I know some but the first one is not a romance type but it's very cool i love it "the trash son of the count's family" or you could try these two with romance tag with fun MCs " the black haired princess" or "irregular empress", the MLs are red haired guys with refreshing and fun personalities.
I really love Cale The Trash Count^^
But I don't like the red haired ML in "Irregular Empress".
Didn't he tricked and killed ruthlessly the crying hysterical girl Inase (who clearly loved him) for being a witch? It is still debatable if she was really complete "replaced".
I don't like seeing powerful witches portrayed as just deceitful and evil anymore.
Even though he felt some regret and pity for this girl, he then trying to silence the FL disguised as a man when she witness the murder scene.
And when he finds her interesting, he displays his arrogance, narcissim, superiority and pettiness.
Doesn't he also uses his status to tease and manipulate her?
I like that he had to buy her alliance/cooperation but it does bother me that we can see that she is already easily swayed by his handsomeness... She totally forgets that he wanted to execute her.
Then it turns out FL's father saved once the ML's life and how does that prince repays his saviour? Deliberatley dragging his child to the factional political power struggle because he wants FL.
As playful and charming he is, I can't sympatheize with a prince who does anything to secure his throne or maintain the royal system.
Not my cup of tea. This is how I personally perceive this story.
What I like about Cale is that he is trying not to do any unnecessary harm, doesn't like to be the center of attention and doesn't behave like a larger than life figure.
He doesn't want power; he wants enough strenght to protect himself and live in peace.
Cale rather solves pragmatically problems instead of getting anything with blood, violence and death.
No complaints about the story and characters. They are great, nuanced and mature.
Even the pathetic insufferable red haired prince can reason to some extend.
But the more I read/stick with this fantasy novel reincarnation world genre, the more I get tired of seeing again the dark haired cold/reserved tortured tsundere or sometimes gentle ML type and the hot headed mad usually more violent/agressive other guy who is either an antagonist, rival or more shittier 2nd/3rd ML.
Let's not forget the blonde ML with red eyes who is usually very mean, shifty and cruel.
Correct me, if I am wrong but am I the only one who noticed that many of the popular dark haired handsome guys as the ML look almost the same with very similar hairstyles?
And I starting to see more often FLs with white silver hair combined with golden, red, blue or violet eyes - The textbook definition of fairylike beauty who needs love at the end.
I recently discovered "A Red Knight Does Not Blindly Follow Money" where we see a very flawed but self-reflective regretful badass non-innocent FL and a red haired ML who is provocative but also very playful, nice, reasonable and respectul.
He seems to be the type who really mean to apologize for his mistakes on his own.
Do you know other stories where the red haired guy is not a brutal annoying asshole?