Ruthless

He gave her the world. She gave him a prison sentence. To the public, he was just a supportive husband, quietly helping his wife build a corporate empire from the ground up. Nobody knew the truth: he was the world's most feared shadow asset, a retired titan who had traded a life of blood and secrets for quiet domestic bliss. But greed knows no loyalty. On the eve of the company's multi-billion-dollar public offering, his wife colludes with the city's powerful elite. Seeking absolute control, she frames him for a string of horrific crimes, casting him away into a maximum-security black site. They thought they destroyed a helpless man. Instead, they just unlocked the cage of a sleeping monster. Now, the chains are off, the old alliances are awakening, and those who orchestrated his downfall are about to learn the true price of betrayal.

Aaron's tragic love life comes to a tragic end, seeing him left with absolutely nothing. This closed door opens a door out of his wildest imagination, a past that he thought never existed sees him in a new world of affluence and power. With this comes various enemies, complications, and public slandering. He is not ready for this world of the rich, but as he finds his way through these turmoils, his mind is only centered on one thing…sweet revenge. Aaron's thirst for revenge pushes him to do things that could destroy himself, can he overcome these emotions and forgive? Or will his thirst lead him to the point of no return?

For ten long years, Ethan lived in the shadows as the outcast of the Sterling family. To Robert and Martha Sterling, he was nothing more than a tool, a disposable cog in the company’s dirty machinery, someone who could be cast aside at any moment to make way for the return of their beloved heir, Liam. When Ethan was thrown out into a stormy night without a single cent to his name, the Sterling family celebrated as if they had won a great victory. They had no idea that the young man they had so easily discarded was the sole owner of Apex Capital, the unseen god of the city’s economy, the one who controlled the very pulse of the world’s financial system. One by one, the fortress of the Sterling family’s wealth began to collapse from within. As Robert and Martha knelt on the marble floor of Apex Tower, tears of regret streaming down their faces, they finally realized a truth far more devastating, the monster destroying their empire was the very blood they had once so cruelly cast aside. But forgiveness was never part of Ethan’s vocabulary. When the secrets of the past came to light and the conspiracy of a global mafia syndicate was exposed, Ethan stood at the top of the pyramid, demanding retribution without mercy.

In the heart of Paris, Lucien gave his soul to the woman he loved and the kitchen they built together, only to be met with a cold, public execution of his career. Cast out into the pouring rain and stripped of his dignity by Camille, his former partner, Lucien discovers a mysterious holographic interface: the Michelin Love System. Now, with the supernatural power to infuse raw emotion into every dish, he isn't just cooking for stars—he’s cooking for blood. From a run-down bistro to the pinnacle of fine dining, Lucien will make his enemies choke on the very bitterness they served him. In this high-stakes culinary war, the secret ingredient is revenge.

"Your existence is a plague, Jin’er. But your marrow... that is a treasure." ​For eighteen years, Lin Jin was locked away, labeled a "Living Coffin." His body naturally emitted a corrosive poison that rotted everything he touched. He lived in agony, believing his family was searching for a cure. ​He was wrong. On the day he thought he would be saved, his father drove a hollow spike into his spine. The truth? He was never a son. He was livestock. A vessel raised solely to harvest his rare "Corrosion Marrow" to fuel his genius brother’s cultivation. ​Drained, betrayed, and left to die in a collapsing dungeon, Lin Jin heard a voice echo from the empty hollow of his bones. An ancient, forbidden entity that had been sleeping within him all along. ​[They stole your blood? Then take their lives. They broke your bones? Then crush their heavens.] ​The chains shattered. The poison didn't disappear—it evolved. Lin Jin rose from the ashes. He no longer cultivated Spirit Qi. He cultivated Ruin. ​Everyone thought he was trash. Until he turned their legendary swords into rust and their bodies into dust. ​When power corrodes the soul, survival becomes a choice.

When the global "Survival Game" begins, a terminal cancer patient discovers his illness has evolved into a unique "Consumption System," allowing him to level up by eating the cores of the monsters that destroyed his world.

"Your kidney? Haha! Ethan, you really are an idiot. It was me who needed a kidney match, and your wife gave yours to me!" For three long years, Ethan Sterling hid his true identity to pass a family test. He lived as a poor house servant, cooked all the meals, and even gave up his own kidney to save his father-in-law. But it was all a giant trap. His cruel wife, Chloe, only used him to save her rich secret lover. When Ethan catches them together at a luxury resort, Chloe doesn't feel bad at all. She tells him, "Let's be realistic, Ethan. You're just a useless delivery guy. Your kidney is much better off inside a rich man." Her family frames him for crimes, beats him up, and forces him to sign divorce papers, claiming he'll end up as a beggar. They have no idea that the multi-billion-dollar Vanguard Group has just been bought in pure cash. And the new, mysterious Supreme Chairman? It's the exact same delivery boy they're trying to break. As the top corporate directors bow down to Ethan, Chloe finally realizes the terrifying truth. Now broke and penniless, she falls to her knees and tries to crawl back to him, only to get one response: "Let's be realistic, Chloe. You're just a useless, penniless woman. My billions are put to much better use inside my bank than on a gold-digger like you."

Twenty years of service, twenty years of secrets, and one night of blood. Caevrik Dorneth was the perfect butler for the Krossel family, but when they are butchered in their sleep, he becomes their final ghost. Armed with a 'Black Ledger' filled with two decades of blackmail, corruption, and vice, Caevrik initiates a masterclass in psychological warfare. He doesn't need bullets to destroy the powerful elite; he only needs the truth. As he systematically dismantle the conspirators who ordered the massacre, he must stay one step ahead of the relentless detective closing in on his trail, knowing that for him, justice is served cold and at the cost of his own soul.

After being betrayed by his fiancee and business partners, Alexander Wirakusuma is left to die in a sterile hospital ward. Instead of the afterlife, he wakes up ten years in the past—on the very day his empire began to crumble. With the memories of the future and a cold, calculating heart, Alexander resolves to dismantle those who destroyed him. But as he manipulates the Jakarta stock market and corporate boardrooms, the enigmatic Seraphina Adhisti appears, a woman who didn't play a role in his past life. Is she a new ally or the ultimate wild card in his game of vengeance?

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?"