Recommendations

Different versions of same story!

Second chance angsty romance!

High sexual tension!

ML pursues FL shamelessly despite thinking she is married to another man.

I prefer the version with Xiao Xue & Tian Xiang.

Very similar backdrop, also about the Anti Organised crime and corruption campaign that occurred in Mainland for 3 years. Chasing the Undercurrent is based on a true story whilst The Fight isn’t….

Both are crime-thrillers with nuance and humanity. Kuchinai Sakura’s pace feels comparatively more slow and drawn out, while Orokamono no Mibun is more blatant in its brutality.

However, the major reason I’d recommend viewers of one to watch the other is the human desire to cling desperately to hope. Both of these films are fairly bleak, with Kuchinai Sakura’s understated bleakness in contrast to that of the heavy and blunt bleakness in Orokamono no Mibun.

- I was SO surprised how similar LODT is to TTEOM .

- So many parallels

- Trust me, if you're a fan of one, you'll like the other

In both dramas, the leads (FL in Anna and ML in Regeneration) were seen as the most promising student in their high school despite a humble background, but a transgression leads to their fall from grace, leaving them reeling. They both climb back up to the top again, telling lie after lie, before things start to crumble. In both dramas, they have a reporter friend who uncovers the truth, and both have dysfunctional marriages.

FL is secretly a badass warrior that people are looking for. Both FLs have a hidden identity or disguise, and both are in weaker bodies (Mudeok bc body swap, Ming Yi bc she’s been poisoned and had been disguised as a man her whole life).

Both explore “who am I / what I was / what I become”, and how power (or loss thereof) influences identity and relationships.

Lots of politics and scheming going on. Both have a blend of romance, action, fantasy, and intrigue.

Depois de um longo período procurando um bl que se assemelha a iwky me apareceu 1000yo, desde o momento em que comecei a assistir me erradiou uma felicidade inexplicável pois me trazia a exata essência e sensação de estar vendo iwky mesmo a história de ambos sendo totalmente diferente a vibe ainda é igual.
uma comedia pastelão daquelas que você passa mal de rir e vergonhoso sem ser cringe

Same vibe. Same genre. Great chemistry. And good relationships. Both have second male leads with profound obsession on FL.

The main characters always bicker and one of them can see the other in his dreams. They also see the d*ath of the other in their dreams.

Both they fight for inheritence ,Smart femalelead Mo Seok Hee, the heiress to the MC Group empire, is haunted by her mother's mysterious death. After years abroad, she returns to South Korea, where her life and the fate of the MC Group take unexpected turns. She crosses paths with Heo Yoon Do, a humble lawyer working for the MC Group's crisis management team. Together, they forge an unlikely friendship and set out to uncover the truth about her mother's death. Can they unveil the dark secrets of the past and perhaps find romance along the way?

The First Frost is set in the same universe as Hidden Love.
In HL, we got Sang Zhi’s story with Duan Jiaxu - a soft, youthful romance full of sweetness and innocence.
TFF focuses on her older brother, Sang Yan with Wen Yifan. His story has a darker and more mature tone, exploring themes like loss, healing, and learning to love again.

Personally, I loved getting to see Sang Yan’s side of things after knowing him as the teasing brother in Hidden Love. The chemistry between him and Wen Yifan feels natural and real, and the show balances that familiar comfort from HL with deeper emotional moments. It’s a perfect follow-up if you want something that still connects to Hidden Love but explores love from a more grown-up perspective.

Both are Thai horror BL about ghosts, revengeful ghosts with tragic pasts, sort of time travel through flashbacks into different time periods, Thai religion and reincarnation are a topic as well.

Both are Thai horror BL with a young friend group. Both are playing in rural areas of Thailand with a strong religion / mythology touch to it.

extraordinary woo is this drama but a little better. significantly better.
romanticanoymous fl isnt autistic but she does all the autistic stuff attorney woo fl does. she pats herself before entering a building and wiggles her fingers and looks around awkwardly and cannot make eye contact. and the romance in both is super awkward. and both fls are autistic/basically autistic but geniuses at their job. story format is similar with being episodic solving issues for their job using their autistic genius powers

Both FLs are city celebs (of some sort) who visit the countryside and fall in love with a local farmer.