The Villain Wants To Live

The monochromatic colors of this world that I'm trapped with. The longing in my heart that wants to achieve a boundless color of life that fills someone with happiness. To the voice that whispers to me in the very corner of my room. Divulge with secrets that I don't know. Giving me joy from this sadness alone. The steps it gave beyond worlds. To embrace a new world of longing dream. To find something beyond happiness.  To achieve all this happiness. "I'll repress the old me and reach a new world filled with the smile I longed for."

Jin Hale is a corporate office worker, who practiced martial arts and swordsmanship during his university years. He wants nothing but to laze around and read his book which he almost achieved in the most ironic way, by dying. But a mysterious old man appeared to him and give him a second chance but with a certain condition. To stop the annihilation of all races and save the planet. Since he was given a second chance, he must do everything to achieve his ultimate goal by not under any circumstances dying again.

Three years after the Great Resonance shook the world, New York City has become a war zone. Skyscrapers have turned into monster-filled dungeons. Central Park has mutated into the Green Abyss. And the ancient bloodline families hidden for centuries now rule the city like ruthless kings. Kai Vance is a nobody. A broke bike courier with no pedigree, no power, and no future. Until the day a monster horde corners him and a calm, mechanical voice speaks in his mind: << Aura Ascendancy System initializing… >> Suddenly, Kai’s life is rewritten. The System grants him quests, perfect techniques, and refinement paths the elites spend years mastering. While noble heirs struggle to reach Level 11, Kai is being pushed toward the unimaginable Level 13. His rapid rise draws attention and danger. The Astors want to control him. The Guan Yu clan wants to recruit him. The Tammany underground wants him dead. And a dormant bloodline within him marked only as is awakening, one that terrifies even the oldest families. Worse, the monster attacks are becoming organized… almost intelligent. Earth itself seems to be evolving, and the noble families are ready to sacrifice the rest of humanity to survive. Armed with a System designed for the ordinary, Kai must master every refinement stage, rally the scattered System-Blessed, and fight through dungeons, beasts, and corrupt aristocrats to claim his destiny. From a nobody courier to the Demi-King of the city, Kai will rise and rewrite the fate of a reborn world.

Angry at his father, Travis Danforth left his father's house and inheritance to live a low profile on his own. For ten years, he lived as a poor and wretched person, he fell in love with Joanna Bloom and they got married. He was humiliated and insulted by his wife's family who were against their relationship. And by every other suitor she has had. His daughter got sick and his wife started becoming fed up with him. Seeing he needed help, his dad sent his trusted person to persuade him to accept his inheritance. Without choice, he did it to save his daughter's life. But his marriage was on the rocks since his wife began to misbehave. She didn't want to suffer with him anymore.

Richard Cross, born as a bastard, went through many difficulties, but he didn't let that defeat him, being raised with the love of his mother, who kept him going forward. Time passes by, and now he's in his early twenties, with a great paid-off job, a lovely girlfriend. Living his life to the fullest, but it didn't last long... As young and promising as he can be, he lost his life in his own apartment at the hands of an assassin. But not being the end of his journey, he got a second chance to live, and experience the wonders like a Fantasy book But, lucky is not completely on his side, he's born as a bastard again. Nevertheless, he has a power bestowed upon him from birth, and he will make use of it to the fullest. Join Richard's journey to become stronger, to become the KING OF THE UNDEAD.

Born with a brother from a different mother, Demian is ambitious for the throne of the Stewart family heir. His haughty, arrogant, and cold demeanor brings one big problem to his life. Dylan, who is his younger brother, changes his mind and wants to take the throne from Demian's hands. Various intrigues and disputes accompanied the flaring of the power war between them. Other people's interference, as well as the involvement of their families, are the ingredients that make their disputes even more heated. How will the war end? Who will come out as the heir?

This is a new world, only remotely similar to the one in which our ancestors lived 600 years ago. The novel is set on the planet Gamelan in the kingdom of Magoria. Now the planet is engulfed in a great war. The king fights on three fronts, allied with the mountain clans and lords of the eight duchies to defend the north, west and east of Magoria from the enemy hordes. The fact that in a few years the war will be lost is known only at court. Far to the south of the Old Sea, no battle rages. Here, on the islands, peasants and miners live in peace; but sooner or later everything comes to an end. The enemy is preparing an invasion of the archipelago in order to capture the Riklia mines and destroy the few settlements. At the same time, a man sails to the island of Mirkhold, whose appearance can turn the tide of the war. The only trouble is that the stranger also does not wish people well.

"Your mother-in-law already told me that you are a useless fool but seeing you now, I have to say that she was lenient with her words." Elvis, a wealthy billionaire left his father due to a feud to live a simple life, devoid of all the hate and hectic life of being rich. Married into an average family, he held his wife's company, Sonia to gradually rise to the top. But as she rose in fame, so did her scorn for him and soon, she decided to get a divorce, breaking every bond that they had between them. Right after this encounter, Elvis is kidnapped, and tearing his eyes open, his eyes meet with that of his father. "Son, the family needs you back." His father brewed out words that he never thought he was going to hear.

“What the hell is going on!” Axel lost it demanding a response. “I am breaking up with you!” He stares at her as though she had grown horns trying to decipher the words that slipped from her lips. “Can you hear yourself? What is wrong with you?” He spat with utter frustration and hurt which she didn’t seem to care about one bit. “It’s over between us. We can’t be together. I am tired of having to make compromises. Being with you is a liability I can no longer live with—” she trails off. ••• Betrayed and left for dead, Axel Storm rises from the ashes with a mysterious ring that holds the key to his family's legacy and his own vengeance. After a brutal humiliation, Axel must get revenge while harness his power and wealth.

When the beaten and broken Seo Ireum is on the verge of giving up, a strange blue screen appears. [Do you want to live] After accepting the offer, he doesn't expect his path to head to the glittering stage of Korea’s most competitive idol survival show, Starlit and into the harsh world of the entertainment industry. Each mission brings him new skill, fame and power. But also reveals fragments of horrifying truth. His father's death wasn't an accident, his mother's death a lie and the system guiding him may be something far more personal than artificial intelligence. As Ireum rises under the spotlight, every applause hides a knife, and every stage hides a secret. In a game where beauty sells and betrayal wins, can he use fame as a weapon for revenge?