Trash Flower
Song Joo Hee can barely live her own life, crushed under the weight of her family debt. Then she crosses paths with Kang Se Ra, a rich runaway daughter, and one impulsive night together changes everything. Drawn to Se Ra charm and the escape she offers, Joo Hee accepts an offer to move in with her, and the arrangement pulls her into a relationship as intoxicating as it is dangerous.
Her Tale of Shim Chong
Based on a Korean folktale, two very different women each make the same wish, to leave this world behind. Shim Chong is a young beggar who sells herself to repay her blind father debt; the other is Jang, a noblewoman trapped in a marriage that is slowly killing her. When their fates cross, the bargain meant to end them both becomes the one reason worth staying alive. Korean title: 그녀가 심청 (Geunyeoni Simcheong).
Opium
A Korean GL manhwa by Aji & Junghyun told across two timelines. In the 1920s Korean colonial era, a blonde foreign woman and a dark-haired aristocrat fall into a forbidden affair across language and class. In the 2020s, two modern women navigate the wreckage of love, work, and the pieces they keep trying not to give up on each other. Slow-burn historical drama with explicit intimate scenes and a literary, painterly art style.
My Dearest Nemesis
Two coworkers who fight like cats and dogs spend the year-end office party getting drunk together. The wall between them shatters, the next morning is a problem, and what follows is a 44-chapter rivals-to-lovers yuri manhua about two polar opposites realizing they have been arguing themselves into something neither of them planned. By Xian Jun, completed in 2023-2024.
Murmur
Jina suffers from chronic insomnia and only falls asleep to ASMR videos by a YouTuber named NA. Then she notices the voice, the speech pattern, the beauty mark, all match Heo Jina, her high school classmate, and the very person whose absence she has been failing to forget. A 21-chapter Korean GL manhwa about obsession, nostalgia, and the revenge that hides inside both. By GALMA, serialized on Lezhin (2025).
Illicit
Ji Yeon's mother is sick and the treatments cost more than they have. To save her, she takes a job at a VIP club, selling her body to the highest bidder. The bidder turns out to be Mina, a wealthy and mysterious woman whose intentions go well beyond a single night. A 139-chapter slow-burn yuri manhwa about desire, debt, and the line between obligation and want, by Dumplone (also creator of Ruthless). Soft palette, painterly art, and a deliberately patient hand with intimacy.
Sadistic Beauty: Side Story A
Side Story A is the GL spinoff of Sadistic Beauty by Team Gaji. Gyerin moves on from her ill-fated first love with Doona and meets Juyeon, warm, perceptive, and disarmingly her ideal type. A 17-chapter slow-burn yuri romance with explicit scenes, dramatic emotional beats, and elaborate role-play vignettes spanning modern and historical settings. Gentler in tone than the main series, but no less compelling.
Pulse
Mel, a renowned heart surgeon, lives a carefree life with sex as a tool for joy rather than a show of affection. Then she meets someone who turns her view of love and life upside down. The Lezhin World Comic Contest-winning manhwa by Thai artist Ratana Satis.