA.
Most of the to time when the FL is in disguise as a boy, the ML finds out and then falls in love. This is for the rare and wonderful times when…
