Trope: historical

A Beak Upon the Dawn's Flower

Mocharo

He can only half transform and believes nobody could love him. Today he becomes bride to the King of the Hundred Birds.

A Kiss for You, My Shinobi

Jyuichi Tokisaka

An unmarried castle lord and the brave, skilled ninja who serves him.

A Tempest of Cage

Mikan Matsumoto

Ten years after his brother was found dead at the foot of a cliff, a man tracks down the lover who never showed up.

A Toyboy's Temptation

Tencent Animation & Comics

Stylist Ji Xun wakes up in ancient times with a plan to marry rich. A man starts courting him instead.

After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine

残疾战神嫁我为妾后

Liu Gou Hua

A history professor wakes up as the cut-sleeve prince who keeps a captured, crippled general as his concubine, a general destined for revenge.

Anemone Theater

Zoy (story), NOK_HAE (art)

In 1980s Seoul, a sheltered student's mystery migraines lead him somewhere his strict father would never approve of.

Art Thou Ailing?

君有疾否 (Jun You Ji Fou)

Ru Si Wo Wen

Two of the most powerful officials at court circle each other with perfect manners and bad intentions.

Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu

将进酒 (Qiang Jin Jiu)

Tang Jiu Qing

Shen Zechuan, last survivor of a traitor prince's family, is dragged to the capital, where powerful heir Xiao Chiye wants him dead.

BARBARITIES

Tsuta Suzuki

A charming viscount assigned as a bodyguard sets his sights on the one nobleman who has no time for him.

Between the Laurel Branches

월계수 가지 사이로

original novel: 윤해월

In ancient Rome, a consul's gentle son falls for the stone-faced lictor his father hires to make a soldier of him.

Beyond the Snowstorm: A Windborne Love

我乘风雪 (Wo Cheng Fengxue)

Qi Wu Gou

A marquis mourning a lost love and a celebrated general meet on a night of mistaken identities.

Blue Morning

憂鬱な朝 (Yuuutsu na Asa)

Shoko Hidaka

A boy inherits a viscount's title at ten and grows up wanting the cold, brilliant butler who raises him.

Bowing to Love: The Noble and the Gladiator (Light Novel)

愛に跪く時 (Ai ni Hizamazuku Toki)

Saki Aida

In ancient Rome, a nobleman who thinks love is a waste of time pays for one night with the gladiator who saved him.

BUDDHIST PRIEST & A SPIDER

Haji

A wandering Buddhist priest travels with the spider spirit he loves and worries what becomes of it when he dies.

Cheonun

천운

채팔이

Sent from the northern Ice Palace to cool a demon lord's burning qi, Ho-yeon never meets him and ends up stuck with a lazy swordsman.

Demonic

Shi Ti Tou Ding Ju Zi Miao

The leader of the martial arts world and the head of a demonic cult have to solve a murder together, or face something worse than marriage.

Desert Flower

Moka Azumi

Two warriors on opposite sides of a war spend one night together and cannot stay away.

Dinghai Fusheng Records

定海浮生录 (Dinghai Fusheng Lu)

Fei Tian Ye Xiang

Chen Xing, the last exorcist alive, follows his heart lamp to Xiang Shu, a reluctant protector, as built-up resentment threatens disaster.

Eternal Covenant

영원한 계약

story & art: Haejin (also credited Haegi)

A knight raised by a cardinal hides a power he thinks is a curse, until a stranger with the same gift calls it magic.

Faraway Wanderers (Deluxe Hardcover)

天涯客 (Tian Ya Ke)

priest

The emperor's chief assassin retires to wander until he dies, and picks up a talkative stranger who will not leave him alone.

Fleeting Time, Burning Light

Kuaikan Comics

Tuoba Yuqian used to be a messenger of the underworld. Now he works for a Yin Yang Master who teases him every single day.

Fool's World

바보 천지

story and art: 하리보

A young man running from debt collectors goes over a cliff and wakes up in the house of a scarred giant rumored to eat people.

Golden Terrace

黄金台 (Huang Jin Tai)

Cang Wu Bin Bai

Wounded general Fu Shen is called home and married off to his longtime rival, Yan Xiaohan, by an emperor wary of his power.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi

魔道祖师 (Mo Dao Zu Shi)

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Once feared and gladly mourned, demonic cultivator Wei Wuxian wakes years later in a stranger's body beside the stern Lan Wangji.

Heat of the Moment

Shin Yuri, Yensha

A young emperor burns with dragon fever, and the only remedy is a half-goblin with a dangerous talent for absorbing it.

Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu

天官赐福 (Tian Guan Ci Fu)

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Eight centuries after his first rise to godhood, the twice-banished Xie Lian ascends again and must work off his debts on earth.

How to Survive as a Villain

穿越成反派要如何活命 (Chuanyue Cheng Fanpai Yao Ruhe Huoming)

Yi Yi Yi Yi

A CEO wakes up as the tyrant emperor of a third-rate novel, the one the hero eventually kills.

In the House of the Damned

JINAN

A man enters a cursed mansion as a servant to kill its master and finds an immortal vampire nothing like the monster he was promised.

Joyful Reunion

相见欢 (Xiang Jian Huan)

Fei Tian Ye Xiang

A neglected boy is taken from his mother's family by a stranger who says the father he never knew will come for him.

King's Maker: Triple Crown

킹스메이커 ~Triple Crown~

story: Haga

Wolfgang has the crown he fought for, but Soohyuk, the man he loves, still treats their bond like spoils of war.

Lala's Married Life

Tamekou

A brother takes his twin sister's place at her wedding so she can elope, and the groom will not let him leave.

Legend of Exorcism: Tianbao Fuyao Lu

天宝伏妖录 (Tianbao Fuyao Lu)

Fei Tian Ye Xiang

Half-yao Hongjun leaves the Taihang Mountains for Chang'an and joins a demon-hunting bureau run by Li Jinglong, a soldier without spiritual power.

Legend of Metempsychosis

Fei Tian Ye Xiang

In the last calm days of the Northern Song, two exorcists who cannot stand each other witness a prophecy of disaster.

Living to Suffer

活受罪 (Huo Shou Zui)

Tangstory

A doctor finds a wounded swordsman in a ruined shrine during a summer storm and saves the wrong man.

Magic Soup

마법수프

story: Tropicalarmpit

Romiard heads to an ice castle to carry out his dying mother's last wish and ends up cooking for a cruel, beautiful magician.

March Third

Baichuan

In the middle of a war, an army officer and a stage actor fall in love.

Mistakenly Saving the Villain

论救错反派的下场 (Lun Jiu Cuo Fanpai de Xiachang)

Feng Yu Nie (凤羽涅)

A medical student wakes inside a novel meant to rescue its tragic hero, then saves the wrong man: a beautiful slave bent on revenge.

Murderous Lewellyn's Candlelit Dinner

살인마 르웰린 씨의 낭만적인 정찬

story (adaptation): 0L

Broke writer Shavonne ignores the murders on Ira Street until a candlelit dinner at his charming new neighbor Lewellyn's place turns grisly.

No. 2 Might Be Good

Young Dream

Newly trained fighter Gao Jianli wants to be the best swordsman alive. Qin Huangliang already is.

OOTD: On the Bit

JIMSEUNG

A lord keeps his injured favorite servant at arm's length to protect him, which only makes the servant want him more.

OTOGI - TALES OF HUMANS AND DEMONS

Hayate Kuku

Reimagined Japanese folk tales about the bonds between humans and spirits.

Painter of the Night

야화첩

Byeonduck

Baek Na-kyum has sworn off painting erotic art, but nobleman Seungho Yoon forces him into his household to paint it again, for his eyes only.

Peerless

无双 (Wushuang)

Meng Xi Shi (梦溪石)

Two rival intelligence agents, Feng Xiao and Cui Buqu, are forced to share a case after a foreign envoy is slaughtered on a snowy road.

Perle

펄

art: Arthur

A former kept boy of a duchess returns rich and titled, plotting revolt, and the crown prince seems to know who he used to be.

Plot to Worm

Sookpo, Worm

A farmer spares an earthworm, and ninety-nine nights later something invisible is feeding on him in his sleep.

Rent Boy

Studio Stellas

A newly of-age noble visits his family's pleasure salon once, and cannot stop thinking about its number one.

Shoegazing

슈게이징

story and art: 아서 (Arthur)

After the war, a former soldier stands on a hotel balcony ledge until a war photographer's camera catches him first.

Sleeping on Paper Boats

Kami no Fune de Nemuru

Teki Yatsuda

In postwar Japan, a celebrated screenwriter quits because the people he bases characters on keep dying.

Stars of Chaos: Sha Po Lang

杀破狼 (Sha Po Lang)

priest

In a steam-powered empire, a boy from the border learns his whole life was a cover story, including the godfather he adores.

Stranger: A Western BL

Stranger

Hayate Kuku

A sheriff left to die in the desert is rescued by a Native American man he cannot stop thinking about.

Subordination

Kangpucon

Framed for treason, a nobleman hides in his best friend's house disguised as his concubine.

The Blessed One In The Sahara

Emu Soutome

A former slave merchant builds a desert village for the people he freed, in the third Black Eagle in the Sahara story.

The Crown Prince

Feng Nong

A former prince, fallen a long way from the throne, is caught in the dangers of the royal palace.

The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish: Canji Baojun De Zhangxin Yu Chong

残疾暴君的掌心鱼宠[穿书]

Xue Shan Fei Hu

Li Yu nods off reading a webnovel about a mute tyrant and wakes up inside the story as Prince Jing's pet carp.

The Emperor's Toy Boy

ChongZhuo Comics

Time traveler Fu Sang can only go home by finding the future emperor, and there are several princes to choose from.

The Ghost's Nocturne

귀야곡

story: ANANAS

Jae-shin, the hedonistic son of the underworld's king, is cursed to spend his days as a puppy until he wins a human's heart.

The Ravishing of the Crown Prince

Wang Yi

A college student dies saving a child and wakes up in an ancient palace as a prince, with a domineering noble for company.

The Wife Comes First: Qi Wei Shang

妻为上 (Qi Wei Shang)

Lv Ye Qian He (绿野千鹤)

On his deathbed, Prince Cheng sees that only his neglected consort Mu Hanzhang stayed, then wakes in the past with a chance to fix it.

There's Something Wrong with the Chief: Du Zhu You Bing

督主有病 (Du Zhu You Bing)

Yang Su

Qiye Garden's youngest assassin is planted as a servant to Xie Jinglan, a noble family's youngest son, while his true orders stay unclear.

Thousand Autumns: Qian Qiu

千秋 (Qian Qiu)

Meng Xi Shi (夢溪石)

A blinded, wounded Daoist sect leader falls into the hands of a demonic sect master who wants to prove that everyone is selfish.

Thrice Married to a Salted Fish

三嫁咸鱼 (San Jia Xianyu)

Bi Ka Bi

An ambitious young physician is ordered to marry a marquis's dying son to bring him luck, and finds his husband is lazier and far sharper than he looks.

Till Death Us Do Part

长相守 (Chang Xiang Shou)

Tangstory

In 1930s Tientsin, a schoolteacher and a warlord's heir meet again in a new life, in a city about to be occupied.

To Love a Liar

一骗丹心 (Yi Pian Dan Xin)

A Huo

A naive immortal visiting the mortal world strikes a deal with a self-proclaimed seer who promises to teach him about people.

To Rule in a Turbulent World

乱世为王 (Luanshi Wei Wang)

Gu Xuerou (Fei Tian Ye Xiang)

As the Song dynasty falls, a rich and easygoing young master buys the freedom of a Quanrong slave, and the two change the course of the war.

Traces of Flood

범람의 흔적

TP

Trickster's Tale: Hu Yan Zhuan

Hu Yan Zhuan

Hontoku

A half-fox demon has loved the sage who raised him for centuries, and a master may not love his pupil.

Twin Jades of Jiangdong

江东双璧 (Jiangdong Shuangbi)

Fei Tian Ye Xiang

In the Three Kingdoms era, Zhou Yu pledges himself to his childhood friend Sun Ce and to the future Sun Ce might build.

Where the Fine Rain Wanders

Haoliaoshen

A Wei general wakes from a duel with the Night King of Chen wounded, changed in body, and expected to pose as the Night King's spouse.

Wild Roses and Pretenders

野ばらとプリテンダー (Nobara to Pretender)

Kamoburger

A new servant is ordered to pose as his master's lover so the lord can dodge a political marriage.

You've Got Mail: The Perils of Pigeon Post

飞鸽交友须谨慎 (Fei Ge Jiao You Xu Jin Shen)

Blackegg

A shy clerk pushing forty joins a secret pen-pal club for gentlemen and starts collecting very explicit drawings by pigeon post.

Zhenniao

Yayohi Monzen

A general whose brother was killed by a poisonous bird spirit comes face to face with the most beautiful of them.