Korean novels (or Manhwa) are among the books I have been working hard to finish. They are chunky and more enjoyable than one would expect. They also tend to have a Webtoon online, some of which have questionable translations. As I like to say, the novel is always better. Below are ten managed to finish. All blurbs are from novelupdate.com.
1.For My Derelict Favorite
I entered my favorite romance-fantasy novel, which I have read many times.
Thanks to the body of a wealthy commoner, I bought the status of a fallen aristocrat, attended a noble family’s gathering and observed the romance of the characters in the original novel.
I wanted to return to the real world after witnessing the ending.
But somehow, even after the ending, I was not freed from the body I possessed and remained living in the original novel.
As a result, I acquired the stories behind the scenes that I refused to comprehend.
My favorite sub male lead, Caelus, has died.
Living impoverished in the original work without him, I eventually fell ill and died.
Now, I wanted to return to reality.
However, the irony of fate has returned me to the end of the novel overnight. This is definitely… to save my beloved, right?
For everyone who has ever caught second male lead syndrome, this is an homage to you. If you could enter your favorite book, would you make your favorite character's life better? Would you right their wrongs? Our leading lady does just that with flair. Hestia will find her way into your heart.
2.The Perks of Being a Villainess
She possessed a villainess who is known and hated for her evil acts in an unpopular novel. But because of her personality, it was extremely difficult for her to play the villainess role. But not for long…
“I’ll fix your dress according to your taste this instant!”
“My request.”
“O-Of course! As per your request, there’s only one piece available in the whole Empire.”
People around me listen to me well even if I just frown and sit still. Since I don’t have to live in difficulty, I decided to just comfortably live on as a villainess.
“Father. Is it necessary for you to solve formulas in this slow and inefficient way?”
I thought it would be good to be a rich villainess, so I used all my knowledge.
“Why don’t you give me the honor of escorting the Princess?”
I have had enough of dealing with my father, so why did an unexpected character suddenly appear? What if this person disrupts my plan?
LB2 loves this novel. He read it after me. Rule number one of entering a novel: if you have the means to do so, bring Starbucks to your new world. You will be rolling in money. Rule number two: If you find yourself as a villainess, do your best to not follow the storyline. They tend to die badly. Deborah is #ladyboss.
3.Villains Are Destined to Die
I’ve reincarnated as the reverse harem game’s villainess, the one and only adopted daughter of the ducal Eckart family.
But the difficulty just has to be the worst!
Everything I do will only lead me to death.
I must be paired with one of the main male characters from the heroine’s harem before the ‘real daughter’ of the duke family appears!
Two older brothers who always pick a fight with me on every little thing.
The insane crown prince whose route will always lead to my death.
‘I only see the heroine and no one else’s wizard, and also her loyal s*ave knight, too!
‘First, let’s take some of them which I see no hope in, out of the list!’
“I didn’t know my place up until now. From now on, I’ll live as quiet as a mouse so you wouldn’t care the slightest bit!
But why do their interests in me keep on rising every time I draw the line?!
She was just so done. Penelope just wanted to go home. Instead, a psycho game is keeping her hostage. Life sucks for her but I enjoyed it. If you can guess who she ends up with at the end, gold star for you!
4.I Thought It Was a Common Transmigration
As if it wasn’t enough to be hit on the head by my co-workers and boyfriend, I died at the hands of my gambling-addict older brother. Without even regretting my unfortunate death, I realized that I had possessed a supporting role in a romantic fantasy novel, which I just read yesterday. To be precise, a villainess destined to die at the hands of her husband. I know it’s cliché!
‘Possessed a villainess in a romantic fantasy novel! So this is what it feels like?’
I thought it was pretty good for the price of my unfair death. Until I realize that no matter what I do, I can’t deviate from the flow of the original. For the female lead Lizé, it’s a delightful cider series, but it’s nothing more of a bloody story for Edith, the villainess I possessed.
I am the protagonist in my life. If I’m going to die according to the original story, I should at least kiss my super handsome husband! In the original story, Edith is greatly despised by her husband, but who cares, I’m going to die anyway. However…
“You pretended not to be, but now you’re so hot to play with. Well, that’s good.”
“Yes…?”
“Satisfy me like Riegelhoff’s serpent. Well, who knows? I might be interested in that body of yours.”
…why is the original story starting to change now?
Another person held captive by a psycho system/novel. Poor Edith had a tough go of it. I enjoyed watching her make lemon cream cake out of the lemons life chucked at her.
5.Honey, Why Can’t We Get a Divorce
She possessed an evil woman who loves the main lead and killed her husband.
Fortunately, the timeline was before she killed her husband.
And unfortunately, everyone knows she loved the male lead so much. In this case, she would have to get a divorce as soon as possible.
But why…
“Crazy, crazy, crazy. I just heard it. I didn’t know it was crazy,” my husband said, tearing apart the divorce papers I gave to him. “I can’t help it. I have no choice but to live with a crazy woman.”
No, you do have a choice?
Why can’t I get a divorce?
Ophelia just wanted to live a quiet life. Who would've guessed things would be so complicated. This story was one of the first stories I read online so it has a special place in my bookish little heart. I loved the interactions between Ophelia and her husband, Sylvester.
6.Princess Who Hides Her Fandom
Reincarnated into a novel where my favorite character breathes and lives.
The beauty claimed to be the most beautiful in the continent. The jewel most cherished by the Emperor. The queen of the social circles. The time bomb of the Imperial Palace. I became Princess Agnes Saint, the one with all these titles and descriptions!
It’s nice being from a rich royal family, but… Like Draco Malfoy who scorned Muggles in Harry Potter, the problem was that ‘I’ was the despised tr*sh that insulted my favorite character’s integrity.
To make matters worse, she’s hopelessly courting another man. ‘My favorite character is Kylo, the male lead’s rival, and now I’ve reincarnated as a hardcore fan of the male lead…’
But now that it’s come to this… I will, at all costs, by any means possible, prevent my favorite character’s death and pave a flower path for him!
But if I suddenly reveal myself as a Kylo fan, everyone would think I’ve lost my mind. Kylo himself would suspect I’m a madwoman.
I didn’t want my baby cat, my Kylo, to be shocked in any way. So for now, I must hide this agonizing affection.
Plus, revealing your fandom has never done any good. So for the time being, I will perfectly…
‘Hide it.’
Calling all fangirls! This ones for you. Agnes is a crazy hot mess and we are here for it. She is that fangirl we all pray to never become while we root for her in the background.
7.Daisy How to Become the Dukes Fiancée
Marry for 3 years, get 5 billion won vs. work for 60 years without pay. Which choice will Daisy make?
“I’ll get a job as a contract wife. I will be a good partner.”
A political marriage of convenience. The rules of the contract are simple. Love is prohibited. Divorce is guaranteed in three years. And most importantly do not make your husband fall in love.
“The men in my family are specialized in mu*der.”
Another Lady Boss! Daisy goes back in time after being tragically murdered. In order to provide for and protect herself and her younger sister, she enters an arranged marriage and proceeds to set her world ablaze with her business savy ideas.
8.I’m Not Sorry But The Prince Will Marry Me Anyway
I possessed a minor character who marries the prince.
I’m not thrilled about it. The prince is a s*umbag who flirts with the heroine despite being engaged and eventually gets defeated by the original male lead. In the epilogue, all he does is apologize to his fiancée and marry her, with barely a line to his name.
Well, his personality is twisted, but at least he’s handsome. And since he’s the third prince, he doesn’t have to shoulder the burden of ruling the kingdom. That’s decent husband material, I suppose.
Go ahead, make a fool of yourself. You’re going to marry me anyway.
I’ll just sit back and enjoy watching your embarrassing history unfold.
“Dory Redfield. Don’t expect me to ask you to dance at this ball. Maybe not at the next one either. Or the one after that.”
“Yes, Your Highness. As you wish.”
“Even though we’re engaged… wait, what?”
“It’s just a joke proposal our parents once tossed around, isn’t it? You don’t need to take it seriously, Your Highness. I’m really fine with it.”
“…Is that so? Yes, that’s… fine, right?”
Why are you panicking, prince?
You started spouting nonsense first. Where’s your conscience?
But then, this guy really has the audacity to ask something outrageous.
“…Do you, perhaps, have another man?”
The guy who flirted with the original heroine is saying this now?
Calm down. He’ll regret this later. All I need to do is remain a devoted fiancée until then.
“What are you talking about? A woman like me… plain, not beautiful, with a gloomy personality, what man would even—”
“What? Who dared to say that about you?”
…You did, in the original story.
This guy is acting weird.
But he’s not the only problem.
“My dear little sister Dory, that dress you’re wearing today is dreadful. No wonder there are rumors His Highness has abandoned you.”
“Well, it can’t be helped. His Highness is too good for me anyway.”
“…Hold on. Too good? Who said that? Wait, were you really dumped?”
The original villainess, who also happens to be my older sister, Natalia, is suddenly interested in my love life.
Why are all the original tr*shy characters growling at each other over me now?!
Dory is so oblivious at times yet also incredibly smart. Watching her unwittingly winning her fiance's heart was hilarious. Like girl, he's into you. This is a fun novel.
9.I Married the Mad Duke Who Killed My Husband
Q. I’ve regained memories of my past life, but unfortunately, it’s right before spending the first night with a senile marquis.
A. Then help the male lead and get rid of your husband!
I’ve reincarnated into a romance fantasy novel where all the main characters die in a ‘Successful Revolution, Failed Love’ story.
Unfortunately, I’m destined to be killed by the male lead’s sword instead of my villainous marquis husband.
I can’t die like this!
However, I helped the male lead get rid of my senile villain husband, and now the Duke, who killed my husband, proposes to me.
“I’m the dominant one here. I, Asilia Cornell, and you, Cassion Jaeger, will enter a contract marriage for a limited time. The terms of the contract are as follows.”
“I seem to have a very suspicious wife. A good trait for survival.”
But it doesn’t seem like he proposed out of love, so it’s better to establish a contract for a win-win situation!
“Is this even food?”
“It’s a macaron. Should I order one for you?”
“They’re so small, and you eat them one by one? Order the whole row.”
But this man, we surprisingly get along well?
Asilia and Cassion are one of the cutest oblivious couples I've read about. They are so freaking cute! The name might throw you off a little but this one is worth the read.
10.Solo Leveling
10 years ago, after “the Gate” that connected the real world with the monster world opened, some of the ordinary, everyday people received the power to hunt monsters within the Gate. They are known as “Hunters”.
However, not all Hunters are powerful. My name is Sung Jin-Woo, an E-rank Hunter. I’m someone who has to risk his life in the lowliest of catacombs, the “World’s Weakest”.
Having no skills whatsoever to display, I barely earned the required money by fighting in low-leveled catacombs… at least until I found a hidden catacomb with the hardest difficulty within the D-rank catacombs!
In the end, as I was accepting death, I suddenly received a strange power, a quest log that only I could see, a secret to leveling up that only I know about! If I trained in accordance with my quests and hunted monsters, my level would rise.
Changing from the weakest Hunter to the strongest S-rank Hunter!
I have the audio book and both seasons of the anime. A bunch of my siblings are fans too. Thanks, Cousin-in-law for starting this. Never expected to join a new fandom. This is one of the few novels I read that wasn't a Rofan (Romance Fantasy). Do yourself a favor and give it a read or watch. There is also a web comic and a sequel. I am waiting for the sequel to finish so I can start as I hate waiting for the next volume (or chapter) to be available.
Well, there you have it. I hope I gave you all some ideas for you TBR pile. As always, feel free to leave me a message below.
