Orphaned at a young age and drowning in her father’s debts, Anastasia spent her days starving despite being a noble. One day, her uncle, Count Everdeen, proposed to pay off her family’s debts if she agreed to get engaged to his enemy, Duke Theodore. Having no better alternatives, she accepted her uncle’s offer and moved to Theodore’s palace. Despised by Theodore and his servants, all kinds of mistreatments awaited Anastasia, from ruining her dress to serving her rotten food, with the last straw of Theodore telling her it was a good thing her parents died. However, Anastasia's lonely and depressing life takes a turn when she encounters a gentleman at a ball... (Source: POCKET COMICS)

Michelle, head saint and fiancée to Crown Prince Alphonse, spends her days trying to fulfill unreasonable requests from nobles and working to maintain the protective barrier surrounding the land. She barely has time to eat or sleep and on top of that, she is the target of envy from those around her and is called “the cruel saint.” A gaunt Michelle attends a party thrown by the prince, but what awaits her there is the calling off of her engagement and the termination of her role as head saint. When she hears the news, she shouts with joy in front of the smug prince! However, the king, concerned for the future of the country, tries to keep Michelle from leaving by ordering her to marry a man infamously known as “the lecherous marquess.” *Source: K Manga*

The day his country perished, the once mighty monarch fell into the hands of the enemy crown prince, who brought him back to the Eastern Palace with the unexpected intention to enslave him since. The fallen monarch thought the life of a prisoner meant nothing but sheer darkness, yet to his surprise, in spite of receiving angry insults from the brooding prince, he enjoys the prince's tolerance and the privileges that come with it. "What did the prince mean when he mentioned the past we share? Umm… Why do I seem to have no recollection of whatever happened at all…?" (source: Webcomics)

One day, the golden bachelorette met the steadfast single man. The God Emperor himself, still single after eons, finally came out from behind closed doors after completing his course of cultivation. He was immediately pounced upon by Ling Zhixi, the Security Chief of the Heavens. “Hey, you beautiful man…” "Shoo, go away." “Ooh, he's feisty. Pretty boy, now you’ve successfully caught my attention,” Ling Zhixi thought. (Source: Bilibili, translated)

My grandfather and grandmother killed my mother behind my father’s back before I was ten. On the seventh day after her burial, her body vanished from her coffin, and a living ghost showed up. After that, my grandfather fell ill, and terrifying corpses appeared in the deserted graveyard. My mother’s death brought endless trouble to my family… (Source: Bilibili Comics)

When one man is reborn into a fantasy novel as the villain doomed for disaster, he decides to take fate into his own hands. Can he rewrite his destiny, or is he meant for ruin? Luke Wizalia Gyleberde has been reborn into the world of a fantasy novel as the arrogant villain destined for a disastrous end. But Luke isn’t willing to play the hero’s ultimate fall guy. Armed with monstrous abilities, he enrolls at Aslan Magic Academy with a single goal: to become the strongest student and avoid his villainous fate. However, rewriting his story and shaking up the delicate balance of character dynamics is easier said than done. Luckily, Luke’s growing charisma and power make him a magnetic force, drawing everyone to his side—ranging from heroines to high nobles to even those scheming in the shadows. It seems like he may just sidestep his bad ending. But even the smallest change threatens to send the entire narrative into chaos. Can Luke rewrite his fate, or is his disastrous destiny inevitable? (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

That machine you're familiar with has a lot of pain and suffering inside...

Crow, the loyal butler of a villainess, realizes through a series of chance events that he has in fact been reincarnated into another world. With a new perspective on life, he realizes just how badly he's been treated by this haughty, egotistical and prideful noble lady he calls his mistress until now, and boils with rage at the injustice. However, after deciding to take revenge on her in a risque way, he comes to realize that she's a lot easier than she looks... This is a story of how a reincarnated butler tames his villainous mistress in lustful ways, but ends up making her truly happy.

I did XXX with the witch in the housing complex. The special skill of Haruta, the son of a locksmith who lives in the housing complex, is picking. He meets a witch in a room in a housing complex where he went to work as a locksmith on behalf of his absent father. A witch (for some reason, a maid outfit) who forcibly involves Haruta in exterminating a strange mystery, Danmatsuma, who eats in the housing complex. The true power of the witch is released when Haruta opens the secret keyhole hidden under the skirt. Haruta, a boy who was first seen as a locksmith (partner) exclusively for witches, and the witch of an unmanned Muchimuchi sister, a housing complex-based one-shota erotic comedy developed by the two.

The two-faced elite x the bad-tempered mafia boss! Elite student He Chu San was kidnapped by the head of the Warrior Clan, Xia Liu Yi?! When this kind-hearted and upright citizen, who isn't influenced by the bad environment he is in, meets the "Twin-Blade Blood Asura," who causes people to tremble in fear, it seems to be a situation of the lamb entering the tiger's den, yet the "lamb" keeps pursuing the "tiger" relentlessly? Hold on, this "lamb" seem to increasingly resemble a fox, and has manipulated the big cat into his trap.. (Source: Kuaikan, translated)

Fuyu Monogatari received the 1988 Shogakukan Manga Award for shounen manga along with [Just Meet](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=9009).