Anzai Devils Line

"Please. Try her office line again. Tell her I don't have much time left." Ethan Cole died holding a phone that never rang back, his body eaten hollow by cancer while his wife stood in a chapel two hours away, marrying the man she actually wanted. It was the most devastating period, dying while holding his phone and dialing a number of the woman you married and she couldn't even pick the call until he gave up on the bed. But sometimes fate always render a second chance so that we can live the life we should've seek and lived in the first chance. He wakes up on the same morning, two years earlier, young again, healthy again, and remembering every single thing she let happen to him. This time there's no cake. No begging. No breakfast waiting for a woman who never said thank you once in two years. Ethan signs the divorce papers himself and leaves them on the table for Sophia Morgan to find. She built her whole marriage on a lie and a lover her family never approved of, and she never planned on her lived in husband waking up smarter than her. Her father calls him useless. Her cousin calls him nothing. Ethan calls it quits, saves the one friend he buried last time, and starts taking back everything he gave away for free. But Sophia isn't finished owning him. And somewhere behind him, a name from his old life is waiting to surface, one he thought he'd buried deep enough to never answer for. He died once for loving the wrong woman. What is he willing to become so it never happens again?

Marcus Chen, the youngest five-star general in modern history, dies in disgrace—poisoned in a military prison after being framed for a war crime that killed 1,400 civilians. He wakes up ten years in the past, on his first day at the National Defense Academy, with a mysterious Warden System bonded to his soul. The system gives him a mission: prevent seven catastrophic disasters over the next ten years or detonate, taking half a continent with him. Armed with future knowledge and system-enhanced abilities, Marcus begins saving lives while hunting the conspiracy that destroyed him. Each mission he completes reveals a darker truth—he wasn't framed by accident. He was chosen. As Marcus dominates academy training with the tactical genius of his former life, he draws the attention of people who will shape his destiny. Instructor Kane, who seems trustworthy but harbors dangerous secrets. Aria Volkov, the intelligence operative who died in his original timeline but now investigates his impossible knowledge. Leon Cross, the congressman's son who starts as an enemy but becomes an unlikely ally when he discovers his father's role in the conspiracy. And Dr. Sophia Reeves, the psychologist who unknowingly created the weapon slowly killing Marcus. With each prevented disaster, the conspiracy tightens its grip. Firebase Theta—the atrocity that destroyed Marcus's life—isn't just coming. It's accelerating. Marcus realizes he can't stop it. He can only expose it. He forms a team of outcasts and traitors, sacrifices his career and identity, and wages a shadow war against an enemy embedded in the highest levels of government. But prevention comes with a price. The Warden System is burning through Marcus's lifespan, the line between hero and weapon blurs with every mission, and the conspiracy's true goal is more terrifying than revenge: they're not trying to destroy him. They're trying to recruit him.