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This one's one of those 'not amazing, but cute' types of stories. There's not much 'villainess' stuff going on beyond the background story - it's otherwise a fairly standard, classic tale of someone encountering each other in the past, than discovering each other and finding out they're still in...

This is one of my favorite chapters. It's a great example of toying with the expectations of what normally falls under villainess roles, and falls into a believable handling of classic roles. It's also a great example of a female lead with agency, and whom acts with grace when looking at what...

I'm fond of this one, even with the general historical issues. While it very much skirts the line of what a 'villainess' is, this is at least one of the cases where the female lead shows some form of agency, and does what she's able to put herself in a better position. My ratings on the...

It's weird - I think 1-1 was universally panned for playing with the 'test your love' framework, but this one doesn't feel nearly that bad despite using the same concept. It might be the cuteness of everybody trying to set each other up that does it, or the fact that the relationship isn't as...

This seems okay? Again, this at least checks off the villainess box, but seems to be oddly focused on teasing the step-relationship more than anything else. At least the ending is going in the appropriate direction, but it still doesn't feel like it does much with the core relationship. My...

I know some people enjoy that kind of characterization or that kind of relationship, but this feels vaguely unsatisfying to me. I think it's because the particular quirks here (replacing words, masochistic lover) don't particularly appeal to me. The miscommunications here aren't unreasonable...

I'm with you on that one. I dislike the fact that they're using this in a 'villainess' anthology and only paying lip service to the 'villainess' part, but at least it's a fine story that still got me to crack a smile. If they had just called this a broken engagement anthology, I'd understand a...

I'm with the crowd on this one - this is reaaaally pushing the term of 'villainous' when you've effectively got a Robin Hood style merchant, and the people who call Robin Hood villainous... Well... It's also a pretty standard 'hero comes swooping in to save potential romantic interest' story as...

This barely feels like it fills the 'villainess' flag. This fits a 'fake dating to real dating' type of mold, but while I wouldn't call ditching places and flashy commerce great, I wouldn't call those inherently villainous, either. There also isn't enough time to convincingly establish the...

I'm not sure if this was really a villainess story, or if it really did anything with the time limit. Still, it was a reasonable enough 'classic' story that it didn't feel as offensive as some of the other things we've seen. So, I guess it's fine. (For those who are interested in the concept of...

I'm glad that this was able to reach its conclusion without overstaying, and it was amazing to see. I think a lot of the departures they made from the source work ended up working out well. It's been a satisfying read throughout. Thanks for the translations!

Well, considering the alternatives...

What? A villainess actually acting villainous? With a family that's actually involved and keeping track of things? I quite like this one. It has a good reason for why someone would want to force a break-up and set something else up in a subtle way, and the baggage that can come with some...

This one isn't bad, but it hits a lot of, "...Really?" markers from me. Faking a relationship to make someone jealous always feels a little 'eh' to me. It also boils down to an ending of, "As royalty, how can I make someone else look bad? I know, I'll fake them trying to assassinate me!"...

Ugh, another one of these so soon after the last one? It's the same major issue as 1-1. There's nothing romantic about 'testing' your relationship to see if it's genuine. If you're 'pretending' to ignore someone, how is that any different to them as if you're actually ignoring them? If you don't...

What? A twist in the reincarnation that at least makes some use of prior life abilities? Truly a rarity. It's also cute enough in its own way, with a relatively competent prince and reasonable enough high level plot. On the whole, this is a solid story that uses its setup fairly well. My...

Back to this series-in-the-series! I actually enjoy this one a bit more than the original - it focuses on letting someone show their view of the world without resorting to comic book villainy, and this feels like a good handling of personal vengeance which happens to have some side consequences...

Somehow, this feels like the most generic 'broken engagement, here's a new engagement' story so far. This is another one that doesn't make any use of the concept of 'villainess'. The lead has one personality trait (sweets, yay!), but is otherwise fairly archetypal. It's not bad, but I don't...

Ugh. And we're back to one of the offensively bad ones. Somehow, the kingdom has a tradition of breaking up just to re-engage someone? Really? That's somehow done on a regular basis, is never heard of, and is somehow 'convincing' each time? Time apart can be romantic, but this is just badly...

I've gotta quote the first post on this: That covers a lot. I don't go out of my way to look for yuri, and even I got yuri vibes from this. Even if they went for the 'very good friends' vibe, I feel like that would've been more appropriate than the random brother out of nowhere. That being...