Dramas where the leads are dating, engaged, or married for real within the first five episodes (most of them break up at some point in the drama or have some kind of major set back but ultimately end up together):
- Lost Love in Times
- It's Okay That's Love
- High Society
- Cheese in the Trap (this one has an open ending that suggests the leads will get back together)
- Misty (this one has an open ending with an implied tragic ending for one of the leads)
Dramas where the leads are in an arranged marriage or a fake, contractual, or some other kind of artificial relationship within the first five episodes and end up together:
- Because This is My First Life
- Something About 1 Percent
- Hwayugi (this one has an open ending - the leads are still in love but separated by circumstances; the ML vows to find the FL again)
- Love O2O
- Madame Antoine
- Wednesday 3:30 p.m.
- W Two Worlds
- The Eternal Love (the web drama)