Ning An Ru Meng (2023)

similarities:
both have a good balance of comedy and drama
plot twists and schemes
both MC are intelligent (in SOKP the FL went back in time and in JOL the ML have modern world knowledge)
power struggle between a lot of factors
differentials:
SOKP have more romance while in JOL it's more about ML dealing with schemes and stuff

-they're not that similar but in my opinion if you like one you will like the other

Female lead went back in time to change the ill fate of her death and other decisions she made wrong previously...

When Xie Wei's rebellion starts, she had no choice but to give up all her assets in exchange for her life. She gets confined in the Kunning (Ningan) palace with Jiang Xuening. It is also from her where Jiang Xuening learns of the silk investment, Ren Weizhi's salt wells business, and the modern stocks trades system.

A lot of similarities between the two!

- transmigration

- Initial Enemies to Lovers (hate to love?)

- Hidden motives for ML

- Smart ML

The writer back to past life and be the main character there.
And the male lead is a sinner too..
At first the female lead fall in love with another man.

Female lead goes back to past to change the fate.
Misunderstandings and fear of death.
Continuously scheming people.
Smart Male Lead and female lead.
Starring Bai Lu in both.

Similarity points:
- At first FLs only know the MLs as cruel & cunning, who will plot to overthrow the current rulers
- MLs are tormented by their past leading to their cold and aloof front
- FLs always attempt to go against the ML at first
- MLs suspect FLs intentions at first
- FLs always suspect the MLs of any crime or plot and for the most part they are correct
- MLs actions ofen misunderstood as they understand the undercurrents better

The rest I won't continue as they are spoilers but these 2 feel very similar

Réincarnation trope. Both FL commit suicide in front of Ml who they believe schemed against them. In new life they do their best to avoid ML and get a new life without trouble, but fate catches up as they inevitably get tangled up with ML.

Looks like a similar plot with FL going back in time and trying to change her future in the palace.

Political intrigue, power struggle, war and conspiracy surrounding the royalty and court officials as a backdrop of an angst-filled romance between two smart and complex leads with their own agenda and ambitions. The empress dowager featured in both the stories give off a similar villainous characterization as well. The female protagonist in TLOA and the male protagonist in SOKP play a similar political chess with hidden identities as their trump cards.

So you like bad boys do you?

Lighter and Princess is set in modern times, but it has the life and death drama of a historical/wuxia and features a toxic bad boy. But, unlike Kunning palace, while he rages and is disrespectful to pretty much everyone, he is gentlest with the main female lead, and genuinely sacrifices his goals for her at various points.

Intelligent and layered characterization of leads with survival feats in the midst of chaos and tragedy. Stories featuring war, politics and rebellion.

A bad boy who suffers the consequences, and ruins the lives all around him.

Good Bye, My Princess features the main male lead as he walks the path into hell. Here, accurately portrayed, as the darkness eats him alive he treats the main female lead worse and worse. Obsessively trapping her and refusing to let her go, even though being with him is crushing her soul.

If you are going to portray toxic romance and dark storylines, this is how to do it.

Both have an historical palace setting with a slight twist of the real world (secondary transmigrated character vs. set in a novel) and a complicated anti-hero ML and FL with excellent chemistry in a slow burn romance. Both FLs have a very close relationship with the SFL who is part of the love triangle/reverse harem of the FL's love interest.

Both are historical dramas in which the FL dies and finds herself reborn in the past, but still entangled with the royal court and events of her former life.