i generally hate love triangles because it's just dumb manufactured drama, but love or hate has such a beautiful and complex narrative and in-depth character exploration. i absolutely love how the characters behave realistically while going through the ups and downs of love
if you have any recs for a story that has
>no one-dimensional characters
>more character oriented than plot oriented and explores realistic characters
>NO POWER DYNAMICS (i aint reading some rich/poor, powerful/weak bs)
>no angst for the sake of angst (manufactured dog blood and drama is a no-no)
>something that's preferably not tragic (like perle TT)
>nothing supernatural or fantasy or verse, and definitely not a work where the second lead believes he was a dog in his past life ><
one of my friend really likes Blue Flag i didnt read it but it looks decent imo
thanks! I'll check it out
it can be any genre preferable manhwa (coz manga is black and white anyway) i want the same raven black hair for both leads. tho i will die if someone recommends vampire knight
define the relationship
do you guys have recs where there is truly a polyamorous/harem ending in a straight/BL work? Gl also works if there's a plot.
it needs to be completed and i would LOVE it if it's not just smut but with an actual plot and an emotional/romantic journey that leads to the characters getting together.
this is a fairly recent one, i think it might still be ongoing.
FL is isekai'd into a novel or game, where her fav character and ship who is the darker skin black haired knight ML dies. Her character is also the typical "in love with the blond crown prince" character, so now that she is isekai'd into the story, she is determined to end up with the black haired knight ML.
obviously when she suddenly falls out of love with the crown prince, he starts to get interested and actively tried to block knight ML but FL is determined to ditch blondie. At one point they both are guarding her
the blond prince has underdeveloped emotional intelligence, and black haired ML is a tsundere.
any ideas?
THANKYOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
so the plot goes, there's a ruthless emperor/empress (idr which) and FL is a BLOND, STRAIGHT HAIR princess who pretends to be stupid in front of her heir siblings and everyone else so that they think she is harmless, but is actually rally smart and is plotting revenge.
she slowly tries to become the most favoured child and there may be elements of magic, but i dont think it's regression or isekai
it's a completed work and she succeeds by dethroning the emperor and taking revenge. any ideas what this might be?
is it Crazy Like A Fox??
or The Princess Pretends to be Crazy
Behind her highness's smile ?
thanks for the suggestions guys it's not these and she has wavy hair. in the work im thinking of she had very regal straight hair, maybe red eyes but i cant say for certain.
sorry had a mandela effect moment with the hair. i was looking for this one
thanks a lot for your help!
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/two_faced_princess/
Glad you found it!
Soooooo, this is gonna be hard to expect from the isekai genre lmao, but do peeps know any romances/dramas with a close to accurate setting of how men thought at the time (like old-fashioned feudalistic mindset that affects opportunities for women).
some excellent examples of this are the game of thrones books, or even Mulan, but since we don't anything that good, some isekai examples are
Queen Cecia's Shorts
They Say I Was Born a King's Daughter
the there are quite a few in this genre where you have a reincarnated protag where the reincarnation is irrelevant to the plot, or she knows the future and hence is saved, or she is off to be married due to her father's decision but a man saves her?? like I know that's accurate that men had to save women back then, but also women would have never been allowed to speak to men one-on-one or even propose marriage so that's kinda dumb.
so i'm seeking something where women face extreme adversity from their peers, from society, from even their loved ones and rise from the ashes to create something better for themselves and ultimately impact society as a whole in a the story.
sry for the typos i sleepy
Ebony
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/ebony/
TW: You might get triggered several times because of how low they think of women. They can’t even have basic human rights
I should add that this story revolves around how the FL manipulates the society - that thinks low of women - and teaches women how to fight back. You might get mad because she sometimes gets help from the ML but in a world where women is only used as a breeding machine and brides for sale shit, it is very helpful that he could use the ML’s influence.
no no that's very helpful. i'll definitely give it a try! thanks so much :)
>It's a BL full colour manhwa
>uke is an ex-idol of some failed boy band and currently a manager. always wears a cap i think. i liked his personality
>the plot revolves around him hiding his idol past , and seme is someone who knows about it (i think) but something about him pissed me off so i stopped reading
anyway any idea what this could be? ;-;
This one?
Breakout Scandal
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/exclusive_scandal/
This one?
Breakout Scandal
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/exclusive_scandal/
HOLY SHIT THAT GUY WAS THE SEME tsk tsk. thanks a lottt. my curiosity is quenched
it's a romance/drama manhwa.
FL is in a mercenary group, her fiance gets another black haired noble girlfriend and everyone except her knew. she feels betrayed, leaves and tries to kill herself but is found by blond ML who's a duke or prince or smt. she's in his estate now and black hair noble tries to frame FL for treason but ML defends FL. ex-fiance also starts pining at some point. has good angst
it's a romance/drama manhwa.
FL is in a mercenary group, her fiance gets another black haired noble girlfriend and everyone except her knew. she feels betrayed, leaves and tries to kill herself but is found by blond ML who's a duke or prince or smt. she's in his estate now and black hair noble tries to frame FL for treason but ML defends FL. ex-fiance also starts pining at some point
any strories about finding new love after a past romance where the lover died. also the new person should not be a friend/relative/colleague of the dead lover. just someone completely new and unrelated.
the plot doesnt have to be completely romance. it can be action or mystery or something along those lines, but with a romance sub plot. prefereably completed