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After saving his wife's life, Johnson Harford is betrayed and abandoned in the hospital while she marries another man. Everyone calls him a useless son-in-law unworthy of respect. But they made one fatal mistake. The man they left to die is the lost heir to the powerful McArthur Conglomerate. Now that Johnson has reclaimed his true identity, those who mocked, betrayed, and humiliated him will soon discover that some mistakes can never be undone.

Benjamin was a nobody, a common scholarship student and an orphan with no support, he only had his girlfriend, the woman he gave everything to even when he had nothing. Their relationship was kept secret because Annabelle said she detested attention but during an excursion, she was shamelessly flirting with the school richest guy, Bryant a spoilt egoistic brat and when Benjamin confronted her gently, she felt embarrassed, like he was doing too much, like he was a pest disturbing her. And even when disaster struck, and Annabelle had the chance to save him, she left him to his death but Benjamin didn't die, choosing to protect a man that wasn't there when he was. But something mysterious happened to him afterwards.

Alejandro Vargas was the perfect wallflower, a pathologically shy twenty-two-year-old whose only goal was to survive his aunt's temper. But when a mugging in a dusty Mexico City plaza goes wrong, his life takes a rhythmic turn for the chaotic. The Baile o Muere (Dance or Die) System has arrived, and it only offers one way to survive: shake your hips or die. Now, Alejo must navigate the dangerous urban underground where every fight is a performance and every dodge is a salsa step. With a terrifyingly beautiful Argentine mentor forcing him into the spotlight, Alejo must find his soul before the final beat drops.

Alex Noir, a burned-out game developer, receives a mysterious VR headset from an anonymous package. When he puts it on, he's pulled into "The Endless Trial"—a brutal survival game where death is permanent and the only way out is to beat all 100 levels. Each level is a different deadly scenario (zombie apocalypse, fantasy dungeon, sci-fi space station, historical battlefield, etc.) Marcus gains real skills and attributes that carry over between levels He can collect "Respawn Tokens" by completing bonus objectives—his only way to cheat death The system gives him quests, stat screens, and skill trees, but it's ruthlessly unfair: make a stupid decision, and face stupid consequences Whatever happens in the game affects the real world. If he dies in a level, he dies in reality. But that's not his only problem, the game starts "bleeding" into reality. Monsters from incomplete levels begin manifesting in his city. The longer he's trapped, the more the game corrupts the real world. His friends and family get pulled in as trapped players. Alex must not only survive and level up, but figure out who created this game and why because there are other players trapped in their own trials, and something is systematically hunting them all.

"If Death wants you to die, you must die. But if Ethan Vance wants you to live, Death can wait in line." Ethan Vance spent three years of the apocalypse keeping a small team of survivors alive. Then the Doomsday Virus took the world, and his fiancée and his best friend took his supplies and threw him to the horde. Bleeding out on the concrete, he wakes something buried under the old city: the Death's Nemesis System. It cannot heal him. But every time Ethan pulls a patient back from the edge of death, it collects what the grave had already claimed, their lifespan, their strength, their hidden talents. Now Ethan has a blade that cuts what he understands, and he understands bodies better than anyone left alive. Warlords who once ignored him will beg for his medicine. Monsters will learn to fear his scalpel. And the people who left him to die will find out what it costs to need a doctor. In a world where nobody can afford to die, the man who decides who lives holds all the power.

In the frozen, post-apocalyptic wasteland, Arthur Pendelton died a dog’s death. Framed for the horrific murder of his own newborn triplets, branded an abusive monster by a corrupt jury, and exiled into sub-zero exile, he spent his final moments choking on frost and betrayal. Just before everything went black, the chilling truth was handed to him by his wife, Eleanor, and her lover, Dr. Marcus Vance: the children were biological Arthur’s, murdered in cold blood simply to destroy him and steal his wealth. Driven by unimaginable rage, Arthur closed his eyes in the snow—only to gasp awake two months before the end of the world. Reborn into his past life, Arthur finds himself back in his sunny living room. Eleanor is pregnant, using her belly to manipulate him into mortgaging their home, while Marcus pulls the strings from the shadows. But the gullible, devoted husband they once knew is dead. Armed with the knowledge of the impending global collapse and the cruel monsters hiding behind sweet smiles, Arthur refuses to play their game. When he uncovers their secret plan to poison him before the sky even falls, Arthur quietly turns their own deadly traps against them. As solar flares threaten to destroy civilization, Arthur launches a ruthless psychological war of vengeance, securing his survival while dragging his betrayers into a living hell.

“My mother is dying! I'm begging you, please lend me the money for her emergency surgery. I'll sign any IOU, I’ll work twenty hours a day to pay you back!" Julia didn't spare a single glance at the man barking at her feet. “I've already covered more than enough of your mother's bills. Don't push your luck. I don't have a single moment to waste on these sob stories.” * He sacrificed everything for love, only to be trampled over… Humiliated by his wife, despised by his in-laws, and treated like a servant despite sacrificing everything for the woman he loved, Harry Kipling reached his breaking point when she refused to pay for his mother's surgery, while showering her new fiancé with company shares, gifts, and attention. When all hope seemed lost, destiny had one final surprise. The forgotten thousand-dollar investment he made years ago has made him the owner of Horizon Enterprises, the company hailed as the newest multi-billion-dollar miracle— making him one of the richest men in the country overnight. Now, the submissive husband is gone. As the city gathers to welcome the mysterious, legendary new tycoon, Julia and her family are about to realize that the man they kicked into the mud is the same God of Wealth they are begging to meet.

Ruan Visser was a nobody until he was forcibly bound to a malfunctioning high-tech System that treats romance as a high-stakes survival game. His mission: seduce Elzandri Van Dyk, the ruthless 'Ice Queen' of the elite who fires men just for looking at her. Armed with glitchy abilities like 'X-Ray Sincerity' and 'The Perfect Smirk,' Ruan must climb the social ladder while dodging the lethal schemes of a jealous golden heir. In a world where failing a date means game over, Ruan must decide if he is playing the system, or if the system is playing him.

Kai Ashford keeps a tooth in his left pocket. Molar. Lower left. Marcus Vane knocked it out while three hundred students clapped like he was a circus act, then Kai hit him ten times in a row, each punch heavier than the last, and Marcus went clean through a wall. That's the thing his right hand does. Times one, times two, times ten, keep swinging and it keeps climbing. Rest for three seconds and the count resets to zero. Three seconds. He's terrible at resting. Now Marcus's father wants a word. A quiet man who eats steak with his bare fingers and who was in the room the night Kai's father burned. Twenty years old. Four cracked ribs. Penguin pyjamas. No shoes. Tomorrow there's a tournament in the big ring. Three thousand seats. His name is on the list. He never signed up.

A lowly scavenger discovers he isn't just surviving a world broken by dead gods; he is the vessel for their return. As shards of divinity fuse with his flesh, Reksa must navigate a web of lies told by the voices in his head while hunted by those who crave his power.