The Story of Xing Fu (2022)

Similarities:
-Ordinary people facing insurmountable odds that don't give into fate.
-Focuses on both village and city life.
-Both have strong female characters.
-Both have strangers helping one another survive/succeed.

Similarities:
-Clashes between old school ways and city ways of life.
-Growth of leads both together (or because of each other) and separately.
-Comedic elements.
-Understanding, hard times, caring for your fellow man and neighbors.

- Both with Luo Jin playing almost the same character. Lol
- Slice of life, meaningful stories and characters with great development

Similarities:
-ZLY plays lead in both.
-Both are about strong women not taking any slack from a "man's world".
-Both are retro dramas.

Portrait of a woman in 90s China, both are stories about personal development. In both stories FL has a husband who gets in the way of the FL’s ambitions and doesn’t “deserve” her and who gets to meet a soulmate, but in Xing Fu, unfortunately, FL does not divorce… sigh..

The Story of Xing Fu is partially adapted from Chen Yuanbin's novella The Wan Family's Lawsuit (????) which was also made into a movie in 1992, The Story of Qiu Ju, directed by the acclaimed Zhang Yimou and acted by the gorgeous Gong Li. The earlier story was set around the 1980s when rural life was harsh, and the country’s economic miracle was still at its infancy.
The Story of Xing Fu is set in the late 2010s, and viewers can see the marked improvement of village life compared to the 80s, but the rural-urban divide is stark.

- Main theme on redevelopment and progression of a small town/village in Mainland China.
- Highlights life choices, career path, importance of education, differences in thinking between different generation of Asians, how Asian women have evolved over the last 20 years.

Differences: There isn’t much of a focus on romance in Story of Xing Fu, choices made by women was still an important theme but the script of Story of Xing Fu was apparently majorly edited hence why. Meet Yourself has quite a bit of humour but not in SoXF.

both dramas have lawyers as the lead
both dramas have court related plot
both drama have luo jin as the cast