Playing Dumb

Frank Forbes gave up everything—his career, reputation, independence—to support his wife’s dream. He raised their child. He built strategies behind the scenes. He watched her company rise. And when success finally came, she repaid him with betrayal. Murdered in silence, erased in a blind spot, Frank opens his eyes again— reborn on the very day her company goes public. The dinner is cold. The phone is playing her lover’s toast. This time, Frank doesn’t endure. He walks into the celebration banquet, shatters reputations, ends careers, and demands a divorce in front of the world. Backed by the Reclaimed Worth System, Frank will retrieve everything he sacrificed— and turn the empire she stole into the foundation of his absolute reign.

In the distant future, Virtual Reality Multi Massive Online Role Playing Games or VRMMORPGs have taken center stage on earth's mainstream form of entertainment. The hottest game Level 0 touts the greatest rating and popularity for its realism and in-depth features that keeps the players guessing on what the next surprise will be. One day one player returns 10 years to the past and find that his family is alive. He is further confused and wondered if this was a dream, but realization violently came upon him. Plagued by a mind splitting headache, future memories of his path from today showed him the grim fate that awaited him. Armed with the knowledge of the future, he pushes forward to a brighter future where his family is still besides him. Start from Zero and Rise, as a new AGE is about to begin.

Jayce Carter was born broke but brilliant, surviving the streets of Brooklyn with nothing but a sharp mind, sharper tongue, and a dark ambition. After his brother is murdered in a drug deal gone wrong, Jayce claws his way into the underworld—not to survive, but to dominate. He builds his blood empire from scratch—laundering money, stealing territory, and outsmarting every rival. But there’s one man he can’t outmaneuver: Malik Stone—the dangerously sexy, calculating kingpin who once broke Jayce's heart... and now wants a cut of his empire. Enemies close in. Bodies pile up. And Jayce must decide: Will he let love weaken him—or weaponize it to destroy everyone in his way? Power. Betrayal. Bloodlust. In the game of kings, only one man can rule... and Jayce is done playing fair.

Ryan Sinclair is a firefighter. His wife, Elise, is the famous "Ice Queen" CEO of Hayden City. Ryan thought he was living a dream—until the day he broke into a burning room to save a life, only to find his wife in bed with another man. He demanded an explanation. She treated him like trash. To Elise, Ryan was a lowly servant lucky enough to stand in her shadow. When Ryan finally handed her the divorce papers, she didn't even look at him, convinced he was playing a pathetic game for attention. But when Ryan truly vanished, Elise’s world collapsed. Without him, her empire began to crumble. Desperate and broken, the powerful CEO fell to her knees. "Please, Ryan... come back to me." Ryan only gave her one word: "Get lost."

Max remembers the poisoned bouquet. The betrayal. The trap. And he’s done playing nice. Announcing a divorce at the Hamilton family banquet stuns everyone. Rebecca begs. Alex mocks. And the cold patriarch Andrew Hamilton? He tries to delay the scandal—until Max volunteers for the deadliest post on the Meridian border. “You’d rather die out there than stay here?” Rebecca whispers. “Exactly.” At the border, Max meets Commander Silver Caldwell—fierce, brilliant, and nothing like the toxic world he left behind. As enemies close in, and old alliances shift, Max prepares for a new war—this time on his terms. Because Max may have been the Hamilton family’s biggest mistake... But now, he’s the one writing the rules. He died once. He won't die again—not without a fight.

After coming up with this amazing role playing adventure game idea, Eric Claus had an accident while he was going to pick up his daughter, Jodie from school, and it resulted in him entering into a coma, and also finding himself in a mystical world, exactly like the one he was creating for his game. On his quest to know how he got there and how to return to the real world, he realizes that he has actually entered his game world and now he has to survive every stage and challenge of this world in order to return home. So his fate of coming out of coma was in his hands, whether he lives or dies all lies in his ability to fight and survive the dangers of this world. Would he be able to survive and return to his beloved daughter?

Victor Langston West is a man everyone thought was finished: framed, hunted, betrayed by the people closest to him, and dying of cancer. Declared a murderer and erased from polite society, he vanishes only to return later as something they never expected: a low key billionaire who operates from the shadows. What started as survival turns into a meticulously built covert empire. Using dead-drop accounts, proxy companies, and a single piece of stolen intelligence, Victor engineers a climb from fugitive to untouchable financier. He keeps his identity hidden and his motives purer than the headlines. His goal is to expose the network that framed him, reclaim what was stolen, and punish those who sold him for power. The Hidden Billionaire is a slow-burn revenge thriller about identity, the hunger for justice, and the price of playing king in a world that assumes you’re already dead.

Lein Aeron dies the most ridiculous death imaginable—overworked to death playing the very game he mastered: Malivic World. When he opens his eyes, he finds himself resurrected inside the game that stole his life… but not as a hero. He is reborn as the lowest-ranked creature, a living joke with no talents, no stats, and no future. Hunted by players, humiliated by NPCs, and cursed by fate, Lein becomes the most worthless existence ever recorded. But when the mysterious Malivic Depth System awakens, the former top-tier gamer gains access to powers no one in history has touched—powers tied directly to the suffering he endured. Now, Lein rises. And everyone who mocked him…Everyone who broke him… Everyone who thought he was nothing…Will face the most brutal face-slapping revenge the Malivic World has ever seen. The game that killed him will become the world he dominates.

A young brilliant NASA astronaut who is determined to find an outer space substance capable of turning ordinary humans into humanoids. He called it vibranium. After proposing the research to NASA, it was rejected without any further ado(delay). As if it was trash. He resigned out of anger; however, the zeal to fulfill his dreams kept burning in his heart. Five years of building up his agency from scratch. Ten years of failed experiments on project Vibranium. He almost gave up on his dreams…not until 'Brendan Omar' came into the picture. A talented VR(Visual reality) gamer named Brendan Omar has made quite a show in playing VR games and is considered one of the best in the United States. He has no idea he's being watched by this ambitious QASA(Quantum Aeronautics Science Agency) for a long time. Brendan is now part of their plan.

Becoming a legend in an MMORPG did not end well for Aaron, a young teenager who gifted in the art of sword fighting. When he reached the highest stage of all players over 5 consecutive years, 'Martial Online Company' sued Aaron after suffering huge losses due to losing a huge of fans. Sentenced to 15 years in prison, Aaron had to pay for things that he never did! Ten years passed. They released Aaron after getting remission. However, his debts were piling up, and he was thinking of ending his own life. But someone suddenly came on gave him the offer to pay off all his debts by returning to playing MMORPGs and killing 700,000,000 orcs and goblins! Is Aaron willing to pick up his sword again? Or will he stick to his sword and end up with miserable? Follow the young man’s adventures in the world of Martial Universe Online!