Casse-tête

When the world ended, it wasn’t with fire or ice—it was with a game notification. One night, humanity wakes up to find reality rewritten into a deadly survival game. Monsters roam the streets, dungeons tear open from the skies, and every human is forced into a player’s role. Except for Ethan Cross, a failed gamer who spent his life mocked for being weak and useless. But when the system awakens, Ethan isn’t just another player— he receives the hidden [Game Master System], giving him the power to set rules, break limits, and bend reality. In this brutal new world where survival is everything, the weak are slaughtered, and betrayal hides behind every smile, Ethan must rise from zero to the ultimate Game Master—or die trying. Level up. Rule the game. Rewrite fate. Because in the apocalypse, the only law is survival.

Ten years ago, Caleb Vance was a boy forced to watch his family crumble as his father chose a mistress's ambition over his mother's life. Hunted into the frozen northern borders, Caleb didn't just survive; he became a god of the battlefield, the legendary "King of the North." He thought the war was over, but a single, terrified phone call from his sister, Mia, pulls him back to the city that spat him out. His aunt is broken, his sister is being sold to the highest bidder, and the woman responsible for his mother’s death now sits on a throne of stolen Vance wealth. Caleb isn't returning for a seat at the table—he’s returning to flip the table over. With an elite army at his back and a ledger of secrets that could burn the world down, Caleb will show City B that some debts can only be paid in blood.

Adam was a son-in-law of the Jones family. Not only was he humiliated, but he was practically turned into a slave of the family. Due to the love he had for his wife, he was enduring all the humiliations until he caught his wife cheating on him, on their two years wedding anniversary night. He was shattered and heartbroken. Clara didn't feel remorseful but served him a divorce letter and wouldn't stop bragging about how wealthy her new boyfriend was. Not only that, Clara's new boyfriend, Felix, also slapped Adam and offered him money, if he would lick his feet and beg for forgiveness, not knowing Adam was a Prince, who hid his identity just to find a true love. Watch how he takes revenge on his wife's family and those that humiliated him in the past. “Forgive us, Your Highness” They apologized, but it was already late.

A murderer. A crazy woman. Is what they all call me. Apparently to me, I'm seeing the dead, which makes me crazy to everyone, but I know I'm not. Being stuck in a psychiatric hospital with a pending murder case at hand is not how I pictured this time of my life. I don't really get it. I am a lot of things that I'm not proud of, but certainly not a murderer. How on earth will I be able to vindicate myself if the dead is making me look like a murderer? How will I be able to vindicate myself when my past ways isn't even something to write home about, and all it can do is just spice up my case? How will I be able to save myself when I, and the dead was never in good terms, and I happen to be the cause of it all? What have I done to myself?

His mother was abandoned, left to rot in a storage room. His blind sister had been sold as a gift to powerful men. And the woman he sacrificed everything for stood laughing beside her new lover. "My future is worth more than your entire family," Olivia sneered. Something inside Kevin died that day. But what Olivia didn't know was that prison hadn't broken him—it had transformed him. The desperate prisoner she mocked was secretly the last disciple of a legendary master. The same man now held the favor of billionaires, business empires, and the most powerful figures in the country. Holding his dying mother in his arms, Kevin made a vow. "You took everything from me." His eyes turned cold. "Now I'll take everything from you." They betrayed a son. They sold a sister. They created the billionaire who would become their downfall.

Five years ago, Caleb Thorne vanished on the battlefield and was presumed dead. His family was ruined, his assets seized, and his sister forced to become collateral for a debt held by the most powerful banking family in Switzerland. They thought Caleb was dead. They thought the Thorne family was trash they could trample upon. They were dead wrong. Caleb has returned, not as an ordinary man, but as The Soul Sovereign. Within his pitch-black shadow dwell 10,000 soldier spirits known as "The Hollows," hungering for fear. When enemy guns explode in their own hands and billionaires begin screaming hysterically at empty walls, one thing becomes clear: The King has returned. "You ask the price of my sister's life? Unfortunately, your money holds no value in hell." Don't make him angry. Don't look into his eyes. And for God's sake, never touch his family.

It started with the first $100 from Forex after losing nearly $15,000+ in the past few years. A small gain, but it was everything to Reese Myles. A sign that maybe, just maybe, he wasn’t cursed to fail forever. Then came the Wealth Accumulation System. On the night Reese should have died, crushed and heartbroken on the cold asphalt, clutching that first win in his hands with so much regret that he hadn't made anything good of himself, fate had other plans. [Wealth Accumulation System: Initialization Complete] [Current Net Worth: $0 | Projected Worth: Infinite] [Debt: ...........calculating] Reese can now invest, trade and avoid losses now that he is armed with WAS. Forex is going to make him a billionaire...or maybe even more than a billionaire, and he will defeat his rival, on both sides, crypto and trading, and take down everyone who treated him like trash.

Sebastian Helios appears to be just another lowly soldier discharged from the military, scorned and ridiculed by the wealthy. Even his fiancée, Amelia Lockwood, dismisses him as useless. However, what they don't know is that Sebastian is far from the nobody that they believe him to be.

What would it be like to go from being poor to becoming the heir of the richest man? A contract for the inheritance of the richest man’s estate, not only gives him money but also a beautiful fiancee! Ordinary people need to work hard to succeed, but Brentely Carter doesn’t need it.

I replaced his father to go to jail. The marriage I wanted didn't happen. He who loved me finally left me.  It was too late for them to come back by my side with the new me, the untouchable. I had come out on top among all.