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"Please, let me be poor! Why are you guys making me a business king instead?!" Julian Vance signed a contract with the Financial Reversal System: If his company goes bankrupt, all the remaining cash will be converted into his personal money. To speed up his path to poverty, Julian deliberately recruited the most disastrous team in Riverdale City—ranging from a lazy manager whose hobby was taking naps, to a head of procurement who always got scammed into buying junk. However, fate had other plans. The junk computers they bought turned out to be secret military quantum prototypes, and Julian's decision to raise workers' salaries instead triggered a national labor strike that destroyed all of his competitors! The chaos peaked when four of the most powerful women—a tyrannical CFO, a logistics dynasty princess, a legal activist, and an ice-cold auditor—ended up falling in love and forming a guerrilla warfare alliance to protect him from bankruptcy. As the company's cash drastically soared to 52 million dollars and his "Duck in Running Shoes" logo was deemed a revolutionary work of art, Julian could only weep blood. Cursed to always be filthy rich and besieged by god-level misunderstandings, can Julian find a way to fail?

At 11:57 p.m., every adult in Meridian City receives a countdown. When it reaches zero, the implanted System will stop their heart. Completing assigned missions earns time. Failing them costs it. A privileged few seem to have centuries. Everyone else has hours. Elias Venn has spent years hauling injured people out of the city’s condemned districts. He knows how to save lives without asking whether the patient deserves it. Then someone empties his time account while he is carrying a stranger to safety. With barely three minutes left to live, Elias accepts a hunter contract and learns a terrifying rule: the System pays more for a confirmed kill than a living capture. His first target holds evidence that time can be stolen from registered citizens. Worse, the theft is tied to Mara, Elias’s younger sister, whose own countdown has begun to collapse. Each level Elias gains opens a new route through a city divided into lethal missions, restricted districts, hunter rankings, and hidden administrative permissions. But greater strength brings greater temptation: he can buy time for Mara only by risking his own life—or taking it from someone else. An ex-System auditor named Tessa Rook offers him access to the records everyone wants destroyed. She distrusts hunters, and Elias has every reason to distrust the institution she once served. Their uneasy partnership deepens as they uncover a chain of contracts leading toward the people who designed the countdown. When a new mission appears offering Elias the hours he desperately needs, its target is not a criminal. The name on the execution order is someone he swore he would protect. And the System has already started the timer.

Aeron Miller was nothing. Weak. Bullied. Overlooked. Then the apocalypse came. Five years later, Aeron was the last survivor of Oakhaven, carrying the memories of everything he had lost—including the betrayal of his closest friend, Julius Everton, who killed him for a mysterious violet gemstone. But death wasn't the end. Aeron wakes up seven days before the System descends, back in his weak body with one advantage no one else possesses: He knows the future. He knows where the first monsters will appear. He knows which dungeons contain powerful treasures. He knows which people will become heroes, which will become monsters, and which will die. This time, Aeron refuses to remain weak. Armed with a stolen future, a mysterious ability called Temporal Echo, and the determination to change his fate, he begins preparing for the apocalypse before anyone even realizes it's coming. His goal is simple: Become strong enough to survive. But the moment Aeron kills his first monster, the future he remembers begins to change. New rifts appear. Unknown creatures emerge. People awaken abilities earlier than they should. And worst of all, Julius is changing too. The man who betrayed Aeron in the previous timeline may have awakened an ability far earlier than expected. Aeron thought knowing the future would give him an unbeatable advantage. He was wrong. Because the moment he returned to the past, the future stopped following the rules he remembered. And now, Aeron must survive an apocalypse he no longer knows completely.

Ninety-one days. That's all the time Drew has before the nukes fall. He died in an alley. Knife in his back. His ex-wife and her rich boyfriend watching from an armored car, toasting his death like it was a celebration. Then he woke up. Back in time. Three months before the bombs. The world still thinks he's a loser. His ex-wife thinks she's poisoned him slow enough to get away with it. Her brother thinks he can threaten him out of his own house. The rich CEO thinks he can steal his wife and his home without consequence. They have no idea. Drew lived five years in the ashes. Five years eating rat meat, killing men who wanted his water, stitching his own wounds in the dark. He saw how the world ended. He saw who survived—and who didn't. Now he's going back. He knows what's coming. He knows where to hide. He knows who to trust. He's going to turn his basement into a fortress. He's going to stockpile enough food, guns, and medicine to outlast the nuclear winter. He's going to watch the world burn—and laugh. And the first thing he's going to do? Make sure the people who killed him the first time suffer worse than he did.

They said he was nothing. The System agreed. Born Null in a world where your rank is your worth, Oren Vask has spent twenty-two years being invisible. No power. No place. No future. Just survival, one day at a time. Then the Purge comes — the System's cleansing event designed to erase every Null from existence. Oren does not get erased. Something wakes up inside him instead. Something old, something forbidden, something the System has spent centuries trying to bury. The Null Codex activates. And for the first time in his life, Oren is more than nothing. But every power the Codex gives him comes at a price. A memory. A piece of himself. The stronger he becomes, the less of himself remains. And the people who built the System? They are coming for him. Because Null was never the weakest class. It was a prison. And Oren Vask was never meant to get out.

When a rare eclipse darkens the sky, it triggers a horrific mutation that turns the terminally ill into feral, intelligent predators. As civilization falls overnight, Asher Hale loses his parents and becomes one of the hunted. On the run, he forms an uneasy alliance with three survivors Serena, Kane, and Elara. Together, they navigate a world where the transformed evolve rapidly, hunting in coordinated packs and learning with every kill. But everything changes when Asher is bitten by a Stage 2 predator… and doesn’t turn. Instead, he becomes something new, stronger, faster, with a scent that draws predators to him. When Kane discovers Asher’s blood can cure early infections, Asher becomes the most wanted person alive. Now hunted by monsters, soldiers, and terrified settlements, Asher and his allies journey toward the rumored Eclipse Division Base for answers. There they uncover the truth: the eclipse wasn’t natural, and the evolved alphas have plans for Asher’s hybrid form. In the final battle for humanity’s survival, Asher must choose between the human he was… and the monster he’s becoming.

“Death was mercy. The orb was not.” Bjorn never asked to be chosen—he only wanted to disappear. But when the broken, 21-year-old awakens in a prison shaped like a world and ruled by a faceless witch, he learns that even despair has a price. Here, pain is survival, sins divide the living, and mercy is the rarest lie of all. As Bjorn claws his way through a realm twisted by the seven deadly sins, he must decide whether to break… or to become something far worse. This story was born from nothing but a dream—no studio, no team, just a voice that refused to stay silent. If you’ve ever felt lost, unseen, or drowning in your own thoughts—this story is for you.

Andrew Chappatti is nothing. To the Ciaro family, Boston's most powerful crime dynasty, he's a nameless handyman who fixes electronics and keeps his head down. Married to the don's favorite daughter, Emilia, as a dying wish, he's spent two years as an invisible, unconsummated husband. A joke. A pauper. A nobody. But when the city's most dangerous drug lord, Lesner, crashes Mrs. Ciaro's birthday party and claims Emilia as his bride, Andrew does something no one expects: he stands up and calls her his wife. Humiliated and broken, Andrew runs into the night. That's when the black SUVs arrive. Dragged to a hidden mansion, Andrew discovers the truth his father died to protect: he's not a handyman. He's the heir to the Chappatti Cartel, the most feared criminal empire the world has ever seen. And tonight, a hundred men in red bow to him as their leader. Lesner thinks he's taking Emilia in three days. He doesn't know who he's dealing with. The underrated son-in-law is about to become the most dangerous man in Boston. ---

Valerius was the undisputed Sovereign of the Cosmos, a being whose mere presence made galactic empires tremble. That was until his most trusted commanders orchestrated a universe-wide coup, shattering his soul and casting his legacy into the cosmic Abyss. But death was not the end. A millennium later, the Sovereign awakens in the frail, battered body of Zael—a despised and bullied academy cadet on a backwater junk-planet. Stripped of his god-like powers, his empire, and his true name, he is left with only one thing: a mechanical voice echoing in his mind. [Ding! The Apex Reboot System has successfully bound to the host.] Armed with his past-life knowledge of the universe's greatest secrets and a System that grants him limitless leveling speed, the fallen Overlord must start from level one. As Zael, he will conquer this forgotten planet, dominate his oppressors, and carve a bloody path back to the stars. The universe thought Valerius was dead. He is about to remind them why he was feared.

For three painful years, Lucas lived as a nobody. He cooked every meal, washed every floor, and wiped every stain in the Vance family home. His mother in law treated him worse than a stray dog. His wife, Chloe Vance, looked at him with cold disgust, choosing to spend her nights with the arrogant rich heir, Julian Sterling. Every day, Julian threw money in Lucas face and called him a stay at home loser. Lucas took every single insult without saying a word. Why did he stay quiet? Because he promised his dying grandfather he would live like an ordinary poor man for three years. On the exact night his three year promise ended, Chloe handed him divorce papers. She threw three thousand dollars at his chest, thinking she was dumping a useless husband. But Lucas just smiled and walked out into the dark night. What Chloe and Julian did not know was that Lucas Vance was never a poor boy. He was the sole heir to Grand Dragon Financial, the biggest banking group in the entire nation, holding over fifty billion dollars in pure cash. Now, the three years are up. Lucas steps back into the light as the most powerful CEO in the city. One phone call from his hand can crush Julian family business overnight. One word from his mouth can lock his arrogant mother in law in a cold prison cell. When Chloe realizes the poor beggar she dumped is actually the supreme boss holding her family destiny, she falls to her knees in tears. But Lucas heart has already turned to pure ice. The game has changed, and every single person who stepped on him will pay back in blood and tears.