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Despite romantic sparks, the marriage between the male and female leads in both dramas were not done willingly. One was tricked, the other left with no choice. Not to mention, both female leads also have someone they love before the male leads. After marriage, the couples start to find love and navigate political conspiracies together. Both dramas also explores business plots.

Most striking similarity is the bad boy and good girl trope. Both dramas feature male leads with a hard life driven by poverty and family issues. Despite so, both men are actually smart. Both are smart in math. One specially talented in coding, the other in engineering.

Another similar trait is their domineering tendency. The two dramas feature alpha, masculine men who like control over their work, life, and also their partners. Not to mention, both male leads also sustained injuries at some point in their respective dramas.

Aside from the male leads, the female leads also possess striking similarities. The two female leads are cute, smart, pretty, and definitely take the lead when it comes to expressing feelings. They are two women who never backs down and always push through until they get their men, not in a bad toxic annoying way though!

Plot wise, both dramas have the same flow from bickering partners/siblings relationship, to love, breakup, then reconciliation. And obviously during the breakup phase, everyone was still hung up and stayed single.

Using their intelligence and wit, both female leads took the rein and led their families to bounce back from adversity, finding love along the way. The male leads are also men who works in politics and has a powerful standing in court.

The core similarity lies in the intelligent and smart female leads, as well as the strong business acumen in both dramas. The ride is not smooth. Both female leads experiences ups and downs in their business and all those successes and failures are shown in both dramas. They dive into the businesses themselves and took matters into their own hands. Of course, strong and reliable men were there, but mostly to support them by being someone to talk to and someone to protect them against physical harm.

Apart from similarities in the title, both Blossom and Blossoms in Adversity features smart and independent women who took the lead and became the pillar of their family. Although often discriminated as young women, both female leads are clever businesswomen who refuse to rely on marriage for a living. Beside the two women are men who works in politics and great at martial arts, providing assistance and encouragement.

One is historical Wuxia, one is Xianxia with elements of Wuxia. Despite the different genres, Legend of the Female General and Love in the Clouds share some common denominators. Due to family circumstances, the female leads in both dramas must pretend to be a man ever since they were young. Growing up as a man, they both successfully become a general, and the other a warrior god and crown prince. Beside them are powerful men ready to give them the support that they need. These two dramas also explore the flow of suspicions, growing trust, love, betrayal/breakup, love. Both also involves some trickeries done by the female leads towards the male leads as means to hide their identity while trying to get the job done.

Both Perfect Match and New Life Begins explores not only the story and journey of the main couple, but also their family and friends. While Perfect Match dedicates a number of episodes for each couple, New Life Begins mix it up, showing the story of different couples every now and then. In addition, there is a balance between humor, sisterhood, brotherhood, family, touching moments, and men who are at their wives’ mercy.

New Life Begins is like the older sister of Youthful Glory. While Youthful Glory is a light and fluffy watch, New Life Begins offer a little bit more depth and plot arcs on top of it still being a pretty light watch. Cute and intelligent female leads, plus protecting and powerful male leads, are definitely obvious similarities between these two dramas. Not to mention, both female leads come from sweet (direct) families. Arranged marriage partnership turned to lovers trope is also the core plot of both Youthful Glory and New Life Begins.

Both Legend of the Female General and The Prisoner of Beauty features smart and independent women who are able to stand up for themselves. One, a skilled general and another, a skilled strategist. Behind those women are strong, charismatic men who know their partners can do it and will always be there whenever their partners need help.

Both also features an enemies to lovers trope, although it’s more hardcore with The Prisoner of Beauty. Both also features iconic script lines, with Legend of the Female General taking the lead with such poetic and memorable script. Visual wise, both are incredibly stunning!