Best Fated Lovers Manhwa

Key points

• Fate plays an important role in love stories, connecting people across different lives and even beyond death.
• Manhwa stories explore themes of fated lovers with unique twists like red threads and reincarnation.
• Love can transcend time, offering second chances and revealing hidden connections in unexpected ways.

When people are deeply in love, they think their partner is perfect for them. That I am their soulmate, the person they were meant to be with. So if they break up, it can feel like they've lost a large part of themselves in the process, and everything they thought they knew about their future becomes null and void.

However, whether love lasts or ends, it can seem like fate takes its place, directing people towards their true path. In some romantic stories it can even go beyond death, connecting lovers to the next life and beyond. Whether people follow a predetermined path to love or rediscover it from their past lives, these are the best manhwa about fated lovers.

7 My red thread of destiny

Anime-Planet Score: 3.6/5 stars

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

In Chinese mythology, people destined to be together were connected by a red thread. Even if they were separated or didn't like each other, the thread would bring them back together one way or another. Usually through strange but ultimately beneficial methods, as in My red thread of destinywho becomes creative with the story.

A woman is drawn into her favorite novel as Lian, a priestess who can see the invisible red threads. She acts as a healer by cutting the threads, as they make single people sick. But she gets into trouble when, while trying to heal a man, she ends up tied to him with wire. Even worse, it's Abel, the main villain of the book. Now her favorite novel will tell a very different story with her at the center.

6 Threads of love/The madman 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 lovethat is to say The madman of love and peace. In it, teacher Sa-Rang Park has to handle a unique problem. His cousin, Pyeonggang, suffers from a deadly disease linked to an ancient curse. The only way to undo it is to reunite them with the reincarnation of their love from a previous life.

In her past life, her cousin was “Princess Pyeonggang”, who fell in love with a person known as “Ondal the Mad”. So, Park has to find Ondal's reincarnation, which is hard enough on its own. Things get even more complicated when she meets other handsome men while searching for Ondal. Sa-Rang doesn't have time to worry about her love life, but Pyeonggang may not be the only one in need of a destined lover.

5 Kiss Meow

Anime-Planet Score: 3.6/5 stars

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

If the other entries seem a little typical, Kiss Meow it should stand out from the crowd. After Sara is killed in a car accident, she is brought back to life by the grace of a cat god. But it also makes her turn into a cat on rainy days. The only way to break it is if Sara finds her fated “cat butler” – someone who loves to flatter felines – and gets a kiss from them.

He looks like a kitten version of the Frog Prince, although he has a twist in his story. In his cat form, he has caught a serial cat killer in the act, and they are itching to add another kitten to their kill tally. Now Sara is in a race against time to fulfill her destiny and find her fated cat butler, or meet her fate at the hands of an evil animal abuser. Sometimes, being a cat can feel more like life as a dog.

4 The novelist and his neighbor

Anime-Planet Score: 3.8/5 stars

• Creator: star upon star
• 163 chapters
• Available in English on Manta

Destined love isn't just for heterosexual women. In fact, many manhwa about fated lovers tend to be boy love stories, so there are plenty for BL fans to get caught up in. As The novelist and his neighbor. It follows Baek Ha, a young writer who suffers from narcolepsy. When he sleeps, he has recurring dreams about a red-haired boy, a black-haired teenager, and a dark-haired man.

They look very different, but Baek feels that somehow they are all the same person. Then he finds a new neighbor in Nam Jae-In. He is a corporate CEO who loves Baek Ha's novels and looks exactly like the brown-haired man in his dreams. Fate can be fun that way, but beyond making Baek's heart skip a beat, Nam offers up some intriguing mysteries, like what his connection to the boy and teenager is.

3 Past life fate

Anime-Planet Score: 3.9/5 stars

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

If past lives are a thing, then people reliving their memories in the present might be unpleasant. Especially if it happened during a college entrance exam like in Kim Minju's case Past life fate. In her old life, she was a queen of the Korean Joseon Dynasty, where she was murdered by one of the court's concubines.

Nowadays, she's more worried about her current life and college admissions, but she's not the only one who remembers the past. Two of her classmates are the reincarnations of her killer and her ex-husband, the king. Minju's past is threatening her future in the present, as they both want to continue with her where their old lives left off.

2 Reminiscence Adonis

Anime-Planet Score: 4/5 stars

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

Destiny doesn't necessarily have to use different reincarnations or modern settings. Reminiscence Adonis takes things in a different direction by giving his fantasy a remake of their old lives. In their early lives, Emperor Arhad and the warrior Ianna were rivals obsessed with each other. One wanted the other to take care of them and the other wanted them to submit to their will.

They were too selfish to see beyond their own desires, which led to Ianna dying at Arhad's hands in a heated battle. But she is given a second chance when she is reincarnated into herself. She could change her fate for the better, meet Arhad under different circumstances and see where she went wrong, or repeat history and its tragic end.

1 Inner beauty

Anime-Planet Score: 4.1/5 stars

• Creator: fairy tale
• 44 chapters
• Available in English via Lezhin Comics

Other times, the “fated lovers” part of the plot is revealed through a slow burn. At least compared to the other themes. For example, Inner beauty it's a BL body swap story that develops into something more as it goes along. It begins with Minjae rushing back to Korea to make peace with Hye-Eun, his ex-girlfriend who dumped him while he was in Australia “searching for 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 hit their 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 back, the two must get along and, in the process, end up discovering more about themselves than they knew before.