You are completely right, it gets old really quick to have the female characters being so black and white and always against each other. I recommend the evil lady's hero, the FL and the protagonist of the novel are not exactly friends but their relationship is really interesting and fun, of course they are definitely not enemies lol.
Thanks for the recommendation :) I think I've read like 30-40 of these stories so far so its sad only 2 or 3 have the side character or villain end up as friends with the protagonists or at least doesn't turn the protagonists evil for the mc's sake.
How about beware of the villainess... They're not just friends, the mc is actually the fl's bodyguard hahh its interesting
I liked it, but I'm seeing a trend in these isekai stories where the woman is the protag, but more have her as a side character or originally a villain. If they end up a side character or villain, the original protagonists of that world end up evil or just terrible people. I wish there were more where the fl got her ml and made good with the protagonists, I think I've only seen one out of 40 stories so far. I know if I played a game/read a book and was such a fan that I cared for the main characters, it would feel bad if it turned out they were actually terrible.
So far surviving as the hero's wife is the only side/villain character that I remember, she ends up with the ml of the story, but also ends up as friends with the fl, she isn't made out to secretly be a terrible person. There might have been a second one where the mc ended up with the second ml and made friends with the leads, but I don't remember it well.
I know why it happens, its for the same reason villains appear in books, its to make the leads shine, but I think a story can stand fine without turning the original protagonists into villains so the fl and her ml can shine more.