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Alex Reed is the trash of the Jenkins family. For three years, he’s washed their clothes, cooked their meals, and taken their insults just to please his girlfriend, Sarah. But on their anniversary, Sarah doesn't give him a gift; she gives him a breakup note and climbs into a luxury car with his worst enemy. Left in the rain, Alex thinks his life is over until a mechanical voice rings in his head: "Divine Upgrade System activated. Your first reward: 100 Billion Dollars and the Global Martial Arts skill." Now, Alex is the richest and most powerful man on the planet, but there’s a catch. To fully unlock his inheritance, he can’t reveal his true identity for one year. While his ex-girlfriend and her new man try to crush him, Alex plays the long game. He marries the beautiful and cold CEO, Chloe Miller, in a contract marriage to help her save her business. Everyone thinks he’s a useless moocher living off a woman, but they don't know that the CEO they worship is actually working for him.

In Veyra, power is something you buy. Every level comes on credit from the Guild Bank, and the debt passes down to your children. Ren Calder was never allowed to borrow. The crystal marked him UNRATED, so he carries other people's loot for six copper a run, paying off a debt his father left behind. Then a dungeon ceiling collapses on him, and a secret Ledger System awakens in his mind. It lets him borrow strength from every monster he kills. But every loan has interest, and the interest is paid in years of his life. Now a faceless Collector is counting down the days until his account comes due. His little sister is dying. And the more Ren borrows, the more he realizes the Bank is feeding on something buried beneath the city. Everyone in Veyra is in debt. Ren is the only one who can read the books.

Lloyd Wallace built their empire, yet they chose a dog’s feast over his dying mother. Thrown into the mud with divorce papers slapped against his chest, Lloyd’s three-year vow of silence is shattered. While his arrogant in-laws celebrate their sudden multi-million-dollar success, unaware it’s fueled by his past brilliance, a shadow monarchy awakens. Operating from the darkness, the ultimate architect of wealth watches them touch the sky. He doesn’t want quick revenge. He wants them high enough to feel the fall.

Nathan and the others called Calvin a nobody. They destroyed his reputation, openly insulted his wife and publicly dishonored his late mother. Nathan was a billionaire with the entertainment world wrapped around his fingertips, while Calvin was the fallen industry superstar who now had nothing to lean on. However, to everyone's surprise, Calvin got fed up with the attacks against his family and suddenly declared war on Nathan, revealing that he too has secret weapons no one saw coming. When billionaires clash for complete control of the music industry, only one man will survive. Nevertheless, Calvin's enemies are yet to know his most dangerous secret yet…  Just who is Calvin Constantine?

“Only because he didn’t come from a wealthy family like his rival, the woman he loved abandoned him without hesitation. His death was no accident either. It was planned. Deliberate. Cold-blooded. But fate gave him another chance. He returned with the power of a martial arts master and the medical knowledge of a world beyond his own. Read the story of Peter Davis in The Parallel World Doctor.”

My girlfriend left me for a richer man. My boss treated me like dirt because I had no money. Then the Infinite Cashback System activated. From now on, the more I spend, the more I earn. Buy an ordinary suit, and the system rewards me with a luxury fashion brand. Treat someone to dinner, and a five-star hotel becomes mine. Now my four children are spending their holiday with me, and every dollar I spend spoiling them returns to me a hundredfold. My ex and my boss called me to an office meeting to humiliate me and show off their new status. I'm about to walk in as the richest man they've ever seen. Yesterday, I could barely pay my bills. Today, even billionaires seem poor beside me. And the system has only just begun.

"I was the only one who saw it coming. They buried me for saying so." Captain Ryker Hale died holding the last radio tower on Earth while the sky tore open and the beasts poured through. Then a cold voice said: [Reset Protocol engaged. Warnings remaining: 3.] He wakes up eight years earlier, in the briefing room where he was once dismissed as a paranoid fool. Now he has a combat system, the memory of every city that fell, and three warnings that can bend the future. But the aliens are already here, wearing human faces and sitting in his own chain of command. The agency that silenced him last time wants him gone before he starts.

Rejected by his in-laws, abandoned by his girlfriend, bullied by his employer, and beaten by the hired thugs, Irving Smiths accidentally activated his ancestral ability, the Divine Touch. Any antique touched was immediately assessed and the information acquired. At a critical time in his turbulent life, there seems to be a light at the end of the dark tunnel for Irving. This is the journey of a young survivor out of poverty to the throne of the city king.

Going to prison to protect the brother of the woman he cherished the most but on his return from jail time, he discovered she had married his enemy and had been tricked. In an unexpected twist of fate, he is granted the mightiest of all powers. Now he’s ready to put all his enemies in their place and show them what true power is.

After a night of passion, Ava wakes up to a harsh reality: the man who deflowered her, Dave, appears to be nothing more than a shameless braggart and pauper! Disappointment and anger fill her heart as she realizes the man she gave herself to is not the billionaire she dreamed of, but a nobody also despised by everyone around her. Dave, ostracized and ridiculed by Ava and her elite circle, quietly endures the scorn and chooses to remain incognito while secretly managing his vast empire. In a series of unexpected events, what happens when Dave's real identity as the most powerful and wealthiest billionaire is revealed?