Stand by Me (2023)

Both set in 90s, slice of life and focused on friendship, love, dreams, and family. The trope is similar as well (friends to lovers or enemy to friends to lovers). Especially, both female leads liked the second male lead first before falling for the male leads.

~ Both series are based on present and past story which revolves between 90s and 2000s

~ Based on novels

~ Jolly Male lead and Capricious Female lead

~ In both series the FL start taking her studies seriously and plans to go to University with good grades.. they both face different kind of difficulties on the way

~ Possessive ML who care a lot about FL

~ Ups and downs of friendships and family dilemmas

~ ML thinks that now FL is ahead than him and he stands no future neither equal match for her.

It deals with familiarity of relationships between parent and child and child to young adult. It also deal with how to navigate the world while trying to figure your place in this complex emotions of a teenage

Coming-of-age shows about youth, life and romance set in similar timelines of late 1990s/early 2000s. Explores themes of friendship, family life in similar settings of school and town. Main characters are bold, brave, adventurous and stand up for what they care about. Both dramas are pretty melodramatic.

80-90s timeline, major theme of finding one's dream, self-discovery and perseverance to achieve your goal. Stories about family, love ,school life that are filled with laughter, heartbreak and regret. Top tier ost and acting. There are more similarities but these sum it up. Miles to Go is a bit more rural-life centered and the story also goes into their adult/work lives. Also both leads are unwaveringly brave and are readers too. Both based on novel as well

Both features a protagonist (XiaoYao/QiQi) with a rather difficult personality owing to her childhood neglect.

Both explores her relationships with 3 guys: one a protective Brother (CangXuan/XiaoBo), a sweet sweet Lover (TuShanJing/ZhangJun) and a Friend who somehow always manage to turn her worries into nothing (XiangLiu/ChenJin).

- school dramas,
- bad boy ML,
- complicated family problems,
- bold FL,
- youth problems,
- melancholic reminiscence vibes