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To save his family, he had to stop being human. Twenty-four-year-old Jid has spent his life in the dirt, breathing the rust of the Bulwark slums. As the sole guardian of his younger sister, Sommy, his world is measured in scraps of bread and the hours of backbreaking labor he sells to the powerful guilds. He doesn’t dream of glory; he dreams of a roof that doesn't leak and a meal that doesn't taste like ash. But the world outside the walls is changing. The "Infected" are evolving, and the shadows are growing teeth. When a high-stakes raid into the forbidden zones turns into a bloody execution, Jid is the one left behind. Betrayed and gutted by the monsters in the dark, he should have died in the mud. Instead, something ancient and hungry found him first. Jid wakes up to a world he no longer recognizes. The pain is gone, replaced by a cold, mechanical pulse in his mind and a shimmering gold light in his eyes. A strange, haunting interface now dictates his every move, granting him powers that defy the laws of time and biology—powers that the ruling corporations would kill to own. But the "System" isn't a gift. It’s a tether to an outer-world threat that views humanity as nothing more than ink on a page, ready to be erased. Now, Jid must return to the city that abandoned him, hiding the monster he is becoming while using his new abilities to protect the only person he has left. He survived the death of his old life, but as the hunger grows and the "System" begins to rewrite his soul, Jid realizes the hardest part isn't surviving the dead—it’s surviving the thing he’s turning into. And whatever is coming for him.

SYNOPSIS In a realm where magic and martial arts reign supreme, Kaden's nights are haunted by shadows of his past, driving him to seek power in the ancient arts. Years slip away, and his soul remains locked, a prisoner of his own potential. Desperate, he retreats to a forgotten corner of the world, where hope seems lost. But fate has other plans. A chance encounter ignites a spark, and Kaden's ascent begins, hurtling him toward a truth that will shatter the very fabric of his reality. The Wheel of Time turns, and Kaden's destiny awaits – will he unlock the secrets of his soul, or be consumed by the darkness that haunts him?

[Ding!!!] [Hacking System Activated!] Adrian Miles has spent his entire life knowing what it feels like to be poor. He works a miserable low-paying job, struggles to pay his rent, and sends whatever money he can spare back home to help his sick mother. But on the worst day of his life, everything changes. A mysterious Hacking System awakens inside him, granting Adrian hacking knowledge that should have taken years to acquire. This is a journey from powerless to powerful, from struggling to wealthy, from ordinary to extraordinary. This is the journey of Adrian Miles. From a broke nobody... To a Hacking God. Disclaimer: 'My Hacking System' is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or are used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual individuals, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

"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.

When Ethan, a long-time employee at a renowned company, was fired on charges of theft and embezzlement, his life fell apart. Intending to ask for a raise, Ethan instead received a dismissal letter. His misfortune continued when he got a call that his mother was in critical condition and then caught his girlfriend cheating with his own boss. Publicly humiliated, Ethan felt his life hit rock bottom. In his state of chaos, a meteor suddenly fell right next to him, unnoticed by anyone else. From the meteor, Ethan's phone emitted a mysterious system that allowed him to get whatever he wanted by completing missions. Each mission completed not only brought him money but also power that transformed his life.

As a student with an uncompleted tuition fee, the situation was already worse, But it got critical when Alex's only sister needed an urgent surgery for her heart disease, and a million dollar was needed for the operation which he couldn't afford. When he stepped into his best Friend's dorm room to borrow some money, he caught him cheating together with his girlfriend. Revenge was all he could think of when he chose to date his girlfriend's Best Friend too. moreover, He had to revisit his past. A past that he had tried so hard to hide from. But it didn't matter anymore. Because he was about to release a new era in Cornell University.

For Leo Greyjoy, life was a rigged game with terrible graphics and impossible difficulty. Drowning in poverty and medical debt, his only escape was competitive esports. But when his arrogant team captain sabotages his career, steals his tournament winnings, and kicks him out onto the unforgiving streets, Leo’s stress levels hit a critical peak—triggering a dormant, illegal military-grade nanite trial he participated in years ago for rent money. Suddenly, reality has a HUD. But as Leo climbs to the top of the human food chain to crush the rivals who ruined him, he makes a terrifying discovery. He isn't the only "Player." There are others who underwent the same trials, and to upgrade their own hardware, they need to harvest his. The real game has just begun, and it’s a battle royale.

Soren Whitaker gave everything to his wife's family. He worked for them. Protected them. Risked his life for them. When the apocalypse turned the world into a wasteland, he thought the Harringtons would finally see him as family. He was wrong. When their supplies ran low, they traded his life for the resources they needed. Soren died knowing the people he had sacrificed everything for had never valued him. Then he opened his eyes. Three months before the apocalypse. With the memories of his first life intact, Soren refuses to repeat the same mistakes. He cuts ties with the Harringtons, abandons the man they once controlled, and begins preparing for the end of the world. But this time, fate gives him something he never possessed before. A mysterious spatial ability. With an endless storage space, Soren begins stockpiling everything he will need to survive the coming apocalypse. Food, medicine, equipment, and resources disappear into a space no one else can access. He knows when the apocalypse will begin. He knows what will happen. He knows who will betray him. Or at least, he thought he did. The future begins changing. Disasters arrive earlier than expected. Someone else appears to know what is coming. Strange messages reveal secrets about Soren's death, while something mysterious waits inside his spatial ability. And the Harringtons, who once traded his life for supplies, are coming for him again. This time, Soren won't be their sacrifice. He'll be the one deciding who survives.

On the day their daughter died… Lyra chose to comfort another child. Brandon spent seven years loving a woman who slowly stopped loving him back. He endured the coldness, the humiliation, and the pain of watching another man and his son replace him and his daughter inside their own home. Still, he stayed. Because he believed that even if Lyra no longer loved him… she would always love Maggie. He was wrong. On Maggie’s sixth birthday, Lyra abandoned her sick daughter to celebrate another child instead. When Maggie collapsed in Brandon’s arms, Lyra still refused to believe the truth. “You used your own daughter to manipulate me!” she screamed in disgust. Meanwhile, Maggie’s tiny body trembled violently as her failing heart slowly gave up. “Lyra… please…” Brandon begged brokenly. “I’ll kneel if I have to. Just take us to the hospital…” But Lyra looked at her dying daughter with cold disappointment. “I’m ashamed of both of you.” Then she abandoned them on the side of the highway. As Brandon desperately carried his little girl toward the hospital, Maggie smiled weakly through her tears. “Daddy… don’t cry anymore. When I reach Heaven, I’ll ask God to send someone who will love you better than Mommy did.” Moments later, her tiny hand slipped away forever. That was the moment Brandon Hale died too. The gentle husband who forgave everything disappeared forever, replaced by a man driven only by grief, revenge, and the truth behind his wife’s betrayal. But when Lyra finally realizes the horrifying mistake she made… It’s already too late. “Brandon… I’m sorry…” she sobbed at his feet. “I never wanted Maggie to die…” Brandon stepped away from her trembling hands, his eyes empty and cold. “It’s too late.”

They took his name. They took his inheritance. They left him for dead in the gutters of Montenegro. Ten years later, Viktor Volkov is no longer the boy who cried for mercy, he is the man who dictates it. Returning to the city that spat him out, Viktor isn't just looking for a seat at the table; he’s coming to burn it down and build a throne from the ashes. Armed with a mind honed for precision and cruelty, he begins his ascent through the ranks of the Volkov Syndicate. But in a world where loyalty is a currency and betrayal is the tax, Viktor must decide how much of his humanity he’s willing to trade for total absolute dominion. The crown is heavy, but the blood on his hands is heavier.