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On my twentieth birthday, I had to choose a husband from the six angel heirs. Everyone thought I would choose Adrian Seraphiel, the brightest golden-winged heir and the man I had loved for years. In my last life, I did. Because of me, he inherited eighty percent of House Seraphiel’s fortune and became the next ruler of the angel clan. But after our marriage, he got involved with Celeste, my adopted half-siren sister. When my dragon family cast her out of House Drakon, Adrian blamed me. From then on, he hated me. He surrounded himself with women who looked like her, humiliated me again and again, and finally replaced my life-saving medicine with slow poison. I died carrying his child, while the last of my dragon blood burned away. When I opened my eyes again, I was back on my twentieth birthday. This time, I decided to let them have each other. So in front of everyone, I chose Cassian Seraphiel, the sixth son of the angel family. Broken-winged. Mocked by everyone. No one believed he could ever inherit anything. The room burst into laughter. Adrian looked at me coldly and sneered. “Elena, are you choosing that useless cripple just to get my attention?” I ignored him. Because in my last life, after I died, this so-called useless cripple was the only one who collected my body, found the truth, and avenged me by stripping Adrian of his golden wings. But then Adrian stepped closer. His voice dropped to a whisper. “Funny,” he said. “That wasn’t who you chose in your last life.”

My adopted sister won the Elixir Challenge by stealing my potion. To her shock, she was informed that the event was a selection event for the future wife of the Serpentkins' future head—the same heir who was infamously impotent, barbaric, and hideous. When the Serpentkins sent over a proposal letter, demanding her hand in marriage, my fiance panicked and promptly took my adopted sister away for a quick marriage and even consummated. Once the deed was done, she returned triumphantly, showing off the mark on her lower back. "Well, what are you going to do now, Winnie?" she gloated. "Your fiance is mine now, and you'll be twenty-five in three days. If no one comes to pick you up, you'll just be dumped into the hands of some wife-beating Rogue who is ageing and unwanted…" Actually, she was wrong—I had a choice. I went to the parlor where my parents—who were busy fixing the mess my adopted sister made—were, announcing, "If she refuses to marry the future head of the Serpentkins, I will!"

When anomalies descend upon the world, underachiever Ethan York graduates and becomes a security guard at Pinnacle Residences after awakening a money-making system. Every dollar he earns makes him stronger. Little does he know that his community is packed with SSS-class anomalies that regard him with awe. From blackmailing the Anomaly Bureau to collecting powerful anomalies as his tenants, Ethan turns everyone, from elite spirit tamers and SSSS-class monsters to Anomaly God itself, into nothing more than walking ATMs. In the end, he breaks the laws of the universe and rises above the gods as the one true sovereign.

Leo inherits his late brother's position as Alpha after seven years of dating me. He also inherits his brother's wife and the pack's former Luna, Jasmin. Each time he sleeps with her, he comforts me gently. "You're my only mate, Mia. Once Jasmin gets pregnant and gives birth to Blazetooth Pack's heir, I'll hold the marking ceremony with you." He tells me that's the only condition his family asked of him before allowing him to inherit the position of Alpha. Over the six months after returning to Blazetooth Pack, he sleeps with Jasmin a hundred times. He starts with only spending one night a month with her to sleeping with her every night. Jasmin was finally found pregnant on the 100th night of my staying up the whole night waiting for him. At the same time, I receive news of her and Leo holding the marking ceremony. Upon hearing this, my son asks in confusion, "Didn't they say Dad is having the marking ceremony with the Luna he loves? Why isn't he here to take us home yet?" "Because I'm not the Luna he loves." I caress his head. "That's okay, though. I'll take you back to a place that we can really call home." What Leo doesn't know is that I'm the only daughter of the Alpha King. I've never cared about being Blazetooth Pack's Luna.

In a world of beast tamers, Ethan Black once awakened the rare Ink Beast—only to have it stolen by his family, who then used him as a living sacrifice, draining his essence blood. Reborn with the Apex Genesis system, he refuses to repeat his fate. He sells the traitorous beast for a fortune and buys a dying phoenix instead. Guided by the system, Ethan rises from ruin, step by step climbing to the peak of beast taming and rewriting his destiny.

After the great war between the three clans of Human, Dragon, and Wolf, the Dragon Clan and Wolf Clan were cursed. Pure-blooded descendants of both clans could not inherit full power. To pass down the power of their bloodline, Kings of each generation of Dragon Clan and Wolf Clan would need to be with a Human woman who possessed Blessings. Whoever gave birth to a child of mixed heritage first would have their clan rule the three clans for a hundred years. In my past life, I married the King of Silver Wolves, Silas Hector, who was known to be a gentleman. One year after my marriage, I gave birth to a child who was half Wolf. He inherited full power from his bloodline, and Silas became the ruler of the three clans. The Wolves ruled the world for a hundred years. My sister, Lucia, became enamored by the magnificent Silver Dragon. She married the King of Silver Dragons, but the Dragons were arrogant and unpredictable. In a moment of mad rage, her husband injured her womb and caused her to miscarry. Lucia became barren after that. Lucia went crazy with jealousy for me, and she stabbed me to death during a family reunion. When I opened my eyes next, I had returned to the eve of the wedding organized by the three clans. Lucia was quick to enter the room of Silver Wolf King, Silas, and sleep with him. She was reborn too. However, she had no idea that Silas was a cold-blooded wolf who enjoyed torturing weak Humans.

Trevor Hatfield, a broke college student, is pushed to death by loan sharks during the arrival of a strange apocalypse. But he wakes up again—at the very start of it all. This time, he has an unlimited cashback system. The more he borrows, the more he earns back. Armed with memories and a broken past, he turns eerie businesses and deadly opportunities into profit, building power in a world gone wrong. This time, he won’t just survive—he’ll own the apocalypse.

Deep in debt, former mortician Ryan takes a high-paying night watch job at the cursed Number Nine Museum, bound by a life-threatening magical contract. He discovers supernatural relics with spirits inside and awakens ancient mending power from his past trade. Following strange museum rules, he calms and repairs broken artifacts, gaining loyal spirit allies like guardian beast Arus, jade hairpin spirit Eleni and eight-armed Asura. When the occult Black Snake Syndicate invades to seize the museum’s core energy, Ryan teams up with the Spiritual Suppressing Bureau to defeat the evil forces. Finally he uncovers his millennial spirit-warden heritage and becomes the eternal guardian of the museum.

Mocked by the entire academy and imperial nobility as a lowborn mudblood bastard, he claws his way into the sacred Trials to change his fate. But when his hidden power begins to shine, his noble half-brother and father try to execute him in public to bury the truth. At death's door, the pendant sealing his divine power cracks under the strain, summoning Zeus's furious Divine Envoy to descend and judge the empire. In an instant, every arrogant noble falls to their knees, begging for mercy.

Game streamer Rena Truman wakes up in a virtual interstellar realm as a top-tier heiress armed with a "villain system." To earn points and cash out, she throws herself into playing the vicious rich girl. But her 21st-century conscience keeps backfiring—every "evil" act she commits turns into an accidental redemption. When a disillusioned priest, a cold-blooded general, an innocent merman, and the empire's iron-fisted commander all gather around her, each falling hopelessly in love, Rena is left stunned. She was supposed to make them hate her. So why is everyone head over heels?

Banished to the Black Forest for failing to awaken as a Dragon, Sargon discovers he carries the lost bloodline of the Golden Sacred Dragon. With a mysterious witch’s help, he defeats the realm’s finest heirs and joins Elena to defend the realm from a demonic invasion.

In a world ruled by magic, one boy was born with none. Branded a worthless outcast, a sudden twist of fate leads Noah to summon Valhalla—a mythical sanctuary long lost to the magical realm. Now, the Frost Queen, the Paladin of Light, and the once-omnipotent ancient spirits of legend bow to his every command. While the entire world scrambles to unearth the enigmatic ""Lord of Valhalla"", no one suspects that this supreme overlord is the very boy they despise. True power can be hidden, but never forever. Will Noah inherit the legacy of these ancient legends, or will he be the one to bring their era to a devastating end?

A Seraph hides his divine power to live as a lowly son-in-law, all for love. But when his wife tears up their marriage contract before the whole court, his true identity is revealed. He spreads his wings: "Are you ready to face the wrath of Lucifer?"

After the war of the gods, Thrud takes on the heavy duty of ruling the Aesir. She resurrects Alviss — once turned to stone for offending Zeus — and elevates him into a god of her own clan. Grateful for everything Thrud has sacrificed, Alviss swears he will cherish her. When Thrud returns to the realm wounded, she finds Alviss being intimate with an envoy named Levia — and Levia is wearing her crown and her sacred marriage band. Alviss claims that Levia cared for him during the years he was stone, and that he has already elevated her to the rank of divine envoy. When Levia deliberately drops the band, Thrud finally reaches her breaking point and strikes her, stripping Levia of her title on the spot and banishing her from the realm of the Aesir.

The Frost Queen, desperate to reclaim her throne and save her mother, is forced into an arranged marriage with a dragon lord notorious for his ruthlessness. Unbeknownst to him, his unwanted bride is the very woman who once saved his life—the mysterious stranger he's been searching for ever since.

In my previous life, my husband Kael Drayne, heir to the Beast King's throne and full-blooded dragon, cut open my belly with his own hands on the day I gave birth. He pulled our child out and dashed it against the floor in front of me. That was the moment I finally understood. The one he truly loved was my stepsister, Ivy Wren. Because she couldn't bear to watch the man she loved marry someone else, Ivy had staged a dramatic exit on our wedding day, slipping out alone, only to run into a gang of rogue beastkin. She vanished without a trace. Kael blamed every last bit of it on me. He hated me for it with everything he had. "Just because you're the only pure-blooded white wolf, you think you had the right to come between me and Ivy? She's gone because of you. I'm going to throw you to the horde — let you feel exactly what she went through." But he was the one who'd pursued me. He was the one who'd confessed his feelings. It was because I chose him that he was able to claim the throne at all. None of it mattered to him. There was nothing left in his eyes but hatred. Kael hurled me into a frenzied beast horde, and I was torn apart. In those final moments, I saw three figures, Kael's three unremarkable bastard brothers, charging toward me through the chaos, trying to drag me out. But the numbers were too great, the gap in power too wide. In the end, they died there alongside me. I thought my story ended there, full of regret. Then I woke up. I'd been reborn to just before Kael and I were to marry. This time, I wasn't going to choose him. And that, apparently, drove him out of his mind.

I had a perception disorder that messed with how I saw and felt stuff. So when I got dropped into a horror game, everyone else freaked out trying to survive— Me? I thought I was in a dating sim. I raised a young fae like she was my kid, fell for the vampire count, and treated the undead like my in-laws. The first time I saw the vampire—face torn up, soaked in blood—I straight-up blushed. "You're really handsome." He froze. Then, low and uncertain: "Am I... really handsome?"

Hera has been abused by her step father for a long time, until she enters the art department of Ston College and meets her classmates Brad and Yoanna. The three of them become good friends by chance. Brad and Yoanna's care for Hera makes her gradually feel the beauty of freedom and gives her the idea to rebel against David and break through the ball cage. But freedom is not easy to come by, and Hera pays a painful price for this new life...