Best Fated Lovers Manhwa

Key things

• Fate plays a big role in love stories, connecting people through different lives and even beyond death.
• Manhwa stories explore themes of fated lovers with unique twists such as red threads and reincarnation.
• Love can transcend time, lead to second chances, and reveal hidden connections in unexpected ways.

When people are deeply in love, they think their partner is perfect for them. That they are their soul mate, the person they were meant to be with. If they then 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 becomes invalid.

Whether love lasts or ends, it can feel like fate falls into place and directs people to their true path. In some romantic stories, it can go beyond death and connect the lovers to their other lives and beyond. Whether people follow a set path to love or rediscover it from their past lives, these are the best manhwas about fated lovers.

7 My red string of fate

Anime-Planet Score: 3.6/5 stars

• Creators: Cheon-jian (original web novel), Jin-Shang Shin (manhwa adaptation), Cumin (artist)
• 90 chapters
• Available in English via TappyToon

In Chinese mythology, a red thread connected people who were destined to be together. Even if they were separated or didn't like each other, the thread would somehow lead them back together. Usually through weird but ultimately beneficial methods like in My red string of fatewho is creative with the story.

A woman is drawn into her favorite novel as Lian, a priestess who sees invisible red strings. She acts as a healer by cutting the cords that make free people sick. But she gets into trouble when, while trying to heal a man, she ends up tied to him by his string. Even worse, he is Abel, the main villain of the book. Now her favorite novel will tell a completely different story and will be in her heart.

6 Threads of Love/Fool of Love And Peace

Anime-Planet Score: 3.6/5 stars

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

The theme of the red thread continues Threads of loveaka A fool of love and peace. In it, teacher Sa-Rang Park has to handle a unique problem. Her cousin, Pyeonggang, suffers from a life-threatening illness that is linked to an ancient curse. The only way to undo this is to reunite them with the reincarnation of their love from a previous life.

In her past life, her cousin was the “Pyeonggang Princess” who fell in love with a person known as “Ondal the Fool”. So Park has to find Ondal's reincarnation, which is difficult enough in itself. It only gets trickier when she encounters other handsome men while searching for Ondal. Sa-Rang doesn't have time to worry about his love life, but Pyeonggang might not be the only one in need of a fated lover.

5 Kiss Meow

Anime-Planet Score: 3.6/5 stars

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

If the other items seem a bit typical, Kiss Meow should stand out from the pack. After Sara is killed in a car accident, she is brought back to life by the grace of the cat god. But it also makes her a rainy day cat. The only way it can be broken is if Sara finds her fateful “feline butler” – someone who loves petting felines – and gets a kiss from them.

It sounds like a cat's take on The Frog Prince, although it has a twist in its story. In her feline form, she has caught a serial cat killer in the act and they have a desire to add another kitty to their kill count. Now Sara is in a race against time to either fulfill her destiny and find her fateful feline butler, or meet her doom at the hands of a vicious thug. Being a cat can sometimes feel more like a dog's life.

4 The novelist and his neighbor

Anime-Planet Score: 3.8/5 stars

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

Fated love isn't just for straight women. In fact, a lot of fated lover manhwa tend to be boyish love stories, so there's plenty for BL fans to get stuck into. Like The novelist and his neighbor. It follows Baek Ha, a young writer who suffers from narcolepsy. When he sleeps, he has recurring dreams of a red-haired boy, a black-haired teenager, and a brunette.

They look completely different, but Baek feels they are all somehow the same person. Then he gets a new neighbor in Nam Jae-In. He is a business director who loves Baek Ha novels and looks exactly like the brown haired man in his dreams. Fate can be funny like that, but aside from making Baek's heart flutter, it offers Nam some interesting mysteries, such as his connection to the boy and the teenager.

3 Past Life Fate

Anime-Planet Score: 3.9/5 stars

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

If past lives are a thing, then people who have their memories flashed back to the present might be uncomfortable. Especially if it happened during a college entrance exam, like Kim Minju v Past Life Fate. In her old life, she was a queen in Korea's Joseon Dynasty, where she was murdered by one of the court concubines.

Currently, she is more worried about her current life and going to college, but she is not the only one reminiscing about the past. Two of her classmates happen to be the reincarnations of her murderer and her ex-husband, the king. Minju's past threatens her future in the present as they both want to pick up with her where their old lives left off.

2 Remembering Adonis

Anime-Planet Score: 4/5 stars

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

Fate doesn't necessarily use different reincarnations or modern settings. Remembering Adonis he takes things in a different direction by using his imagination to overcome their old lives. In their first lives, Emperor Arhad and warrior Ianna were rivals who were obsessed with each other. One wanted the other to care for them and the other wanted them to submit to their will.

They were too selfish to overlook their desires, resulting in Ianna's death at Arhad's hands in a fierce battle. But she got a second chance when she reincarnated back as herself. She could change her fate for the better, meet Arhad under different circumstances and find out where she went wrong, or repeat history and its tragic end.

1 Inner beauty

Anime-Planet Score: 4.1/5 stars

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

At other times, part of the “fated lovers” plot is revealed in slow burn. At least compared to their other themes. For example, Inner beauty is a bodyswap BL story that develops into something more over time. It begins with Minjae rushing back to Korea to make peace with Hye-Eun, his ex-girlfriend who left him while he was in Australia “finding himself”.

Unfortunately for him, Hye-Eun has already moved on to a new man, Woochan, who gets into a fight with Minjae. During the fight, they butt heads so hard that they pass out, and when they wake up, they find themselves in each other's bodies. Until they find a way to get back together, they have to get along and end up learning more about each other than they knew before.