The Trap Of Ace

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.

Trapped at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy, Lucas thought loyalty and hard work would earn him a future. Instead, his best friend Damon framed him for embezzlement, his fiancée Jessica abandoned him for status, and ruthless CEO Lancelot Peterson ordered his execution in a rain-slicked alley. But as blood pooled in the mud, a golden prompt ignited in his vision: Supreme Revenge Cultivation System Initializing... Waking up three years in the past, Lucas carries his memories, a ruthless mind, and a system that converts every public face-slap, broken conspiracy, and dead enemy into raw cultivation power. From executing a high-stakes public slap at the very engagement party that ruined his past life to hacking corporate broadcast networks with live evidence of his killers' crimes, Lucas transforms every trap into an arena for retribution. But as his power surges, a dormant ancient tablet reacts to his touch, unlocking a shockwave across the cultivation underworld and awakening the spirit guide Mandolin: Lucas is no ordinary victim—he is the last surviving heir of the supreme, long-lost Zekaron Immortal Bloodline. With the fiercely loyal Esther—a clinic assistant carrying a rare ancient healer lineage—by his side, Lucas wages an escalating war through underground fight arenas, corporate boardrooms, and secret realm rifts. As Damon spirals into paranoid madness and Lancelot unleashes dark cultivation syndicates to harvest the city's spiritual veins, Lucas dismantles every enemy layer by layer without a single step back. When ancient corrupted ancestors breach dimensional portals to drain the continent, the silent victim of the past stands at the peak of the modern world. Armed with god-tier techniques, a fully awakened bloodline, and an evolving System, Lucas will crush the betrayers, protect those who stood by him, and ascend as the ultimate Overlord of both mortal and immortal realms.