
I'm only chapter 21 but it's so cliche of a story and I can already tell from the comments that it's just dragging at this point. When will authors realize that many chapters ≠ good story. Isekai/Villainess/Reincarnation I've read so far always have the same flow, it's just tiring to read, there's nothing new.

This was a Webnovel. The majority of Webnovel writers LOVE TO DRAG the story slowly. They post chapters weekly too and get paid. Often in one chapter is just a 10 second dialogue with with too much monologue of the same argument with cliffhanger at the end. Then you read the next chapter and the cliffhanger is fake allarm.
Author of Remarried empress and Men of the Harem in particular drags their story to the point of ridiculousness.
Slow pace story, simple short written chapters all make for stable income for minimum effort.
Plus they know there's always audience for this overused Villainess cliché that's why they bake hundred of it. Particularly Korean and Chinese Webnovels. Ofc some are more unique while some are just the same story with different name/character.

The story is nice for a reincarnation theme because I don't always see a female lead not actually falling in love to the usual trope and everything's just so dark because she's just desperate to go back to her own world. But it's really dragging so far with the 3 MLs being so obsessed with her and also where's Anakin, bro?
Also, just to reiterate, I don't think the 3 MLs are in love with her, per se, they just want to force their ideals onto her and they're all pieces of trash.

Ah yes, my favorite fucking trope, romanticizing rape. MC gets raped, manipulated and shit by the ML. ML does shit over and over again you'd think he won't have any redeeming qualities whatsoever to the point that redemption arc is honestly just nigh impossible then something just changes, HE FELL IN LOVE! ML tries to redeem himself, MC is conflicted yada yada. They still end up together.

100% if I ever wrote a book, my strongest idea is one that starts out with this trope but then... MC just... Doesn't get with him. Doesn't get with anybody. Just lives out, learning to love himself. Though I am also a big sucker for trauma plots and overcoming mental obstacles. Stories, though rare, do exist with this plot, but always abusive character is out of the picture and we learn what happens through small flashbacks. I want one that doesn't do that, we watch MC suffer as he suffers, and we watch him walk on the path of healing

That sounds absolutely amazing. The way you put it is something I'd definitely read and would bawl my eyes out over. It's so rare to see stories like these especially in "yaoi" where the MC just doesn't end up with an abusive character or just doesn't end up with anyone at all and just being happy by himself as he heals. Hopefully more BL authors think of stories like that instead of always revolving their plot around rape and abuse and making the abuser a good looking character to justify it

Okay phew. I had to really did deep in my reading archives. Like I said, these types of series are rare, so all of them are romances (where MC does not get with his rapist) and most of these have the SA in the past, before the book started. I'll order them in most like the plot I explained above to least like.
1. Kiraide Isasete (manga)
Obviously this one takes the cake, there's even a baby involved from the SA. Quite sweet romance, there is trauma and healing and learning to love again. 9/10 only missing MC not ever loving again, but great nonetheless.
2. Ai o Ataeru Kemono-tachi (manga and novel)
Lots of SA in MCs past. He does have 2 lovers now, but there is multiple chapters of teaching him how to be human again (he was a sex slave in a fantasy world for many years). His new lovers truly want the best for him, and it's fun watching him heal and become human again. 7/10
3. Idk the name of it, but I'm still trying to find it. (Manga 6ish chapters)
It's a story where MC escapes his abusive (now ex) bf. And he gets saved by another stranger. Turns out the stranger is abusive boyfriend's first heavily abused bf. So these two people who share an abusive BF get together and it's a lot of relying on each other and healing from shared trauma. 9/10
4. Mistakenly Saving the Villain (novel)
ML (seme/gong/top) is the one sexually abused here (abused as a uke/shou/bottom), and has lots of trauma that MC (as a doctor) is doing his best to fix. Really cute story about healing. ML is possessive af though, especially when he realizes (like the title says) MC was supposed to save someone else . I don't remember ML ever abusing MC though, and it's quite a cute and well thought out story with lots of fun plot twists. It's also completed. 9.5/10.
Honorable mentions (read at your own risk, MC still gets together with ML, but not without a FIGHT, so close to perfection smh)
1. Hogu Hagyeongsu (Manhwa)
This is the closet to the story I explained, and it actually ended with MC still angry at ML, but also with a slight hint that they are going to get back together again which tics me off, but technically it doesn't explicitly happen... So read at your own risk. Very dark, lots and lots of abuse depicted throughout the story, and not a lot of time for self healing sadly.
2. Rebirth (Yaoi) (Chinese story drawn by Koreans, so Manhwa?)
Chapter 11 still makes my heart shudder. MC HATES the emperor, and does everything he can to avoid him in his second life. To be fair though, in this new life ML did change for the better but it doesn't change the fact that MC gets back together with him, and well... ML did have to use some forceful coercion, because MC really hates him.
3. ENNEAD (Manhwa)
I mean technically it looks like MC isn't getting together with his original rapist, but it does look like he's getting together with a different rapist (though that ML was also technically forced...) MC is raped a lot in this series. But I think it does good on reflecting on actions (internal struggles) and repentance (though it's mostly MC repenting for being a tyrant, so far OG rapist is getting away but I hope that changes).
4: The Transmigration Routine of Always Being Captured by ML (novel)
This one isn't bad if you stop after the first arc/world (world hopping story). Because he does escape, multiple times, and he does his best to run. I go back and read a few times, but only the first arc. By the second arc/world, everything is forgiven and MC just kinda puts up with it... Sigh.
Anyway these are the ones I've found so far with plots like the one I described. I wish there were more :/
And as for not BL, there's a ton of villainess and transmigration series where MC avoids her abusive lover because she went back in time. But rarely it was rape and rarely there was self healing, because stupid BF was dumb, not abusive, or female MC so strong she can't experience PTSD as she gets her revenge :/

Omg wait I forgot this one! Okay so not BL, but this is top notch special mention:
Eldest Sister, Why Haven’t You Married Yet (novel)
MC is the eldest of 7 girls no boys. It takes place in ancient china, and her mom is essentially treated as a birthing machine trying to get a boy to "continue the family line". Her father and his family is abusive. At age 12, she and her sisters convince her mom to divorce their abusive father (very extremely rare at the time). They do it, move to a different town and slowly build up an enterprise as an all woman run household. Super fun to read MC is very creative, and quite realistic in her abilities. All the girls have their own personalities (there is romance but it's heavily sidelined (took me forever to figure out who ML was...)). And technically it's a running away from abuse type of story. A nice breath of fresh air in the novel world 10/10!

I don't think that's romanticizing rape. The rape was rape and it was made very clear the Euihyun was traumatized by it. He was spiraling and is still spiraling. But he needed the money so he accepted his situation. ML hasn't been forgiven for what he did but he's attempting to make up for it. Euihyun is not going to forgive him that easily, he's just overwhelmed and I think we'll see that in the coming chapters

I really hope so. But it's a fine line between really rape and romanticized rape. The difference isn't actually the rape itself but how the author handles the characters reactions afterwards. If everything afterwards goes well and the rape pushes the relationship forward (sometimes with very very minor step back), it's romanticized. But after rereading the official translation, the author does a great job of staying nuanced with euihyuns feelings. So I hope he doesn't forgive. I hope it's not all pushed under the rug easily. It's possible to be though as for 1, MC rn is more concerned about his brother and 2, high probability MC is pregnant right now. Both are easy excuses to push MC and ML together and forget about the whole start of the relationship rape situation -.-

Fucking deserved
jk. I feel bad for the Empress tho. She was just also another victim in all of this. The Emperor is a sick coward bastard along with his abomination of a son. I wish MC gets to go home or just be happy with Anakin. And the priest? Please for the love of god get that disgusting man out.
I wanna see Argio just go and make a mess out of Taekwon (with consent, of course) LMAO