Protective

Jason Ravenelli the grandson of a very wealthy man was cast out by his grandfather and Mr Marco accepted him and with gratitude decided to marry his granddaughter the princess of the Marco family but was deeply hated and disregarded by his wife and the siblings. With a target on his back from both families will he survive before the crown?

Synopsis/Blurb In the fog-shrouded early 1900s, former detective Thomas Blackwood receives a distressing letter from his estranged brother, Elijah, beckoning him to the enigmatic Shadow Isle. Determined to uncover the truth behind his brother's plea, Thomas embarks on a perilous journey to the Ghostly Archipelago, accompanied by his steadfast assistant, Amelia West, and the weathered Captain Jonathan Pike. Upon their arrival, they encounter the sinister Marcus Graves, a wealthy landowner with a chilling hold over the island and its inhabitants. Despite warnings to leave, Thomas presses on, driven by a thirst for redemption and justice. As Thomas delves into the island's murky past, he uncovers a web of secrets and lies, each revelation bringing him closer to the truth—and closer to danger. Haunted by visions of his brother and tormented by the restless spirits that roam the island, Thomas races against time to unravel the mysteries of the Ghostly Archipelago. But as tensions rise and alliances are tested, Thomas realizes that nothing is as it seems on Shadow Isle. Beneath the surface of deception and darkness lies a truth more sinister than he could have ever imagined—one that threatens to consume him and all who dare to uncover it. In a pulse-pounding showdown on the windswept cliffs of Shadow Isle, Thomas must confront Marcus Graves and the malevolent forces that seek to destroy him. With the help of Amelia and his newfound allies, Thomas must face his own demons and confront the ghosts of his past if he is to survive the mysteries of the Ghostly Archipelago.

Damien, the great god and general, known across the world, for his super and extra ordinary abilities and wealth! He rose and conquered the extreme enemies within five years! Then, he built an invincible loyal army, becoming the sole commander and protector of the central city! In fact, he was worshipped and even respected by the Queen! Unexpectedly right in the middle of the fierce war, he got a strange call from an unknown caller who identified herself as his daughter and needed saving. Without thinking twice, he ran back to save his family at the city where he was a nobody, looked down and thrown into the water five years ago. Watch how Lily and Elena were protected by Damien, the secret great general and turned the tides and waves for them silently! Their guardian angel was back to slap the faces of those who ridiculed, derided, and treated them like scum! All will bow and scrub their mouths harshly with regret!

In a time in ancient ZImbabwe, Africa, before the colonial era, savage wars were prevalent in Bulawayo. Wars between the Shona tribe and the Ndebele tribe, two cultures that fought over land in order to attain dominance over the "City Of Kings". This was a time when all was fair in war, all was fair in the name of victory. This was the era that birthed the strong, and separated them from the weak with an iron axe. An era of myths and stories of mermaids, ntokoloshi/zvidhoma (goblins) , and demons and It is during this time that Tawana Masimba, the teenage son of Farai and Tsitsi Masimba, learns the hard way that the chief's word is law when his mother is ripped from his family right before his eyes. The bloody, callous and inhumane events that follow cultivate the young boy into something no one had ever anticipated, a force both the Shona tribe and Ndebele tribe would come to know, respect...and fear...

The elite of Kingsreach never murder their problems. They ship them to Black Toll, a prison island no one ever returns from. Eight years ago, Nash Redform was drugged on the eve of his wedding and became one of those problems. The order that sold him carried one signature, his fiancee's. He survived the pits, seized the island, and swore he would never go back. Then a new order arrives: a woman and a child, to be drowned on the way. The woman is Elara. The child is the daughter he never knew existed. Now the Drowned King is coming home, and everyone Kingsreach ever buried is coming back with him. But one question haunts him: why did the woman he loved pay to make him disappear?

At eighteen, everyone in the kingdom of Aldren awakens a power. Strength decides everything. The strong become nobles and warriors. The weak are forgotten. Ethan Vale is twenty, and he has nothing. No magic. No crystal glow. No future. Humiliated by classmates, dropped by the girl he loved, and abandoned by the family that swore to protect him, Ethan walks into the Royal Awakening Tower for one last examination. The crystal stays dark. The whole hall laughs. Then the forbidden seal beneath the tower breaks, a monster crawls out, and everyone runs. Everyone but the man they just called worthless. Trapped, bleeding, and seconds from death, Ethan hears a calm voice in his head. [Divine Evolution System Activated.] This system doesn't care about talent. It lets him absorb abilities, evolve skills, and grow without a known limit. But every evolution takes something in return: a memory, a sense, a bond. And the system is hiding a secret older than the kingdom itself. Hunted by a Warden-Inspector with a quiet smile, cut off by his own uncle, and chased by a reward on his head, Ethan hides in the city's drains, where he learns to fight the only way he can: carefully, one hard lesson at a time. With a disgraced scholar, a loyal guard captain, and nine missing names to chase, he starts pulling on a thread that leads to corrupt nobles, vanished awakeners, and monsters that someone is controlling on purpose. A catastrophe is coming. The people sworn to protect the world may be planning to sacrifice it. Ethan can become the protector humanity needs, or the destruction everyone fears. And one day he will have to face whatever chose him, and ask why it picked the weakest man alive.

Ethan Grey has lived his entire life as nothing. Born without a spiritual root at Skyward Academy — the world's most powerful cultivation institution — he was deemed a hollow, a defect, a boy the heavens forgot to gift. For six years he carried water, scrubbed floors, and watched disciples blaze with qi he would never touch. The Academy didn't even bother to hate him. It simply looked through him. But the night a dying elder presses a jade slip into Ethan's hand and warns him to trust no one — especially not the feared Lord Kael — everything Ethan thought he knew about himself begins to crack. Because Ethan is not hollow. He is empty. And empty, it turns out, is something far more dangerous. Hidden within the jade slip is the Forgotten Sutra — an ancient, erased cultivation method that operates not on elemental qi, but on void: the primordial silence beneath all energy, the space between heartbeats, the darkness before the first flame. It is the original path. The one the powerful buried on purpose. As Ethan awakens abilities no cultivation manual has ever described, he uncovers a conspiracy that runs deeper than one corrupt academy — a three-thousand-year-old crime committed by the world's greatest sects to keep mortals spiritually chained forever. He was supposed to be nothing. Instead, he may be the only person alive who can burn the whole system down.

Additional Tags : #Romance #Revenge #Cultivation #Antihero #Weaktostrong #Overpowered #MatureExplicitContent ===== Allen Veton is trash. Everyone says so. Level 7. F-rank. His own family threw him away and forced him to marry Seraphina Valemont, a former S-rank Hunter who's now paralyzed, mute, and completely helpless. Their wedding gift is a rotting shack in the slums. No money. No power. No future. On their first night, Seraphina cries. Allen wipes the tear away. And everything changes. [Ding!] [Wife Investment System activated.] [Violet: Welcome, Host. Invest in your wife. Receive returns from 100x to 10,000x. Do you accept?] Allen accepts. He has nothing to lose. He covers her with a blanket. Copper appears. He feeds her. New skills unlock. He whispers that he'll never leave her. The system gives him power beyond anything he's ever known. But Allen isn't stupid. His Intelligence sits at 1,247, a genius hiding in a weak body. And as the returns grow stronger, he notices something else buried deep in his blood. [Ding!] [Violet: Primordial Demonic Bloodline detected. Status: Dormant. Awakening requires maximum emotional investment.] A bloodline that makes demons kneel. A power so ancient no one remembers its name. Every coin Allen earns makes him richer. Every skill makes him deadlier. Every moment with his wife awakens the bloodline. And Seraphina herself is slowly healing. A finger moves. A hand reaches for him. Then one day, a voice speaks directly into his mind. '...My Husband.' She can talk to him. And she wants revenge. [Ding!] [Return: 10,000x. Skill unlocked: Aura of Fear.] [Violet: Host, enemies are watching. Eliminate before they strike.] ========== - Smart, Strategic, & No-Nonsense MC - No Yuri/Yaoi - NTR-Free (No Netorare) ==========

Diego Mahendra is thrust into a crumbling world of monsters and ruin, armed only with the mysterious Karma System granted by the deity Shiva. Tasked with saving lives to grow his power, Diego makes a fateful choice to rescue a girl named Renata. But as the system flashes a deadly warning naming her the catalyst of the end, Diego must decide between his own survival and protecting the enigma who might be the world's final executioner.

After fighting in a vicious war for the last seven years, the almighty dragon general returns from war to see that his beloved wife and daughter have been banished to the dog house! In anger, he destroyed his in-laws' thirty hectare mansion and now they are forced to beg him to live in his servants’ quarters.