

After I was caught in a dockside explosion, I was bound to a Survival Program. It gave me twenty-five years and four designated targets. If even one target’s Love Score or bond score reached 100%, I could wake up in my real world. But I failed all four. Because every target I tried to reach eventually turned toward Sophia Lane, the heroine of this world. They called my pain a performance. They called my tears manipulation. They said I was only pretending to break down so they would choose me over Sophia. But if they never loved me, why did they lose control when my mission failed and I chose to leave this world for good?

To the rest of the world, Nate Ryder is a worthless failure whose Awakening ended in disgrace. But Nate alone knows the truth: he has awakened the rarest and most powerful talent on Earth—the SSS-rank Thunder God.In an age ruled by superhuman power, a person's Awakening rank determines their place in society, and strength decides their fate. Talent brings glory, wealth, and privilege, while the weak are trampled underfoot.As the story begins, Nate's impoverished and broken family is already buckling under the weight of hardship. His father, a low-level mechanic, has spent years selling his blood to afford a single vial of Awakening serum, severely damaging his kidneys in the process. His mother has been paralyzed and bedridden for ten years, yet she remains Nate's greatest source of strength—and the reason he refuses to give up, no matter what.But the system is rigged against people like him. At school, Tyler Ashworth—an entitled bully hailed as a prodigy for his A-rank ability—teams up with other students from powerful families to torment and frame Nate without consequence. Tyler even crushes the vial of Awakening serum Nate's father paid for with his own blood.Even the academy's corrupt, status-obsessed administrators side with the elite. They conspire to bar Nate from the national college entrance exam and the Federal Awakened Selection Tournament, determined to destroy a poor student's only chance to rise above his station. Faced with relentless abuse and humiliation, Nate chooses to conceal his true power and bide his time for the sake of his family. In secret, he turns every insult, every injustice, and every ounce of rage into fuel for his training.Then the Federal Awakened Selection Tournament begins, bringing together the most gifted students from academies across the nation. Tyler advances through the tournament, determined to defeat Nate in front of the entire crowd and humiliate him once and for all.

Reality-warping anomalies descend on the world, and with them comes a lethal labyrinth of survival rules that no one fully understands. Mia Townsend, a former homicide detective, now reborn into the body of a seventeen-year-old school girl, is selected as a national representative and sent into the trials.Where everyone else fixates on simply not dying, Mia refuses to think that small. She brings a detective's precision to each forbidden prohibition, treating every rule not as a wall but as a riddle with a seam running through it. Layer by layer she peels back the lies, finds the life hidden inside each trap, and moves forward while the world around her stands frozen in fear. She isn't surviving the anomalies. She's outplaying them.

I'm kidnapped with a bomb set to explode in 10 minutes. I call my forensic boyfriend, but he scolds me for lying out of jealousy and chooses to save his childhood friend's cat instead. I text him my final goodbye before the bomb goes off.

Lydia Nott's mother-in-law falls gravely ill, but Ian Hart, mistakenly thinking the ambulance is for Lydia's ex-boyfriend, blocks its path. At the hospital, he refuses to donate blood and even destroys the blood source needed for the rescue. Despite Lydia's efforts to find help, her mother-in-law dies. Ian skips the memorial to attend Ivy Scott's birthday, only to learn the truth too late. When he tries to expel Lydia from the Hart family, he discovers she's the rightful heir. Stricken with guilt over his mother's death, he is left to face the consequences of his actions.

After I was caught in a dockside explosion, I was bound to a Survival Program. It gave me twenty-five years and four designated targets. If even one target’s Love Score or bond score reached 100%, I could wake up in my real world. But I failed all four. Because every target I tried to reach eventually turned toward Sophia Lane, the heroine of this world. They called my pain a performance. They called my tears manipulation. They said I was only pretending to break down so they would choose me over Sophia. But if they never loved me, why did they lose control when my mission failed and I chose to leave this world for good?

Ethan mistakenly believed that Scarlett's father had killed his own father, leading him to confine Scarlett in a mental hospital, where she endured torment for two years. Later, Ethan, in an effort to thwart his stepmother Evelyn's scheme, chose to enter into a fake marriage with Scarlett, with a three-month deadline. However, just as Ethan and Scarlett received their marriage license, Ethan discovered the mysterious woman he had slept with, Sophia.

Marcus Jones, a top-tier powerhouse known as the Pluto, returns to the country under a marriage contract to protect Chantal Lawson, the CEO of the Lawson Group. Upon his first encounter with Shayla Anson, captain of the National Security Bureau, he reveals a glimpse of his true identity, and the two unexpectedly share a one-night affair. At a restaurant, Marcus fends off the international assassin Mary, exposes Briana Shelton—Chantal's close friend—as a mole, and repeatedly foils the Harrison family's assassination attempts and business schemes aimed at seizing an anti-cancer project. Facing sniper attacks head-on, subduing Draco of the Axes, and effortlessly crushing the assassin, the Dog, Marcus proves himself an unstoppable force.

Nova wakes from her first wet dream to a nightmare—her boyfriend cheating with her bully. Then Andre, the mafia boy wearing scars and tenderness she’s never known, steps out of the shadows to save her—and claim her heart.