NOT the same story but same dark vibe.
Psychologic crime thriller
Small town feel
Secrets, lies, betrayal, nothing is what it seems.

College Life
Focus on group of friends
Youth drama
Same ML Zhai Zi Lu with similar witty funny personality

Want to watch a real storyline then this is a way better pick.
Even the cover is similar to the Imperial Coroner poster

Detective genre in ancient historical setting
Set in Tang Dynasty Chang An
FL Chu Chu came from a family of coroners.
She pairs up with a ML to solve crime

Police corruption
One character without much emotions and quite hard to read
Great suspense drama with lots of twist and turns

Cute outgoing FL that lies so well and loves $$
Cold / Warm hearted ML
There's a murder somewhere

All the Cliches are in place:
-child hood connection
-so so 2nd leads that's been "friend" zoned
-Evil woman that wants to kill the FL
-FL needs to randomly fall so ML can catch her and do a staring contest

It's about school bullying
Dark but hopeful
intense characters
Better days is a drama so more story behind the events
Nam Da Reum is a young powerful actor just as the leads in this movie