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Lan Qinghe × Ji Linxue
Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here! 是师姐，我们有救了！
The only one of the seven set in a cultivation world, where the heroine she must protect keeps saving her instead.
Villainess yuri, or villainess GL, is girls’ love built around the woman a story casts as its villainess. Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here! is one in official English: a cultivation manhua, 30 sections so far, where the villainess is ordered to protect the heroine.
Lan Qinghe dies a doctor and wakes up as the novel’s villainess, who shares her name. Her shijie, Ji Linxue, is the heroine she must protect, and the stronger of the two.
| Lan Qinghe | Point | Ji Linxue |
|---|---|---|
| The villainess, and Ji Linxue’s shimei | The heroine, and Lan Qinghe’s shijie | |
| Talismans, and a system that runs out of energy | A sabre, and a habit of getting lost | |
| Half tiger spirit, which the system forgot to mention | Her sabre, Linyuan, one of a pair of twin demonic blades |
“You must protect our heroine until the end of this story.”
Six moments from Chapters 2 to 12, and what was said in each.
“Who’s protecting who now?”
Japan, Korea and China each have their own villain women, and in all three, women cast as enemies often end up allies.
| Compare by | 悪役令嬢The villainessJapan · akuyaku reijō | 악녀The wicked womanKorea · angnyeo | 妃嫔 绿茶 恶毒女配Not one kindChina · fēipín, lǜchá, èdú nǚpèi |
|---|---|---|---|
| The game’s villainessA modern woman wakes up as the otome-game villainess who torments the heroine, and escapes the punishment waiting for her.Nam 2023, p. 173 | A woman branded wickedBranded a villainess and killed, she goes back in time to live differently, as in The Villainess Lives Twice.Kim 2025, p. 85 · Ahn and Ahn 2025, pp. 139–40 | Three kinds of villainThe palace schemer, now often recast as an avenger; the “green tea bitch” mistress; the novel’s supporting villain, as in Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!Zhou and Dong 2026, p. 3 · E.Y. Liu 2026, p. 2 · M. Liu 2025, p. 41 | |
| 16,900 web novelsOver 16,900 villainess novels on the site Shōsetsuka ni Narō by January 2023; 15% of isekai manga surveyed are set in otome-game worlds.Nam 2023, p. 176 · Price 2021, p. 78 | 96.88 million viewsFor The Villainess Lives Twice alone by June 2025, in a genre the site Joara named “romance fantasy” in 2014.Ahn and Ahn 2025, p. 139 · Ahn 2019, p. 221 | A wave, then a banDozens of palace dramas followed Empresses in the Palace (2011) until a de facto ban in 2019; one hashtag against a “green tea” mistress drew a billion views.Zhou and Dong 2026, p. 3 · M. Liu 2025, pp. 41, 49 | |
| The heroine takes her sideAnother woman always helps the villainess; in I’m in Love with the Villainess, the heroine chooses her over three princes.Nam 2023, p. 188 · Friedman 2022, pp. 260–61 | Solidarity, sometimes moreReaders came for women who stand by each other, even as political enemies. Romance between them was expected to follow, without a GL label.Ahn 2019, pp. 230, 232 | Rivals become allies, or loversBaihe fans turn rivals into lovers; on TV, the wife and the mistress of Alliance (2023) team up and become best friends.M. Liu 2025, p. 39 · E.Y. Liu 2026, p. 5 |
Chapter 1Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!
She wakes up in a cultivation novel as the villainous supporting character who shares her name.
Chapter 1I Got Blackmailed by the Green Tea Bitch in Class
“Everyone in our grade knows her.”
Chapter 11Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!
The heroine pulls the woman cast against her close.
Six are published elsewhere, five of them as Japanese manga. Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here! is the one you can start free on Baiheverse.
Lan Qinghe × Ji Linxue
Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here! 是师姐，我们有救了！
The only one of the seven set in a cultivation world, where the heroine she must protect keeps saving her instead.
| Story | Pairing | Route | Format | Official edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| I’m in Love with the Villainess私の推しは悪役令嬢。 | Claire × Rae | She falls for the villainess; reborn as the heroine | Japanese light novel and manga · Anime, 2023 · Korean manhwa adaptation | Seven Seas · English |
| The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady転生王女と天才令嬢の魔法革命 | Euphyllia × Anisphia | She falls for the villainess; reborn as the prince’s sister | Japanese light novel and manga · Anime, 2023 | Yen Press · English |
| The Fed-Up Office Lady Wants to Serve the Villainess限界OLさんは悪役令嬢さまに仕えたい | Lapis × Midori | She falls for the villainess; summoned into the game | Japanese manga | Seven Seas GL · English |
| Please Bully Me, Miss Villainess!请欺负我吧，恶役小姐！ | Yvonne × Elsa | She is the villainess; reborn into an otome game | Chinese manhua | Bilibili Manga · Chinese |
| When the Villainess Seduces the Main Heroine悪役令嬢が正ヒロインを口説き落とす話。 | Akuya × Sei | She is the villainess; no rebirth at all | Japanese manga · Rated 18+ | Yen Press · English |
| The Death Defying Princess Creates a Yuri Harem to Survive死に戻り王女は生き延びるために百合ハーレムを作ることにした | Marie × her harem | She is the villainess; sent back a year | Japanese manga | Seven Seas GL · English |
| Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!是师姐，我们有救了！ | Lan Qinghe × Ji Linxue | She is the villainess; transmigrated into a cultivation novel | Chinese manhua | Baiheverse · English · Free to start |
Here the villain is a reputation: a school gossips about one girl, and a whole capital keeps its distance from the other.
“You’re waaay different in private from your appearance.”
The whole school calls Tongtong a green tea bitch. She corners honors student Lin Luxi with proof of her secret. It’s the wrong secret: Lin Luxi is a lesbian, deep in the closet.
“I am most eager… to witness the sight of Guanyin falling from grace to the unseemly.”
The capital calls Mu Yunzhao the Flaming Rakshasa and keeps out of her way. Shen Qingshuang is its Jade Guanyin, caged by tradition. In public they are fire and water.
Both. Most villainess yuri in English is Japanese manga from Seven Seas and Yen Press; Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here! is a Chinese manhua, free to start on Baiheverse.
Not yet. No Korean villainess yuri has an official English edition; I’m in Love with the Villainess has a Korean manhwa adaptation, published in Korean only.
The pairing. A story’s villainess and its heroine as the couple. In Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here!, that is Lan Qinghe and her shijie, Ji Linxue.
Two with a couple at the center. I’m in Love with the Villainess premiered in October 2023 (Crunchyroll’s announcement), and The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady in January 2023.
No. Rae and Claire end up together: by the third light novel they are building a life as teachers, mothers and wives, in Seven Seas’ description of volume 3.
Yes. GL (girls’ love) and yuri both name stories of romance between women, and Chinese readers call it baihe. Have No Fear, Shijie’s Here! is villainess GL from China.
