Ancient Detective (2020)

Ancient detective is a fast pace drama about a detective who makes numerous of good friends along his journey. One man in particular, shares a strong sense bromance and developes a powerful friendship with the main character. Although there is romance, it does not affect the bromance, instead, it reinforces the fact that they are inseparable. Aside from the main characters, there are a many side characters which make the drama very entertaining and enjoyable. This drama is perfect for Wuxia fans as it is filled with many unique characters ranging from martial artists to divine doctors. The whole drama was quite delightful, humous with a good amount of fighting scenes.

If you enjoy wuxia-setting mystery bromances, look no further. Mysterious Lotus Casebook has more emphasis on the bromance while Ancient Detective has more focused mysteries, but both are visually stunning and thoughtful shows with fleshed out casts and enjoyable writing.

both are a detective and crime-solving historical dramas
both leads are young and are from different backgrounds

- Both of these are detective cdramas
-Both have very smart male leads
-Bits of bromance in both of these
-Solving cases is focused a little bit more in The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty tho

Pretty people solving mysteries and falling in love. There are secret and false identities, parting then reuniting couples but it is easily and quickly handled. The actors have exceptional chemistry.
Happy endings with possible season 2!

Both are of crime solving nature and had lots of plot twists and turns hidden within the stories. Similarly, both dramas leans closer towards double male leads but the female leads are equally important.

Both are crime solving natured dramas and a lot of plot twists and turns are buried in the stories! Equally enjoyable and some bromance too!

Male Leads:
OMG the ML are so similar! Both ML want to live so badly because of what they're searching for. Although Fighter of Destiny's ML has an incurable sickness since birth while Ancient Detective's ML had been poisoned at the beginning of the show, their mindset of never giving up because they want (to live/the truth) is so SIMILAR! I honestly fell in love with these types of characters because they are so strong and powerful despite their "shortcomings" and they capture me with their persistence.

Plot:
I thought both of the plots were quite nice. I'm not very good at reviewing plots but what I can say is that Ancient Detective's plot was very well done because the mysteries definitely captured me in. As for Fighter of Destiny, I thought the plot was quite addicting for me because I always want to see the ML prove everyone wrong and show them that he's actually quite powerful too!

Romance:
The romance in both of these series were so cute! Both had "second female leads" (these characters come in and out but they did a great job nonetheless!) fall for the ML and it was so nice to see second female leads be portrayed as nice girls who really just like someone rather than become mean or twisted with jealousy (the jealousy was there but it wasn't negative). Now, the main leads' romances were so satisfying to watch! For both series, I was cheering how FINALLY the main female leads became honest with their feelings and feel in love.

Finally, if anyone y'all are into falling in love with second leads~
I wanna give a shoutout to the SUPPORT ROLES Ancient Detectives!
Although Fighter of Destiny had great ones too, I feel like Ancient Detectives' support roles were much more immersed in the plot if that makes sense? I really liked how in Ancient Detectives, the support roles didn't came into the scenes and then out when something happens like Fighter of Destiny. Rather, the support roles in Ancient Detectives stuck to the ML and traveled together consistently and became a more tightly-knitted group with a really cute, admirable, and sometimes humourous camaraderie. I think this was probably my first time liking a Second ML so much actually.

Both drama are high-quality productions that keep as much realism as possible. Great costumes and stage design, excellent fight scenes and excellent music that reflects the atmosphere of a given moment is something that definitely combines these productions. The plot is interesting and without a dominant romantic theme, and the characters are original and the story is rich in intelligent, but not too heavy humor.

IT SERIOUSLY GAVE ME THE SAME VIBES FROM BOTH THE FLs
and both the dramas have the FLs 'NO DAMSEL IN DISTRESS'

*Both are period costume dramas, more or less. One is slightly more Wuxia themed - that being AD.
*There's lots of sleuthing, case solving, sword fighting, forensic science, etc
*Main characters are smart asf but stupid when it comes to matters of the heart
*Conspiracy/hidden secret trope
*Both are more on the "slight romance" spectrum
*Both could also do with a S2...

- A group of unrelated people are to join forces or tag along the way to investigate connecting cases one after another.
- One focuses in the City whilst the other is Jianghu, however they serve the same purpose to execute the struggle for the truth despite unfavourable circumstances with no horrible fillers included.
- Females actually have equality in their roles are they are not always on the side for decoration

Both dramas share much similarities between them.

The brilliant mind of the brooding detective, mysterious cases to solve, a group of helpful friends, and a bit of romance amidst all that.

And, both dramas have major plot twists at the end.

The title says it all. It also has two male leads although only one is the detective and the other is the muscle.

Both these shows have a similar premise -both dramas involve two friends-detectives investigating cases.