I Became The Ugly Lady

While the criminal was brutally killing me, my dad, the head of the criminal investigation division, and my mom, the chief forensic pathologist, were attending my brother Matthew Lambert’s match. In a bid for revenge, the criminal, who had once been captured by my dad, cut out my tongue and used my phone to call him. My dad only said one thing before hanging up. "No matter what’s going on, Matthew’s match is the top priority today!" The criminal sneered, "Seems I’ve kidnapped the wrong person. I thought they would love their biological son more!" At the crime scene, my parents were shocked by the brutal state of the body and condemned the cruelty of the killer. However, they did not realize that the horrifically mutilated corpse was their own son.

Jasper had already died once. In his previous life, he was a rising actor whose career was destroyed after he was falsely accused of murder. Betrayed by the people closest to him, he eventually died with nothing left behind. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself inside a cultivation novel he had read from beginning to end. Worse, he had become Jasper Stoneheart, a useless young master destined to die during the early stages of the original story. But Jasper knew the plot. He knew which families would rise and fall, which characters would become legends, and which places would eventually turn into killing grounds. With that knowledge, he decided that his second life would be different. He didn't care about becoming the strongest cultivator in existence. After everything he had experienced, all Jasper wanted was a peaceful life where nobody knew his name. With the help of a mysterious system and a strange blindfold containing the Eye of the Void, Jasper began changing his fate. Six years later, he finally believed he had succeeded. Living as a blind man in a quiet village, Jasper had a loving wife, a daughter, and the peaceful home he had always wanted. His cultivation remained hidden, and the world had forgotten he existed. Unfortunately, Jasper had made one mistake. He never realized that the village he escaped to wasn't outside the story. It was at the very heart of it. His gentle wife hides a terrifying identity, the original protagonist is still following his destined path, and the empire Jasper unknowingly lives within is destined to become the greatest battlefield in the novel. Jasper thought he had escaped his fate. Instead, he became the Emperor standing at its center.

The world of Nokstrella operates on two rules: Magic belongs to the highborn, and peasants exist to bleed. When Earth-born physicist Arthur Flores transmigrates into the body of a starving sixteen-year-old boy, he is faced with a terrifying reality—his sister is being dragged to a sacrificial altar, his mother is coughing up black blood, and heavily armored knights are preparing to slaughter his village for tax evasion. But Arthur soon discovers a world-breaking secret: "Magic" is just a volatile energy state. It obeys the laws of thermodynamics, physics, and chemistry. Armed with a mind of modern science and an artificial Aetheric Core, Arthur will not run. He will weaponize the arcane, build an ironclad industrial fortress from the dirt, and wage a brutal war against a corrupt kingdom, the Holy Inquisition, and the eldritch horrors of the Abyss. They wanted a blood tithe. Arthur will give them an industrial revolution.

In a world filled with war, the only place you can take refuge is where war merges with sanctity. Altair did exactly that. Leaving his past behind, he entered the tower, the heart of Aculon. What will happen now, what he will experience, whom he will save and whom he will kill, is up to him, but one thing is certain: he will reach the top of the tower and take his rightful place on the throne.

Betrayed and humiliated. Robert was seen as the student who fell from grace after the death of his adopted father. Many referred to him as the Emmetts’ adopted bastard. Some saw him as the bad luck that led to the death of his adopted father. All of these put Robert in a downtrodden position where he is mocked and trampled upon by any and everyone. His girlfriend dumped him for his cousin, and the Emmetts expelled him and his adopted family into abject poverty. Unknown to everyone, he wasn’t a nobody; he was the Graham heir and the most powerful man in the world as the Master of the Council of Rulers. Just one phone call, and Robert was back to who he truly was and his mind is set on one thing—VENGEANCE!

Jaai was a deadbeat son-in-law who was considered a stain to the honor of the Hullervard family.... ..... Imagine you've been slaving away all your life to please your wife... Suddenly found her cheating on you. Due to the suddenness of the event and some unforseen circumstances, you lost your balance on the top of a staircase and fell to your death... death? A powerful system saves you and gives you another shot at life... First thing, you left the hospital and went running to your mother-in-law's house to report the infidelity. But boom... you were said to have lost your memory... that the impact of the fall must have made you lose your memory... How will you take your revenge? Fight with all your might to prove that you've not lost your memory? Or Accept their claim and pretend to have lost your memory? With a system on your side, how hard can it be to use pretense as a tool of revenge, as you JOB your way to UPPER ECHELON...?

In a world overrun by savage beasts and ruled by elemental powers, strength is everything—and Kieran Vale had none. Labeled a failure with near-zero elemental talent, Kieran was a joke at No. 1 Middle School. While his classmates awakened extraordinary abilities, he couldn't even sense the fire flickering in the air. His crippled father was humiliated by the powerful Ashcroft family. His mother worked herself to exhaustion. And Kieran? He was just... ordinary. Until he wasn't. One ordinary afternoon, Kieran's soul was thrust back in time—one week before his death. But this time, he didn't return alone. [Ding! SSS-Rank Devourer System Activated] [Ability Unlocked: Devouring Transformation—Consume any energy and make it your own]

Eighteen-year-old Chidi is the joke of the hunter community. While others blast monsters with lightning and fire, Chidi’s only job is picking up the trash they leave behind. Still, he works himself to the bone to buy expensive magic potions for his girlfriend, Amina. But during a dangerous dungeon raid, Amina and a rich bully named Tunde trap Chidi inside a crumbling boss room to save their own skins. Left to be crushed in the dark, Chidi’s heartbreak unlocks something forbidden: The Sovereign System. Suddenly, glowing blue screens fill his vision. He can see hidden stats, enemy weaknesses, and the evolutionary paths of every item on Earth. That rusty five-dollar blade in the trash? His system can upgrade it into a legendary sword of gods. The weak scavenger boy is gone. The Sovereign Overlord has awakened, and it’s time for everyone who laughed at him to pay.

"Making girls fall for me like this... who the hell would want that?!" - Tenko Sawaru Inspired by the Parallel Paradise manga series by Lynn Okamoto.

Once, Ethan Ashford gave everything for the woman he loved. In return, she betrayed him. Veronica Harrington secretly gave the resources she took from Ethan to her lover, Damien Blackwood, the so-called Chosen One, the Protagonist, the Child of Luck, or whatever else. While Damien and other protagonists took countless "fortuitous encounters" to become the world's heroes, Ethan became the villain everyone despised. Betrayed and tortured, his family was destroyed, his bloodline exterminated, and he died filled with hatred and regret. But fate wasn't finished with him. Ethan awakened a hundred years in the past, before every tragedy began. And that too with a heaven-defying System, called the Villain System, that could give him rewards for changing his own destiny and destroying these protagonists' fortunes. This time, Ethan knew every opportunity the Chosen Ones would obtain, every scheme hidden in the shadows, and every betrayal waiting for him. Did the Divine Healer descend from the mountains? "I'll steal his inheritance." Is the King of Soldiers returning to reclaim his glory? "I'll crush him before he even rises." The destined Son of Fortune? The Heavenly Genius? The Peerless Sword Saint? I'll take every one of their opportunities and leave them with nothing. "As for the heroines who once stood beside those protagonists... If they deserve redemption, they'll stand by my side instead. If they choose my enemies, they'll share their fate." In this life, Ethan would no longer be the stepping stone beneath the protagonists' feet. He would become the nightmare that hunts every Chosen One. After all... "Who says villains are destined to lose?"