Villainess stories?

Recently it has come to my attention that something like "villainess stories" are becoming (already are) quite popular in anime and manga/webtoons/etc. (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Usf5AHfF9xA)

Sounds like something i would love to watch! Has this story trope trickled down to dramas? I havent been really watching dramas these days so i wouldnt know! Im looking for a story where the main lead is a villain. Redemption arc in the story is inevitable but let the lead have her villain era first :)

The only titles i can think of that maybe fit (but not really because it is good women transmigrating into  villainess' body) are The romance of tiger and rose and Till the end of the moon.

• Fortune Writer (villainess/morally grey FL)
• Night of Love With You (villainess FL transmigrates into good girl character)
• Dong Lan Xue (not a villain, but she's very shades of grey and complex, as is the ML)
• Story of Kunning Palace (kind of a villain in her first life)

Just recently made a list for this: https://mydramalist.com/list/320qEMW1

The one that's probably the closest to the webtoon villainess trope, where the FL is literally a villain archetype in a fictional universe, is Night of Love With You or Fortune Writer. That's also the case in Unexpected but here the ML is more the protagonist/focus of the drama than the FL.

 emeraldarrows:

• Fortune Writer (villainess/morally grey FL)
• Night of Love With You (villainess FL transmigrates into good girl character)
• Dong Lan Xue (not a villain, but she's very shades of grey and complex, as is the ML)
• Story of Kunning Palace (kind of a villain in her first life)

AAAAh thanks! I knew there are chinese shows that will fit well into what im looking for 🙏

 Lou:

Lost Romance - this is very similar to the webtoon stories. The fl writes a story, where she uses the ml'
s irl persona as a character for her book. Something happens and she ends up in her story as the villain. Now she tries to protect the heroine from all the problems but that makes her unintentionally even more the villain to the people that love the heroine. Untillllll.......... Anyways it is really having ll the characteristics of the typical villainess storylines. 

your synopsis sounds great i'm noting this down hehe

 RSB:

Just recently made a list for this: https://mydramalist.com/list/320qEMW1

The one that's probably the closest to the webtoon villainess trope, where the FL is literally a villain archetype in a fictional universe, is Night of Love With You or Fortune Writer. That's also the case in Unexpected but here the ML is more the protagonist/focus of the drama than the FL.

Thanks! I will put a good use to that list :)))

For me, the webtoon villainess trope is not the most important but honestly im struggling to describe what im actually looking for and this /is/ part of im looking for. Ill definitely check out the dramas you recommended :)

https://mydramalist.com/19276-beautiful-accident a movie. Very much what you're looking for. Also a Korean version. Both versions are good. The Korean version might be better production and more upbeat. 

https://mydramalist.com/5184-cheongdamdong-alice she starts off good, then strives to become a villain. It's an older drama. 

https://mydramalist.com/22066-game-sanaeha Thai drama. She acts a lot like the spoiled 2nd FL. 

https://mydramalist.com/759-get-karl-oh-soo-jung she's a golddigger but I couldn't help rooting for her. It's an old drama. 

https://mydramalist.com/15090-i-have-a-lover perfect fit! She would (literally) walk over a dead body to get a little bit of success. Then things happen and lead to her redemption.