Father, I don't Want this Marriage
cat-like secret crown prince/duke's student max x the duke's daughter, juvellia who's an isekai'd girl (x juvelle's ex, psycho mikhail) -juvelle prev was the villainesse who was obsessed w/ mikhail and dies but now she's gone back to before everything transpired and also remembers she's been isekai'd -og was accused by mikhail of poisoning the princess and sentenced, and her father gave her a dagger that she assumed was to kill herself -og the prince came to torture her and she committed die w/ the dagger -actually implied that these og events aren't what they seem -this time around she dumps mikhail but now he's going a bit crazy -no one except the king, his knights , and legis have ever seen the prince's face so no one knows who max is; also he's been secretly training w/ the duke since he was a kid -max originally was going to kill juvelle since she's her father's one weakness but he falls in love w/ her instead -she thinks her dad wants to marry her off to the crown prince (he does not) so she enters a dating contract w/ max (not knowing he's the prince lol) -her dad hates it and thinks max is trying to use his daughter against him; he is the biggest softey for his daughter but it's implied that he's distanced himself from her to protect her -she's slowly making friends and fixing her image -she and max have a sweet relationship but she doesn't know max is the prince and still says she's scared of the prince -max is going to try to come clean at the victory ball (he failed lol) -max's crazy stepmom and stepsis beatrice (who's being coerced by her mom) are trying to discredit max -juvelle accidentally befriends beatrice, who's actually similar to max and is a big cat-like softey -it's been alluded to that the emperor has something on legis that allows him complete control over him (prob having to do w/ amelia, legis' late wife and juvellia's mom, or juvellia herself) -revealed that legis og ended up killing everyone incl the emperor after juvellian died, and he remembers it all -max is trying to court juvelian as the prince now (and failing lol) -mikhail is going actually insane w/o juvelle and his mom is going to try to get them back together (juvelle knows tho) -she went and ofc they are rude af so she destroys everything she previously bought them -also legis sent max to watch lol -mikhail is there and obessed ofc and insults juvelle so max beats the shit out of him -in the carriage home max dissolves their contract relationship and confesses!!!! juvelle asks for time to respond -they get home and juvelle tells legis everything, and legis then goes on a rampage -tris' bday banquet is coming up and max wants to use it to reveal himself to juvelle -tris likes juvelle tho and is protective lmaoo -mikhail is gross as always and tries to use tris b/c he knows the empress is preggo (and the empress demands that tris goes along with it) -juvelle blows her whistle and max (as the prince) comes to the rescue -the big reveal!! juvelle was mad ofc but then realizes that max is just a big sweetie -but uh legis was just caught by the emperor and is talking to (uh more like captured by) a red dragon from the emperor's ring...?
A Way To Protect The Lovable You
king/descendant of dragons x abused daughter of the "saintess" who has time-travelled back 3 yrs -originally leticia was wed w/ hopes of her being killed by the king + she had a curse on her that after 6 mo she would have to kill the king -king died, she died; she wakes up 3 yrs in the past -her mom the "saintess" is an evil monster who isn't actually the saintess but acquired a fake power from a mysterious dude -turns out the goddess, dragon, and a magician banned together to turn back time to undo josephina's evil -leticia rights the wrongs of the past and saves bernessa and enoch -the king realizes leticia is not the villain her mom rumoured her to be and is actually the girl his brother took care of 7 yrs ago -leticia awakens as the true saintess -her first wing is noel, the prev queen's 9th wing, and her 2nd wing is awin, the prev queen's 2nd wing -hinted that bernessa will also be a wing -also the 2nd wing is on the convoy w/ them and is trying to kill leticia b/c he sees hope in her eyes? (possibly smth compels him that she is the true saintess)
My In-laws are Obsessed With Me
-sooooo mc og gets murdered for her inheritance by her stepmom, stepsister, and fiance (who's actually w/ the stepsister) -she wakes up and has returned to the past -she enters a 1yr marriage contract w/ the grand duke (who's rumored to have no interest in women and is trying to get out of a marriage to the 4th princess) for safety -the duke's family line are all cursed to have poisonous blood -mc ingests some and dies, but comes back to life again -duke tests it out again and she lives again -they "marry," and she starts living at the mansion -mc thinks she might have been og poisoned by the cursed blood, but doesn't say anything -the duke's nephew has super poisonous blood and has been sent to the countryside, but he's sad and lonely and wants to stay here -mc helps him and they convince the duke to let him stay (mc dies again but wakes up) -mc starts to doubt that she actually went back to the past and thinks she might be crazy re: her step mom/sis b/c their good acting (but the maids can see that stepmom/sis are indeed evil) -also there's this nice trustworthy assistant dude but for some reason i'm suspicious of him lol -translation is rough -i cheated and read the novel, but it's quite different
My Family is Obsessed with Me
-dia was og the hero who was raised to defeat/defeated the demon lord by a priest(?) who then killed her and everyone who knew her -10 yrs later she's reincarnated as an orphan in an "orphanage" that's just child trafficking -she gets bought by the leocardias, a duchy family, after dad+son recognize her superior magic abilities -she recognizes the duchess as a woman she knew in her past life -the leocardias actually lost their 3rd child after she was kidnapped and reported dead -dia remembers being kidnapped as an infant and using her magic to get her dropped at the orphanage -they all love her (mom/the head of the family, dad, twin sister/future head and twin brother age 14) -she starts kindergarten and makes friends -she meets reed, who is handsome and a little older than her, and is also the true heir to the empire/the ambassador for humanity(??) [this part was not translated well] -also the fugitive son of the dark rival duchy comes to stay w/ then and is initially sassy but after getting bonked on the head by dia during a duel his personality totally changes and he rly likes dia now(?) [translation is jank but i think he is actually also reincarnated and knew dia previously] -the dark duchy is collabing w/ the evil priest and have been buying up orphans and put monster-attracting magic in children's shoes wtf -dia reveals that she is the hero's reincarnation and her hero powers come back, but she still has a tiny body which is limiting
Beware of the Brothers!
Marriage of Convenience
-bianca og was married to count zachary de arno and was a cold villainish wife who spent on luxury items and wasn't close to the count -the count og died before bianca could have a child and bianca was kicked out and basically poor and hated until she died -also i think she cheated on the count maybe? with some dude named ferdinand who was just using her (also she had been told the count was cheating) -she comes back as herself at 18yo and decides that she rly needs to have the count's kid -she works to get closer to the count, though still acts like a noblewoman and thinks he has a mistress -zach has been cold to her since she hated him but now is warming up -she begins taking on responsibilities and finds talented people in arno to become lace artisans and a prodigy candle carver (in her og life she actually pioneered lace?) jic smth happens -she learns to ride a horse -she and zach get closer -they visit the capital and the 2nd prince has an unhealthy obsession w/ her (and the count) but like in a scheming way (like... stole her childhood portrait tho? ew) -bianca reuintes w/ her dad and bro, and her dad is still a pos tbh for what he did but ig it's an ok reunion (i still don't forgive him tho wtf) but now they're all on the same side -they encounter zach's brother, who threw him out when their dad died and is a shitty person -2nd prince also grabs bianca's hand while they're trying to leave and tries to insinuate himself -count is not having it and carries bianca back, then summons the 3 heads and tells them about jacob being a creep
Palace of Bardo
omg OMG -reincarnation of the first mad emperor x reincarnation of his male lover who has retained his memories of his previous life -we learn the full story through flashbacks as the emperor/head eunich/mc's brother remember their past lives -100 yrs ago the first emperor fell for the architect son of the ok family, who he subjugated, and who was to design the imperial palace -mc was being coveted by his half-brother, who assaulted him and gave him trauma -the emperor and mc became close, but b/c of his trauma mc rebuked the emperor -after seeing that the older brother had given mc kiss marks, the emperor went mad -this began a life of the emperor being completely obsessed w/ mc and only showing it through abuse; he was a tyrant who killed a shitton of people and animals as lessons to mc for minor things, limited mc's ability to escape as much as possible (crippled him, got him addicted to drugs), and ultimately just wanted mc to love him back but obvi was failing [BUT more context: the emperor has a condition where he cannot feel pain, so he did not completely understand how he was affecting mc; and as he did each bad thing to mc and learned that it hurt him, he vowed to never do those things again
Koisuru Ryuu no Shima