The Villain's Story

The Apocalypse is upon us and a group are trying to survive in Yorkshire England in a brutal new world. One man likes his simple single life but circumstances have made him rethink that life. Sid was born and bred in this town and so help him he will die here. No zombies are going to chase him away and if that means a shorter life than he could have then so be it. His old friends and family are dead as far as he knows so the only thing for it is to make new ones whenever possible. That's harder said than done when most of the population wants to kill you and that doesn't exclude the animals. Maybe he will find a way to survive and help the population recover? Maybe he won't?

In 3015, a virtual world game called "ActivatedLand" was officially released in New York City by the Cyberpunk Technology Corporation, a giant virtual game development company that was well-known and was a pioneer of other virtual games. The virtual game in question wasn't just played using a tool like an X-box but took players to a virtual world where the game was played. It didn't take long; within a week of its release, the game became viral and extremely famous throughout the world. The head of the Cyberpunk Technology Corporation is Dmitry Sergey, a Russian national who has settled and become a citizen of the United States. Most people who don't know Dmitry think he's just a billionaire who owns a giant company. In truth, Dmitry has a dark and terrible past due to his arrogance in America. And now, he begins his mission for revenge!

Ethan Vance was a great soldier in a high-tech land war, fighting with a digital gaming battle system. His life was ruined when he found out his wife, Chloe, was having a secret affair with his older half-brother, Julian. During a giant enemy base raid, Chloe and Julian hacked Ethan’s system account and stole his high-level power shield. Left without any armor in the middle of a major bomb strike, Ethan was blown up on the battlefield. His very last thought was to get revenge. Then he wakes up in his bed two whole months before the destruction even starts. With his clear knowledge of the dark future, Ethan takes action. He leaves his cheating wife and cuts off his biological father, Arthur, and mean stepmother, Eleanor, who always loved Julian more. Ethan uses his secret savings to build an underground fort and unlocks a special cheat code in his gaming system. He plans to stay safe and warm inside his base while his old family gets crushed by the incoming enemy forces. But Ethan does not know that a much bigger trap is waiting for him. Because the global war and the gaming system are not real. They are part of a giant game experiment run by a scary group of scientists. Stay tuned for this dangerous ride with Ethan And The Experimental team.

For three years, Ethan Blackwell lived as the most humiliated son-in-law in the city. Married into the prestigious Hart Family through a contractual marriage, he was treated as nothing more than a servant. While his wife, Sophia Hart, ruled boardrooms as a celebrated CEO, Ethan cooked, cleaned, and endured endless ridicule from her family. On their third wedding anniversary, everything changed. Facing financial collapse, Sophia chose wealth over loyalty and divorced Ethan to marry billionaire executive Damien Sterling. Betrayed, humiliated, and cast aside, Ethan walked out of the Hart Family with nothing but a suitcase. Moments later, he inherited Blackwell Global Holdings-a financial empire worth over one hundred trillion dollars. Overnight, the useless son-in-law became the richest man alive. But wealth was only the beginning. As Ethan rises to the top of the business world, crushing enemies, humiliating those who once looked down on him, and building an empire of his own, he uncovers a terrifying secret hidden for fifteen years. His inheritance was never an accident. His parents were murdered. A mysterious organization known only as the Hunters has been hunting his bloodline for decades. At the center of everything lies the Phoenix Archive-a secret so valuable that powerful families are willing to start wars to possess it. Now Ethan must navigate a world of ruthless billionaires, hidden conspiracies, deadly assassins, and ancient family secrets. As former enemies beg for forgiveness and old allies reveal hidden agendas, Ethan discovers a frightening truth: The greatest threat isn't outside his empire. It's already inside it. In a battle of wealth, power, and survival, Ethan Blackwell will either become the ruler of a new era... Or the last Blackwell to ever exist.

Rafael Mendoza awakens with the world's most useless class: Cook. But in a city overrun by monsters, he discovers that the stronger the beast, the more potent the buff—provided he has someone to hunt them for him. Enter Kirill Sokolov, a battle-hardened hunter who finds Rafael’s cooking addictive, forcing a reluctant partnership that turns the city's monster hierarchy upside down.

At twenty-eight, Adrian Cole returns to New York after being expelled from his family at eighteen. Once the heir to Cole Meridian, he was accused of stealing millions and lost everything. Now a hidden CEO, he receives an offer to investigate his father's death and accepts because the truth can restore his name. Adrian is intelligent, controlled, and decisive. He gives himself one deadline: uncover the truth before the people behind Richard's death discover his identity. His secret power makes him the perfect weapon against the family empire. The rules are clear: 1. No unnecessary trust. 2. No revealing his full power. 3. Never fall in love. But the contract is lying: Adrian's hidden clause makes emotional attachment a weakness his enemies can exploit. He protects Elena Cross, his business ally, while Marcus fights to keep Cole Meridian and a rival searches for Richard's records. Adrian follows the missing inheritance, Archive 17, and Grant Strategic Holdings, but every discovery exposes another person connected to his father's death. Adrian must choose between revenge and the truth. Marcus frames Adrian for corporate fraud. Adrian declares, "You took my name once. You won't take it again." Adrian takes control of Cole Meridian, but Samuel Reed returns with proof that Richard's death was only part of a larger operation. The fallout exposes Marcus's crimes and removes his control. The Circle's connection to Richard finally becomes public. Elena helps Adrian rebuild the company without controlling his decisions. Months later, Adrian stands in his father's restored office with the recovered records beside him. His name is finally cleared, but one sealed file carries a single warning: "London."

For three agonizing years, Marcus Chen endured the daily humiliation of being the Williams family's useless son-in-law. Mocked by his wife's relatives and treated as a live-in servant, he swallowed every insult while his beautiful wife, Emma, grew cold and distant, ashamed of their marriage. His breaking point came at Emma's birthday party, where his cheap gift was scorned and his brother-in-law, Daniel, publicly announced Emma's engagement to a wealthy rival. As Marcus stood broken and covered in champagne, Emma delivered the final, crushing blow: "I'm sorry, Marcus," she whispered. "But Daniel's right. You're... you're just not enough. You'll never be enough." But the forces that sought to destroy him made a fatal mistake. Stumbling into the cold night, Marcus was nearly killed in a staged accident, a final act of cruelty that instead triggered an ancient power. The **Legacy Inheritance System** roared to life, revealing his true identity as the lost heir to the trillion-dollar Chen Empire, a conglomerate thought destroyed twenty years ago. The system's first command was clear: **[SYSTEM ACTIVATED: HEIR RECOVERY PROTOCOL INITIATED]**. From a scorned waiter to the master of a hidden fortune, Marcus is reborn with a single, burning purpose: to reclaim everything that was stolen from him. Now, Marcus Chen is no longer the man they humiliated. Each system mission unlocks new abilities, exposes hidden enemies, and brings him closer to the truth behind his family's downfall. He will rise from the ashes of his past, an unstoppable force ready to crush the powerful elite who once laughed at his pain. Will he succeed in reclaiming his empire and proving his worth to the woman who abandoned him? Or will the conspiracy that destroyed the Chen family finish what they started? Dive into this tale of revenge, redemption, and the ultimate system-powered comeback.

Betrayed at the peak of his power, warlord Kael Draven dies with his brother’s blade in his back and his wife’s laughter in his ears. But death is not the end. Reborn fifteen years in the past, Kael awakens with the Devil’s Rebirth System; a curse that grants him strength for every drop of blood he spills. Every betrayal avenged, every soul claimed, brings him closer to the power of a god. But vengeance is never free. The more Kael feeds the System, the more it whispers, tempting him to abandon his humanity. To destroy his enemies, he may have to become the very monster they once feared.

To everyone he was a bum, a useless son-in-law who did not have a single penny to spend his name and lived on his wife’s family’s charity and had to be hidden from the public, or at least that is what they thought of him but what they do not know is that Thor Smith is not who he they think he is, he has a secret that will change everything and have them crawling on their knees to obey his every demand and his quest for revenge will shake the very foundations of society.

“Fail.” Kai has heard this word his entire life. After his failure to awaken his Mana core yet again followed by the usual humiliation of his parents and gifted older brother who completely overshadows him, he is only admitted into the Aureum academy because his parents bribe their way in. There, he’s branded an F-Class weakling mage and gets bullied by the school’s strongest students until one of them leaves him to die in a dungeon. But instead of death, Kai’s presence awakens something ancient. A Demon god who helps open a fraction of his power— the forbidden void Magic. A power used to devour magic itself. Kai goes back a different person but his awakening has also started to uncover a secret his family has spent years hiding about him. However one thing is now for certain: Kai was never meant to be a nobody.