

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.

Aspiring painter Celine Anderson catches boyfriend Daniel cheating with her half sister Bella at a banquet. Seeking revenge, she kisses a stranger, Theodore Kane, who happens to be a major art investor and a billionaire. Theodore proposes marriage to appease his mother for her surgery, and Celine agrees if he grants her three wishes. Theodore must marry by 35 to inherit his family's fortune, and his siblings try to thwart the union. Amidst the chaos, Celine discovers her true identity.

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.

Billion-dollar conglomerate founder Sarah returns home, keeping her wealth hidden, hoping only for a quiet wedding. Unexpectedly, Hailey, her son's fiancée, humiliates her relentlessly to seize her wedding venue — completely unaware that the victim before her is none other than her fiancé's own mother! Hailey resorts to extreme violence. She shoots Sarah and has her bound and drowned in a resort pool to silence her. Miraculously surviving, Sarah refuses her son's protection. Disguised as a waitress, she infiltrates the engagement gala. Before the city's elite and assembled media, witnesses and irrefutable evidence come to light, exposing Hailey's full conspiracy: fake-pregnancy fraud, embezzlement, and attempted murder. The villain is publicly ruined. Sarah makes her triumphant return, reclaiming everything that belongs to her!

A little over a month pregnant, I was happily looking forward to my wedding—until my fiance teamed up with my parents and brothers to put me on trial at the Court of Justice. They fabricated charge after charge, hoping to have me executed in the name of the law. If the judge found me guilty, I would be sentenced to death on the spot. Once I was dead, my corneas would be transplanted into my adopted sister, and everything I owned—my assets and insurance—would be claimed by them. Faced with my fiance’s betrayal and my family’s treachery, I fought back. I demanded the judge use the latest medical technology to extract my memories and project them on the big screen, letting the judge and hundreds of public jurors decide my fate. Just as everyone was smugly certain of their victory, the truth revealed by my memories moved the entire courtroom to tears.

Gianna Mason is Javion Herman's protected "golden canary." Just as Gianna is about to give birth, Javion is framed and disappears. Five years later, Gianna returns to the country with her daughter and encounters a down-on-his-luck Javion. Mother and daughter bring him home, and the three join forces to face their enemies and clear up past misunderstandings.
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Selma Sullivan follows her husband, Chester Sanders, home for the New Year, only to be targeted by his childhood sweetheart, Shirley Zamora. Knowing Selma is allergic to scallions, Shirley deliberately adds them to every dish, then burns Selma's multimillion-dollar contract and even drugs her, hiring a man to assault her. Yet Chester and his family always tell Selma to forgive her. After being driven to her death, Selma is reborn. This time, she replaces Shirley's scallions with the ginger Chester is allergic to and her contract with his $500,000 loan. She makes her husband's family pay for every "forgive and forget" they ever demanded.

After being betrayed and killed by her fiancé Marcus and stepsister, Athena is reborn on the day she must choose her future husband. Instead of picking Marcus she shocks everyone by choosing his mafia uncle—the man she’s always called Uncle Alex. As her ex is slapped with the truth and their forbidden desire ignites, is this her sweetest revenge… or her most dangerous temptation?

To investigate an underground casino, journalist Waldron is betrayed and killed by its manager, Samuel. Three years later, his daughter Winona, now a master card cheat, infiltrates Samuel's casino to save her aunt from gambling addiction and hunt down her father's killer.

After her parents' death, Sienna is forced to accept her stepfather's brother — the ruthless arms dealer Kian Voss — as her guardian. Desperate to escape, she follows him into a secret SM club, only to be masked and delivered into his private room. Her plan to expose him spirals into dangerous, addictive desire...