Read The Former Noblewoman with a Distrust for Men Decides to Help the Lustful Prince / The Former Lady Who Distrusts Men Decides to Help His Highness / 男性不信の元令嬢は、好色殿下を助けることにした。
“Claire Radish! A failure like you, who can’t even use a single spell properly, is unworthy of being my fiancée!” Claire, the daughter of a Margrave, is the fiancée of the selfish and arrogant Second Prince, Oliver. Following the Queen’s orders, Claire has spent many years as his fiancée, tirelessly cleaning up his messes. However, Oliver becomes infatuated with the cunningly cute Baron’s daughter, Carol, and declares the annulment of his engagement to Claire at the Royal Academy’s appreciation party…! As one unexpected event follows another, the one who comes to Claire’s rescue is none other than the First Prince, Gilbert, who bears the nickname “the Lustful Prince.” Claire had been wary of him due to the nasty rumors, but he turned out to be completely different from what she expected…?
Eveaustria
As of chapter 5, I can say this Japanese manga (according to other sources the name of the author and artist is Yuuki Rinrin) may not be the top of the crop, but it has its charm, and it’s not too illogical either (yet?). So far I like it.
The story is decent. Not exactly super original, but it’s also not full of typical tropes for now. The female lead is likeable, has a working brain and puts in a lot of effort. She has troubles with her magic though, so she’s neither a Mary Sue character who excels in everything, nor one of these airheads who patter instead of speaking their mind and stumble over their own feet so that they can be saved by the male leads.
The villain – the female lead’s fiancé and crown prince – is a complete jerk, but interestingly his mother does not agree with him. She is the true boss villain(ess) and a rather cruel scheming queen. There’s also the prince’s newest pink-haired love interest; a “white lotus” b*tch who acts like she’s an innocent victim.
The actual male lead is a bit too cliché once again (another black-haired uncommunicative “cool” royal master-swordfighter AND master-wizard too), however with a weird twist – malicious rumors make him out to be a womanizer, even though he acts the complete opposite… No idea why anyone ever believed those stupid rumors to be true, especially the usually clever female lead?
The artstyle is very Doujinshi-(fan-art-manga-)like. It’s okay enough to bring the story across nicely though. The coolest artwork is that of the “witch” cat (it shows up in chapter 2), I really like how it looks! The adults look like little kids sometimes tho and their bodies often have weird proportions 😀