We already have a good subversive progressive Cinderella story:
I raised Cinderella Preciously.
And some stories where the FL does not end up with the fucking tsundere prince:
Beware Of The Villainess and The Lady's Butler.
But these stories are about very badass self-aware reincarnated female Protagonists from modern South Korea...
How about the Lady and The Beast? Oh wait!, she was in love with the king - the brother of her genocidal rapist - and ends up with his reincarnation... Drama
This Girl is a Little Wild but is unfortunately discontinued.
A feminist story where the non reincarnated or non isekaied heroines don't marry royalty/an imperal family:
KINGDOM OF THE QUEEN, Peerless Alchemist (The Male Waifu is a statemaster... Maybe he is equivalent to royals), Frau Faust, Taming a Shrew, My Lord the Wolf Queen (ML is a powerless prince who lost his royal status), Majo To Kiketsu No Kishi (Superwitch and ML's grandmother is a witch queen so...), Charlotte Has Five Disciples (ongoing), Contract Concubine (MC more dangerous than the emperor) and In Full Bloom Yon Jae Won.
Man, it is very hard to find a strong emancipated FL who is not from the modern real world and a not arrogant prick ML without any royal blood in his vein( ̄∇ ̄")
Thanks for the reply. I’m reading all of them or have tried already.
I agree its hard to find those stories. Everytime I find one with FL & historical & maybe even isekai I try to read it but they all start to look same when you’ve read more.
I would really like stories where they would chooce some commoner or just ordinari Knight. I would love to see noble Lady too that. Too bad its almost always noble Man finding a peasant girl and being arrogant prick.
If the ML Turns out to be Crown prince or king I will stop. I’m so tired of it! It always Turns out that She gives up everything and Goes to be princes fiancee in some other country and No. I want her to be matriarch of her Family. get that Man in her house. Take her Name. Please