Secret Royal Inspector & Joy (2021)

both male and female lead help each other to solve something--- .............................. recommend this drama this is so good and both drama are comedy both good actress/actor worth to watch

Widow female lead, with bad mother-in-law. ML leave the city to live in the village. Main lead will work together to solve the murder case together.

A secret royal inspector uncovers corruption and then ensures its perpetrators face justice. He cannot reveal himself or his intentions. Ra Yi Eon wanted to open up a dumpling stall outside the capital. What he had not planned on was taking and passing the state examination! Now an official in the Office of Special Advisors, the requests to carry out covert missions are aplenty. Kim Jo Yi is a woman well ahead of her time due to her unorthodox views on divorce. In the Joseon era, she finds the notion of any woman suffering in silence during her marriage intolerable. She wholeheartedly and passionately is in support of divorce. And small wonder! She is awaiting the envisioned happiness that cutting ties with her spouse will bring. Up for an adventure, Jo Yi convinces Yi Eon to let her tag along on his first official investigation in the provinces. Together they can expose wrongdoing and wipe out corruption. Which one will recognize the guilty parties hiding in plain sight?

Both are light feel good comedic romances set in historical period. 100DMP is heavier on court politics while SRI&J is sillier.

Both are historical romcoms with a focus on women's issues. Both FLs want to be free of marriage. Rookie Historian takes place in the palace and has more politics, while SRI&J is set within villages and is more comic. Both are fluffy and feel good.

Mystery/historical/romance genre with the main couple working on investigations together. ....................................

Both are upbeat mystery/romance dramas with a sweet couple. .....................................................................

Both are dramas focusing on a couple investigating cases together, with a mostly light tone and a slow burn romance.

Both couples work together to investigate cases. Both dramas start out more heavily focused on the mystery genre, with a slow burn romance mostly toward the second half.

Both have the main characters investigating episodic mysteries, with a slow burn light romance between the ML and FL.

Both are mystery/romance dramas with a historical setting, featuring a band of characters working together to investigate and solve cases.

The detectives in both dramas are happy-go-lucky sort of fellows that get serious when a mystery catches their fancy and cannot suffer injustice silently. TSOMD is a Chinese historical detective series with no romance but is quite similar to SRI&Joy in the sense that the story creates a relaxed atmosphere rampant with mysteries and a subtle undercurrent of court intrigue.

Both are mystery/investigation dramas in a historical setting with the couple solving cases together.

Depiction of women's issues in the Joseon Era, there's a lot of funny scenes but the drama's main plot has a more serious tone, main leads bicker and fight when they first meet but end up falling in love, people in high positions are corrupted and the main leads fight against them.

Same male lead (Taecyeon). The main leads meet and bicker a lot at first but end up falling in love. Each episode focuses on a specific story that unfolds a bigger plot. There is a comedic duo of boys that follow the main leads in all their adventures.