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Lucas Grant endured three years as the Wright family's "useless" son-in-law. They don't know he's Zero - the legendary hacker who destroyed criminal empires. When his ex-partner Victor attacks his wife's company demanding $10M ransom, Lucas must choose: reveal his identity or watch everything burn. The useless son-in-law is about to remind the world why they feared his name.

“Hector! Hector!” Christen screamed. “Hector! Please help me! They have our daughter!” His wife's scream was the last thing Hector expected to hear on his return home after years in the military. The house was in shambles, blood everywhere and his family was no where to be found. Little did Hector know that one phone call was going to change his life for the utmost worst and destroy everything he had built for almost a decade. With nothing left to his name, Hector is at the brink of despair, betrayed by the country he had served with his life until he is approached by a strange man. A dead man for that matter who offers Hector not just a chance for revenge against his enemies, but an opportunity to have everything he's ever wanted. In this twisting tale of revenge, death and bloodthirst, Hector finds himself entangled in a dangerous quest. This is slightly altered when he struggles as he finds love yet again with a mysterious journalist. Will this new face in the picture cool Hector's burning, vengeful heart? Or will the Chance to Play God consume him completely?

“They mocked him. His wife despised him. Cedric Brown was just a poor college student until one call changed everything. Five million in his account. Now, the man they shamed is ready to rise and the world will learn who’s truly boss.”

They stole his invention. Seduced his wife. Beat him bloody. And left him to rot as a janitor in the empire he built. But when Ethan Cola’s humiliation hits rock bottom, something awakens inside him—a voice. A system. One that sees everything. One that remembers every betrayal. And it’s not here to forgive. [SYSTEM ACTIVATED] [MISSION 001: ENDURE. THEN ERASE.] Now armed with god-level AI, encrypted power, and the raw fire of vengeance, Ethan is no longer the man they discarded. He’s the glitch in their system. The shadow in their servers. And the last face they’ll see before everything burns.

Ten years have passed since the attack on the wealthy Hamilton family. During that time, Aland has isolated himself by hiding his identity, living as an ordinary man who is looked down upon. However, Aland Barlert Hamilton meets a mysterious man who seeks his whereabouts and is given a secret will of both his parents. Aland's life, who had hidden his 'Hamilton' identity for ten years, suddenly changed. After the will came, asking him to make the enemies of the Hamilton family pay for the deed, Aland had to come out of hiding. Now Aland will reclaim the throne of the Hamilton family which has been destroyed and slandered. How will Aland find the mastermind behind the Hamilton family attack and avenge the enemy's actions?

They took everything from him, his dignity, his freedom, his name. But when Brian Ashton walked out of prison, he didn’t come out a broken man. He came out to bury them all.

Everyone called Jake Carter a worthless junkman. They laughed when he pushed his rusty cart through the streets. They mocked his poverty. They bullied him because they thought he was too weak to fight back. Jake endured it all for one reason—his little sister was counting on him. Then one ordinary morning, a speeding car nearly killed him. And something awakened inside him. [Recycling System Successfully Activated.] Suddenly, broken refrigerators could become valuable points. Destroyed televisions could be restored to perfect condition. Scrap metal could hide fortunes. Even discarded electronics could become brand-new products. For years, Jake had struggled just to survive. Now, with the Recycling System in his hands, he had only one goal: Make money. Build an empire. Protect his sister. The people who once looked down on him would soon have to look up. From a scrap collector pushing a rusty cart… To the owner of a billion-dollar empire. This time, Jake Carter was going to show the entire world what he was capable of.

“They should cut your hands off before the next ceremony. Why let trash touch the Awakening Stone?” Dante Moretti is the disgrace of Saint Lucian Academy. In a world where power decides status, wealth, and survival, Dante is worse than weak—he is nothing. The Awakening Stone doesn’t glow for him. The examiners laugh behind his back. Students spit insults every time he walks through the halls. “Even stray dogs have instincts,” Renzo Cavalli sneers. “But you? You were born useless.” Every day, Dante endures the humiliation in silence. Being shoved into lockers. Having food dumped over his head. Listening as students compare him to worms beneath their shoes. Because if he quits the academy, his little sister Lucia loses her chance at a future. Then the sky splits open. Monsters descend upon the city, slaughtering everything in sight. Lucia fights to protect innocent people, but a D-rank Blightbearer tears through her defenses and lunges for her heart. Without thinking, Dante steps in front of her. The claw punches through his chest. Blood spills across the road. And the world changes. His blood rises into the air. A forbidden voice echoes inside his skull— [Mother System activated.] When Dante opens his eyes again, they burn gold. The monsters freeze. The air trembles. And the boy everyone called worthless smiles for the first time in years. “You spent your whole lives looking down on me,” he whispers. “Now learn what it feels like to kneel.” Three D-rank monsters disappear from existence in a storm of crimson light. Now the same academy that mocked him fears him. The same elites who treated him like dirt suddenly want his loyalty. But Dante hasn’t forgotten the laughter. And this time… the weakest boy in the world is no longer asking for acceptance.

Born into a cruel world where the strong are hailed as heroes, and the weak are branded as losers, Han Nian could only accept the harsh reality that his body was unable to cultivate like ordinary people. However, fortune stood by his side, turning him into someone powerful and invincible. What is a genius? All of them stand beneath his feet.

They took everything from him, then they framed him in debt and told him to figure it out. Hiroshi Tanaka has three days to come up with three million credits or his mother dies. The Kuroda family did all of it. They set him up, drained his accounts, and got his own girlfriend to stand up in court and lie about him. Now they're sitting on the one thing he can't walk away from, the machine keeping his mother alive. Then something appears in his vision that shouldn't be there. [Gratitude System Activated] [Rule: Protect. Receive. Grow.] He doesn't understand it. He doesn't trust it either. But when a debt collector shows up and starts pushing his childhood friend around, something in Hiroshi breaks open and the System drops money into his account that has no explanation and his body and strength change in ways he couldn't understand. The Kuroda still think he's a broke student with nowhere to go. They didn't know a gratitude system had been activated for him which made him richer and stronger. He will soon make them regret using him.