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Otomo Kyoichi works at an advertising company. He has an indecisive personality. Even though he is married, he repeatedly has affairs. One day, a man appears in front of Kyoichi. The man is Imagase Wataru. Wataru graduated from the same university as Kyoichi. It's the first time they have met since Kyoichi graduated. Wataru currently works for a jack-of-all-trades agency that does anything for its customers. He is sent by Kyoichi's wife to investigate whether Kyoichi is having an affair. Wataru tells Kyoichi that he has liked him for the past 7 years. He also tells Kyoichi that he wants to have a sexual relationship with him, and in return, he won't tell his wife about his infidelity.

Otomo Kyoichi works at an advertising company. He has an indecisive personality. Even though he is married, he repeatedly has affairs. One day, a man appears in front of Kyoichi. The man is Imagase Wataru. Wataru graduated from the same university as Kyoichi. It's the first time they have met since Kyoichi graduated. Wataru currently works for a jack-of-all-trades agency that does anything for its customers. He is sent by Kyoichi's wife to investigate whether Kyoichi is having an affair. Wataru tells Kyoichi that he has liked him for the past 7 years. He also tells Kyoichi that he wants to have a sexual relationship with him, and in return, he won't tell his wife about his infidelity.

Otomo Kyoichi works at an advertising company. He has an indecisive personality. Even though he is married, he repeatedly has affairs. One day, a man appears in front of Kyoichi. The man is Imagase Wataru. Wataru graduated from the same university as Kyoichi. It's the first time they have met since Kyoichi graduated. Wataru currently works for a jack-of-all-trades agency that does anything for its customers. He is sent by Kyoichi's wife to investigate whether Kyoichi is having an affair. Wataru tells Kyoichi that he has liked him for the past 7 years. He also tells Kyoichi that he wants to have a sexual relationship with him, and in return, he won't tell his wife about his infidelity.

Otomo Kyoichi works at an advertising company. He has an indecisive personality. Even though he is married, he repeatedly has affairs. One day, a man appears in front of Kyoichi. The man is Imagase Wataru. Wataru graduated from the same university as Kyoichi. It's the first time they have met since Kyoichi graduated. Wataru currently works for a jack-of-all-trades agency that does anything for its customers. He is sent by Kyoichi's wife to investigate whether Kyoichi is having an affair. Wataru tells Kyoichi that he has liked him for the past 7 years. He also tells Kyoichi that he wants to have a sexual relationship with him, and in return, he won't tell his wife about his infidelity.

Otomo Kyoichi works at an advertising company. He has an indecisive personality. Even though he is married, he repeatedly has affairs. One day, a man appears in front of Kyoichi. The man is Imagase Wataru. Wataru graduated from the same university as Kyoichi. It's the first time they have met since Kyoichi graduated. Wataru currently works for a jack-of-all-trades agency that does anything for its customers. He is sent by Kyoichi's wife to investigate whether Kyoichi is having an affair. Wataru tells Kyoichi that he has liked him for the past 7 years. He also tells Kyoichi that he wants to have a sexual relationship with him, and in return, he won't tell his wife about his infidelity.

- The plot gives same vibes
- Profiler turns into Fake Shaman
- Helps the FL who is a detective to solve cases
- Team members works as Hackers and other tasks

- Similar FL types
- ML is FL's subordinate (bodyguard in BbS, disciple in ID)
- Fast paced romance with lots of kisses
- FL is engaged to SML who wants her to gain something from her
- Kinda toxic romance
- Angsty
- Role reversal themes (more prevalent in BbS)
- Same FL actress

Main differences are the plot. BbS is a revenge romance while ID is a xianxia romance. BbS also does a lot more role reversal while ID has some RR moments but for the most part isn't.

In both, the protagonists are famous foreigners who travel to another country and meet a woman with whom they fall in love.

- Sect leader FL
- ML is her subordinate (guard in SotSS, disciple in ID)
- Cold, aloof warrior ML
- FL is cold and ruthless and keeps a lot of boytoys
- Other men vying for FL
- ML is under literal control of someone else (due to a drug in SotSS, by magical means in ID)
- Dark, moody sect aesthetic
- Similar story beats in both
- Some role reversal/femdom themes (more present in SotSS, slightly present in ID)
- Same FL actress

Main differences is that SotSS is a wuxia while ID is fantasy. In ID FL travels into a virtual world while in SotSS she does not.

FL is a chef in the modern world who traveled back in time and start a food business and later fall in love with a guy from the ancient world

Judge Lee Han Yeong, who believed justice could be achieved in the courtroom, defied his superiors' orders and sentenced a conglomerate chairman to life in prison, only to be killed for it. But was it because of the secrets he overheard as a child? Retaining all his memories, he is given a second chance at life. The world needs him, Lee Han Yeong, the heretic of the judiciary who knows only justice. Kim Jin A is a prosecutor determined to take down the corporate chairman responsible for her father’s death.

Han Yu Hyeon becomes the youngest CEO of Hansung, a successful electronics company built on a toxic work culture, but nobody he cares about is there to celebrate with him. After a night of drinking and wondering if he could change the past, he wakes up the next morning 20 years younger than at the beginning of his career. Armed with the experience and insights that made him CEO, Yu Hyeon begins to revisit broken relationships and battle the enablers of Hansung’s cut-throat work environment. But he does not yet know how changing the past will affect his future

- both are prime-time soap operatic/lakorn style series airing on one31
- both are period series
- both main leads are from thai-chinese family
- both leads are engaged to another female character but don't love them and fall in love with a male character
- both male leads use very gentleman-like language because they have period/royalty settings
- common tropes like forbidden love, gun use violence, power struggle, controlling and disapproving parents, attempted murder of the leads
- both series features the fabulous khun ying rhatha

Each series features a mystery set in a historical context. "The Wanted Detective" follows Xiao Beiming, who seeks to clear his name while uncovering conspiracies. "Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty" shows a detective duo solving eerie crimes tied to supernatural rumors.

Each drama is built around solving mysterious cases and uncovering hidden truths. The Mysterious Lotus Casebook employs a wuxia setting, where a healer and martial artist investigate strange events in ancient China, while Coroner’s Diary focuses on a modern coroner applying forensic science to suspicious deaths.