Best Lover Manhwa

Key Takeaways

• Fate plays an important role in romance, connecting people in different lives and even beyond death.
• Manhwa stories explore unique themes of love such as the red thread and reincarnation.
• Love can transcend time, lead to second chances and reveal hidden relationships in unexpected ways.

When people are truly in love, they think that their partner is perfect for them. They are his loved ones, the person he was meant to be with. Then, if they break up, it can feel like they've lost a big part of themselves in the process, and everything they thought they knew about their future is gone.

However, whether love lasts or ends, it can be like the fall of fate, leading people to their right path. In some romances, it can even transcend death, connecting the lovers in their next lives and beyond. Whether people follow a certain path to love or rediscover it in their past lives, these are the best manhwa about trapped lovers.

7 My destiny is the red rope

Anime-Planet Score: 3.6/5 stars

• Creators: Cheon-jian (webnovel original), Jin-Shang Shin (manhwa adaptation), Cumin (artist)
• 90 Chapter
• Available in English through TappyToon

In Chinese mythology, people who were destined to be together were tied together with a red thread. Even if they broke up or didn't love each other, the thread will lead them back one way or another. Often in a strange but ultimately beneficial way, like in My destiny is the red ropewhich becomes creative with the story.

A woman is drawn into her favorite story as Lian, a priestess who can see the invisible red thread. He acts as a healer by cutting the cord, because singleness causes disease. But when he tried to heal a man, he got in trouble and tied him with a rope. Even worse, he is the worst Abel in the book. Now, his favorite story will tell a very different story with him at its heart.

6 Thread of Love/The Folly of Love and Peace

Anime-Planet Score: 3.6/5 stars

• Creators: Kijoo Han (writer), Il (artist)
• 79 Chapter
• Available in English on Webtoon

The theme of the red thread continues there Thread of Loveaka The Fool of Love and Peace. In it, teacher Sa-Rang Park has to face a unique problem. His cousin, Pyeonggang, is suffering from a deadly disease that is linked to an ancient curse. The only way to undo this is to reunite them with the return of their love from a previous life.

In her previous life, her cousin was “Princess Pyeonggang”, who fell for someone named “Ondal the Fool.” Therefore, Park must find the rebirth of Ondal, which is difficult for him alone. It gets even more complicated when she encounters another handsome man while searching for Ondal. Sa-Rang doesn't have time to worry about her personal life, but Pyeonggang might not be the only one who needs a lover.

5 Kiss Meow

Anime-Planet Score: 3.6/5 stars

• Creator: bdo
• 60 Chapter
• Available in English on Webtoon

If the other entry looks a little familiar, Kiss Meow should be different from the package. After Sara dies in a car accident, she is brought back to life by the grace of the cat god. But it also makes him a cat when it rains. The only way to break it is if a “cat catcher” – a person who likes to bare with cats – finds Sara and gets a kiss from them.

The Frog Prince seems like a kitty pick-me-up, though there is a twist in its story. In the form of a cat, they catch a cat killer in the act, and they want to add another kitty to their kill count. Now Sara is in a race against time to fulfill her destiny and find her cat's head or face the dangers of animal abusers. Sometimes, being a cat can be like a dog's life.

4 The comic writer and his friends

Anime-Planet Score: 3.8/5 stars

• Creator: Star on Star
• 163 Chapter
• Available in English in Manta

Dedicated love isn't just for straight women. In fact, a lot of manhwa about boyfriends tend to be boy romances, so there are a lot of BL fans to stick with. LIKE THAT The Novelist and his friends. It follows Baek Ha, a young writer with narcolepsy. When he sleeps, he dreams repeatedly about a red-headed boy, a black-haired teenager, and a brunette man.

They are very different, but Baek feels that they are the same person. Then she gets a new neighbor in Nam Jae-In. He's a CEO who likes Baek Ha's novels and looks like the brown haired man in her dreams. The role may be so funny, but in addition to winning Baek's heart, Nam offers interesting secrets, such as her relationship with the boy and the teenager.

3 Old life expectancy

Anime-Planet Score: 3.9/5 stars

• Creators: Jae-Ah (writer), Hae (artist)
• Chapter 129+
• Fan translation only

If past lives are anything to go by, people who have memories of them now may not be pleasant. Especially if it happened during the university entrance exam like Kim Minju in Old life expectancy. In her former life, she was a queen of the Joseon Dynasty in Korea, where she was assassinated by a court concubine.

Now he's more concerned about his current life and getting into college, but he's not the only one who remembers the past. Two of her classmates are reincarnations of her killer and her former husband, the King. Minju's past threatens their current future, as they both want to continue their old lives with her.

2 Reminiscence Adonis

Anime-Planet Score: 4/5 stars

• Creators: Hyeodori (webnovel original), Gudang (manhwa adaptation), Gyeoljeong (artist)
• 270+ chapters
• Available in English through Tapas

Fate does not have to use different reincarnations or modern situations. Reminiscence Adonis take things in a different direction by giving their dream to lead the change of their old life. In his first life, Emperor Arhad and the warrior Ianna were rivals who knew each other. One wanted the other to take care of them, and the other wanted them to submit to his will.

They were too selfish to visit their desires, which led to Ianna's death at the hands of Arhad in a fierce battle. But he was given a second chance when he returned to the body. He can change his fate for the better, meet Arhad in different situations, and see what he did wrong, or repeat the story and its ending.

1 Inner beauty

Anime-Planet Score: 4.1/5 Stars

• Creator: Fairytale
• 44 Chapter
• Available in English through Lezhin Comics

Other times, parts of the plot unfold in slow burn. At least compared to his other topics. For example, Inner beauty is a BL bodyswap tale that expands into something more as it goes along. It begins with Minjae rushing back to Korea to reconcile with Hye-Eun, his ex-girlfriend who dumped him when he was in Australia “finding himself.”

Unfortunately, Hye-Eun has already moved on to a new man, Woochan, who is fighting with Minjae. During the fight, he hit his head hard and died, and when they woke up, they found him in the body of his friend. Until they find a way to get back together, the two must come to terms, and in the process, end up learning more about themselves than they ever knew before.