Arrogant(e)

The Blackwood empire was built on blood and betrayal. Damon Blackwood was about to learn just how deep the rot went. Damon was the overlooked "spare," the gentle heir content to live in the shadow of his powerful family. But at his own engagement party, his world shattered. His fiancée, Claire, publicly abandoned him for his ruthless cousin, Adrian. His uncle, Kane, framed him for a multi-million dollar theft. Beaten, disgraced, and hunted by the police, Damon was thrown into the street like trash. He was ready to die. But the gods had other plans. In the darkest alley, with sirens closing in, an impossible voice echoed in his mind: [SUCCESSOR OF WAR DETECTED.] A mysterious System claiming descent from Ares, the Greek God of War, has awakened in his blood. It offers him unimaginable power, instant healing, and a terrifying strength—but at a price. He must complete increasingly brutal quests for vengeance, or the power will consume him. Now, the gentle man is gone, replaced by a ruthless predator. His former fiancée, Claire,watches in growing regret as the man she betrayed transforms into everything she secretly desired. His cousin, Adrian,and Uncle Kane realize their political games have unleashed a monster far more dangerous than they ever intended. The System orchestrated his downfall, the betrayals, and the humiliation—all to forge him into the perfect weapon. Damon Blackwood faces an impossible choice:Embrace his dark destiny and claim power through violence, or resist the System and die as the weak man everyone thought he was. The game has changed. The System demands blood. And the God of War is ready to collect.

Willing to work hard and spend all his savings to give his fiancée, Evelyn, a gift she would like on her birthday, Elric was met with a bitter reality. He was betrayed. However, more than that, Evelyn's cold attitude was far more painful than her family's harsh words. When he was cast aside, he suppressed all the anger in his heart until a system of patience and resilience emerged. A system of life endurance. This system forbade him from seeking revenge, but it slowly made him unstoppable. The cowardly Elric was forged into an extraordinary figure who was challenging to defeat.

The world ended once. Then it came back wrong. Seven years after the Aura Revival, Earth is no longer safe. New York City has become a war zone. Giant monsters surge through the streets in Beast Tides. Powerful bloodline families rule from fortified towers, using ancient cultivation powers that feel closer to gods than humans. Ronan Burke is nobody. He’s an orphan with no family, no backing, and no talent for cultivation. He survives by running dangerous courier jobs and staying out of sight. Every day is about not getting killed, by beasts, gangs, or the families who control everything. Then one escape goes wrong. Cornered during a Beast Tide, Ronan comes into contact with a relic that should not exist. It doesn’t just give him power. It locks him into a contract. A system awakens in his mind. It gives him one command: Reach Level 16 in every cultivation realm. Achieve perfection. Fail and die. In a world where even the greatest geniuses can barely reach Level 14, Ronan is forced to chase a level everyone believes is impossible. Every breakthrough makes him stronger, and more dangerous to discover. If the families find out what he is, they won’t recruit him. They’ll cut him open to steal his secret. To survive, Ronan must grow in silence. He scavenges the ruins, hunts monsters far above his level, outplays arrogant heirs, and hides his strength at every turn. His only ally is the cold, relentless system guiding him toward a kind of power the modern world insists no longer exists. The Beast Tides are getting worse. The bloodline families are making their moves. And Ronan Burke, the weakest man in the city, may be its last unseen hope… if he can stay hidden long enough.

In a cultivation world where talent decides fate, 28-year-old Alexander Kane has spent ten long years as the Azure Cloud Sect’s biggest joke — stuck at Qi Refining First Layer despite endless effort. Mocked daily as worthless trash and robbed of his hard-earned opportunities by arrogant rivals like Victor Lang, Alexander’s final humiliation comes when he is publicly expelled and violently shoved into the forbidden abyss to die. Instead of death, he finds awakening. On the brink of being devoured by a guardian beast, Alexander triggers the Supreme Late Bloomer System — a mysterious power that allows him to absorb any spiritual energy, technique, or heavenly treasure at maximum efficiency and evolve them instantly. What once took others decades now takes him moments. With his new power, Alexander begins a relentless rise. He delivers his first satisfying face-slaps against those who betrayed him, rapidly climbs through realms, and uncovers the terrifying truth: an ancient hidden realm war between long-forgotten sovereigns is stirring once again, threatening to erase the entire continent. Now labeled a demonic anomaly by the very sect that discarded him, Alexander must survive deadly fragment zones, forge uneasy alliances, and grow stronger than anyone imagined — all while the war fragments pull him deeper into a destiny he was never meant to claim. From the weakest outer sect disciple to the one who defies heaven itself… How far will the Late Awakener go when the entire cultivation world wants him dead, and an ancient war demands he rise? The Late Awakener: Never Meant to Rise — a fast-paced cultivation story of revenge, explosive growth, and ancient secrets where one man’s late awakening threatens to rewrite the fate of the world.

Picture this. You go on vacation. Meet this chill, beautiful woman. She loves you, you love her — everything feels perfect. You get married. Two years in, you’re madly in love — the kind where you’re telling her things you haven’t told your shadow. Then one night… You hear sounds in the house. Turns out, your wife brought another man home. Slept with him. In your bed. And when you get offended, she tells you to be mature. That was Charles' life. But Charles has a beef with second chances. He asked for a divorce right away. His wife thought she finally won. Finally figured out how to make Charles realize he’s been nothing but a cockroach in her coffee all these years. Unfortunately, she didn’t know — The company she built, the connections she bragged about, the deals she “secured”… Every single win in her life for the past two years had his fingerprints on it. And once he walked out, it all started to fall apart. But this story doesn’t start with heartbreak. It starts the night Charles left… and the most feared woman in New York asked him to marry her. Will he pay his ex-wife back? Nah. That would be too easy. Charles leaving her life is like pulling the one stack holding the whole building upright. Will she regret it? Only if she survives the collapse long enough to remember what regret even feels like. But Charles will be here, sipping his coffee. Watching his ex-wife’s world burn— one arrogant family member at a time. So grab your popcorn. This ride’s about to get long — and very, very personal.

Alistair Woods lives in a rural village. When his fiancée breaks the marriage contract because she believes he is not on the same level as the first Female Warrior, his relief does not last long: his master has another arranged marriage in line! This time, Alistair cannot escape the union and leaves for Lothan City, where he marries Lisa Anderson. What Alistair did not expect was to be so mistreated and to have his honor questioned by his new family. However, he has more important matters to deal with, such as a grand scheme that could put the lives of many in danger. And here, the poor village boy will show that in addition to being the Divine Healer, he is also a Master Warrior!

Marcus was crazily in love with his fiancée Jessica, even when she saw him as nothing more than a burden and a freeloader. MARCUS was the kind of loving partner everyone wished they had, but Jessica never appreciated him. She constantly belittled him and preferred spending time with another man, treating Marcus like he was worthless. In the end, Marcus couldn’t take it anymore and left. That was when the whole world found out who he really was. He wasn’t a freeloader. He was the heir to the biggest company in the city. Jessica ran after him in panic, her face pale with regret. “Please… I was wrong. Let’s get married now.” Too late.

Twenty days before the world freezes to death, Zane wakes up again. In his previous life, the temperature plunged to minus 200°C, turning Earth into a frozen hell. Civilization collapsed. Warmth became currency, and betrayal came from those he trusted most — his fiancée, his family, and the neighbors he once helped. They left him to die in the snow like a fool. Now, granted a second chance by Hades, Zane returns with cold fury and zero mercy. This time, he will hoard every resource, build an unbreakable fortress, and become the Ice-bound Overlord. When the snowpocalypse hits… he will watch them freeze and beg. **Grab your coat. The ice age is closer than you think.😜**

"In the Arctic, there are no witnesses. Only the ice." Vane Skadi found the ultimate energy source—and earned a flare to the chest and a thousand-foot drop into a nameless crevasse. Betrayed by his fiancée and left to rot by the Zenith Syndicate, his story should have ended in the frost. But his tomb is the burial ground of a Primordial. As his heart stops, a screen flickers in the dark: [CRITICAL TEMPERATURE REACHED. SOUL-BINDING WITH "THE GLACIER HEART" INITIATED.] Vane doesn't just survive. He evolves. Consuming the frozen spirits of ancient predators, he masters absolute zero. He can strip thermal energy, forge weapons from black ice, and command the very blizzards meant to bury him. A lethal winter is coming for the elites in their warm, gilded towers. They left him in the cold. Now, he is the cold.

He was poor, dumped, and humiliated. Now he's the most dangerous man in the city. Everyone called Ethan Cross a failure. A broke delivery guy. A loser dumped by his fiancée in front of a crowd. But his life changes overnight when he awakens a mysterious voice in his mind. "Mission unlocked: Earn $1,000 in 24 hours. Reward: Wealth Enhancement Trait." What starts as a simple task turns into a journey of unstoppable growth. He builds an empire, destroys those who mocked him, and turns the city upside down. From trash to tycoon, from silence to power—the world will remember his name. But every reward comes with a price. And Ethan’s rise may trigger something much darker than he ever expected…