Campus Romances / Coming of Age

Criteria:

✓ Campus Romances

✓ Coming of Age

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Contemporary, School

✓ Romance (Contemporary Romance) / Romcom (Contemporary Romcom)

Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:

𐄂 Students / Teachers who actually study/work more than love are in Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance.

CEO Romances

Criteria: 

✓ CEO/Heir or Manager-Employee relationship 

✓ CEOs can be ML or FL

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Romcom > Romance

✓ CEO

✓ Contemporary (Contemporary Romcom / Contemporary Romance)

Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:

𐄂 Ladies Ensembles

𐄂 CEOs who are actually working in more serious dramas (Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance)

Note: 

♥ Standards are low 

Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance

Criteria: 

✓ Balance of Work / Family / Self-Improvement 

✓ Workplace Dramas (including lawyers, doctors, firefighters, bankers, etc.)

✓ Big Family Dramas 

✓ Romance can still be romantic. It just isn't the focus. 

✓ Balance of ML and FL screen-time

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Contemporary

✓ Romance (Contemporary Romance) / Slight Romance / No Romance. 

✓ CEOs who actually work

Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:

𐄂 Ladies Ensembles

𐄂 Romantic > Work/Life/Family are in  Contemporary Romance Central

Era Dramas

Criteria: I hope you're CPP vaccinated.

✓ Serious War Times

✓ Trashy Republican Romances

✓ Half-bald Times

✓ 1990s, etc.

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Historical Era, Republican Romcom, Republican Romance

✓ Mystery

Crime and Suspense

Criteria: 

✓ A single crime/suspense unfolds

✓ For crimes, MCs are involved in the crime rather than just investigating it. 

✓ +/- Romance

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Suspense, +/-Romance

✓ Period / Contemporary (Period Romance / Contemporary Romance)

Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:

𐄂 Procedural police/detective shows where MCs are police officers or related

𐄂 Police vs. Mafias

Contemporary Romance Central

Criteria: 

✓ Love story is front and centre. 

✓ Balanced ML vs FL screen-time

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Contemporary, Romance, Bromance , Sismance, Family, Contemporary Romance

Excluding overlapping dramas (which will be its own category):

𐄂 CEO romances

𐄂 Campus romances
𐄂 Female ensembles 

𐄂 Work++ / Family++

Scheming/Palace Romances

Criteria: 

✓ A degree of seriousness in the plot

✓ Scheming / Revenges / Palace Politics

✓ Romance

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Period, Romance, Palace, Bromance , Sismance, Period Romance

✓ Transmigration

Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:

𐄂 Mystery
𐄂 Wuxia