진이's manga / #cute(124)

aria is the daughter of a siren and is the last siren; her mom was enslaved by a count who ended up going mad (and is aria's dad) -aria's mom fed her poison every day to take away her voice and pass her off as mute -aria is found out after her mother dies and becomes a slave to the emperor and is forced to sing until she dies -just as she's going to die, duke lloyd valentine comes and slays everyone in the kingdom, releasing her in the process -he carries her from her cage as she dies and she sings one last song, which ends up sending her to the past, when she's 10yo -she is able to take control using her song and gets herself(?) sold to be duke valentine's betrothed -she wears a mask and acts mute, but can communicate w/ animals which saves her -she is "sold" and the grand duke (lloyd's dad) takes her in, and the household dotes on her -v few interactions w/ lloyd so far tbh -aria knows that when lloyd is 18 he allegedly murders the entire valentine household, so she is trying to stop that by saving his mother, who is v ill -to do so she needs to practice singing, but she is still too weak -meets the duke's adopted younger brother who is a genius but obnoxious -finds the castle's sorcerer and tells him she can speak and is a siren so he will help her gain her magic core power -she's been transported (w/ wolf friend silver) to a vagrant town and has just run into trouble -valient knight tries to save her but is just a kid and gets beat up lol -she finds the holy relic of judgment -comes back home and the younger brother is being accused of treason -uses the relic to expose the men accusing him as liars -the mom/countess is dying so aria has the magician temporarily restore her powers to full and sings a song to save her (so her husband doesn't murder everyone)

spy x family doujin w/ damien x anya

-rich beautiful dom heir x huge sub bodyguard wait i'm screaming this was so cute -dom is being stalked and is the heir to a mafia group so his fam hired a bodyguard -bodyguard is trying to make money for plastic surgery to make his face less scary b/c he's A BIG SUB LMAO -he's just dom's type ofc and dom feels him out and ofc id's that he's gay and a sub -dom takes him to a bdsm club and ends up propositioning sub to be play partners since sub has never done anything before -they have play and i usually don't like when the uke/s is bigger than the seme but the bodyguard is literally so cute (but also tough and professional at work! so well done omg) -stalker continues to stalk and messes w/ dom's car, home, work -dom confesses to sub, who misinterprets b/c he's insecure -dom goes on a rampage and the stalker is caught (turns out bodyguard was hired to make sure dom doesn't kill someone and go to jail LOL) -they confess properly and it's a happy end(?) -whoops turns out there's more than one stalker

spy dad, assassin mom, mind reader child who knows their secrets, but they don't know each other's secrets -anya's currently in school to try to get close to damien so lloyd can get close to damien's dad

closeted gay student w/ secret crush x shy gloomy student w/ secret crossdressing habit

bad personality (but actually just not great w/ people) popular student x bad mouth (socially terrified) student who wears a mask (x overbearing playboy student [who actually is also socially bad] who falls in love w/ mask student too) gah this is sooo sweet -love triangle -possessive behavior

-isekai'd girl transmigrates into the body of an abandoned princess (the child of the king's affair w/ a maid) -in the og story the duke falls in love w/ the beautiful 1st daughter and has to steal her away from the emperor, who is obsessed w/ her -the kingdom is taken over by the empire and the duke is set to execute the royal family -luana knew this was going to happen b/c she read the book so she spent her life cooking and eating good food for herself -she gets caught eating beef jerky during the takeover and offers some to the duke, who is able to taste it -she gets thrown in jail for being a witch -turns out the duke was cursed to only taste bad things, so he thinks she's a witch since he was able to taste her food -she goes along w/ it to survive -she makes the duke more meals, which he enjoys, and is able to bargain w/ him so the prisoners can eat -except the royal family abandoned her in the first place so when they find out she has a little leverage they decide to use her to try to poison the duke smh -she isn't going to do it, but is trying to figure out how to get rid of the poison -whelp duke legion found the poison and drank it purposefully since he's immune except it wasn't poison it was an aphrodisiac -he sends luana away and deduces it was sent by the queen or king, so he has them executed -luana is fine but the 1st princess in the dungeon is furious -they go to the capital and meet the emperor, who is curious so he asks luana to cook -she makes tangsuyuk, which pleases the emperor, and the emperor is also made aware that the duke can taste the food and thinks she's a witch (he also notices that the duke's gaze lingers on her

well-liked-by-animals son of shrine family x boy possessed by a fox spirit

-mc sora is isekai'd into this fantasy world -she's tricked by a slave trader and becomes a slave -she goes to change her slave contract but gets released (ig they realized that she was kidnapped via their magic?) -she is taken in by a grouchy old witch and works for her -she learns to make some potions -the witch is old and gives her her savings and tells her to leave -mc meets an adventurer jake who helps escort her to the next city -she decides to buy a slave for protection -she buys a demon criminal slave liam -she heals his injuries w/ her potions and fixes him up -he's v loyal to her but b/c he's a demon he has to let out his uh energy each night? -his back story is that he was born to a human prostitute who died, he became an adventurer but was betrayed after they found out he was a demon; he was made a criminal slave and his previous 2 masters were abusive -he helps sora navigate the world and they both register w/ the guild to become adventurers -they go on their first mission to collect medicinal herbs