

Jack has always been invisible—the broke, quiet college kid with no power, no connections, and no way to fight back against the people who make his life hell. Then a mysterious ring falls into his hands and permanently fuses with his body, awakening abilities far beyond anything human. Overnight, the boy everyone used to push around finally has the power to hit back. But the ring is no miracle. It is a binding sentence. Pulled into the secretive Star Shield Agency, Jack discovers that alien creatures have been hiding beneath the surface of everyday life—and something far more dangerous is closing in on Earth. Now forced to live two lives, ordinary student by day and reluctant fighter by night, Jack must learn to control a power that grows stronger, darker, and harder to contain with every battle. And as the world he thought he knew begins to unravel, one question becomes impossible to ignore: why did the ring choose him?

Ten years ago, the captain of the Federal Cavalry, Eli, was framed by warlord Dirk in collusion with high-level officials and exiled to wasteland on charges of treason. After ten years of dormancy, he returned to Nikko Town and witnessed Dirk slaughtering the townspeople to seize high-purity mineral veins. Eli joined forces with his former henchman Karen and ranger Lena to rise up in rebellion and collect evidence of exoneration. During the final battle, Karen sacrificed her life to blow up the enemy line, while Eli killed Dirk and was exonerated. However, she refused to be persuaded by the Federation and returned to the desert alone.

Tyson Gray transmigrates into a beast taming world as the most humiliating thing imaginable: an F-rank little yellow chick, freshly discarded by the S-rank campus belle who wants nothing to do with him.What she throws away turns out to carry an ancient phoenix bloodline and a devouring evolution system that compounds with every creature he absorbs. He contracts with Esme Sutton, an E-rank beast tamer whose own contracted beast abandons her but whose potential is off every known chart, and the two of them begin climbing together. From small yellow chick to Cinder Hawk, to Inferno Crest, to Immortal Phoenix. Every opponent who looks down at them gets a front row seat to the correction.By the time the Demon Lord and the Wood family's schemes fully surface, Tyson and Esme are no longer something anyone can afford to underestimate. One phoenix, one tamer, completely undefeatable.

After three years on a top-secret mission, elite agent Victor comes home to a nightmare: his wife and her lover tortured his son to death — on the boy's birthday. Armed with unlimited authority from the President, Victor is about to make them pay in blood.

"Stella’s husband, Lucas Bennett, hid her college acceptance letter and took control of the money set aside for her education. He also spent years punishing her because he blamed her for the death of Chloe, the woman he had always loved. In Stella’s previous life, she was wrongly convicted and repeatedly lost her unborn children. In the end, she died while Lucas coldly watched and did nothing to save her. Stella was reborn on the day Chloe returned. She finally learned that her marriage to Lucas had never been legally registered. She also realized that Lucas had deliberately destroyed every opportunity she had to build a better life. This time, Stella no longer fought for his love. She applied for a place in an advanced defense manufacturing program and secretly planned her escape. However, Lucas once again took away her opportunity. He also held her against her will and framed her for crimes she did not commit. With no other way out, Stella turned to Sullivan for help. She jumped into the Hudson River and faked her own death. When Lucas recognized her bloodstained clothes on the riverbank, he fell to his knees and cried. Meanwhile, an investigation into forged documents, the misuse of military resources, and unlawful imprisonment dragged both Lucas and Chloe toward ruin. After escaping, Stella returned to college and began working in a laboratory. Her talent earned her a place in a national research program. With Sullivan by her side, she also found a healthy relationship built on love, respect, and equality. Years later, Stella returned to New York as a scientist, professor, wife, and mother. When Lucas finally expressed his regret, she neither forgave him nor looked back. She simply continued moving forward with the life that truly belonged to her. "

Silas Thorne has seen enough lives destroyed by gambling to dedicate his entire existence to ending it. He beats Lady Sparrow, the Titan, the Ace one by one, talks them all into walking away, and disappears with them into quiet retirement as a foot massage therapist. It holds, until it doesn’t. His sister-in-law is drowning in gambling debt, and the underground world he walked away from is the only place that can save her. He goes back in disguise, looking every bit the scruffy laborer, and proceeds to dismantle the underground gambling scene from the inside out. The legend they forgot to fear just walked back through the door.
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Tyson Gray transmigrates into a beast taming world as the most humiliating thing imaginable: an F-rank little yellow chick, freshly discarded by the S-rank campus belle who wants nothing to do with him.What she throws away turns out to carry an ancient phoenix bloodline and a devouring evolution system that compounds with every creature he absorbs. He contracts with Esme Sutton, an E-rank beast tamer whose own contracted beast abandons her but whose potential is off every known chart, and the two of them begin climbing together. From small yellow chick to Cinder Hawk, to Inferno Crest, to Immortal Phoenix. Every opponent who looks down at them gets a front row seat to the correction.By the time the Demon Lord and the Wood family's schemes fully surface, Tyson and Esme are no longer something anyone can afford to underestimate. One phoenix, one tamer, completely undefeatable.

Driven to the edge, Rachel Yale makes a desperate gamble—using herself as bait to draw close to Louis Brown, Newfork's most untouchable power figure. He is ruthless, distant, a man said to have no heart. He sees her motives clearly—yet allows her closer. What begins as disdain and indulgent play turns into dangerous attraction. The god of power falls from his pedestal, becoming her shield, her storm, and her only refuge.

Emily Porter, an ordinary housewife, finds herself shunned by her mother-in-law for giving birth to a daughter instead of a son. Her husband, Joe Baker, driven by greed for a hefty insurance payout, conspires with his lover to murder Emily. In a calculated move, Joe stages a car accident that leaves Emily in a vegetative state. In a shocking turn of events, he goes as far as to bury his comatose wife alive, only to rush off to marry his mistress moments later. But fate has a twist in store, as Emily awakens, ready to seek justice and reclaim her life.

Bestselling author Edith has harbored a secret crush on firefighter Nolan for a decade. The two entered into a marriage of convenience to resolve family debts. A café explosion left Edith heartbroken; during the crisis, Nolan saved Nancy—a manipulative woman—but ignored Edith, treating her merely as a wife in name only. After Nancy falsely claimed to be pregnant with Nolan’s child, Edith decided to file for divorce. Nolan pleaded with her to keep up the charade of a loving couple for the sake of his ailing father. Nancy seized the opportunity to stir up trouble, while a colleague of Nolan’s began pursuing Edith, provoking Nolan’s intense jealousy. Nancy staged a miscarriage to frame Edith, but surveillance footage ultimately exposed all her lies. Nolan discovered the love Edith had hidden for years through her novels and began clumsily trying to win her back. Finally, after risking his life to save Edith from a fire and severing ties with Nancy, Nolan devoted himself to healing Edith’s emotional wounds, transforming their pragmatic contract marriage into a genuine, deeply loving union.