Ruthless

In a crystalline Dubai, a disgraced security chief must command a team of bio augmented survivors through a sentient, killing desert, all while fighting a dormant god for control of his own soul.

Osric Thorne was the discarded heir of the Thorne shipping empire, a man who thought he had everything until his wife, Elowen Vane, and his best friend, Cuthbert, threw him off the Gilded Sovereign in the middle of a Category 5 storm. With his feet chained to an anchor and the scent of Elowen's expensive perfume lingering in the salt air, Osric was meant to be a forgotten feast for the scavengers of the abyss. Instead, his family’s "worthless" heirloom—the Abyssal Pearl—reacts to his dying rage. Fusing with his heart, the pearl awakens the [Leviathan Evolution System]. In the crushing, lightless depths of the Atlantic, Osric doesn't drown...he adapts. By consuming the apex predators of the sea, he gains their power: the obsidian armor of the great white, the bio-electric discharge of the deep-sea eel, and the terrifying sonar of the prehistoric leviathan. Now, a monster is rising from the depths. Osric Thorne isn't coming back just to reclaim his company; he’s coming back to dismantle the Vane legacy piece by piece and turn the surface world into his personal hunting ground. He was once a man of the boardrooms, but he has returned as the Warden-King of the Abyss. The elites of Oakhaven are about to learn a bitter truth: the ocean doesn't forgive, and neither does Osric Thorne.

Kane was fired from his Job and the next seconds lost everything mysteriously, also that same day he caught his wife on bed with another man. Juliana mocked him even despite everything he did for call. She called it failure when he gave her everything— the little he had. Betrayed, broken and dejected, Kane was casted out of his own house with nothing but a wounded heart. But something happened afterwards that changed his entire life.

“How dare you lay your hands on my mother. Have you gone mad?" Adolphus quickly stepped in to defend his mother, holding the sobbing woman tightly into his strong arms. Tilting his head to look at Doris, he spoke to her in a low voice. “Mom, is this really necessary? You can always quit this job and not let them treat you like this." Adolphus was speaking like he had it better in his work places. *** Adolphus's mother was bullied by the people she works for and when he interfered, he got his own share of the bullying. He was framed and arrested by the new boyfriend of the woman he loved. Fortunately for him, he discovered a long secret that had been kept from him. He was the abandoned son of the richest man in Boston who now wanted him to take his place as a McAllen. Now, he was out to make everyone that looked down on him pay dearly.

Kai Rylan has been married to Sarah Pierce of the Pierce family for two years enduring the snide remarks and inhumane treatment from her family. While he lives a regular life in the capital, he is riddled by nightmares of war and bloodshed. He is also unable to remember his life from before he met Sarah. His world is turned upside down when he and his wife are thrown out of her family house and when working as a delivery man, he meets a man who calls him “Lord Rylan.” He is the general of The Vorgath, the most powerful army in Valtoria. His memories return gradually and he soon realizes that everyone around him is the enemy.

Rags to Billions. Bullied to Domination. Ugly to Handsome. Jason Reed was bullied and discriminated all his life. His life was filled with uncertainty and hate, especially from the people who were disgusted by his hideous looks. As a baby, his parents abandoned him. As a teenager, people hated him. Accused and jailed for a crime he didn't commit, Jason thought that it's hope for a good life will forever be a dream. But fate us twisted. Fate has other plans for him. He went back to school as a billionaire heir and he will make everyone pay for making his life a living hell, that includes his traitor ex-girlfriend. "What? He's rich?" "Yeah, but he's still ugly. He's so disgusting.'' He didn't care about what they say now. He will prove to them they picked on the wrong guy.

Xue Wuchen ruled an empire through forty years of unmatched cultivation and unforgiving fear — until seven of his most trusted followers put a blade through his chest in his own throne room. He should have stayed dead. Instead, he wakes up in the dying body of Ren Xiao, the weakest disciple in the history of the Azure Hollow Sect — a boy with no cultivation root, no name worth remembering, and three seniors already standing over him with drawn swords. His mind is still a tyrant's. His body can barely hold a sword. To survive, he must relearn cultivation from absolute zero, all while hiding the one truth that would get him killed twice: that the "nobody" everyone despises is the same man an entire empire was built on murdering. But someone already suspects. An elder who flinches at a single flicker of light. A sharp-eyed disciple who notices too much. And a killer in the dark, sent by someone who should have no reason to fear a nameless failure at all. The empire that rose from his death still calls him a monster. The people hunting his bloodline haven't stopped — they've just forgotten what he looks like now. And somewhere beneath the lies both sides have told for a generation, the real reason he was betrayed is still buried, waiting for a weak boy with a tyrant's mind to dig it back up. He wasn't given a second chance to be forgiven. He was given one to make sure they never see him coming.

They spent five years humiliating Erick Gerard. They never realized the man they mocked was already a billionaire. To the Laurent family, Erick was nothing but a useless son-in-law. He fixed their broken appliances. Took their insults. Slept in a storage room. Even his own wife treated him like an embarrassment. They thought he was powerless. They were wrong. Five years ago, Quade Gerard, the legendary founder of Gerard Dominion, was declared dead after a suspicious accident that killed his father and destroyed everything he had built. But Quade survived. Hiding behind the identity of Erick, a worthless husband nobody respected, he infiltrated the very family connected to his downfall. For five years, he watched. He learned their secrets. Tracked their crimes. Built his empire back in silence. Then someone discovered the truth. Quade Gerard is alive. Now Manhattan's most powerful families are about to learn what happens when the man they buried comes home. His wife will regret underestimating him. His enemies will lose everything. And the people who spent five years laughing at him will soon be begging for mercy. The useless husband is gone. Quade Gerard is back.

He watched his mother die at five years old and said nothing. Not because he was weak. Because he was smart enough to know that a child with the truth and no power is just the next victim. For fourteen years Franklin Dawnric drank, chased women and let his father's town call him a waste while he hid his magic, gathered his evidence and helped his people in the dark under a mask no one could name. He was not lost. He was loading. But when the governor's tournament forces his hand and the truth of what he is lands in the middle of a crowded arena, the people who murdered his mother realize the boy they dismissed at five years old has spent fourteen years becoming the one thing they were never prepared for. Patient. Powerful. And finished waiting.

In the first apocalypse timeline, he trusted the wrong people, gave away what little he had, and was betrayed when food became more valuable than human life. Death came quietly—without heroism, without meaning. Then time rewound. Kyle wakes minutes before the world collapses, reborn with all his memories intact—and a system no one else possesses: the Infinite Supplies System. Food. Water. Weapons. A private Paradise Space untouched by ruin. But abundance comes with a rule carved in cold logic: nothing is free. Supplies can only be unlocked through Emotional Function Points. As cities fall and boys’ survivor zones are wiped out, a sealed girls’ campus becomes an island of desperation. Kyle alone can move freely through the apocalypse. He doesn’t force obedience. He waits. Hunger does the work. Cleaning earns meals. Labor earns water. Emotion—fear, shame, gratitude, desire—determines how much. Six girls stand at the center of this fragile balance: a campus beauty hiding terror behind smiles, an ice-cold strategist who refuses to beg, a fallen heiress desperate to reclaim control, an arrogant provocateur who thrives on chaos, a kind healer who sacrifices herself too easily, and a hardened survivor who refuses to be owned. Between them, alliances form and fracture. Submission becomes strategy. Strategy becomes betrayal. Kyle’s relationships with them are never simple. He is their provider, their ruler, their shield—and, increasingly, their moral problem. As the system rewards cruelty more efficiently than kindness, Kyle begins to realize a terrifying truth: the system doesn’t care about survival. It cares about consumption. When outside survivor factions finally make contact and the system escalates beyond Kyle’s control, he is forced to choose—declare himself sovereign over a starving world, or challenge the very system that keeps everyone alive. And the system is already watching how he decides.