Prison Break

In the soaring spires of Altheria, magic determines a man’s worth. To be born without it is to be a ghost in a city of gods. Kaelen was a ghost—until the day he tried to die. When Kaelen plunges into the dark waters of the Great River, he doesn't find death. Instead, he awakens a forbidden interface: The Arcane System. This is no ordinary gift of the heavens; it is a cold, clinical accountant of agony. Its rules are simple: mana is for the blessed, but Despair Points (DP) are for the broken. Every bruise from a noble's fist, every insult spat in the mud, and every memory of failure is now a deposit in Kaelen’s account. With his new system, Kaelen can purchase what nature denied him: artificial mana veins, shadow-walking abilities, and the dark secrets of the very Academy that shunned him. But the Arcane System is a demanding master. To maintain his new power, Kaelen must keep the "market" of his misery volatile. He must enter the Academy as an uninvited guest, face the golden boy who tried to break him, and survive the scrutiny of the terrifying Inquisitors. Kaelen spent eighteen years as a victim. Now, he’s an investor. And he’s about to prove that when you have nothing left to lose, you have everything to gain.

To save them, he broke himself. To destroy them, he will break the world. Evans was the Azure Cloud Sect’s greatest healer. He spent years mending broken bones, curing deadly poisons, and saving the lives of disciples who called him brother. He gave away his wealth, his time, and even his own health to ensure others flourished. His reward was betrayal. Accused of crimes he didn't commit by the very people he saved, Evans is stripped of his rank, his dignity, and his cultivation. With his Qi sealed and his body broken, he is thrown into the mud, cast out as a "parasite." But the sect made one fatal mistake. They didn't check his pockets. Possessing a mysterious, charred seed given to him by a dying beggar—an artifact that only blooms in the ashes of a ruined life—Evans survives. But the man who rises from the mud is no longer a healer. The seed grants him a power antithetical to the life he once nurtured: the power to rot, to wither, and to consume. Now, Evans walks a new path. He will cure the world of its hypocrisy, one "righteous" cultivator at a time. They called him a parasite. He will show them the plague.

"Your Honour! Mr Jack Turner not only regularly sexually harassed the female employees of the car wash, but he also beat up anyone who dared to stop him." "And my client, who had only stood up for himself to protect these poor women, was badly injured by him!" "He is a violent sex offender– and if this kind of a person is allowed to get away with it once, he will become a threat to the personal safety of us all!" ***** Years after leaving the shadowed realm of crime, Jack Turner finds himself at a crossroads, where he is wrongfully framed by his scumbag boss and betrayed by everyone he knows. At a time when even his wife has left his side, Jack has to decide whether he will continue to watch his loved ones struggle, or if he go back to the dark and violent world where people can be hired to kill: a world he used to rule, once upon a time. What dark secrets from Jack's past will resurface now? What lies ahead for Jack Turner as he stands at the crossroads of morality and survival? Can he find a way to clear his name and break free from the sinister web closing in on him?

They burned his house, broke his bloodline, and buried the truth in ice for a hundred years. Evander Vornic was never supposed to inherit anything — not the title, not the power, not the war. But when the Empire's soldiers slaughter his family on the night of his dragon binding ceremony, a dying hand forces an ancient ice dragon's bond onto him. Now it's killing him slowly, freezing him from the inside, and the only cure lies buried in the heart of the empire that wants him dead. To survive, Evander must become someone else entirely, earn the trust of the very people who destroyed everything he loved, and steal back the knowledge to save his own life. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes his family wasn't the first. And somewhere beyond the edge of the living world, a trapped dragon god has been waiting a hundred years for someone strong enough to free it...or wield it. Revenge will cost him everything and power will cost him more. And when an empire's oldest sin comes due, Evander will have to choose: become the weapon they always feared, or break the cycle that made monsters of them all. The ice remembers. So does the dragon. And neither one forgives easily.

Kim Do-hyun was just another potato in the crowd—an anxious college nobody waiting to fail the Awakening Program. But when the portal swallowed him, his identity shattered, and a new life took root. Now he is Han Tae-yang: a street fighter, failed streamer, and accidental legend who spent a decade trapped in Divine Tower of Gods, the cruelest game ever made. Everyone else quit. He climbed fifty floors alone. And then the game became reality. Relics bleed into the real world. Monsters walk in daylight. Governments scramble, corps rise, guilds rise, and hunters kill for scraps. Yet through chaos, one name spreads like wildfire: Loner. With sarcasm sharper than any blade, a ghost bride as his sister’s familiar, and a system that can copy powers, Tae-yang dismantles the new world one relic at a time. While others beg for safety or riches, he plots in the shadows—because for him, survival isn’t enough. He’ll break the tower. He’ll burn the system. And he’ll drag the gods themselves down with him. Action-packed. Darkly hilarious. Brutally clever. If Solo Leveling married Super Gene and raised a snarky delinquent kid, this is it.

Aria’s slippers. That was his nickname. The heir of the Storm family, the genius with an Ice Dragon physique, reduced to a lovesick fool kneeling at a woman’s feet. Groomed by a scheming step-mother and a selfish father, Ragnar was taught all his life that sacrifice meant love. So he endured humiliation, mockery, and broken bones just to live up to expectations. In return, they stripped him of everything. His talent? Stolen through forbidden rituals. Dragon bone? Harvested to empower his half-brother. His sister? Poisoned by his own hands, without him ever knowing, made to raise a child that was never his. Till the veil shattered and they repaid his devotion with the cruelest death possible. But death was not the end. It merely hit a reset button. Time rewound, and the Void Ice Archive awakened. An inheritance left behind by Orkryos Frostheart, the Timeless Ice Monarch — master of space, time, and ice. A treasure that once drove gods to war and burned worlds to ash. Reborn fifteen years before his fall, Ragnar remembers everything. This time, he would become the demon hunting others. He would regain all that was stolen. But first, he must find a way to break the dark ritual that bound his talents to his half-brother.

Ryker Hartley, a young man embroiled with a crime boss to claim a hidden treasure. Would fleeing be his only option in this uncertain journey? Or would he challenge his destiny against all odds? ********** A once easy-going boy turned the beastly version of himself, feared by all. With a past that has left a scar on his mind, the most cherished of all his memories has turned out to be an unfairly large grieving package for him. With an unchecked bitterness, and oblivious of an inescapable fate trapped in times, awaiting the moment to descend, he roamed, but with animosity and undue misanthropy. Ryker has closed himself off to the world, he's not one to forgive the most trivial atrocities against him, but when a frenemy manages to break through his defenses, Ryker's integrity is put to the test in ways he never thought possible. As secrets are exposed and alliances are formed, Ryker's life takes a dramatic turn as he becomes a celebrity. Will he rise to the challenge or crumble under the weight of his past? . . . . Find out in this action-packed and thrilling novel that takes a deep dive into the complexities of human nature. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PS: The image is not mine, I got it from Pinterest and then, do the editing. Owner >> Cody Garrett Hatcher

He died a failure. Betrayed, broke, and bleeding out in a Brooklyn alley. Ethan Hayes had nothing—no money, no respect, no future. His fiancée cheated with his best friend. His boss fired him for refusing to break the law. His family called him worthless. At 34, a bullet ended his miserable existence. Then he woke up at 22. Senior year at NYU. Same betrayals looming. But this time, he's not alone. [REGRET REVERSAL SYSTEM ACTIVATED] "Host, you died like a side character. Want to rewrite the script and make them the punchline?" With a sarcastic AI system that rewards him for reversing past humiliations, Ethan gets a second chance—and he's taking everything. The startup his roommate stole? He'll build it first and crush him. The ex who cheated? She'll beg on her knees. The corrupt elites who stepped on him? They'll kneel before the king they created. From NYU dorms to Wall Street towers. From broke student to untouchable billionaire. Face-slaps. Revenge. Power. And the women who once rejected him? They're about to learn what they missed. New York won't know what hit it.

When the Gate Event tears the sky apart, monsters, dungeons, and a mysterious System descend upon the modern world. Every surviving human awakens with a Class, and while Warriors, Mages, and Rangers are celebrated as humanity's new hope, Kade Ferris receives the one class nobody wants: Scavenger. With no combat skills and no stat bonuses, Kade is mocked, abandoned, and written off as useless. But Kade soon discovers that Scavenger is not truly a weak class. It can salvage damaged weapons, discarded skills, and broken abilities, then combine them into something entirely new. What begins as a desperate attempt to survive becomes an impossible path to power. As Kade turns discarded fragments into increasingly powerful abilities, he discovers that his class can do something the System was never designed to allow: break its own rules. But his growing power attracts the attention of powerful factions, dangerous monsters, and a mysterious entity lurking beyond the Regional Rift. While everyone struggles to understand what Kade is becoming, he must uncover the truth behind the Gate Event before the force controlling it destroys what remains of the world. They called him the worst class. They abandoned him to die. Now Kade is about to show them what happens when the world's greatest mistake learns how to evolve.

For three years, Ethan Cole endured endless humiliation as the live-in son-in-law of the prestigious Harrison family. His wife, Sophia Harrison, treated him like a servant. Her parents mocked him daily as a worthless garbage collector. Her relatives used him as their personal driver and errand boy. Everyone believed he was a poor, pathetic loser who married above his station. But they were all blind fools. The Divorce Everything changes when Sophia's first love, Marcus Wellington—heir to the Wellington Corporation—returns from overseas with mysterious intentions. Dazzled by his wealth and status, Sophia doesn't hesitate. She throws divorce papers at Ethan's face in front of the entire family. "Sign it. A trash like you was never worthy of me. Marcus is my true match." The Harrisons celebrate, certain they've rid themselves of dead weight. Sophia's mother sneers: "Good riddance! Now crawl back to whatever gutter you came from!" They expect him to beg. To grovel. To break down. Instead, Ethan simply smiles and signs. Then he walks away without a backward glance. The Hidden Truth What the Harrisons don't know would make them kneel and beg for mercy: Ethan Cole is the Supreme Dragon Commander, the most feared military leader in the nation.