

Three days before the long weekend, the Department of Labor called me. "We got an anonymous complaint saying your company is forcing employees to go on a holiday retreat..." I went still. Then I checked social media. Yep. There it was. An intern who'd started a month ago had shoved me onto the local trending page. [Greedy boss turns holiday weekend into mandatory company retreat. Employees are basically free entertainment.] [They say it's optional. Yeah, right. Who's brave enough to say no?] Thousands of comments rolled in, absolutely roasting me. Except our retreats had always been elite. Fully paid. No cheap corporate nonsense. This time, I was paying out of pocket. Seven days in the Maldives. Everything covered. A $2,000 travel stipend each. Senior employees could bring family. But apparently, a free luxury vacation was oppression now. Cool. I told the labor officer, "We'll fully cooperate." Then I dropped a notice in the company group chat. [Per Department of Labor guidance, the long weekend company retreat is canceled. Everyone should take the holiday off as usual.] [The travel stipends and retreat budget will be moved into this quarter's employee benefits reserve.] The second I hit send, something slammed into a desk outside my office.

The whole world is thrown into a mysterious survival game on an endless highway. Everyone gets a lonely road, a random vehicle, and must scavenge for supplies to survive. At night, terrifying unknown entities emerge to hunt the living. Eric Quimby starts with the worst possible companion—a powerless cleaning robot with no combat ability, meant for cleaning, not survival.

A modern veterinarian wakes up inside a novel as Athena Knight, the sect's hated eldest senior sister, known for being cold and twisted. Bound to a system, she must rise—or be erased. She changes her fate, treating her four powerful beast-husbands with kindness instead of cruelty. When Lara Knight steals her divine mark and frames her, chaos erupts. Athena exposes the truth, restores order, and rises as the new God of War and sect leader.

Three years after a virus apocalypse, cities lie in ruins, and humans and zombies hunt each other for survival. While others struggle to stay alive, Zack Larson opens a restaurant in the end times. With unlimited clean water, endless food, and zombie “employees,” his place thrives. Even the zombie leader must come politely—just to get a meal. In this broken world, Zack runs the safest, strangest restaurant in existence.

After surviving a dockside explosion, Isabella Bellandi becomes trapped in another world and bound to a Survival Program. She has twenty-five years to earn complete affection or loyalty from four targets—her brother Dante, doctor Julian, fiancé Adrian, and the distant Luca—or lose her soul. Yet Sophia, another survivor who secretly caused the explosion, manipulates everyone into distrusting Isabella, dismissing her depression, and choosing Sophia instead. When the deadline expires, Isabella tries to die, but the men confine her in a facility. Sophia then reveals the truth: only one of them can return home. Luca, who has always loved her, rescues her and gives her one final day of freedom before she dies peacefully in his arms. After her death, Luca exposes Sophia’s crimes, forcing Dante, Julian, and Adrian into devastating remorse. Their bonds finally reach full value, sending Isabella home to reunite with Luca, free from the Program.

Max Lloyd wakes up in the Bloodreaver Sect, where everyone schemes just to survive. Just as he is about to be drained by a dangerous temptress, he awakens the Trait Growth System, which changes everything. By cultivating land, he gains abilities that allow him to grow stronger effortlessly. As chaos erupts and mighty forces threaten to crush the Bloodreaver Sect, Max puts down his hoe and swears to make those who dare ruin his spiritual field pay!
![[ENG DUB] Acid Rain Apocalypse: My Farm System vs. the Zombie Queen](https://acfs3.goodshort.com/dist/src/assets/images/pc/common/f901131c-default-book-cover.png)
During the acid rain apocalypse, the global order has collapsed.Humanity is faced with imminent danger that threatens their survival.In my previous lifetime, I cowered in my safe house and counted down the days of survival with great difficulty. But Amy Carter's jealousy toward me caused me to get attacked by the villagers. In the end, I died under the zombies' hungry maws.When I get reborn, I receive an RV at a village ceremony and modify it. Not only that, but I've also awakened a farm system. I get to live my life without worrying about my basic needs.On top of that, I've obtained great combat power, too.Meanwhile, Amy has awakened a system of her own that allows her to evolve and command zombies around her. In this lifetime, she vows to kill me no matter what. This marks the start of the apocalyptic vendetta between us.

Ethan Shaw was once just an ordinary security guard in Grayhaven. At 26, he had never even held a woman's hand. When the zombie apocalypse broke out, he managed to survive for only 12 days before being torn apart by the undead. Then fate reset everything. Given a second chance, Ethan awakened the Apocalypse Convoy System, a power that grew stronger every time he saved a beautiful woman. As civilization collapsed and human nature turned darker by the day, Ethan built a convoy where survival, desire, and rewards became inseparably linked.

Eight years ago, ECLIPSE—the world's first neural-immersion connection game—launched. But the moment it booted up, it swallowed reality whole. Its rules overwrote the world, and humanity went from being players to being survivors in a genuine fight for their lives. Death was no longer a respawn button you could press after logging off; it meant permanent deletion once your resurrection count ran dry. Ethan led the survivors through eight years of brutal combat, and finally slew the world-tier boss, Nidhogg the Void Dragon. The kill dropped a mythic-tier item capable of rewriting the world's very rules—the Dragon Core. Yet just as humanity's hope seemed within reach, the two comrades he trusted most, Marcus and Rachel, chose betrayal. To seize control of the Dragon Core, Marcus drove a blade through Ethan's chest himself. In his final moment, Ethan finally understood: everything he'd fought so hard to protect had long been manipulated by a conspiracy hidden in the shadows. But the Dragon Core never acknowledged Marcus. The instant Ethan died, it triggered an unknown power—and rolled the entire world back eight years. When Ethan opened his eyes again, he was back in the final few hours before ECLIPSE's launch. Having lived through the apocalypse once, he knew exactly how the world would change that night, and precisely which resources, which people, which opportunities would decide the future. He claimed the legendary Founder's Chip ahead of everyone else, awakened a power he had never possessed in his previous life, and discovered that the Dragon Core—returned to him across time—was already bending the game's rules.

After her death, modern-day elite assassin Morgan Calud awakens in the body of a woman who shares her exact name. In this new life, her father died in battle long ago, and to secure their place within the powerful Calud family, her mother raised her as a boy from birth.As Morgan grows older, she is torn between her longing to reclaim her true identity and the constant fear that discovery would bring death upon both her and her mother. Determined to escape this dangerous double life, she plans to flee with her mother before the truth can be exposed.But her plans are derailed when she catches the attention of Shane Burke, the ruthless and immensely powerful prince of a different royal line in the Aetheria Empire. Taken into his residence against her will, Morgan is forced into a perilous game of wits and survival, where one wrong move could cost her everything.