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++

Life and Love (Medium Romance)

Hey there, you're in Contemporary Romances with 6 subsections:

(★ = You are here): 

Campus Romances (We go to school)
✓ High school or university – love blossoms under fluorescent lights and midterm pressure.

CEO Romances (We don't work)
✓ Billionaire bosses and fantasy jobs where no one actually works, but everyone falls in love.

Contemporary Romance Central (We pretend to work)
✓ General modern romances where jobs exist but mainly as backdrops to kissing and falling

★ Life + Romance (We work and love)
✓ Where "real" life meets love

Life First (We mainly work and slightly love at most)
✓ Not even the passenger seat, but the back seat of a packed van. Or not even. Slice-of-life dramas where the career grind, family, and friendships take center stage – romance may or may not tag along.

Ladies Ensemble [Overlapping section]
✓ Female-led stories featuring a group of women navigating love, life, careers, and each other.

Life First (Low Romance)

Hey there, you're in Contemporary Romances with 6 subsections:

(★ = You are here): 

Campus Romances (We go to school)
✓ High school or university – love blossoms under fluorescent lights and midterm pressure.

CEO Romances (We don't work)
✓ Billionaire bosses and fantasy jobs where no one actually works, but everyone falls in love.

Contemporary Romance Central (We pretend to work)
✓ General modern romances where jobs exist but mainly as backdrops to kissing and falling

Life + Romance (We work and love)
✓ Where "real" life meets love

★ Life First (We mainly work and slightly love at most)
✓ Not even the passenger seat, but the back seat of a packed van. Or not even. Slice-of-life dramas where the career grind, family, and friendships take center stage – romance may or may not tag along.

Ladies Ensemble [Overlapping section]
✓ Female-led stories featuring a group of women navigating love, life, careers, and each other.

Ladies (+ Ensemble)

Criteria: 

✓ Screentime: FLs  >>> MLs

✓ Balance of Work / Family / Romance

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Contemporary, Sismance

✓ Romance, Slight Romance or No Romance (Contemporary Romance)

✓ Occasional CEOs 

Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:

𐄂 Balanced in ML & FL screen time (e.g. Contemporary Romance, Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance)

Action | Thriller | Sports

Criteria: 

✓ Action (+ Desert)

✓ Sports

✓ Thriller

✓ Sci-fi

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Contemporary, Action, Sports, Team 

✓ All variations of romances: Romcom, Romance, Slight Romance, No Romance, BL

Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:

𐄂 Police / Mafia

𐄂 Crime / Suspense

Investigative / Procedurals

Criteria: 

✓ MC is a professional who investigates crimes (constables, PSPs, forensic scientists)

✓ Police Procedurals and Police vs. Mafia 

✓ Two/Many-Men-on-Poster-Dramas

✓ Detective Fiction (Periods)

✓ Minimal Romance or BL

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Period and Contemporary 

✓ Mostly Slight Romance / No Romance / BL 

Excluding overlapping dramas that are mainly:

𐄂 Crime / Suspense

𐄂 Republican (Era Dramas)

𐄂 Contemporary ones with more romance is in Work/Life/Family ≥ Romance

𐄂 Period ones with more romances is in Period Mystery Romances

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

Comedy Mix

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ Comedy

✓ Any period: Contemporary, Period, Wuxia, Qihuan, Era

BL & Ambiguous Bromance

Criteria: 

✓ Romance between men 

✓ Ambiguous BL

Terms

Brotherhood: Pure friends. [Excluded in list]
Bromance: Boy friendship with chemistry.
Ambiguous Bromance: Between love/friendship. Interpretation is possible

BL: They're in love. 

Genres (but not all-inclusive): 

✓ All time periods: Contemporary, Period, Wuxia, Xianxia, Qihuan, Era

✓ BL

✓ Bromance (but not all bromances are ambiguous BL) 

With You Episode 7

Episode 7: You're all already at the age where you can have an ID!

Geng Geng is the primary suspect for the cheating incident but we all know she's innocent. So who's going to take the blame?