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For three years‍, Zane Long has endured h⁠umi⁠l⁠iation as the⁠ Shen family's l‌iv‌e-in s‌on-‍in-law. To th‌e world, h⁠e is a useless‍ husba‍nd living off his wife‍'s success. To the Shen family, he is‌ not‍hing more t⁠han a⁠ stai‍n on their reputatio‌n.⁠ Even his‍ wife,‌ Lillian S‌he⁠n, believes‍ he i⁠s an or⁠dinary man with no future. What nobody knows is that Zane Long is⁠ the missing⁠ heir of Dragon Palace, the most p‍owerful martial‌ organiz‍ation on Earth. Bound‍ by an old pro⁠mise and a sec‍ret missi‍on, he h‍as hidden his true identity whi‌le⁠ sile‍ntly protecting the woman he loves‌. But whe‍n power‍ful enemi‌es eme‍rge, cor‌porate wars erupt, and old rival‌s force him out o‍f hiding, t‌he Hidden Dragon ca‍n no lo‍nger remain asleep‍. As billi‌onaire⁠s kneel and mar‍tial masters bow, the wo‍rld will discov⁠er a terrifying t‌ruth: T‌he man th⁠ey‌ des‍pised‍ wa⁠s the one standing above them all.

In Neo-Veridia, time isn’t money. It’s life. Nineteen-year-old Evan is an anomaly. In a city addicted to the dopamine rush of The Exchange—where a roll of the dice can win you a decade or kill you instantly—Evan never gambles. He works. He saves. He survives. He is the only person in the slums with a serious face and a "clean" wrist. But the House always finds a way to break you. When his father is struck down by a rare, fatal glitch in his Life-Clock, Evan is handed a death sentence in the form of a bill: 50 Years. Due in twelve hours. With no collateral and time ticking down, Evan is forced to break his one rule. He enters the neon-soaked underworld of high-stakes gambling. But as he sits at the table, surrounded by desperation and sharks, Evan realizes something terrifying. He isn't just lucky. When he looks at the spinning wheels and shifting cards, he doesn't see chance. He sees math. He sees trajectories. He sees the future. Evan is about to play the most dangerous game in history. He isn't just playing for his father’s life anymore; he’s playing to bankrupt the system that enslaved humanity. The odds are one in a million. Evan likes those odds.

147 monsters. Kaelen Venn remembers every single one of their final apologies. Not out of sentimentality, but because most of them used to be human. In the haunting world of Elegy’s Cradle, ignored grief doesn't just fade away—it transforms. It morphs into hollow, hungering beasts that used to have names. Kaelen is a Grave-Warden. His job? Hunt these creatures down before they spread. His second, unwritten job? Make sure he doesn't become one of them. To fight the darkness, Kaelen has deliberately fractured his own soul, transforming the world’s raw sorrow into devastating power. But this magic demands a terrible toll. He has already forgotten the sound of a laugh he once cherished—he doesn't even remember *whose* it was. Six Wardens carried this burden before him. All six became the very monsters they hunted. Kaelen has survived longer than any of them, but survival feels like a curse. Until he meets **Solm Veylan**. Solm doesn't look like a monster. He looks like a peaceful savior. With the ability to strip away a person's grief, Solm leaves people smiling, calm... and completely empty. Now, with agents embedded in every global faction, Solm aims to awaken a two-thousand-year-old entity to erase grief from the world forever. He calls it ultimate mercy. Kaelen calls it an apocalypse of the soul. Flanked by **Mira**, a half-transformed twelve-year-old girl he chose to save rather than execute, Kaelen stands as the final wall against this blissful annihilation. Because grief isn't a disease to be cured; it is the raw, agonizing price of love. Kaelen has been paying that price for eight years. And he will keep paying it—even if it tears his soul apart. ---

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.

Noah Hunter was the son-in-law of the wealthy Noble family. He lived a life as a servant. Parents-in-law despised him. His wife didn’t care. The Other family members took pleasure in torturing him. For five years, Noah lived in hell. Noah had an enormous debt and a poor old mother. He couldn’t escape the Noble family. Noah had no right to die. A strange encounter with a homeless man changed his life. Now, Noah will start revenge.

Fifteen Years ago, John Vance was a street rat, beaten and exiled by the powerful Sterling family who bulldozed his orphanage and left his adoptive mother to die. Now, he returns as the commander of the world's most feared mercenary army. He doesn't want money. He doesn't want an apology. He wants to burn their empire to the ground, starting with the engagement party of the man who ruined his life.

What is the role of those third-rate villains in games or novels? I asked this question to myself quite a number of times. They don't have major screen time, but some of them have a huge effect on the storyline. And, if one of them hadn't played their role correctly, what would happen to the storyline? It seems like I am going to answer those questions since I became the third-rate villain in an RPG game. ------------------------------0----------------------------------- Chapter length 1000-2000 words.

When luck wasn't on his side, he was fired from his job, evicted from his rental house and couldn't find the money for his sister's surgery. It was there that the system came to his aid, and his life changed 100%. With a mission that is not easy Bryan does battles and matches, dozens of times he falls but he still does it for the sake of the agreement, but when his sister is targeted, he seems to want to stop fighting. Will Bryan give up?

Nolan was humiliated and rejected by the woman he loved, cast aside by her family, and made to feel worthless. Heartbroken, he was forced to walk away, vowing that one day, he would make them regret their decision. Now, armed with wealth, success, and power, Nolan is back and he’s no longer the man they once knew. He will make them plead for forgiveness, begging for a second chance. But some things can’t be undone, and forgiveness… doesn’t come easily. Does it?

Julian Vane was a corporate shadow, a brilliant analyst who traded his genius for a quiet life with his wife, Clara. But loyalty is a currency the elite don't recognize. After catching Clara in the arms of his CEO, Marcus Sterling, Julian is framed for fraud, injected with a lethal experimental toxin, and tossed into the harbor to be erased forever. He was supposed to die. Instead, he woke up. The heirloom watch left by his father has unlocked the Sovereign Vault, a hidden network controlling the world’s most dangerous data. Fueled by cold rage and a brain rewritten by the toxin, Julian adopts a new identity. He won't just kill his betrayers; he will own them. As he climbs from the slums to the pinnacle of global power, the world will learn that they didn't just kill a nobody—they accidentally created the Architect of their destruction. Revenge is a game of numbers, and Julian is finally the one in control.