sadslime's manga / #Historical(56)

After being kicked out by her cheating husband and cruel mother-in-law, Adeline heads back to her home village to learn that her parents have died and the village needs to offer a sacrifice to the dragon god. With nowhere else to go, Adeline offers herself, expecting to die. To her surprise, the dragon god comes for her and says they will be married if they can live together this whole month without ever once lying to each other. Trigger warnings: cheating, murder.

Ryuka and Velk (a beastman) live together in Ryuka's small village ever since he found Velk wounded a year ago and took him in. Velk asked Ryuka to be his mate back then, and the two have been sleeping together ever since, but Ryuka hesitates to give Velk his heart, even so. But when it looks like Velk might lose Ryuka after all, will Ryuka have any regrets? Trigger warnings: death of family members.

Hakua is sent to take down a man-eating tiger but instead gets kidnapped himself by Youko, the descendant of tigers who married humans who can take on a human shape. Youko insists that Hakua bear him a child, and even when he learns Hakua is male, he rapes him. But after that the two live together for a while and Youko begins to understand human feelings more as Hakua comes to forgive him. But Hakua can't stay away from human society forever. Will Youko be able to give him up now that he's finally found someone who accepts him? Kind of choppy and obviously a bad start for a romance, but I liked the depiction of Youko's character growth. Trigger warning: rape, mention of cannibalism(man-tiger eating humans). Trigger warning: rape.

After a war between clans, the clan leader's son, Heuk, is sent the daughter of the losing clan's leader as his bride to ensure peace between them. Little does he know, the bride was replaced with her twin brother, Jayeon, who has instructions to kill Heuk. Although his clan doesn't trust Jayeon, Heuk can't help but pity the poor child when he sees how young his bride is, and his pity touches Jayeon's heart, so that he wants to stay there forever. The only problem is that their clans still intend to go back to war, so if they really want to stay together, they can't stay there. Also Heuk still doesn't know Jayeon is a boy. Trigger warnings: abuse, child bride.

Ayame lives in a ninja village but sucks at being a ninja, and her one solace is watching her secret love, the future village chief, Shoma. But when she hears he's getting married, she decides she needs to step it up and move on with her life, so she asks to learn seduction techniques so she can work as a ninja. To her surprise, Shoma herself is her teacher on the night of, and the next day, he asks her to marry him! Ayame is under the impression Shoma loved someone else so he was forced to marry her, but really he's been in love with Ayame for a long time. Had some cute moments, but honestly, Shoma is a red flag. I lost interest and stopped reading around chapter 30.

Sayako is an ordinary girl dreaming of happiness with her beloved Takahisa who assures her they'll be together soon. But when she comes home and finds that her family has lost everything, the only way to save their finances is for her to marry Count Kijoin. Sayaka gives up on her love and goes to be married only to find her husband is in fact a demon called Lord Amenoi who only wants her to bear him a child. However, if she can do that, he promises to set her free, and perhaps she can reunite with her beloved. So far no reason to really like any character, Sayako isn't strong or particularly interesting and Amenoi is obviously coercing her into sex and doesn't care. But it's still early enough that it could be interesting to see how their relationship develops. Trigger warning: coercion (buying a wife).