The Trap Of Ace

In a world that demands perfection, only the broken can cut through fate. On the eve of his historic ascension, Li Xuan was the undisputed crown jewel of the Azure Sky Sect. A peerless genius destined to rule the firmament. But supreme talent breeds venomous jealousy. Hours before he could condense his legendary Pristine Jade Core, he was brutally drugged and betrayed. His sworn brother wielded the blade, his beautiful fiancé orchestrated the trap, and together, they systematically smashed his jade dantian into ten thousand glittering, useless pieces. Stabbed through his spiritual foundation, stripped of his core, and left to die in the bone-chilling mud of the Abyssal Wasteland, Li Xuan was labeled a "cripple." A broken mirror forever unfit for the Dao. But his enemies made one fatal mistake: they left the shards inside his soul. Driven by an absolute, terrifying will for vengeance, Li Xuan refuses to heal. Instead, he does the unthinkable he awakens the jagged, razor-sharp fragments floating in his ruined body. Where others see absolute destruction, Li Xuan forges a forbidden new path: Fractured Ascension. A perfect mirror can only reflect the world, but a shattered mirror cuts it to pieces. Each jagged fragment of his broken soul becomes a lethal weapon hungry to devour heaven’s Qi, twist natural laws, and reflect every past humiliation back tenfold. Armed with a hurricane of broken glass tearing through his veins and an unbreakable will, the boy they discarded rises from the pits. No mercy. No negotiation. Those who broke his foundation to keep him on his knees will watch him ascend using the very shards they left in the dirt. “You thought you destroyed my future? You merely unleashed my edge.”

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?

On the forty-first floor of Arcturus Group's Manhattan headquarters, 29-year-old financial analyst Nathan Cole operates as an invisible ghost. Meticulous, brilliant, and deliberately underestimated, he quietly corrects multimillion-dollar errors made by senior colleagues and watches without malice as the firm’s celebrated golden boy, Preston Mercer, takes credit for his strategic frameworks. But Nathan isn't passive; he is patient. For ten years, since the manufactured compliance scandal that destroyed his mother Diane’s firm and led to her death, Nathan has engineered a calculated, covert campaign for retribution against Arcturus and its predatory founder, Richard Mercer. To execute a plan built on institutional leverage rather than mere financial ruin, Nathan exits the shadows to launch Cole Strategic Group. He aligns with Simone Vega, a razor-sharp forensic accountant weaponizing an explosive case file detailing how Arcturus systematically crushed independent firms. To manage the high-stakes operational chaos, Nathan hires Marco Reyes, an intuitive strategist who brings unexpected warmth and humanity to Nathan’s isolated existence. As Nathan covertly acquires a commanding position in Arcturus’s debt structure and flips overlooked internal whistleblowers, Marco becomes his most trusted confidant. Yet, invisible fault lines threaten the foundation. Richard Mercer, sensing a ghostly architecture shifting within his walls, initiates a tense psychological chess match with Nathan to unmask his hidden adversary. Simultaneously, quiet betrayals stir in the background, tied to long-held family secrets and a second, unidentified photograph locked in Nathan’s box. As the trap closes around Arcturus, Nathan realizes his meticulous machine is no longer just a blueprint—it is a weapon. Standing on the precipice of total exposure, he must face the ultimate cost of institutional warfare: dangerous weapons can choose their direction, but they can rarely choose what they damage.

Leo Hamilton spent three years at Harwick University hiding in plain sight—enduring manufactured poverty, three jobs, and a transactional relationship with his girlfriend, Maya. When Maya frames him for academic theft to protect her own social standing, she unwittingly triggers a 1987 "hostile intent clause" buried deep within the Hamilton Global Foundation Trust. In a single afternoon, twelve digits of dormant, generational wealth unlock, transforming the campus’s most invisible student into its most powerful sovereign. But the money is just the opening salvo in an impending urban war. Across the city, Damien Cross—Leo’s brilliant, illegitimate half-brother raised in deliberate obscurity—has been waiting for this exact moment. Backed by Douglas Farr’s predatory private equity firm, Hartwell Capital, Damien intends to legally and financially annihilate the legitimate heir to claim the family name. Damien’s ultimate weapon is Selene Voss, a lethally effective social infiltrator trained to dismantle Leo’s alliances from within. The corporate chessboard fractures when Selene discovers a horrific boundary Damien crossed: the cold-blooded murder of a city official. Realizing she is merely an expendable instrument to a monster, Selene defects, delivering raw intelligence to Leo not out of a moral awakening, but for survival. Equipped with her data, Leo must wage a calculated war on four fronts simultaneously: a corrupt university administration, a private equity conspiracy, a government ministry primed to absorb his inheritance, and a ruthless brother who uses murder as a business strategy. Leo doesn't fight the trap; he renders it radioactive. Through glacial patience and architectural intelligence, he deploys precise legal instruments, media leverage, and forensic audits to dismantle the conspiracy. Ultimately, the shadow heir is legally neutralized, and Leo steps out of the wreckage to claim his throne.