Zhang Gong Zhu Zhai Shang (2022)

Both feature a bodyguard/princess romance although the dynamics are very different.
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Both are minidrama, strong FL and bodyguard love story, a bit of masochist, palace setting, protective sister over emperor

Different length but similar tone. ML is bodyguard and subservient to FL and extremely devoted to her.

Both of these short-length historical Chinese webseries present both the male and female leads as extremely capable individuals who find love with each other after initial curiosity. Both female leads are very forward and have a hidden personality for much of the story. Both male leads are very adept fighters. And both stories center around some level of political/royal intrigue that the leads must navigate on their respective missions.

Similar character setup story genre. The drama also focus more on the female lead's power over the male lead.

Both are historical mini dramas with a royal, powerful, and domineering FL and a lesser powerful ML under her control. Both have an identical scene in the first episode where the FL holds the ML's chin as he kneels in front of her.

(mostly in the 2nd arc of HDJtT)
- Strong FLs
- Cold woman/Warm man
- Royalty FL (in ZGZZS she's the princess royal while in HDJtT she's the empress)
- ML is FL's concubine
- Gender Role Reversal themes
- Northern kingdom want to make a marriage alliance
- Feminism and girlbossing