One of the few upshots of the rise in villainess isekai stories is that it's allowed a small but particular subset of romance manga to get licensed - frothy light-novel-based romances that are lightly fantastical, vaguely historical, free of any actual isekai tropes, and a welcome change of pace for yours truly.
THE FIANCEE CHOSEN BY THE RING (Yubiwa no Eranda Konyakusha), based on the light novels by Yue Matsuyuki and character designs by Yasuyuki Torikai with art by Jyun Hayase. First published in 2019 and first published in North America in 2022.
PLOT:
Aurora el la Porta is a quiet young noblewoman with a deep love of embroidery but not much else to distinguish her from her peers. That all changes when she's beaned in the head with a ring at a party. The ring belongs to Felix il le Clavis, a promising (if anxious) young knight who threw the ring in a bid to stop his sister from trying to set him up with every young woman in their acquaintance. He drunkenly declared that whomever caught the ring would be his bride, so now he and Aurora are caught up in an engagement neither really asked for. As the two grow closer, Aurora learns not just more about Felix but that her and her embroidery may not be as ordinary as she always presumed.
