#long post is long lol but at least i can access answered ask drafts kn mobile now

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Hi there. I’ve noticed you have been posting a lot of recs lately and was wondering if you could post a list of your overall top 5. Been looking for more stuff to read.

I sure could! I've been having a lot of fun reading all these new stories ^^ these are not in order of importance or anything and anything in the plot summaries either have defails that are revealed extremely early on or are minor minor spoilers

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1. Actually, I Was The Real One

Status: still in progress

Plot summary: Keira Parvis is the eldest and only daughter of the Parvis family, prophecized to become a Saint who can commune with the spirits and bring peace to the land, a role exclusive to her bloodline. She works diligently and devotes her entire childhood to working and studying hard to earn the attention and approval of her extremely distant emotionally absent father Ludwig, to no avail, becoming known to everyone as a no-nonsense, stone-faced prodigy who most are too intimidated to approach. Before her powers can manifest though, a young girl named Cosette comes forward and says she is the real daughter and that Keira is illegitimate, and Cosette displays her spiritual powers in front of everyone to prove it. Keira is immediately branded as a fake and a heretic fated to bring disaster and is set to be executed for treason. Cosette then appears in front of the gagged, imprisoned Keira, and happily tells her "actually you WERE the real one :)". Keira can do nothing as she is executed right in front of the city and her father Ludwig, who does nothing to stop it. With her soul travelling back in time before her execution, Keira vows to not only get revenge on Cosette and avoid her death, but to also live a happier life where she is not constantly trying to please her father who has done nothing but break her heart (end summary)

Oh my god this story. I think this one might be my favorite, which is tragic because it's either on hiatus or between seasons right now since it hasn't updated since spring 2022 (update! as I am coming back to this draft, the story actually began updating again a few days ago and I am so so SO excited and happy to see it continuing). The villain Cosette is infuriating and Keira is a strong competent and highly relatable lead. Since she spent so long trying to study and be perfect, she can be extremely socially awkward so this story is not only one of revenge and redemption, but also a sort of rebirth into a happier life. Keira starts making changes to how she lives and her personal journey is honestly really touching. She has never had friends or a boyfriend and she starts trying to be less lonely and it is honestly the most heart warming and cute thing ever. In the very beginning of the story, she tries to step down as the captain of the knights because she thinks people hate her and feel she weaseled her way into her position (because technically her position as captain is tradition for children of her family although she is also genuinely fully qualified enough to hold the position anyways), but after she gives a speech to the knights, saying she's sorry for making them uncomfortable, that the last thing she wanted to do was be a cold dictator who pushed people around, that she just took her job seriously, when she literally turns to leave all the knights together just burst into NO OH MY GOD NO WE HAD NO IDEA WE WERE IN THE WRONG PLEASE STAY CAPTAIN 🥺.

She starts forming friendships with her maids and one of them introduces her to a romance novel which she has never even read these kinds of stories before AND SHE STAYS UP ALL NIGHT READING IT LIKE A DORK. She tries to start dating and the first guy is so unbelievably sketchy you are just reading it SCREAMING through the monitor "BABY NO" because it's her first crush and she is so innocent oh my god 🥺

There's just. There's this scene that isn't even very plot significant but. She's sitting down at a garden party or something with all these other girls who are around her age and they all begin to laugh and tease her as they talk about marriage and it's like. She has friends now 🥺 Keira's character arc is not just about trying to save herself, but also growing as a person and finding out who she really is. This story is like watching your little sister grow up and im so happy it's still being continued

2. Father I Don't Want This Marriage!

Status: ongoing

Plot summary: a time travel story in a world of magic! Juvelia is framed for the poisoning of the princess and jailed and abandoned by her father who has been cold to her for her entire life, no matter what she does. Her father locks her up and gives her a knife before leaving without saying much more, and in a moment of pure panic, when the notoriously violent and cruel crown prince and brother of the princess is angrily approaching her cell, in the depths of her despair and with fears of being tortured, she kills herself and winds up travelling back through time. Can she use her knowledge of the future to avoid the same fate she had before, and why is her father suddenly acting so much differently?

My gosh this story gets so sad in places, but overall it's actually often very cute, wholesome, and comedic! The ML is green flags all around and is very cute and dorky once he realizes he loves Juvelia. He literally goes from realizing he loves her to fantasizing about marrying her and having kids together (his inner thought bubbles literally say something like "would just a boy and a girl be ok?" like, he legitimately wants to have a family with her 🥺❤). They are often represented as a white mouse and a black cat and I often find the symbolism and little jokes between them or the artistic humor used to be charming.

Also. My god. This is also one of those "my fiance cheated so im leaving him and going my own way" stories and her fiance Mikhail is literally destroying himself trying to get her back. He's so self centered and pathetic that when Juvelia leaves him he later on shows up at a party with another woman just to make her jealous, and when she doesn't care, he discards the other woman immediately, who then becomes one of Juvelia's friends because fuck that loser douchebag. His descent into insanity is a lesson in karma for sure

3. Wendy The Florist

Status: this one is actually fully completed! A rarity amongst manhwa tbh

Plot Summary: Olivia Haslett is an illegitimate daughter whose mother has passed away. She lives in her family's home with her father and his wife and daughter, the women scorning and abusing Olivia even though uhhhh it was the father who cheated??? Her entire childhood is lonely and miserable since her stepmother encourages her step-sister and servants to constantly abuse her while her pussy loser dad does nothing to stop it or even defend her in any way whatsoever, and one day when her fiancé Dylan is coming to visit, she sees him the garden kissing her sister. She breaks up with him and leaves, eventually stumbling into the woods in tears and encountering a fairy who gives her the magic power to grow plants. She decides to leave her family's home, separate herself from them entirely, and create a new life for herself while opening a flower shop with the new identity of Wendy Waltz

Honestly being completed gives a lot more value to this story because when you're reading a manhwa that hasn't completed, it can really lose your interest while you're waiting between chapters. Wendy is also very headstrong and confident while also having a vast knowledge of plants and their uses. When she finds Dylan cheating she IMMEDIATELY tells him to get fucked and to never bother her again and she maintains this attitude basically the entire story which, good for her! The stakes in this story are relatively low but the emotional payoff is still nice. I also like the art and the coloring and there's a plot that exists outside of the romance between Wendy and the male lead. Even Wendy's abusive stepsister has her own reasons for what she does, and Dylan too! A nice story with an acceptable length and a happy ending :)

4. I Tamed a Tyrant and Ran Away

Status: ongoing

Plot summary: Time travel! Charlize Ronan is an extremely skilled knight from a noble family. She works hard her entire life to try and earn her father's approval to no avail, and in an attempt to impress him, becomes a servant of the Emperor where she is essentially tortured with magic and turned into a living sword, unable to move or speak or do anything except be a power source and vessel for killing, undying and trapped in hell for literally hundreds of years. She prays to God to either finally be free or just die to end her misery, and she is sent back in time to before she was transformed. She vows to take revenge on the entire Empire that turned her into a slave and begins her plan by recruiting Dylan, a mwmebr of the crown family and a man who in her future would become an extremely talented tyrant. Using her knowledge from the future, she makes him fall in love with her and pushes him towards becoming Emperor to overthrow the man who turned her into a sword and all of his accomplices, while also uncovering a hidden conspiracy of mages and legends about two people who may be carrying pieces of the good and evil gods inside of them

As much as I love Charlize as a talented swordwielding girlboss MY GOD did she dig her own grave with this one. She literally meets him in adolescence and changes his entire life for the better and then just VANISHES thinking he's just going to get over her. Dylan is absolutely a yandere for sure but in a way where he genuinely loves her and simply cannot live without her rather then some other people who view their darling as more of a possession. She leaves and he literally has dreams and fantasies and hallucinations of her, he aches for her so bad. This is also coupled with a subplot about an abusive and neglectful family and how she gets revenge on them by simply not giving a fuck and turning her back on them completely while becoming independent, if that's your cup of tea

5. Remarried Empress

Status: ongoing

Plot: Navier Troby comes from a family with a long history of women becoming the Empress and she is raised from birth to become one, becoming mature, eloquent, calm, and educated. She is given an arranged marriage in childhood to the Emperor's heir and future ruler Sovieshu and they grow up together and marry. One day, however, Sovieshu returns home with a runaway slave woman who quickly becomes his mistress, and Sovieshu expects Navier to not only tolerate her presence but welcome the homewrecker with open arms. The mistress deliberately schemes and causes conflicts on purpose to create friction between Sovieshu and Navier and he is so stupid and blind he takes the mistress' side every single time. He eventually divorces Navier for the other woman (for absolutely the dumbest fucking reasons, you will be rolling your eyes at the fucking clownery of this man) but Navier has a surprise: she tells the priest that literally just divorced her that she is officially asking him for immediate remarriage to a other man :)

This is the like, the gold standard OG for "my shit husband cheated on me and the mistress keeps trying to fuck with me so im outta here and doing what I want for myself" stories. If it doesn't make you angry seeing what happens to Navier after she has done nothing wrong I don't know what will. The characters in this story I find to be very emotionally complex and well written and I will DIE if it doesn't finish. The relationship between Navier and the ML Heinrey is very cute and sweet and there is a genuine mutual respect and they are just also very wholesome with each other. There are even subplots like the Duke of another country having sympathy for Navier because while her husband is openly flaunting his concubine, in the other man's country their ruler only has one wife and he finds Sovieshu's actions to be disgusting and disrespectful to Navier

Just. My god. The side bitch Rashta will really get your blood boiling. She is naive and clingy and childish and is just fucking ANNOYING. At some point she's trying to seem more like a noble lady instead of being the dense former slave cant-read-the-room bitch that she is and starts following Navier around to copy her. THIS IS A WOMAN WHO DOESNT EVEN KNOW HOW TO READ AND SHE APPROACHES THE WIFE OF THE MAN SHE IS SLEEPING WITH AND SAYS "Can I call you sister since we share the same husband?" LIKE MY GOD I CAN'T WAIT TILL YOU GET YOUR JUST DESSERTS

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It was hard to choose a top 5, so I have a few more suggestions although these will be much briefer

How To Get My Husband On My Side: i can't remember that much about the plot because its in hiatus but the poor FL is horribly abused by her family to the point her back is covered in scars from being WHIPPED and she literally develops bulimia so that there is something in her life she can have control over. My god her brother Cesare is violently physically abusive on top of treating her so openly borderline incestuously that there are rumors and even songs about how they're sexually involved as siblings, that's how fucking creepy he is, people are literally making rumors he fucks his sister, although it's hinted Cesare might be spreading some of these rumors himself to keep men away from his sister. She barely stood up to him ONE TIME and he took her pet bird, injured it, and fed it alive to his snapping turtle right in front of her which gave her such an intense fear of turtles she cannot even stand to see statues of them. This is a story of her finding love and acceptance after being pushed around and abused for the benefit of others, and when certain characters around her realize she has an eating disorder they are very supportive and respectful and I find that this sensitive topic was handled very well.

WOW I ACTUALLY FORGOT A STORY I MEANT TO INCLUDE IN THE TOP 5 LMAO

The Villainess is a Marionette is another "I read this novel and now I'm living it" stories. In the novel Kayena is the daughter of the Emperor, the Princess who will manipulated by her brother Regef before being married off to an abusive possessive man who eventually will kill her for trying to escape. (not gonna lie this probably sounds so bad but the way Regef becomes obsessed with her at least as far as I'm currently reading is about to turn my ass into an incest shipper 😩 although mentally that is someone entirely different from his actual sister but he doesn't know that) so the new transmigrated Kayenna vows to do things differently and set up her own future. The art in this manhwa is insanely pretty, even just the use of filters and sunlight is well done and eye catching like, there are so many manhwa with such blah art and this is not one of them. Some manhwa artists can't even draw distinct faces or intense expressions but the artist for this sure can and also gonna stress again IT IS SO PRETTY

No More Turning A Blind Eye: i mentioned it the other day but this is another transmigrated FL getting revenge on her cheating husband. She has money and influence and is in actually a higher social standing than her husband and uses that to start living happier after divorcing him which makes him go borderline insane. Something I feel worth mentioning is that this story isn't afraid to introduce side characters who are more unconventional in typical "everyone is pretty" fantasy land. There is Madam Kate who is an older stout dress designer and there is a plot about an opera singer who basically starved herself for beauty and then one day a fan left cake in her dressing roon and she ate the whole thing and found out how extremely unhappy she was and began to live how she wanted and gained weight, but she began to be bullied and lost her confidence, and you'd think, oh they're just going to boost her self esteem and make her thin again, but no, its handled very respectfully and I like that the singer essentially chose to gain weight because eating made her happy rather than it being more stereotypical, and that she wasn't upset at gaining weight more so how she was treated because of it.

Lastly I have a story I haven't even began reading yet but ive seen it in YouTube shorts and it seems very interesting! The Maid Wants To Quit Within The Reverse Harem Game is about an FL who got transported into the world of a game but! She is transported into the role of an extra, an npc, a maid! She gets stuck in a time loop of the plot of the game and experiences the same plot lines over and over and she's sick of it, but when she finally decides to try and go to the office to hand in her resignation letter and escape the mansion where the story takes place, her resignation letter gets torn up right in front of her as the three love interests say she's their favorite and they won't let her go! Did something happen in the game, or is her going off-script somehow making her the new protagonist of the game? Guess I'll have to read it and see!