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A metanarrative on villainess otome manhwa. The main character (a native divorce lawyer, it seems) aids in the successful divorces of a variety of villainesses. The first case involves a transmigrated isekai villainess; the second case involves a terminally-ill regressed villainess. I appreciate that the divorces aren't dithered or taken back, but fully successful; also, that the main character has a backstory that affects her interactions with the nobles whose divorces she is litigating rather than acting merely as a frame story. The side characters she interacts with all operate as different roles in the different typical villainess otome stories. Her foster mother is a divorcee, one foster brother is a cheating ML, another one foster brother is an affair target, and the last foster brother is perhaps her own love interest? Her assistant has a mysterious backstory, and her tenant appears to be a woman who fled with her powerful lover's child.
However, she has no interaction with the fantasy elements herself: comments regarding isekai or time travel are judged by her as strange comments, jokes, or insanity. The treatment of divorce as a concept with true grounds rather than as a frivolous oath-breaking that can be and needs to be overcome by true love is refreshing for the genre, and it's well suited to a metanarrative interrogating the tropes. My favourite detail is that they hold teacups correctly.

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Romcom shoujo with plentiful explicit sex scenes. Lighthearted despite grim topics of fratricide over inheritance disputes, market manipulation, and war profiteering. Misunderstandings are brief and move the plot forwards. FMC's life goal is to go bankrupt; ML's life goal is to marry MC. The funniest part is perhaps the crown prince with the humiliation kink for strong women.

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19th-century stealth high-fantasy serial mystery romance. Mild exploration of classism and its interaction with misogyny and feminism.