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A night security job at a museum seems like the easiest money Jorden Leon has ever made. But on his very first shift, he discovers that the museum's relics are anything but ordinary. Driven by instinct, he restores a shattered Eight-Armed Asura bronze statue. As the final crack disappears, an ancient force surges into him, awakening powers beyond imagination. Unaware that he has just prevented an S-Class catastrophe capable of destroying the city, Jordan steps into a new destiny. Soon, whispers spread through the city of a mysterious guardian who protects the living from dangers buried deep in the past.

After returning to her biological family in her past life, Ava Devin was severely mistreated by the fake heiress and her three brothers. They even poisoned her and married her off to a dead person. Upon being reborn, Ava uses her past knowledge to send the fake heiress and her brothers behind bars. Eventually, she becomes the chairman of Nash Corp, with absolute authority in her hands.

Morrison, a former top CIA operative, lives under an assumed name after suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, leading a quiet farming life in a small town with his daughter Vivian. The local criminal syndicate, the Rosetti family, covets his farmland. To force Morrison into submission, Theodore, the family's young heir, kidnaps the 17-year-old Vivian and tortures her to death brutally. Having lost his sole emotional anchor, Morrison casts aside his medication restraints entirely, unearths the stockpile of weapons he has hidden away for a decade, and storms the Rosetti manor alone to exact revenge. Senior figures within the city's police force, municipal government and the CIA are all well aware of Morrison's terrifying combat prowess from his past. They order an emergency city-wide evacuation and stand aside to let him wipe out the entire criminal family, kicking off a brutal vendetta of blood for blood. Revolving around paternal love, trauma, corrupt power networks and unbridled vengeance, the story interweaves the lingering shadows of past killings with the mutual despair and devastation of the present, unfolding an unstoppable bloody reckoning.

Abandoned by her wolf pack, Yaya falls into the deadliest horror game ever created. But her perception disorder turns every nightmare into something beautiful: the blood-soaked vampire becomes her handsome husband, the twisted fae her adorable daughter, and the undead her loving in-laws. To escape, Yaya must collect every clearance card—only to discover that the final keys are the hearts of the monsters who finally call her family.

Antonella is a brilliant businesswoman, and her daughter Lucia is everything to her. Lucia suffers from a deadly peanut allergy. Her husband Nasser only keeps their daughter to claim the family inheritance. He often sneaks off to meet his lover, leaving Lucia unsupervised. One day, Lucia eats a peanut cake and falls into life‑threatening allergic shock. She screams for her father's help, but Nasser shuts the door. Lucia calls her mother before collapsing. Antonella drops everything to search for her child, yet her greedy brother‑in‑law Mike leads her astray. After reading Lucia's diary, Antonella uncovers all the cold‑blooded lies. When she finds her dying daughter, she swears to destroy every person who put greed and lust above a child's life.

Bryce Davidson married into the Barber family and has never quite stood straight under the weight of it. On New Year's Day, his wife Ginny leaves to collect relatives and asks him to bathe their infant with a towel. Out of some small, stubborn impulse he fills the bathtub instead. The phone rings. He looks away. By the time he looks back, it is too late. In his collapse he hides what happened. He conceals the baby,covers the room, holds himself together through the Barber family's New Year visit. Every attempt by the relatives to see the child Bryce deflects. Ginny watches him, and something in the way he moves begins to pull at her. She can feel the shape of a closed door. She moves toward it.

On the surface, Layla Smith is a well-behaved overseas student, but she’s actually the feared leader of the Titus Sect, unmatched in martial arts. When her grandfather falls ill, she returns home with her bodyguard, Felix Nolan. After marrying Zack Moore, she’s humiliated by him and his friends. Layla smiles coldly—she hasn’t met anyone this foolish in a long time. And then… she strikes.

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.

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!"

Kai Hunter transmigrates into a world overrun by supernatural horrors and awakens a system that lets him do the unthinkable: summon and command them. Female ghost Samara, serial killer Freddy, creatures that cannot be stopped by anyone else now answer to him. As he tears through dungeons and dismantles shadowy organizations, a deeper truth surfaces about where the horrors came from and what this world actually is. By the end, Kai isn't just surviving the darkness. He rules it.