Strange

BLURB Alex had everything. A father’s name, a company built with his blood, and a home that was supposed to be his forever. Until Victoria came. In 48 hours, his entire world collapsed. His father died. The will left him with nothing. His name was dragged through the news for a fraud he never committed. And the only house left in his name became a trap with cops waiting at the door. He ran hrough empty streets, through the night, through a forest where no one could hear him scream. But running didn’t save him. A group of masked men found him first. When he woke up, he wasn’t dead. He was in a strange room with white walls, bandages on his arms, and two nurses who couldn’t be more different. One was kind, the other, Karina who turned out to be his first harem, looked at him like he was trouble waiting to happen. He was alive because of a man he’d never met. Mr. Giffs. The owner of this place. A man who rescues people “in need.” But nothing in this place is free. “You’re on the run, right?” Karina asks him on the third day, her red hair falling over her face as she sits on the edge of his bed. “Yes.” “Then Mr. Giffs thinks you’ll be fit for the circuit.” “Circuit?” . “The question is… are you willing to draw blood for blood?” Now Alex has a choice. Stay broken and let Victoria win. Or fight back in a world where the only way to survive is to become the very thing that tried to destroy him. A story of betrayal, survival, and revenge. When they take everything from you… how far will you go to take it back?

In a mystical realm where humans are blessed with a unique connection to their inner selves, a wondrous fantasy world exists. Every individual is born with a Daemon, a magnificent creature believed to be the embodiment of their very soul. As they reach the age of maturity, the Daemon settles into a specific form, granting its human host a remarkable ability. However, amidst this extraordinary reality, there exists a young boy named Jacob who has faced a fate different from his peers. From the day of his birth, he was marked as different, for he was born without a Daemon. This peculiarity made him the target of relentless bullying and scorn from those who couldn't understand his absence. Enduring the constant torment, Jacob harbored a hidden strength, an indomitable spirit that refused to be crushed by the weight of his loneliness. One fateful day, as he found himself cornered once again by his tormentors, a wave of determination surged within him. No longer willing to be a victim, he unleashed an extraordinary ability, a power that surged through his veins. To his astonishment, he discovered that he possessed a system—a mysterious force guiding him through the trials and tribulations of his world. It presented him with quests, and challenges that tested his courage, resilience, and wit. Each quest completed bestowed upon him new skills and abilities, transforming him into a formidable force to be reckoned with. Jacob's journey took him across vast and enchanting landscapes, where he encountered strange creatures, forged unlikely alliances, and unraveled the secrets of his world. With every quest conquered, he grew stronger, both in body and in spirit, shedding the weight of his past suffering. Yet, as his powers expanded and his reputation grew, the system presented him with a quest that filled him

THE DEVIL'S LEDGER Rafael Duro was once a billionaire entrepreneur with everything: wealth, influence, and a company he built from nothing. Then a carefully orchestrated betrayal destroyed it all. Framed by falsified records and abandoned by those he trusted most, Rafael loses his business, fortune, and reputation. Standing on a rooftop with nothing left to live for, he encounters a mysterious supernatural system that claims he owes a debt. Choosing survival over surrender, he begins completing dangerous tasks that slowly rebuild his life. Lara Quinn, Rafael’s former assistant, accepts a job at Harrington Group, the company led by Cole Harrington, the man responsible for Rafael’s downfall. Secretly investigating the conspiracy that ruined him, she is drawn back into Rafael’s orbit when both become unwilling participants in the same strange system. Bound together by forces they do not understand, they must work side by side despite old wounds and unresolved feelings. As Rafael rises again, a ruthless player named Dominic Farrell begins murdering others to gain power. After Rafael’s closest friend is killed, the battle becomes personal. While Lara risks everything gathering evidence from inside Harrington’s company, their partnership evolves into a second chance at love. The truth proves even darker than expected. Harrington engineered Rafael’s collapse to make him a candidate for the ancient system controlling their lives. When Lara discovers she may have a deeper connection to it than anyone imagined, both must confront questions of free will, trust, and destiny. Faced with an impossible choice between power and love, Rafael refuses both options and forges a third path. Justice is served, empires are rebuilt, and together they create a future that finally belongs to them.

Three years after civilization collapsed, Ethan Carter has learned one brutal truth: The apocalypse didn't destroy humanity. Humanity destroyed itself. While escaping a ruined city, Ethan discovers an underground facility containing a strange device capable of transmitting fragments of future events. Before he can understand it, the facility is attacked. Ethan dies. But instead of darkness, he opens his eyes in his own apartment. His phone shows the date. Seventy-two hours before the world ends. At first, Ethan thinks he's been given a second chance. Then he discovers something impossible. He remembers the people who survived the apocalypse. Not hundreds. Not thousands. Exactly 37 people. And every one of them played a role in shaping the new world. Some became heroes. Some became monsters. Some became rulers. And some betrayed everyone who trusted them. Ethan knows their names. He knows where they will be when the disaster begins. He knows which ones must be saved... And which ones must never be allowed to survive. But there is one problem. In his memories, Ethan Carter was not one of the 37 survivors. He died on the first night. Now he has only 72 hours to change his fate. As the countdown begins, Ethan races across the city, gathering the people he believes can survive. But on the second day, he encounters a woman who should not exist in his memories. She looks at him and whispers: "You came back too." Ethan freezes. Someone else remembers the future. And she knows something he doesn't. The apocalypse isn't supposed to happen in 72 hours. It's supposed to happen tonight.

Daren Holt wants a quiet harvest and enough money to raise his eight-year-old son. Once a siege warrior, he returned from war with a shattered leg and an empty wound where his cultivation core had been. His wife’s death left him with one duty he still believes he can fulfill: keep Orin safe. Then the mountain sect replaces the village’s grain tithe with a child. Daren’s desperate rescue awakens a strange sensitivity to old spirit works. He can hear the promises that once animated wells, mills, and walls. When he repairs those works and restores their purpose, their wasted spiritual energy begins to mend a path inside him. His gift offers strength, but demands labor, understanding, and other people’s trust. Hunted across the hills, Daren leads survivors to Hearthfast, a ruined fortress with a starving guardian. Helping him is Selka Thorne, a sect magistrate who defies her own order only after witnessing the cruelty she helped administer. Daren needs her knowledge. Trusting her is harder. As their refuge grows, every necessary victory exposes a deeper danger. The sect’s harvest reaches beyond gifted children, and the ruins scattered across the kingdom share a history someone has worked to bury. Daren must choose whether to protect only his son or accept responsibility for strangers whose survival may endanger him. When Hearthfast’s hearth finally burns again, a messenger arrives carrying the cultivation core torn from Daren’s chest years before. Why has the mountain kept it alive—and why is its ruler bringing it back now?

To save his family, he had to stop being human. Twenty-four-year-old Jid has spent his life in the dirt, breathing the rust of the Bulwark slums. As the sole guardian of his younger sister, Sommy, his world is measured in scraps of bread and the hours of backbreaking labor he sells to the powerful guilds. He doesn’t dream of glory; he dreams of a roof that doesn't leak and a meal that doesn't taste like ash. But the world outside the walls is changing. The "Infected" are evolving, and the shadows are growing teeth. When a high-stakes raid into the forbidden zones turns into a bloody execution, Jid is the one left behind. Betrayed and gutted by the monsters in the dark, he should have died in the mud. Instead, something ancient and hungry found him first. Jid wakes up to a world he no longer recognizes. The pain is gone, replaced by a cold, mechanical pulse in his mind and a shimmering gold light in his eyes. A strange, haunting interface now dictates his every move, granting him powers that defy the laws of time and biology—powers that the ruling corporations would kill to own. But the "System" isn't a gift. It’s a tether to an outer-world threat that views humanity as nothing more than ink on a page, ready to be erased. Now, Jid must return to the city that abandoned him, hiding the monster he is becoming while using his new abilities to protect the only person he has left. He survived the death of his old life, but as the hunger grows and the "System" begins to rewrite his soul, Jid realizes the hardest part isn't surviving the dead—it’s surviving the thing he’s turning into. And whatever is coming for him.

Jasper had already died once. In his previous life, he was a rising actor whose career was destroyed after he was falsely accused of murder. Betrayed by the people closest to him, he eventually died with nothing left behind. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself inside a cultivation novel he had read from beginning to end. Worse, he had become Jasper Stoneheart, a useless young master destined to die during the early stages of the original story. But Jasper knew the plot. He knew which families would rise and fall, which characters would become legends, and which places would eventually turn into killing grounds. With that knowledge, he decided that his second life would be different. He didn't care about becoming the strongest cultivator in existence. After everything he had experienced, all Jasper wanted was a peaceful life where nobody knew his name. With the help of a mysterious system and a strange blindfold containing the Eye of the Void, Jasper began changing his fate. Six years later, he finally believed he had succeeded. Living as a blind man in a quiet village, Jasper had a loving wife, a daughter, and the peaceful home he had always wanted. His cultivation remained hidden, and the world had forgotten he existed. Unfortunately, Jasper had made one mistake. He never realized that the village he escaped to wasn't outside the story. It was at the very heart of it. His gentle wife hides a terrifying identity, the original protagonist is still following his destined path, and the empire Jasper unknowingly lives within is destined to become the greatest battlefield in the novel. Jasper thought he had escaped his fate. Instead, he became the Emperor standing at its center.

Kaelan Voss spent his life as a beta tester for Elysian Rift, the VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). He was unremarkable, forgettable, and stuck in the tutorial zones. When the game's servers shut down for good, he felt a strange pang of loss as if a part of him died with the final boss, Morvath the Silent Crown. Then the sky cracked open. The Akashic Interface initialized. The fantasy world of Elysian Rift bled into reality. Subways became monster nests. Office buildings transformed into death traps. 90% of the population was wiped out in the first 72 hours. Kaelan should have been a statistic. But the moment the System scanned his soul, something broke. It recognized him not as Kaelan Voss, the F-Rank human, but as Legacy Entity #0001 the echo of the Fallen King. Kaelan awakens with two memories: his own mundane life, and the eternity of a God who ruled before being deleted. Now, armed with the [Echoes of the Fallen] passive skill, he can hear the attack patterns of monsters before they move. He knows the location of every hidden treasure, every secret passage, and every boss's fatal weakness because he created them. But there's a catch: his human body is pathetically weak. If anyone discovers his true identity, the System will flag him as a "Glitched Entity" and send every Hero-Class Awakened on Earth to eliminate him. To survive, Kaelan must do the unthinkable: play the role of the weakest man alive while secretly conquering the apocalypse from the shadows. He will reclaim his royal class. He will find out why the System brought his world to Earth. And when the "Heroes" who killed him in the game finally arrive in reality, he will show them what happens when a Final Boss gets a second life.

The Man They Sent to Prison Seven years ago, his life was destroyed. Betrayed by the woman he loved and blamed for a crime he never committed, he was sent to prison while his wife moved on with another man. His family lost almost everything, and the people who once respected them abandoned them. Now, he is finally free. But nothing is waiting for him except a broken family, a sick father, crushing debts, and an unfaithful wife who wants nothing to do with him. He doesn't beg her to return. He divorces her. With no money and nowhere to turn, he begins rebuilding his life and saving his family one step at a time. Yet strange things soon begin happening. He seems to know things an ordinary ex-convict shouldn't know. Powerful people begin watching him, mysterious opportunities fall into his hands, and those who try to crush him soon regret their decisions. As his influence slowly grows, he begins investigating the crime that sent him to prison. Then he discovers something terrifying. His imprisonment was never an accident. Someone wanted him gone. Someone benefited from his downfall. And the people behind it are far more powerful than he ever imagined. Now, the man everyone thought was broken is quietly preparing his return. But nobody knows the truth about who he really is. As enemies close in, his family is threatened, his past begins to surface, and the woman who betrayed him starts realizing what she lost. He spent seven years behind bars. Now, he's coming back for everything they took from him. But when his true identity is finally revealed, the people who sent him to prison may realize they made the biggest mistake of their lives.

The Manaless King of Sigma In 2100, humanity embraced Omega, a revolutionary VR game that promised endless entertainment. But Omega was never just a game. Created by an incomprehensible power, it was a tutorial preparing Earth for integration into the greater universe. When the tutorial ended, the First Awakening transformed reality. Mana flooded Earth, monsters emerged, and humanity entered Sigma—a universal battlefield ruled by the mysterious Universal Queen. Compared to civilizations that had cultivated their powers for millions of years, humanity was hopelessly weak. Mateo Álvarez was once humanity’s greatest Omega player. Then a catastrophic accident destroyed his mana veins, robbing him of his ability to cultivate. His glory vanished, leaving him a powerless outcast. Ten years later, Mateo died trying to save his beloved nephew and niece. But death wasn't the end. He awoke on the day before the First Awakening, carrying ten years of future knowledge. He knew the treasures waiting to be claimed, the enemies destined to rise, and the disasters that would shatter humanity. This time, he would be ready. Yet his second chance came with a mystery. Something strange had awakened within him—a remnant connected to the boundary between Omega and Sigma, capable of revealing secrets even the system couldn't explain. As Mateo rebuilds his strength, the future begins to change. Hidden forces stir, and the Universal Queen takes notice of the man who should have remained powerless. Why was Earth chosen? What lies beyond Sigma's tutorial? And why does Mateo's second life seem connected to a secret that predates humanity's Awakening? Armed with knowledge of a future that no longer exists, Mateo must rise beyond his former limits. Because this time, he isn't fighting merely to survive. He's fighting to rewrite humanity's destiny.