The Grand Line

In a gritty urban world where dreams drown faster than the desperate, Jason Hale is a forgotten orphan with no family, no future, and now just 60 days to live. Diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, his only light is girlfriend Stephanie Scott—the woman he plans to marry before the end. But when he discovers her betrayal with a wealthy rival, despair drives him to leap into an empty hotel pool, clutching his grandfather's mysterious cross necklace. As water fills his lungs, the cross activates: a holographic system screen materializes, binding him to "Fortune's Deadline"—60 days to amass riches or perish. Complete meaningful tasks for wealth and lifespan extensions; fail, and penalties strip away time, memories, and secrets. With clear rules (no exploits, strategic growth only), hidden costs (erased pasts tying to his unknown parents), and escalating rewards (millions and months added), Jason rises from penniless delivery boy to empire-builder. But as fortune flows, betrayers close in, and the system's true source whispers of a larger conspiracy. Will Jason rewrite his fate, reclaim his love, and uncover his orphan origins before the clock hits zero? In this high-stakes progression tale of empowerment and suspense, every decision buys time—or buries it forever.

Reincarnated and born as a branded slave in a brutal empire of magic, Christian has nothing. No status, no power, and an unawakened core. But the nobility made one fatal mistake: they left his mind intact. On Earth, Christian was the ultimate grandmaster of strategy, a man who conquered empires through flawless logic alone. He possesses no inherited bloodlines or divine blessings—and he needs none. To him, human arrogance is entirely predictable, and a magical war is just a grand calculation. By unlocking Kaelostra—an ancient spatial magic—he turns his surroundings into a personal chessboard, bending the absolute laws of nature to flip his enemies' deadliest attacks right back at them. From the toxic slave mines to the ivory towers of the Imperial Academy, they think they're dealing with disposable livestock. They don’t realize the match was over before it even began. The aristocrats have power, status, and armies. Christian has a plan. Welcome to the board.

The male protagonist is the nation's strongest war god. Three years ago, a coalition of enemy nations hunted him during a major battle. Despite emerging victorious, his legs were left paralyzed. After the war, he married into the female protagonist's family. She is the most capable heir in the family but faces hardship as the family head favors her brother. Struggling to survive, she has now been schemed against and lost the company she painstakingly built. In despair, she asks for a divorce from the male protagonist. Determined to rise again, he vows to help her protect everything rightfully hers.

In a decaying world ruled by mega-medical corporations, medicine has become a weapon. Cybernetic healers—known as Medarchs—can rewrite DNA, manipulate nanobots, and decide who lives or dies for the highest bidder. Raymond Briggs, once a prodigy under the powerful Helix Dominion, is betrayed by his mentor, framed for bio-terrorism, and cast into the BioWaste Districts, the toxic slums of Neo-London. There, on the brink of death, a dormant implant in his neural core activates: the Forbidden Healer System, a sentient nanotech interface that offers him unimaginable power. At first, Raymond uses it to survive. Then… to fight back. But as he heals and kills, the System evolves, granting him skills that blur the line between restoration and annihilation. Every use extracts a toll: pieces of his empathy, his humanity, his soul.

When Hagel, a veteran hunter, becomes the hunted, he must turn a city into a battlefield. With his team branded as traitors and monsters in the shadows, his only choice is to make a noise and fight back.

13 Heavens: Rise of the Bloodline Dreg The Aura is back. And the world will never be the same. Three years ago, the Great Revival flooded Earth with cosmic energy. Cities turned into wild jungles. Skyscrapers were wrapped in massive, deadly plants. Legendary beasts roamed the streets of New York. And the only rule left? Power, the power to cultivate. Leo Kaelen was born with everything. A name from one of the five ancient bloodlines. A future full of promise. And now… he has nothing. “Bloodline Dreg,” they sneer. “Scavenger,” they call him. His family is disgraced. Their cultivation methods lost. And Leo is forced to survive in a city that wants him dead, fighting for scraps while monsters hunt him at every turn. Then, during a fight for his life in a long-forgotten ancient site, Leo discovers something that changes everything: a celestial system has awakened inside him. “You… you’re not ready for this,” the system warns. “I have no choice,” Leo snaps. This is the Path of the Perfect Foundation. Where others celebrate reaching the 11th level of cultivation, Leo is forced toward the unheard-of 13th. Where others build stable Foundations, he must forge a Chaos Foundation. Where others strengthen their skin to deflect knives, he must harden his to Diamond Hide. It’s a curse. And it’s the ultimate weapon. In a city ruled by ruthless families and crawling with primordial beasts, Leo must hide his impossible power. Every secret level he unlocks brings him closer to the truth behind the Aura Revival and closer to becoming the target of every force that wants to control the new world… or watch it burn. In a world of giants, the one with the deepest foundation will rise highest.

Jael Monroe got betrayed by his girlfriend after he received a huge devastation. Angry and unwilling to resign to his fate, Jael looked for avenues to awaken his powers in this fierce world that dictates survival is for the fittest. When he was down in despair, he acquired the ultimate bloodline system that helps him grow stronger by absorbing others' bloodlines. With the powers granted by the system, Jael sought revenge while growing stronger enough to decide his fate and the fate of those who oppose him.

Adam Thomas has endured hell as a scholarship student at the elite boarding school, tormented for years by the sadistic brat Paul Auclair, the spoiled grandson of a billionaire hotelier. But when one of Paul's pranks leaves him fighting for his life, Adam sees the chance to settle the score. During a hospital visit, Adam meets Paul's father Philippe Auclair, the black sheep of the family. Philippe fears his estranged father will write him out of the will if his son doesn't show up for the holiday gala. He strikes a Faustian bargain with him: pretend to be Paul for the night and secure the family fortune. Posing as Paul, Adam is thrust into the opulent world of the Auclairs, And with Paul out of commission, nothing will stop him from exacting the ultimate revenge from the inside. But how far is he willing to go, and who will he become, before the deception destroys them all?

"I hate you. Because of you, I have become a laughing stock! You are better off dead, and you have always been nothing to me!" These words drove Lucian Drake to the edge, right after his wife cheated on him. He was ridiculed and insulted for being a cripple. Now he was no longer to play according to their rules. He would forge his own path, claiming his right as the supreme Urban Grandmaster. He would leave them in the dust and they would beg for his forgiveness!

Axel Steele, the legend known as Ghostwalker in Eternity Online, felt empty at the peak of his power. Axel discovered the Gilded System, which required him to reset to Level 1 but offered limitless potential through stat increases far beyond normal limits. Alongside his brilliant ally, ZaraBlaze, Axel faced a bloody rivalry with Liam Fury and uncovered that Eternity was merely a simulation created by the Operators to prepare chosen humans. When the Gilded powers began to manifest physically in the real world, Axel and Zara founded Nexus Innovations to prepare humanity for the looming cosmic anomalies.