The Viridescent Crown

It was his turn for the system to select him. The invader wishes to take it back. Kain was to slay someone on the battlefield. His commander, Veyr, gave the order to hold the line. He promised reinforcements. Then, he rode off, and Kain and the Wolf Company were slaughtered so he could save his own skin. Kain survived. He crawled out of the mud, with two of his friends wounded, and a burning need for revenge, after the blood, the broken bodies of his friends, and the dead bodies of his friends that had been buried under the earth. Then the sky spoke. [SYSTEM INITIALIZED] [NEW CONQUEROR DETECTED] It gives him strength, authority. Gold. Skills. Quests. An unhelpful or unfair power that is kept hidden. However, it doesn't grant him any victories. It gives him tasks. Build a base. Recruit survivors. Secure resources. Now it's up to Kain to convert the two desperate refugees into a warband. He has to teach his farmers how to farm, keep his secret from his friends/ally, and outwit an army of two hundred men coming to kill him. He has no walls, no weapons and no time. Commander Veyr has labelled him a traitor. He has a bounty of $100,000 on his head. The system, the thing that saved Kain's life, is that of a dead conqueror, one that ruled an empire, that never actually died. Kain doesn't want a crown! He will only protect those who trust him. But the system was not designed for the merciful. The conqueror is on the lookout.

For years, the Clan of Elders thrived under the wise and just rule of Jason, a leader whose reign brought peace, unity, and a firm sense of tradition. Now, Jason prepares to step down and pass the mantle of leadership to his only son, John who was a boy with a good heart, yet one who is still growing into the weight of his destiny. Some believe he is not ready while others fear he never will be but in the eyes of the king, the bloodline must continue. Far beyond the clan's reach, exiled on the windswept east side of the hills, Pete the once trusted warrior who tried to overthrow Jason has spent years in silence. Cast out after his failed rebellion, Pete has lived with the pain of betrayal and the loss of his wife. He raises his son, Aaron, in shadows, feeding him stories of pride, injustice, and the crown that was stolen from their family. Now, Aaron is no longer a boy. He's a fierce young man forged by survival, hardened by loss, and driven by a single goal which is to reclaim the throne and avenge his bloodline. But Aaron is not the only challenger rising. Ukaria, a bold and brilliant member of the clan, has emerged from obscurity with something to prove. Denied, overlooked, and underestimated for too long, she believes leadership shouldn't be inherited rather it should be earned. As tensions flare and loyalties begin to shift, the once unified clan fractures. Friends become enemies and shadows rise. The battle lines are drawn and every hidden rival is stepping into the light. The question is no longer just who will sit on the throne, it is who will survive the fight to claim it

Fairytales had it, "The princess kissed the frog and the ugly creature magically became a handsome prince." But what if the frog prince's curse can't be broken even with the true love's kiss? Meet Prince Ling, the crown prince of Earth Kingdom within the realm of the shapeshifters. He is not only known for his social status, luxurious clothes, and good looks but also for being a great Casanova. Who would have thought that this handsome prince has actually an ugly real form of a frog? This is the darkest secret that the Earth Kingdom holds up to this day. Will the ladies that fell head over heels for him laugh or cry out of despair? That matter aside, Prince Ling's coming of age is just around the corner yet his father is still hesitant of passing the authority to him. You might ask, what's been holding his majesty back? Well, it's Prince Ling himself. He's a troublemaker, cannot sympathize with his fellow citizens, and lacks the maturity and ability to lead. Little did he know, there's another thing that's holding his father back from ascending him to the throne - he's bound to die on his 21st birthday. The crowned prince's everyday life changed when he met the third princess of Water Kingdom when he was out for "bride hunting". Their fates got intertwined with each other, and the secrets of the past are slowly appearing on the surface. Will meeting the third princess of Water Kingdom help prevent the destined tribulation to be set upon Prince Ling?

"DESTROY HIS DANTIAN!" Ma Durung shouted with a booming voice. Immediately, several disciples tightened their grip on Zhao Yun. The command from Ma Durung, the crown prince of the Ma Kingdom and a prodigious disciple of the Black Dragon Sect, was carried out without hesitation by his subordinates. Zhao Yun, forced to kneel with both his hands firmly restrained by two of Ma Durung's followers, was in a dire situation. His mouth was gagged with cloth, silencing any attempt to cry for help. Worse, his qi flow had been sealed by Ma Durung's personal guards, rendering him powerless to resist. With desperation in his eyes, Zhao Yun glanced toward his three closest friends. His gaze pleaded for their help, a silent cry for salvation. But to his dismay, his friends turned their faces away, avoiding his gaze entirely. Witnessing their betrayal, Zhao Yun could only grimace inwardly. Those he had considered friends, those he had always helped, had stabbed him in the back. A young, innocent man, left crippled with his dantian destroyed, the victim of envy from a royal prince and the betrayal of his three closest friends—this betrayal filled Zhao Yun with a profound sense of disbelief and an unquenchable thirst for vengeance. As he fought to survive the despair threatening to consume him, Zhao Yun was unexpectedly saved by a figure he deeply admired, someone he had always looked up to. Unbeknownst to him, this savior would present Zhao Yun with a choice that would shape his future. Will Zhao Yun redefine his purpose in life? What fate awaits him as he steps into an uncertain future?

Under the tyrannical reign of Eternity Corp, time is no longer an abstract concept, it is a physical commodity known as liquefied Time Core that can be bought, stolen, and siphoned directly from the human body via digital timers embedded in the wrist. The city is fractured into two extreme worlds: the Upper District, inhabited by elites possessing boundless immortality, and the squalid Lower District, where the impoverished suffocate in the gutters simply because they ran out of seconds to breathe. Axel is a former Liquidator, the number-one tactical enforcer and crown prince of Eternity Corp, engineered to be the ultimate cybernetic weapon. However, after witnessing his own father, Adrian , callously let his mother perish to preserve corporate profits, Axel chose rebellion. The price for his defection was devastating: Axel was framed by his half-brother, Valen, injected with Chronos Decay, a terminal cyber-virus that systematically ravages his heart, and cast out into the Lower District with a remaining lifespan of merely 29 days. Clinging to life and shrouded in his rigid black tactical frock coat, Axel is salvaged by Rhea, a skilled cyber-mechanic and operator of an emergency logistics clinic in the slums. Cold, ruthless, and efficient, Axel refuses to remain a victim. Instead of crawling back to beg for a lifespan quota, he weaponizes his dwindling days into a literal countdown for a radical, suicidal infiltration mission. The stakes skyrocket when Adrian deploys a wireless Vampire Drain protocol from above, siphoning the lifespans of the Lower District's citizens, including Rhea, to bait Axel out of the shadows. For Axel, this is no longer a battle for survival. This is his final logistical calculation to ensure that the exact moment the digital timer on his wrist strikes absolute zero, his father's tyrannical empire collapses alongside him into ash.

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.”

On the day Jamie lost his mother to cancer, he also lost his only accommodation and his girlfriend. Years of torture, humiliation and servitude from his stepfather and stepbrothers, Jamie was nothing more than a miserable bastard to the Reynolds, one they so desperately needed to do away with. His mother’s death was their perfect opportunity as his stepfather evicted him from his house, abused him and his dead mother publicly, and ordered the doctor to sell her corpse to organ harvesters. His stepbrothers made a spectacle of him and his dead mother, treating them as though they were worse than animals. And to crown their hall of humiliation, they took his girlfriend and cost him his job. With everything lost, there was nothing to live for anymore. Jamie owed the hospital over $100,000 and his boss over the same amount. His life was at risk, his existence was meaningless, and everything was set against him… Except for a sudden alert of $10,000,000,000 and a call from the world’s richest and most powerful man, claiming to be his grandfather. Jamie wasn’t a bastard after all; he had a family—a rich and powerful family at that—and he was their rightful heir. With a net worth of tens of trillions of dollars and the power to shut down the world with the snap of his finger… What fate awaits all those who did him wrong? What end has he destined for those who mocked his dead mother and her dignity? What was in the heart of the trillionaire for those who made his life hell and paraded their measly change over him? Revenge is best served cold…Or whatever temperature the Rich and Powerful Jamie Ashford wants!

Derek Cross spent five years in a cage like an animal for a crime he never committed — because the woman he loved begged him to take the fall. He believed it was an accident. He believed she was worth it. He was wrong on both counts. The moment he walks free, Vanessa is waiting — not to welcome him home, but to destroy him in front of a stranger's kiss. Nolan Frost, heir to the Iron Talon Gang, wraps his arm around her waist and delivers the final blow: "Baby." He grinned around the word. "So this is the idiot who went to jail for me." Nolan was driving that night. Vanessa set Derek up from the beginning, orchestrating every tear, every promise, every year stolen from him — all to bury him while she climbed toward everything she'd taken. They think they've broken him. They have no idea what actually walked out of that prison. Two old men had quietly watched Derek from the inside — a martial master who rebuilt his body into something lethal, and a gentleman who handed him the one thing no fortune could buy: the chairmanship of Olympus, the empire sitting above every throne in Crown City. Even Darius Carter — the phantom underground emperor the city fears, the man two-thirds of its syndicates kneel to — is nothing more than Derek's errand boy. Derek doesn't want blood. Not yet. He wants Vanessa and Nolan to watch, in real time, as everything they stole is returned tenfold — while they kneel in the wreckage of what they threw away. Beside him stands Monica Hayden, the woman his godfathers chose — cold, brilliant, and the only one who ever saw what Derek Cross truly was. Not a loser. A storm nobody saw coming.

On the night of Lucy Fashion's greatest victory, Desmond Bryant watches his wife give his $100,000 bonus to another man. Three years of loyalty. One ten million dollar deal that only he could close. And Lucy sees him as furniture. But Desmond saw this coming. A resignation letter is already in his drawer. The next morning, he walks out of the company and the marriage. Lucy laughs. She is sure he will crawl back by Monday. He never will. Outside, a black car is waiting. Inside sits Alexio, head butler of the Bryant family, carrying the secret Desmond ran from six years ago. His dead grandfather left him a vast empire, but only if he builds a ten million dollar business in one year. He has one million dollars, one empty penthouse, and no help from anyone. If he fails, he loses everything. Desmond hides his name and meets Kris, a talented designer about to be thrown out of her shop. Together, they become dangerous. While men like Thomas and Derek Cole mock them, the top floor of the untouchable Crown Center bows to its hidden owner. In one dinner, Desmond wipes out Kris's debt with a single sentence. Then the dominoes fall. Harold Sinclair, the most powerful distributor on the East Coast, drops Lucy Fashion and signs with Desmond's new brand, Aster. Lucy's IPO is only ninety days away, and her biggest client is gone. But Desmond is not the only one with secrets. Keaton hid the divorce papers. He wants Lucy married, weak, and under his control. And he has just found out who is behind Aster. The clock is ticking. The IPO is coming. And across the street, a tower Lucy does not understand is looking down on hers.

Duke Maxwell died in the arms of Liora, his abandoned wife, the woman who had loved him more than anyone else. He never realized how deeply misunderstandings had poisoned their relationship after he brought Consort Shera into his life. Shera had planted poison in his blood with the same cunning she had once used to sow hatred between Duke Maxwell and his devoted wife, Liora. In the final moments of his life, Maxwell remembered neither his power nor his pride. All he could see were Liora's tears falling onto the floor, mixing with snow, blood, and the blazing embers around them. Their child was born and died in an animal shed. Even so, Liora used the last of her strength and the boundless love she still carried for Maxwell to shield his dying body from a burning beam. Together, they drew their final breaths as the flames consumed the entire Maxwell family castle. Yet fate gave Maxwell one more chance. Time turned back three years before his death, A chance to atone for his sins, destroy the betrayal that had ruined everything, and perhaps... love Liora the way he should have from the beginning. But this request could only be granted once, and Maxwell would have to seek revenge while possessing only the limited authority granted to him as a Duke of the Empire. There was also a price for the wish he had made. He could not change fate itself. Would this second chance finally bring Maxwell happiness, or would everything become even more complicated when the Crown Prince set his eyes on Liora's beauty? And what role had the Emperor played in the former death of Maxwell, the loyal Duke who had faithfully served the throne for generations?