Brave

From Erwin Wickison I never asked to be here. One moment I was living my life, and the next I was dragged—along with millions of others—into a place ruled by a system that treats us like pieces on a board. Every Game is built to break something, whether it’s a body, a mind, or the small parts of myself I keep pretending are “good.” I’ve watched people die. I’ve watched people change. And I know I’m changing too. I just hope there’s something human left in me by the end… if there’s even an end. WARNING. This book contains smut, psychological decay, moral collapse, human intimacy twisted into survival, and a variety of horrors that do not wait for your permission before sinking into your mind. It will not hold your hand. It will not apologize. And it will not stop once you open it. If you continue, you’re choosing to step into a sequence of events designed to peel apart the comfortable assumptions you rely on to feel “safe.” Some of you will be fascinated. Some of you will be disturbed. Most of you will not remain the same. I’m not here to reassure you. I’m only here to tell you one thing: Whatever you think this is, whatever you think you know… you don’t. And once you begin, you can’t go back. — Welcome to the Games

He once became a family puppet, a spy and a shadow assassin for the glory of the family business. However, when he was no longer useful, his own biological father and half-sibling dragged him into a death scheme. The fiancée he protected… also betrayed him. When death arrived, a System gave him a second chance. He awakened in the body of a weak, poor high school student and a victim of bullying. This time, he chose to live for himself. With the power of the System, he will build a business empire, seize power, and someday take revenge on the family that once discarded him.

Ethan Blackwood enters the corporate jungle with nothing but his mind. Inside a failing company ruled by a proud, small-minded boss, Ethan quietly fixes what veterans couldn’t—systems, strategy, profit. But instead of gratitude, he meets arrogance. Instead of recognition, humiliation.

For two years, Brent Walker lived a lie. As Sarah Chen's assistant and boyfriend, he poured his heart into both her and Chen Industries. But while he was saving her company from bankruptcy and orchestrating billion-dollar deals, Sarah was busy taking all the credit—and sleeping with other men. She saw Brent only as her charity case boyfriend, and there was no day she didn't mock him in front of everyone to make him feel worthless. But when Brent was fed up with all the pain, lies, and deceit, he finally revealed his hidden identity. Brent was no ordinary assistant; he secretly owned half the buildings on their street. He was done playing the fool. The mask was off, and the real game was about to begin. Sarah was about to learn that the "useless" boyfriend she loved to humiliate was actually a billionaire wolf in sheep's clothing. And he wasn't just coming for her and her company—he was coming for everyone who had ever looked down on him. They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. They had never met Brent Walker...

Kaelen is a traveling illusionist who wants nothing more than freedom: laughter, open roads, and a stage beneath the stars. But when his path collides with the political machinations of Eldralith, he finds himself pulled into a deadly game of empire. The Veyran envoys have come to claim Eldralith’s princess as a hostage-bride, a chain to bind the kingdom. But beneath the weight of diplomacy and steel, Kaelen discovers that the shadows hide something older and more dangerous than politics and that his tricks are fragments of a power the empires fear above all. He has no crown, no army, and no desire for war. But when illusions turn to weapons and laughter becomes defiance, Kaelen must decide: run as he always has, or stand and become the spark of rebellion.

Aaron thought graduating top of his class would change his life. Instead, it feels like the world is against him. No one will offer him a job, and the one interview he had hoped for goes wrong after a call about his mom being rushed to the hospital. Broke, hopeless, and with loan sharks threatening his life, Aaron doesn’t know where to turn. Then a mysterious man gives him a business card with an offer that seems too good to be true. The job? A tech startup that promises fast money. The company is actually a front for illegal cybercrime, and his boss, Celeste, is way more dangerous than she looks. Celeste ropes Aaron into shady missions, promising to help him clear his debts. Things blow up when one of his assignments goes wrong, and suddenly, Aaron is being hunted by the cops and a powerful tech mogul whose secrets he accidentally exposed. When the loan sharks come after him, Aaron finds out his mom has been lying to him. The loan wasn’t just for his education, part of it was to cover her gambling debts. Even worse, the loan sharks work for the mafia, and Aaron’s mom has a dark past with them she’s been hiding for years, Aaron was just part of a deal she made to save herself. With everything falling apart, Aaron teams up with Leila, a sharp paralegal who wants to take the mafia down. But Leila’s got secrets too—her brother works for the same people hunting Aaron. Together, they’ll have to outsmart Celeste, the mafia, and everyone else trying to destroy their lives. If Aaron can pull off one last risky move, he might clear his name, take down the mafia, and finally start fresh.

After dying of cancer, programmer Kai awakens as the sentient core of Eclipse Online’s deadliest dungeon. Trapped in a game he helped code, he discovers the Devs are using players as lab rats in a simulated apocalypse. To survive, Kai must master his dungeon, forge uneasy alliances, and expose the System’s lies, before his code is erased forever.

Broke, jobless, and just one bad day away from giving up, Jake Morrison thought life had hit rock bottom. That was until a tragic accident killed him—only for time to snap back like a rubber band, giving him a second chance... and a mysterious power: the ability to rewind time by sixty seconds. With each reset, Jake turns misfortune into opportunity—from saving a young girl from abuse, to surviving gang ambushes, to winning the lottery with calculated precision. But every miracle comes at a price. As he navigates shadowy threats, run-ins with ex-lovers, and the twisted politics of Stellar International Corporation, Jake realizes he’s being watched—and not everyone wants him to succeed. Thrown into a world where secrets are currency and power is everything, Jake finds himself pursued by gangsters, entangled in corporate warfare, and caught between two women: Grace, the selfless landlord who believes in him, and Christine, the seductive classmate with motives of her own. Money. Power. Revenge. Love. Jake’s got one minute to rewrite his future… But what happens when time runs out?

Damien, a humble delivery guy, caught his girlfriend cheating with another man, while delivering a package to an apartment. The man was a spoiled, rich second-generation heir named Orion son of Derick. She didn’t even admit she was wrong. Instead, she hurled insults at Damien and coldly declared she could never live with someone stuck in poverty like him. Crushed and humiliated, Damien climbed onto his bike and rode away. But fate had other plans. On the road, he was involved in a terrible accident. As his vision began to fade, a mechanical voice echoed in his mind: Ding… System Activated. Welcome to the All-in-One Task Reward System. Those were the last words Damien heard before everything went dark.

The life of Guo Lingxu was supposed to end in humiliation—a weak, despised disciple bleeding out on Qianyun Peak. Yet, as death drew near, a miracle of transmigration gifted him a second chance, along with a terrifying, silent power: a miniature Black Hole Vortex spinning in his Dantian. This vortex was his cheat. It ruthlessly devoured all weak spiritual energy, replacing it with a single, potent stream of pure, crystalline energy. While others struggled with impurities, Guo Lingxu's path to power was instantly accelerated and perfected. He was a time traveler, seeking solace and freedom from a past life defined by weakness. The vortex granted him a supreme advantage, but absolute power still demanded absolute effort. With this core, his destiny was set: He would not just cultivate; he would ascend to the absolute peak.