Please recommend romance dramas where:

  • one of the leads (L1) falls in love with another lead (L2);
  • L2 dies and stays dead for a significant amount of time (months, years, centuries - it's not quick);
  • L1 doesn't move on after L2's death;
  • L2's spirit is resurrected, they reincarnate or they otherwise return from the dead; and
  • the leads get a relatively happy ending.

L2's memories and identity aren't important. L2 can have all, some or none of their memories and can hide their memories / identity or not when they return - doesn't matter.

L1 can recognize L2 immediately when they return or not - that also doesn't matter.

However, please do not recommend dramas where L1 does not recognize that L2 is L2 when they return, where L2 behaves very differently (like a totally different person), and L1 falls in love with L2 again in a way that feels like L1 has moved on from their feelings for L2 and fallen in love with a new person (even though it's actually L2 again). Basically, please don't recommend Alchemy of Souls because that's what it felt like for me and I found it very unsatisfying.

My favourites are The Untamed, Love Between Fairy and Devil, and The Legends.

I would also be open to dramas that have a similar set up without death (for example, where L1 wrongly believes that L2 died many years ago - like in Thirty But Seventeen) or where L1 falls in love with L2 in multiple world or timelines (for example, in Lost Love in Times). 

Destiny of white snake and maybe Triage

Maybe Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms

  • The moon embracing the sun
  • Tale of the nine tailed