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In January 1940, Liang Shuo, an underground worker of our party who suffered a head injury, woke up from a blizzard in the mountains. He lost his memory due to the injury and came to Shanghai to search based on clues. However, his identity was caught in the roundup of the Japanese army, so he suspected that he was a member of the army. People from Wang Puppet No. 76 also found him and said that he was the director of the Operations Division. At this time, the "Peace and Co-Prosperity Conference" jointly organized by the Japanese and Wang governments is about to be held. A group of refugee workers who have been tightly imprisoned by Japan will also be pushed onto the battlefield after the conference, and their lives are at stake.

It tells the story of Ou Xiao An, an underground member of the Chinese Communist Party, who escaped from the Japanese army's biochemical poison gas research institute and joined forces with Tan Mo Qing to track down and reveal the secrets of the Japanese army's biochemical research and reveal the true face of Japanese spies.

FLs in coroner/medical expert roles, are smart and help with investigations and cases
ML in powerful political roles
Loyalty in the romance between the two leads

Focuses on the inheritance and promotion of handmade Xuan paper making, a representative of Huizhou culture. By depicting the intertwined fates of younger and older generations of artisans, it explores how young people today find self-worth between ideals and reality, and between tradition and innovation.

Lin Yi Ran, who worked in Beijing, returned to her hometown due to her mother's illness. She then took the civil service exam and landed a position in Taohua Town's Economic Development Office. Seeing the traditional Xuan paper industry, exemplified by the millennium Xuan family, struggling to survive, Lin Yi Ran worked tirelessly to help the industry overcome its difficulties. By developing a Xuan paper notebook business, securing orders for Xuan paper wallpaper in Beijing, and organizing the "Four Treasures of the Study" Cultural Festival, she helped the Taohua Town Xuan paper industry overcome its difficulties.

Lin Yi Ran, who worked in Beijing, returned to her hometown due to her mother's illness. She then took the civil service exam and landed a position in Taohua Town's Economic Development Office. Seeing the traditional Xuan paper industry, exemplified by the millennium Xuan family, struggling to survive, Lin Yi Ran worked tirelessly to help the industry overcome its difficulties. By developing a Xuan paper notebook business, securing orders for Xuan paper wallpaper in Beijing, and organizing the "Four Treasures of the Study" Cultural Festival, she helped the Taohua Town Xuan paper industry overcome its difficulties.

Lin Yi Ran, who worked in Beijing, returned to her hometown due to her mother's illness. She then took the civil service exam and landed a position in Taohua Town's Economic Development Office. Seeing the traditional Xuan paper industry, exemplified by the millennium Xuan family, struggling to survive, Lin Yi Ran worked tirelessly to help the industry overcome its difficulties. By developing a Xuan paper notebook business, securing orders for Xuan paper wallpaper in Beijing, and organizing the "Four Treasures of the Study" Cultural Festival, she helped the Taohua Town Xuan paper industry overcome its difficulties.

- both are historical romance politics war drama
- physically strong general male lead
- both leads are cunning, intelligent, ruthless in both drama
- in both story 2nd male lead is FL's first love
- both features same elements like war, politics, action, violence etc.
- enemies/allies to lovers trope

Feng Miao Jun, a princess of the fallen Anxia Kingdom, crosses paths with Yun Ya, a cruel master from Wei. Despite initial distrust, their fates intertwine. Together with Master Mo Ti Zhun and Saintess Han Yue, they become close allies in their battle against the Heavenly Demons. Through trials, love, and mutual support, they grow into powerful beings capable of facing all challenges.

Feng Miao Jun, a princess of the fallen Anxia Kingdom, crosses paths with Yun Ya, a cruel master from Wei. Despite initial distrust, their fates intertwine. Together with Master Mo Ti Zhun and Saintess Han Yue, they become close allies in their battle against the Heavenly Demons. Through trials, love, and mutual support, they grow into powerful beings capable of facing all challenges.

Feng Miao Jun, a princess of the fallen Anxia Kingdom, crosses paths with Yun Ya, a cruel master from Wei. Despite initial distrust, their fates intertwine. Together with Master Mo Ti Zhun and Saintess Han Yue, they become close allies in their battle against the Heavenly Demons. Through trials, love, and mutual support, they grow into powerful beings capable of facing all challenges.

Both are uncensored Chinese BL with similar themes of cold second lead and misconceptions about each other.

Same time period and about war and the hard lives of commoners. About invading forces and then then every day commoners suffer oppression, poverty and illness.

Both focus on:

-GL romance with a more dramatic and mature tone.
-Emotional resistance one partner struggles to accept or return love.
-Themes of protection, power imbalance, and redemption through love.
-Heavy on melodrama, tension, and character growth rather than light romance.

Very similar premise and similar vibes, setting, and characters. In both:

+ leads are childhood sweethearts who promised to marry (or eloped in SL)
+ they are separated and ML goes off to war for many years
+ ML returns after military success
+ by the time ML returns, FL is married to someone else in his family and has a son
+ ML actively tries to steal FL while she's still married
+ there are scenes of ML getting spicy with FL while her husband is nearby
+ FL denies ML and repeatedly rejects & hurts him
+ very aggressive, domineering ML, assault warning for both dramas

The list goes on but I won't spoil beyond this. If you liked one, you are bound to like the other.

- thai dramas
- murder mystery, dramatic, romance
- betrayal, intrigues, affairs, secrets, investigations
- multiple perspectives and multiple characters
- almost lakorn kind of quality
and ofc a very similar title!