My Mermaid Boyfriend (2022)

Synopsis: Jiang Xiao Man, a college student majoring in art, is heartbroken because of a painful breakup. Suddenly, Anatoly Mercury, a hot mermaid, appears and accompanies her. They gradually fall in love as he completes the task of getting true love kiss. Cheng Xi, a gentle senior, is both an assist and a crisis to their relationship. As long as they have faith in fairy tales, there will be a happy ending.

Completely different in tone and plot but MLs are both mermaids who cry pearl tears and are abducted at some point by a human, then freed by the FL.

Both are mini dramas with a human FL and a "fish out of water" supernatural ML connected to water who end up living together while ML tries to return home only for the two to fall in love.

Mermaid character meets human, romance follows. They cry pearls which the human uses as money. Comedic moments mixed with serious ones.

Both are short length dramas about a merman ML and a human FL who end up living together. The ML is very naïve about the human world and requires the FL's help to obtain something so he can return to the ocean.

Comedy mixed with drama. Someone tries to abduct the mermaid and the human must rescue them. Romantic relationship between a human and a mermaid. The mermaid ends up leaving, then returning at the end for a happy ending.

Both are mini dramas in which the human FL encounters and ends up living with the ML who is a merman.