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"Sign it, Leon. A trash like you doesn't deserve to breathe the same air as the Miller family anymore." Leon Ardent looked at the divorce papers on the cold marble table. For three years, he had been the perfect house-husband. He cooked, he cleaned, and he endured the constant mockery of his wife’s wealthy relatives. He was the "Garbage Son-in-Law" of Northwood City. He did it all to fulfill a secret vow of humility. But today, the vow was over. "Is this what you truly want, Sarah?" Leon asked quietly. Sarah Miller didn't even look at him. She was busy leaning into the arms of Julian Vance, the billionaire heir who had promised her a throne. "I want a king, Leon. Not a servant. Take your cheap clothes and get out of my villa before the security throws you into the rain." Leon picked up the pen. With one swift stroke, he ended their marriage. As the clock struck midnight, the silent city of Northwood began to tremble. A fleet of black private jets darkened the sky, and hundreds of armored vehicles surrounded the Miller estate. The most powerful men in the world, people Sarah could only dream of meeting, knelt in the mud before the man she had just discarded. "Young Master! The three-year trial is complete! The Ardent Global Syndicate awaits your command!" Leon stepped over the divorce papers. The humble husband was dead. The Sovereign had returned. "Sarah," Leon whispered as he walked past his trembling ex-wife. "You wanted a king? Too bad. You just threw away the Emperor." Now, Sarah wants him back. Julian wants mercy. And the Miller family is begging for a crust of bread. But Leon Ardent is no longer the man who cleans floors.

Ding-! [Congratulations! You have been awarded the title of 'The First Person from Another World'!] [Congratulations! You have acquired the title of 'Owner of the Ancient Emperor's Secret Palace'!] [The Dual Gates you entered have been identified as yours!] [All the belongings in this Palace are yours, Master!] That's what Igarashi Kazuki heard, a man who was mocked and cast aside by his family and even the world due to his chubby and ugly appearance when he opened the extraordinary Dual Gates in his ancestral warehouse. He discovered a mysterious gateway that led him to a new world full of unimaginable possibilities. Through the Dual Gates, Kazuki obtained an AI System that helped him train and evolve into a stronger, smarter, and more cunning individual. Seeking revenge was not the only thing he did, a red thread guided him and destiny bound him to keep moving towards unlimited heights. However, his journey would not be an easy one, as there were many tigers and dragons lying dormant in both worlds that Kazuki had to fight in order to achieve all his ambitions with the thread of destiny guiding him. With colossal battles, a tantalizing love story, cunning political games, and power struggles, ambitiously aiming to become the CEO of a world-class company and participating in global geopolitics, creating many new innovations for the world, Kazuki will embark on an extraordinary adventure where he will face unexpected challenges and obstacles in his quest to conquer both worlds. How will Kazuki face it all? Will he become the best with all the desired endings and shape the future of all living beings in both worlds as he wishes, or will he be crushed by the challenges and formidable enemies that lie ahead? ******* This is Fantasy story, unrelated to reality.

BEAUTY and the Unconquered Beast Five years ago, Evren Valcero was the shame of his family. The illegitimate son of the powerful Valcero Clan, Evren was mocked, humiliated, and treated as a useless heir. When his own brother committed a crime, the Valceros sacrificed Evren to protect their family name. He was sent to Blackhaven —an isolated island prison reserved for the world's most dangerous criminals. Everyone believed he would never come back. They were wrong. Five years later, Evren walks out of Blackhaven alive. But the weak and broken man who entered the prison is gone. Inside Blackhaven, Evren learned things no ordinary man should know. Under the guidance of a mysterious old master, he mastered combat, strategy, medicine, business, and the art of reading people. And somewhere along the way, the underworld gave him a name. The Beast But when Evren returns home, he hides everything. His family still sees him as the useless son they once threw away. Until they decide to marry him off to Vireya Montclair Vireya is beautiful, intelligent, and one of the most promising heirs of the powerful Montclair Clan. But her brilliance has made her enemies within her own family. Her uncle wants her destroyed, her cousins want her reputation ruined, and her own relatives are waiting for the perfect opportunity to take everything from her. To both families, the marriage is nothing more than a convenient arrangement. A useless man for a troublesome woman. Neither side realizes what they are bringing together. When a suspicious car crash nearly kills Vireya, Evren saves her without hesitation. Then the real games begin. Someone is trying to destroy Vireya. Someone is watching Evren.

​"Two years." ​That was the impossible deadline given to Daniel to buy a luxury estate. It was the condition set by her rich, traditional parents to marry the love of his life, Olivia Eleanor. For a struggling student working night shifts to support his single mother, it was an astronomical sum. It was a polite death sentence to his romance. ​But fate had a different, far more brutal plan. ​Snatched from his world, he is thrust into the Tower of Awakening, a multidimensional death game. Amidst the blood and despair, he discovers a sliver of hope in the Tower Shop. It is a divine system capable of manifesting wealth and miracles back on Earth. To return home and fulfill his promise, he must survive and conquer the floors. ​There is one problem. He was at the bottom of the food chain. ​The Tower pulls participants from across the multiverse. He must compete against powerful mages, master martial artists, and ruthless challengers. Armed with a rusty sword, his one unique asset is a glitching, unmeasurable trait the system cannot comprehend: [Limitless Potential (???)]. ​It does not grant him instant power or magic. Instead, it demands a terrifying price. To grow stronger, Daniel must endure painful physical trauma, pushing his body to the brink of death to force a cellular adaptation. Every stat point is paid for in blood, sweat, and shattered bones. ​Surrounded by veteran killers who started miles ahead of him, he must weaponize his own suffering to bridge the gap. He will carve a path to the top, one step at a time. ​But as the trials grow twisted and his mysterious trait begins to mutate his body, a chilling question remains. ​By the time he earns the right to return to Earth... will he even be human anymore?

LEGACY UNCHAINED Born under a storm that silenced Atlanta’s skyline for exactly one minute, Kyle Harrison entered the world marked by a pulse no machine could measure. The Harrisons are a dynasty of prestige and power owners of multimillion dollar wellness corporations, admired for their philanthropy, and feared for something deeper: a secret inheritance passed through blood. To the public, they’re visionaries. Behind closed doors, they are the last living keepers of The Current an ancient force older than science, stronger than reason. But Kyle doesn’t want that life. Brilliant, disciplined, and kindhearted, he dreams of becoming a doctor, a man who saves lives with knowledge, not inherited magic. His parents, however, are bound by duty to the family’s covenant. They demand that he embrace his destiny as the next Conductor of The Current a role that would tether him forever to powers he doesn’t understand and to a legacy he fears will destroy him. When he refuses, the family turns on him. His education is cut off, his name blacklisted, and the empire built by generations becomes his greatest enemy. Stripped of privilege and protection, Kyle must navigate betrayal, ambition, and haunting discoveries about what The Current truly is and why it chose him. As he fights to reclaim his future, Kyle learns that denying his legacy won’t free him from it. The power in his blood has its own will and if he can’t master it, it will consume not only him but the entire city his family once ruled. Legacy Unchained is a gripping modern saga of power, faith, and rebellion a journey from destiny to self-definition, where family magic collides with ambition, and the price of freedom is written in blood.

“Luck is not random. It's leverage.” Clay Holmes was the statistical average of mediocrity, a man adrift until a catastrophic, improbable car pile-up, a cosmic anomaly, forced his latent destiny to the surface. Clay survived, not by chance, but by becoming the latest inheritor of the King of War Cycle, a living engine of fate tasked with maintaining the precarious balance of chaos and order in the world. This ascension gifted Clay a terrifying, dual power set. First, Physiological Regression, which allows him to instantly read every historical weakness, old injury, and micro-shift in an opponent’s anatomy, turning every fight into a perfectly choreographed counter-attack rooted in past truth. Second, Probability Bias: the true power of a strategic genius. Clay doesn't need to be stronger or faster; he subtly manipulates every stray variable, a breath, a flicker of light, a loose floor tile, ensuring the 0.01% chance of victory becomes a 100% statistical inevitability. But his awakening triggers a devastating war with the man who came before him. The Predecessor, the former King of War who cracked under the psychological weight of the Debt and the Cycle's constant violence, has returned to finish his mission: end all probability. Convinced that random chance is the source of all human suffering and the guarantor of future devastation, the Predecessor seeks to obliterate the very concept of luck from the world. To stop the Predecessor, Clay must master his terrifying control over luck and anatomy, leading him back to the Nexus Point of his accident for a final, reality-bending confrontation. The stakes are total: if Clay fails, the world ends in rigid, predictable order. If he succeeds, he must transcend his humanity, merging with the combined knowledge of every King before him to become the Consciousness of Possibility, the ultimate defender of human potential.

Ren, a young man considered trash in his sect due to his inability to cultivate, lives in the shadows of ridicule and ostracization. However, he harbors a secret both terrifying and extraordinary: every time he nearly dies from a technique, his body strangely absorbs and copies that technique permanently, making it his own. From simple fire punches to lethal holy sword strikes, or even destruction by legendary domains, Ren rises again with the enemy's power now a part of him. This unique condition transforms his suffering into a source of infinite power, propelling him from a loser into an unrivaled entity in the world of cultivation. Ren's journey begins from the bottom, using his first "death" to master basic techniques he couldn't even learn before. With ingenuity and courage, he begins to strategically seek out greater "deaths," allowing himself to be struck by stronger and more dangerous techniques. Every "death" is a rebirth, every wound is a lesson, and every trauma is a power-up. His reputation as the "Copycat Immortal" begins to spread, though most only see him as a mysterious and terrifying cultivator, without understanding the true source of his power. He must face increasingly powerful enemies, from sect rivals to regional tyrants, and finally ancient forces that threaten the existence of the universe. As time passes, Ren not only accumulates a vast arsenal of countless techniques but also begins to understand the true nature of his condition. Is it a curse, a blessing, or a cosmic anomaly? His quest takes him beyond the boundaries of the mortal world, challenging Gods and Demons, and uncovering conspiracies hidden for thousands of years. With every "death" that brings him closer to total destruction, Ren instead moves closer to the peak of immortality

To the Dawson family, Ethan Cole is the ultimate disgrace—a broke, useless son-in-law whose only value is doing chores and staying out of sight. For three years, they humiliated him publicly and privately, never imagining he could fight back. But the night a mysterious stranger addresses Ethan as “Young Master”, everything changes. Because the man they mocked is no ordinary nobody. He is the missing heir of a hidden global empire. And now his enemies know he’s alive. Ethan Cole once belonged to the powerful Cole Dominion, a dynasty feared in business, politics, and the underground world. But after a brutal betrayal that nearly cost him his life, Ethan vanished. He walked away from unimaginable power, choosing instead to live a quiet life with Mia Dawson—the one woman who loved him without knowing who he truly was. To protect her, Ethan hid everything: his training, his wealth, his past, and the enemies hunting him. But after being exposed during the Dawson corporate gala, Ethan’s peaceful life collapses. Trained operatives raid their home. Mia watches, horrified, as Ethan defeats them with lethal skill she never knew he possessed. The attack forces her to confront the truth: her “ordinary” husband is someone extraordinary—and dangerously so. As reinforcements close in, Ethan is thrust back into a world he abandoned. Old rivals seek revenge. Loyal protectors return. And Mia struggles to reconcile the man she married with the legacy he carries. With the Dawson family panicking and enemies closing in, Ethan must reclaim the identity he hid—before those coming for him destroy everything he loves. This is the rise of the man they underestimated. The son-in-law they humiliated. The heir they should’ve feared. And Ethan Cole is done running.

Takumi Asano, a painter from Kyoto, Japan, had copied tens of thousands of Vincent van Gogh's oil paintings. One day, he traveled through time to Arles, a small town in Provence, France, just before Christmas in 1888. It could be said to be time travel, or rather, arriving in a parallel universe. There, he became Marcel Duval, a 20-year-old local "chimney boy". Right in front of him unfolded one of the most famous tragedies in art history: the impoverished and down-and-out Van Gogh, holding a razor, was pointing it at his left ear! — "Mr. Van Gogh! Put down the razor!" — "Tell Armand... I'll cut off my ear and give it to him right away!" Was there actually an untold secret behind Van Gogh's ear-severing incident? — "Keep it, and it will bring you more and greater works!" — "You're absolutely crazy! Who are you?" — "I'm your top-tier manager!" Years later, the Parisian art circle had undergone earth-shattering changes. Van Gogh, who had grown into a great master, no longer had darkness in his eyes: "Marcel, it really was a good idea to keep my ear. Without you, none of this would have been possible!" Takumi Asano, once a lowly copyist trapped in drudgery, had now become Marcel, the world's "Godfather of Art". He smiled and raised his glass: "Come to my Provence manor this summer. I've planted a vast sunflower field—tens of thousands of mu—just for you... By the way, would you like to see my new paintings?" 【Time-Travel Redemption + Underdog's Rise + Rewriting History】! Click to read, and join Van Gogh in defying fate to turn the tide, lighting up the stars on the canvas!

Brother’s Due follows Kian Wu, a loyal disciple living in the shadow of his brilliant older brother, Tao, within the Ironveil Order-an ancient institution built on the myth of sealing a demonic threat. Unambitious and devoted, Kian asks only to support his brother. But when Elder Shou discovers the Order’s dark origins, Tao murders their master to protect the Order’s noble lie and frames Kian with cold, grieving perfection. Cast into the subterranean Hollow Vaults to have his core suppressed, Kian encounters the entity locked at the bottom of the world. It is no demon, but the original god the Order betrayed and entombed centuries ago. Realizing Tao framed him simply because Kian was loyal enough not to fight back, Kian forms a pact with the forgotten deity, learning to cultivate through primordial "resonance channels" that bypass all modern seals. Escaping the depths, Kian emerges to witness Tao’s coronation as Grandmaster. Hidden in the shadows, he hears Tao deliver a heartbroken, deeply sincere speech declaring his brother "dead to him." Kian comes to a terrifying realization: Tao is not acting. He has rewritten his own mind to genuinely believe his betrayals were righteous sacrifices for the greater good. Rather than seeking blind vengeance, Kian begins a calculated campaign to dismantle the Order’s foundational lies. Guided by the ancient god, he masters forgotten resonance techniques and gathers allies among the world’s forgotten outcasts. Meanwhile, Tao expands his empire under the banner of absolute purity. Their conflict escalates from a quiet family tragedy into a war for the continent's soul, as Kian fights not merely to defeat a villain, but to shatter the golden delusion of the brother he once loved.