A Little Thing Called First Love

Series Similar to A Little Thing Called First Love

If you enjoyed A Little Thing Called First Love, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. Lovely Writer

   2021 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

   Gene, a writer by profession, is one day given a request by his publisher to try his hand at a new type of genre, which is Boys Love. Accepting this new challenge, Gene writes and publishes a Y novel that is well received and becomes incredibly successful. So successful that it even gets made into a BL drama. This is the story of how Gene, a popular writer, gets deceived by the 20-year-old guy, Nubsib, who comes to audition for the lead role—pretending to be polite and good-natured when he is a wolf in reality.

2. Revenged Love

   2025 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8.1).

   After Suowei's girlfriend dumps him, he decides to get revenge by seducing her new boyfriend, Chi Cheng! It started as a game, but falling in love was never part of the plan.

3. You Are My Hero

   2021 · Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem, also on Hunan TV.

   Mi Ka, a new doctor in the hospital, meets Special Agent Shin Ke Lei during the exercise. At first, their relationship does not add up because of the initial misunderstanding, but they meet under different circumstances several more times and see each other in a new light. One day after the sudden earthquake, they go to the affected area to help with rescue operations, and Shin Ke Lei is touched by the dedication of Mi Ka. And then in one African country riots begin, because of what Mi Ka and colleagues is in a dangerous situation, but Shin Ke Lei, of course, will save them. 

4. Indian Summers

   2015 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Set against the sweeping grandeur of the Himalayas and tea plantations of Northern India, the drama tells the rich and explosive story of the decline of the British Empire and the birth of modern India, from both sides of the experience. But at the heart of the story lie the implications and ramifications of the tangled web of passions, rivalries and clashes that define the lives of those brought together in this summer which will change everything.

5. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim

   2018 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Lee Young's family runs a large firm in which Lee Young Joon works as vice-president. He is known to be rich, smart and handsome, but is known to be very arrogant. His secretary Kim Mi So, who works for them for many years, makes a decision which shocks him...

6. Mr. Plankton

   2024 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Lee Yoo Mi stars as a bride-to-be whose medical conditions threatens her marriage to a family obsessed with continuing their grand lineage.

7. A Piece of Your Mind

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   A Piece of Your Mind is a romance about an artificial intelligence (AI) programmer and classical recording engineer. It is a story told from the perspective of a man who believes that even a small fraction of his significant person's heart is enough for him.

8. Hua Jai Sila

   2019 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8), hidden gem.

   Tor is a love child of a mistress and a wealthy hi-so man. After his mother dies from neglect, Tor is forced to live with his father's family . Abused by his stepmother and stepbrother, he turns to the girl-next-door, Mingta, who also suffers neglect at the hands of her so called mother and sister. One night, while being chased by his stepmother, Tor jumps into a river and is presumed dead, though he survives. He is taken under the wing of another prostitute who knew his mother and takes on a new life under the alias, Sila. Years later, he returns as a notorious, rich pimp, with plans to avenge his mother and to get revenge for the torture and pain brought to him by his stepmother and stepbrother. Sila's main goal is to hurt the people that hurt him as a child, but he never expected to see the only friend he ever had as a child, Mingta. As soon as they see each other, she realizes that he looks familiar to her. She notices a ring he wears around his neck, and immediately comes to the conclusion that he's Tor, her childhood best friend that supposedly died. But he denies it because of his revenge plan.

9. I Told Sunset About You

   2020 · Drama, Romance · ended

   Recommended for similar Romance profile, highly rated (8).

   Two high school boys who were learning their deep relationship through complicated and unstable feelings like a storm that blows the boat away from its path. It was contrary to peaceful Phuket where they lived.

10. Attention, Love!

    2017 · Drama, Romance · ended

    Recommended for similar Romance profile, hidden gem.

    Story about two friends, who are living together because they were betrothed as children, trying to figure out what they are to each other.