Sultan’s Love
The Villainess Reverses the Hourglass
read on batoto for official chapters. i can see the appeal of this story but it's just not for me. don't like characters at all. 50 chapters in and barely any romance. i'm technically only done chap 9 but skipped ahead cuz we basically know what's going to happen and reading is just a chore to see it happening, yknow? kinda dumb commoner girl gets brought into noble family after her mom marries a count. she feels inferior to her step-sister and always acts out. her sis is plotting against her to make her look bad and she always falls into her traps. when she's 24 she gets killed by her step bro and sis for all the evil things she's done. true she did them but it was cuz her sis plotted her to do them and is super evil despite her pure image. an hourglass brings fl back in time to 10 years ago when she just recently entered the noble family. she vows this time to get revenge on step sis by making her feel all the shame and hurt that fl felt in the first life. so she plays the manipulative passive aggressive games to win her step father's favour and to get other noble ppl on her side. the ml is the crown prince who we see fl meet and neither knows the other's identity. i'm just bored of all plotting and no romance. this is a real villainess though, like she's openly doing bad shit and being happy about it lol
The Monster Duchess and Contract Princess
girl abused by family and set to be sacrifice to give her sis powers. but actually she got the powers while being sacrificed. she goes to a duchess to get her to adopt her to get out of her family. duchess agrees in exchange for the girl's shadow power. ok cool but 0 romance since she's a kid and i really hate seeing these evil family plots with tons of political scheming. i just want fucking romance.
Amina of the Lamp
I Saved The Cursed Duke
don't like art and ml kinda boring? the fl is guardian of god's graveyard. one day ml wanders in all injured from assassins cuz he's the crown prince. she heals him but it's not really healing. it's like giving her energy to him and she needs to be close by to keep it up. idk why he's not healing over time on his own though....... so she leaves the graveyard to be with him in human world and pretends, at first, to be his lover.
Taming the Lady