Tvtropes Last Man Standing

Aaron thought graduating top of his class would change his life. Instead, it feels like the world is against him. No one will offer him a job, and the one interview he had hoped for goes wrong after a call about his mom being rushed to the hospital. Broke, hopeless, and with loan sharks threatening his life, Aaron doesn’t know where to turn. Then a mysterious man gives him a business card with an offer that seems too good to be true. The job? A tech startup that promises fast money. The company is actually a front for illegal cybercrime, and his boss, Celeste, is way more dangerous than she looks. Celeste ropes Aaron into shady missions, promising to help him clear his debts. Things blow up when one of his assignments goes wrong, and suddenly, Aaron is being hunted by the cops and a powerful tech mogul whose secrets he accidentally exposed. When the loan sharks come after him, Aaron finds out his mom has been lying to him. The loan wasn’t just for his education, part of it was to cover her gambling debts. Even worse, the loan sharks work for the mafia, and Aaron’s mom has a dark past with them she’s been hiding for years, Aaron was just part of a deal she made to save herself. With everything falling apart, Aaron teams up with Leila, a sharp paralegal who wants to take the mafia down. But Leila’s got secrets too—her brother works for the same people hunting Aaron. Together, they’ll have to outsmart Celeste, the mafia, and everyone else trying to destroy their lives. If Aaron can pull off one last risky move, he might clear his name, take down the mafia, and finally start fresh.

Nathan has spent the last five years trying to leave his past behind. Once an elite operative of The Oath, a secret organization controlling world events from the shadows, he walked away, seeking peace. But one night, he wakes up in a bloodstained room with no memory of the last 48 hours—only to find himself branded as a terrorist and the target of a nationwide manhunt. On the run and unsure if he truly committed the crime, Nathan turns to Riley, a skilled underground hacker, for help. As they dig deeper, they uncover a terrifying truth—his memories have been altered. Clues left behind by Elias Graves reveal that Nathan once broke his unbreakable oath to the organization, but someone wiped his mind to keep him from remembering why. The conspiracy leads to Julian, Nathan’s former best friend, who is orchestrating a global web of deception built on manufactured threats and lies. Determined to uncover the truth, Nathan infiltrates The Oath’s headquarters for a final confrontation with Julian. But the shocking revelation leaves him shattered—Nathan wasn’t framed. He willingly took part in the crime but later chose to erase his own memory to escape the unbearable guilt. A recorded message from his past self forces him to face a critical decision: Expose Julian and bring down The Oath, risking global chaos. Take control of The Oath and become the very thing he once fought against. No matter what he chooses, the cost is high. If he exposes The Oath, the world is thrown into instability, and he is forever hunted. If he takes over, he sacrifices his own ideals, embracing the power he once rejected. In the end, as Nathan looks at his reflection, he sees Julian staring back—proof that the cycle never truly ended.

Xi Yuan, the last young prince of the Xi's family who was always bullied and ridiculed by his own father and brothers, had the weakest cultivation in the whole of Xi's dynasty. "You are too weak to be the Xi's young prince!" Slaves throw his food to his face, rumors went around of him being an illegitimate Xi young master. Everyone hated him and he hated himself for being a weak human. One night, the young prince wished death on himself and he drowned. In the ice, the strongest spirit deity that has been dead for over two thousand years awakened in him. Xi Yuan vowed to make all of them pay, including the innocent ones.

Once, Elysium promised salvation, a shining city where human and machine would become one. Now, it’s a graveyard of glass and steel, its secrets buried beneath the dust of a fallen world. Ethan Vale thought he escaped Elysium’s reach. But when echoes of its lost technology resurface, he’s thrust back into a web of lies that began long before his birth. Alongside Dr Taylor, Agent Hannah, Dr Myles, and the reborn Maya, his only link to what he’s lost. Ethan must uncover the truth behind the project that destroyed humanity’s last hope. But Elysium isn’t dead. It’s dreaming. And its dream is waking.

A dying man. A forgotten god. A world on the brink. When Ethan Sylvester’s final breath faded in a dungeon, his soul was claimed by the will of an ancient immortal—the last God of Space and Time. With the immortal’s broken system and fragments of divine power, Ethan inherits techniques capable of splitting stars and shattering worlds. But power always comes with a price. And the gods who once destroyed civilizations… are watching. His enemies think he’s still weak. They’re about to learn A god never dies. This novel “Monarch of Space and Time” is written by me, NIGHTENGALE3. I am also the same author uploading it on RoyalRoad.com (Profile: https://www.royalroad.com/profile/837538/fictions) for wider audience reach.

All August has ever wanted was to become an employee in the biggest conglomerate in the country, the Arizona group, in order to prove his worth to his demanding girlfriend. Fate played an unusual twist when he was dumped on the day of his interview by his girlfriend for the owners of Arizona Group. While in shock, he got into an accident. Just when he thought he would breathe his last, he got the trillion-dollar system! A system that allows him to make a trillion dollars, which was worth five times the Arizona Group! How will he make those who looked down on him pay after getting his system? Read in this intriguing System book on how a pauper rose to supremacy!

In a world where magic and technology collide, Darryl finds himself caught in a deadly power struggle. Determined to gain control of the system that governs the world, Darryl enlists the help of Hugo, a brilliant inventor, and Aria, a feisty rebel from. Athena. But standing in their way is Everett, a powerful sorcerer with a ruthless ambition. As the battle for control of the system rages on, Darryl must navigate a treacherous path if he hopes to survive. But why did he choose the path of revenge? What's he revenging for? In a world where the system controls everything, Darryl and his wife, Elena, live a happy life. But one day, the system accuses Elena of a crime she didn't commit, and sentences her to death. Darryl tries to defend her, but he's no match for the system's power. Elena is executed, and Darryl is filled with grief and rage. He vows to take revenge on the system that took his wife from him, he attacked them but he was killed. A thousand years later, Darryl is reborn powerful and returns to take on the system. Everett is a powerful sorcerer who's obsessed with gaining more power, and who sees Darryl as a threat to his plans. He's ruthless and cunning, and a dangerous adversary for Darryl and his allies. Athena, a powerful sorceress trying to protect the system away from Darryl's obsession joined forces with Everett, they both agreed to a common goal which was to wipe off Darryl off there system instead of pleading to him as their ancestors had foretold. Darryl struggles to balance his thirst for vengeance with his desire to do good.

Just when he thought life was going as planned with his loving wife and promising career he falls into the depth of despair and left in ruins. Betrayal, tragedy, and a crippling accidents pushed him to the edge where suicide was the last option, but life wouldn't let him go that way and he was giving a second chance to live as the ruthless Robert Grey . Now, Myers must navigate a treacherous new world of power and deception, where the lines between good and evil are blurred. Will he seize this opportunity to reclaim his life and forge a new path, or will the darkness of his past consume him? Dive into a world of ruthless ambition, seduction, and revenge, where second chances come with a deadly price."

Damian Williams has left the world of medicine ever since an incident of corruption made him hate his job. After that, he married into the Calloway family for a year. His wife, Bianca Calloway, is the CEO of the family company. Damian loves his wife and does everything to help her. He believes that their marriage will last forever despite the hate he gets from her family, especially from her sister Regina. But when Bianca suddenly asks for a divorce and a powerful billionaire heiress asks him for help, Damian reluctantly agrees to take one more final medical case. What starts as a harmless treatment soon throws Damian into wealth and fame as he finds the cure to a rare disease.

What is FEAR to that whose only dream is to die while standing? That is the only dream of a boy who was born in the slums and had to fight his way out just to find himself still at the bottom of the food chain. Arkan, a boy obsessed with the ability to shoot lasers was this person. A dying god had summoned him and in turn of reincarnating him into another world, he would avenge him by hurting and killing all of the other god’s chosen ones who had reincarnated in that world long before him, for he was the perfect person who could do so. A person who could not and does not wish to use mana and possesses a power only fantasied on earth and one that no one had ever been able to produce using magic in that world, the power to produce laser. So starts the journey of Arkan. A journey that no one else could walk and live in order to fulfill his promise, he would have to hunt and face powerful people who not only possessed something powerful on their side, as they could choose to either have a System or an A.I to assist in their journey while he would only have to rely on his intuition. Not only that, but he would have to fight the powers of that world both in the shadows and in the light as many kingdoms fall while the powerful fight and ancient beings start to show themselves again. To make matters worse, by being summoned the way he had been, a divinity that no one would ever want to have was left in his soul, for the one who he has to avenge is the god of misfortune, OIZYS.