Ruthless

James Lawrence's life was miserable. He was abused, mocked, and humiliated before his wife's big family. They didn't like him because James worked as a clerk in a small bar, unlike his wife, who worked as a manager in a big company. James believed his wife was different from her big family, given the amount of love between them. Until one night, when James came home late due to work, James eyes saw his wife sleeping in another man's arms on the bed. The sight certainly made James' heart pain and broken, and his wife's betrayal insulted him. When he was pensive, lamenting his ruined life. A notification appeared on the glasses James always wore. [Enemy tracks detected] [Activate VIP system] [Congratulations!] [You have complete control over all assets] James was shocked. At last, the day he had been waiting for had arrived. He had the power to prove himself to everyone who had put him down. "It seems that things will turn around now!" After years of waiting, James managed to get all his assets back. Now, his primary purpose is to investigate the case of his wife's big family.

Can you keep a secret? Lorenzo undergoes every kind of physical abuse and humiliation that one could imagine. His wife ‘Bianca’ was a heartless monster that craved his death. After a catastrophic accident that left him crippled and disabled, Lorenzo spent a year in a coma. However, his unhealthiness was not enough reason For Bianca And His Mindless in-laws to treat him right. For Bianca, A poor husband was too much to handle, but a poor and disabled husband was more than enough to handle. Humiliated, Starved, Betrayed and Beaten to death, they took delight in his suffering. Neither did they know that there are two sides of Lorenzo, a secret that nobody knows. He has sworn to turn the tables, no matter how long it takes, To make them pay for his suffer became his biggest desire, but what is the true identity of this man? Did they just judge a book by its cover? They have underestimated the wrong man! “And the never saw it coming….”

Grit, that was Elijah Langston's life. He knew life was harsh to the poor but his life was a combo of threat— harsh and bitter like bile. People relate with him like trash, spat in his face like his life was a cruel joke. The only person who he thought had his back and believed in him, Clara, his girlfriend was caught in seclusion, in a flashy hotel room with an arrogant billionaire in, Derek Vaughn. Not a flicker of guilt, no repentance, Clara spat it to his face, calling him all sorts of gruesome names that left him devasted and shattered. “Take a look around peasant, this life is what I deserve and not the hell you made me pass through. To hell with your love!” Clara didn't just hurt him, he made him look like a fool, taking side with Derek even when he was the one hurt. But a call. Just a call changes Elijah's life.

Rags to Billions. Bullied to Domination. Ugly to Handsome. Jason Reed was bullied and discriminated all his life. His life was filled with uncertainty and hate, especially from the people who were disgusted by his hideous looks. As a baby, his parents abandoned him. As a teenager, people hated him. Accused and jailed for a crime he didn't commit, Jason thought that it's hope for a good life will forever be a dream. But fate us twisted. Fate has other plans for him. He went back to school as a billionaire heir and he will make everyone pay for making his life a living hell, that includes his traitor ex-girlfriend. "What? He's rich?" "Yeah, but he's still ugly. He's so disgusting.'' He didn't care about what they say now. He will prove to them they picked on the wrong guy.

Kai Rylan has been married to Sarah Pierce of the Pierce family for two years enduring the snide remarks and inhumane treatment from her family. While he lives a regular life in the capital, he is riddled by nightmares of war and bloodshed. He is also unable to remember his life from before he met Sarah. His world is turned upside down when he and his wife are thrown out of her family house and when working as a delivery man, he meets a man who calls him “Lord Rylan.” He is the general of The Vorgath, the most powerful army in Valtoria. His memories return gradually and he soon realizes that everyone around him is the enemy.

Alex was reborn into Blue Star, a world of advanced technology and modern comforts, yet ruled by the ancient, unchanging power of royal families. As a prince of the mighty Roshar Kingdom, he was born into luxury but cursed with minimal talent for the martial arts that defined this world's elite. Seeing the brutal intrigue within his own family, his sole ambition became a simple one: to avoid the throne's bloody games and survive a long, quiet life of privileged obscurity. That plan shattered when he was framed for a rebellion he knew nothing about. Cast out by the king without a trial or explanation and abandoned by a mother who refused to even say goodbye, Alex was exiled to the Wall—the world's most feared military penal colony. As a low-ranking, seemingly untalented warrior, everyone believed he was being sent to a silent death. But the Wall was not a prison. It was the grim, hidden truth from the normal people. Here, Alex witnessed the real war: a daily, desperate struggle against nightmarish monsters, a crisis kept secret from the peaceful, modern world behind a veil of royal and Council lies. Facing the terror for the first time, he realized the world's cruel hypocrisy and his own terrifying fragility. Yet, in the carnage, he discovered a latent, macabre gift: the ability to harvest strength from the fallen. This power could change everything, offering a path to survival and vengeance. But even as he grasps this chance, burning questions haunt him: Why was he, the deliberately passive prince, chosen as the pawn? Why did his father condemn him without a word? Why is the true horror of their world buried beneath a facade of normalcy? Armed with a secret that could elevate him or mark him for death.

In the first apocalypse timeline, he trusted the wrong people, gave away what little he had, and was betrayed when food became more valuable than human life. Death came quietly—without heroism, without meaning. Then time rewound. Kyle wakes minutes before the world collapses, reborn with all his memories intact—and a system no one else possesses: the Infinite Supplies System. Food. Water. Weapons. A private Paradise Space untouched by ruin. But abundance comes with a rule carved in cold logic: nothing is free. Supplies can only be unlocked through Emotional Function Points. As cities fall and boys’ survivor zones are wiped out, a sealed girls’ campus becomes an island of desperation. Kyle alone can move freely through the apocalypse. He doesn’t force obedience. He waits. Hunger does the work. Cleaning earns meals. Labor earns water. Emotion—fear, shame, gratitude, desire—determines how much. Six girls stand at the center of this fragile balance: a campus beauty hiding terror behind smiles, an ice-cold strategist who refuses to beg, a fallen heiress desperate to reclaim control, an arrogant provocateur who thrives on chaos, a kind healer who sacrifices herself too easily, and a hardened survivor who refuses to be owned. Between them, alliances form and fracture. Submission becomes strategy. Strategy becomes betrayal. Kyle’s relationships with them are never simple. He is their provider, their ruler, their shield—and, increasingly, their moral problem. As the system rewards cruelty more efficiently than kindness, Kyle begins to realize a terrifying truth: the system doesn’t care about survival. It cares about consumption. When outside survivor factions finally make contact and the system escalates beyond Kyle’s control, he is forced to choose—declare himself sovereign over a starving world, or challenge the very system that keeps everyone alive. And the system is already watching how he decides.

> Miller lived in silence, carrying the weight of a twin lost and a past buried too deep for anyone to uncover. To his enemies, he is invisible. To his family, he is worthless. But blood does not lie — and when the truth of his lineage explodes, those who mocked him will kneel, and those who betrayed him will beg. The God of War has returned, and his enemies’ greatest mistake was underestimating him. “Watch me unleash the fury that made me a legend.” Miller muttered.

"10 persons. 10 lives who ruined my life. Soon they will kneel down and begged for my fvcking forgiveness." — Elijah Verrazano. ——— As someone who grew up in an orphanage and had nothing to be proud of in life, Elijah Verrazano is used to being bullied because of his status in life. But a woman who is a billionaire has been looking for him for so many years now. Who would have thought that someone who grew up in an orphanage is the next leader of a legendary mafia and is included in the top 10 dangerous groups in the world? As Elijah's mom tells him how he ended up in the orphanage when he was child, he is already planning in his mind how he will take his revenge. And Elijah will start with the man who caused his girlfriend to break up with him. And soon he will hunt the remaining people who ruined his life.

The struggle of survival and not knowing the outcome. Not predictable at all. When the destiny of the entire human race hangs in the balance, the prize for survivors will be Thenardier itself.