

Tyler Bell, Chief of the Royal Secret Service, wakes up five hundred years in the future inside the body of a Bell family descendant who shares his name. His old friends have become lonely immortals,waiting all this time for his return. This modern world has no deadly court politics or backstabbing nobles—just three loving "aunts" who dote on him. When his aunts panic that the family is under threat from the Obsidian Sun and Doverfield warriors, Tyler just scratches his head. "You call that a threat?"

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.
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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.

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.

Jewelry designer Julia Holt hides her heiress identity while dating Jared Knox. When Julia, now pregnant, discovers his affair with his former crush, Hailey Moore, she breaks up with him, terminates her pregnancy, and marries Theo Mercer. Later, when Hailey enters a competition, Julia exposes her theft. Hailey pays the price for her dishonesty, and Jared regrets his choices. Julia, meanwhile, finds true love with Theo.

Jewelry designer Julia Holt hides her heiress identity while dating Jared Knox. When Julia, now pregnant, discovers his affair with his former crush, Hailey Moore, she breaks up with him, terminates her pregnancy, and marries Theo Mercer. Later, when Hailey enters a competition, Julia exposes her theft. Hailey pays the price for her dishonesty, and Jared regrets his choices. Julia, meanwhile, finds true love with Theo.

The second princess Aella of Therasia was exiled to the North by her father. She awakened the Azure Phoenix Flame Power in Blackstone Gorge, which inherently restrains the Wights. Fighting alongside Northern Lord Reyne, she rose from an outcast princess to Supreme Queen of Ancient Valyria. When the southern nobles who once wronged her saw her again at the Sacred Court, Aella, robed in black and gold and wearing the Thorned Dragon-Nest Crown, looked down on all as a queen.

In Newport City, undercover cop Ava Lennox infiltrates Blackstone Syndicate as a bodyguard to steal the money-laundering ledger and take down its leader Elena Thorne, who hides a police academy past. Elena spots Ava's combat talent, draws her close and sets mind games. Ava struggles between her police duty and the growing forbidden bond with Elena. Facing internal moles, Gallo plots and old ties with Marcus, the two survive ambushes and lies.

Amber, a genius Ivy League student, is drugged and sold into a black-market trap by her abusive family. After a night of uncontrollable passion inside a thunderstorm Maybach, she realizes her Ivy League degree won't rewrite her destiny—but Ethan Blackwood, the billionaire king of New York, can. Refusing to accept a humiliating $500,000 buyout check, Amber tears up her top-tier diploma,Society's hypocrisy, and marches straight into Blackwood Manor with a duffel bag of cash—demanding to be hired as Ethan's personal maid. Inside this opulent cage, she wields her lethal intellect as a chess master, dismantling rival conspiracies, manipulating family coups, and reverse-taming two dangerous Alpha men. She forces Ethan, the tyrannical billionaire, to kneel before her and surrender his empire, while turning Tyler, the deadly executive assistant, into a obsessively loyal hound who commits murder in the name of love. On the day of their lavish, televised ""Black Wedding"", as the vows are about to be sealed, Tyler—covered in blood and holding a withered black rose—shatters the church doors to unveil their dirty secrets to the world. Surrounded by flashing cameras and two obsessively devoted men waiting for her command, Empress Amber holds out her hand for the ultimate, deadly choice...

Billion‑tech tycoon Kyle Thorn hides his true identity to live as an ordinary man, doting on his fiancée Stella Miller whole‑heartedly for five long years.Little does he know he has fallen into a cruel trap: his fiancée conspires with another man on a surrogacy‑and‑marriage scam, and her whole family uses him as a ladder for social climbing. The gentle Kyle turns ruthless. The truth blows up on their wedding day.Revealing his immense power and backed by his confidante Kiana Windsor with irrefutable evidence, he wages a cold‑blooded revenge against all the traitors. Everyone who plotted against him will reap exactly what they sowed.