Similarities between SSL and WL:
- FL is a student who is doing poorly at school and doesn't want to sit her exams.
- She time travels to the past (SSL)/ enters a historical story (WF) where she meets the ML who is the emperor.
- In both dramas, the FL and ML have a very similar relationship where the leads first hate each other and later befriend each other.
- The main leads hit it off almost immediately despite their power imbalance and the FL treats the ML, the emporor like she would a friend.
- The FL also meets her modern world best friend counterpart in the historical world and befriends her
- In both dramas the FL's life is on the line and she has to use her school knowledge of history to solve the problems faced in the emperors empire to survive.
- Both dramas have a lot of hints of romance that doesn't actually start, the leads are only really good friends that clearly develop feelings for each other.
- In both dramas the FL travels back to the modern world and meets a man with the same face as the ML in the historical/story world.
- The leads have crazy chemistry in both dramas.

Differences (what WL did better)
- What I loved about WL was that the FL already knew the modern day ML before travelling to the past and they were already good friends/frienamies even in the modern world.
- It is clear from the modern world scenes in WL that the ML always liked the FL.

- Both are historical dramas that start off really happy. All the characters are really close at the start and are friends/family.
- Several episodes into the dramas all these relationships break apart and everyone starts to betray one another. The FL is unexpectedly stabbed in the back by a close friend of hers.
- In both dramas the main characters brother is behind all the death and destruction.
- Both dramas have a lot of death where several of the main characters die, especially a lot of the good guys.
- The FL in both dramas has to go through a lot of hardship, mostly because of all the men in her life. She goes from a happy and carefree teenager in love, with friends and family, to a person that loses everything and everyone at one point.
- The ML in both dramas is from a high position but doesn't hold much power compared to many of the other characters. He also falls for the FL first.
- SH has an open ending whilst CMARS has a closed, bittersweet ending.

The Chinese drama is a remake of the Taiwanese drama that was also based on a novel.
Both dramas have essentially the same overall plot where the three leads are concerned and I really enjoyed both dramas.
I'd recommend you watch the Chinese version before watching the Taiwanese version, simply because the Taiwanese version was better and exceeded my expectations when I watched it after the remake.

Difference between the Chinese (remake) and Taiwanese version:
- The remake has a lot more characters and subplots that aren't in the original drama.
- The plot is really dragged, unnecessarily so, especially where the second lead was concerned. It focused too much on the second lead, whom I hated
- The remake has multiple couples, none of which were developed very well, or just didn't make sense.
- The ending, where all the characters get a redemption of sorts and become friends made no sense especially since they were never friendly, it made much more sense in the original version.

What the Taiwanese drama did better:
- The Taiwanese drama focuses it's entire plot on the three leads, not just their present selves, but also their much younger selves allowing more depth for all the characters.
- The drama was executed very differently to the remake. It starts off in the future (present) and shows flashbacks of the events that happened in the past between the three leads rather than showing the story in consecutive order. This gives it a sense of mystery and also allows it to be more from Ou Chen's perspective as we see the past whilst he regains his memories of this past.
- Ou Chen's character is explored much more, we got to understand why he is the way he is and he is shown to develop.
- It's made very obvious who the male lead is in this version since the beginning. A lot of the plot is seen from Ou Chen's prospective and also focuses a lot on his history.
- The acting of the female lead is much better In this version, she is far less cold and actually shows her emotions at all the right moments. She is also much more upfront and honest.
- I really liked Peter Ho's acting in this, not that the main lead in the remake was bad, it's just Peter Ho's character had more depth which he showed throughout the drama. In comparison, Ou Chen in the remake was just bland, like every other character in the remake was compared to the Taiwanese version.

These shows do not have the same vibe, mostly because I actually really liked the FL from AL!, but there are many similarities:
- Throughout the entirety of both dramas the FL had a huge crush on the ML and both FL's chase the ML first.
- Both dramas start of in high school and end after university and in both dramas the FL and ML go to the same school and university.
- In both dramas the ML is really smart whilst the FL isn't very smart but is beloved by all.
- In both dramas the FL and ML are living in the same house for different reasons. But this originally came to be due to the friendship of the parents of the ML and FL.
- In both dramas the family of the ML and FL really want the two leads to end up together and are very supportive of them.
- In both dramas the FL is very obvious and forward with her feelings for the ML but the ML doesn't reciprocate and later he just doesn't acknowledge his own feelings for her. Both ML's are really slow.
- The SML in both dramas have a huge crush on the FL and are very forward with their feelings.
- The SML also ends up working for the family of the FL to get closer to her.

The big differences between these dramas are the fact that:
- Despite the FL's huge crush on the ML, in AL! the FL doesn't let this get in the way of her life and is actually able to move on.
- The ML is also much nicer to the FL in AL! and it actually made sense for the FL to fall for him.

Similarities between the two dramas:
- Both shows have reincarnation as it's main theme.
- Both are about a second chance at life and the destinies of the same three people in both their lives.
- Both shows also have romance as a theme and in both shows there is a love triangle between the three main characters in both their lives.
- In both shows, the main characters remember their past lives and their past lives have a huge impact on their current lives.
- Both shows show the contrast of the past and present lives of the main characters, where elements of the past repeat itself in the present such as the characteristics of secondary (and primary) characters.
(Sort of a spoiler) In both shows the SL (more or less in CT) gets the girl in the first life.