Designated Love Interest
F20/100Web serial by Kleo Erili
Jacob Williams has only one rule: stay out of trouble. Breaking it once to save a bullied classmate from drowning costs them both their lives. Jacob awakens not as a shining hero, but as Shaelith — a violet-skinned, pointy-eared elven noblewoman and daughter of a ruthless matriarch who rules a house of assassins and mushroom sorcery. For twenty years, Shaelith learns to survive in this underground world of brutal matriarchal scheming. She masters sorcery, survives assassination attempts, and becomes one of the most powerful diplomats of her generation — until she is kidnapped by goblins and rescued by an obnoxiously loud hero obsessed with quests and XP, who has decided she is his designated love interest. Shaelith has absolutely no interest in that. An asymmetrical LitRPG where the protagonist wields wit, magic, and politics rather than an overpowered stat sheet — while the clueless hero's system grows around her.