childhood friends


fl has a tragic past till she forgotten or stills remembers

FL has forgotten her tragic past

A fairly common back story for adult main characters is that long ago, babies were switched, with two children growing up with families other than their birth families. Do you prefer that this was an accidental mixup, or deliberate - that is, at least one person definitely knows about it?

Accidental mixup


Enemies to Lovers or Best Friends to Lovers

enemies to lovers

main couple: ML human FL non-human or FL human ML non-human 

 FL human ML non-human  


Person A has umbrella ready for Person B or Person A catches person B from falling. 

umbrella - neither, really, but at least umbrellas are real. A genuine fall is not graceful and ballet-like.

At start of the drama, we see either the ML or FL go for a job interview.

ML go for a job interview


Rich boy poor girl or Rich girl poor boy

rich boy poor girl

Drama featuring a natural disaster (earthquake, flood, etc.) or a plague.

Natural disaster


Main meeting place for the characters is a bar or a diner

oh good one! um diner

ML police FL civilian or FL police ML civilian 

So hard to choose but probably FL police ML civilian  


Childhood friends/enemies or Met as adults

met as adults

takes place mostly in a city or in a rural area

Takes place mostly in a city


FL grumpy and ML sunshine or ML grumpy and FL sunshine

i love both sm  but i’m a real sucker for grumpy ml sunshine fl no matter how cliché it is

royal ML commoner FL or royal FL commoner ML

royal ML commoner FL

The main leads are in a pretend romantic relationship, or the leads are in a real romantic relationship but keeping it quiet.