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(Dubbed) The Dragon FatherThey used to call him Nine-Tattoo Dragon. Chen Ye put that down eighteen years ago for a wife and a daughter, and he has been fixing cars in a repair shop ever since. His daughter Nian Nian has grown up bright and turns eighteen. On the night of her birthday her classmate Xiao Ying sets her up, and Wang Chao, who has money behind him, humiliates her. She lies to her parents about it and keeps the rest to herself, because she knows what her father used to be and does not want to drag him back into it. Wang Chao is not finished. He drives to the repair shop at night to push at the old man for sport, and what has been asleep in Chen Ye for eighteen years wakes up while a car is still on the lift. Afterward he moves the shop to a lot beside his daughter's university so he can be within walking distance of her, and Wang Chao's family, the Hongsheng group, is not the sort to let a mechanic embarrass them.
Still Waters, Hidden SecretsNolan Hayes runs an aquarium shop and is raising a child on his own, which is enough for most people to file him under trouble. Zorii Lars, an elementary school teacher who does everything the way it is supposed to be done, arrives at his place for a home visit and files him there too. What Nolan sees in her is the stubbornness and loneliness he recognizes from himself, sitting under the well-behaved surface.
The prejudice wears off and they get closer in the quiet of the shop. Then Zorii learns that this mild man has a past he has not talked about. Their families are far apart in circumstance, and the buried secret sits between them.
A Father's Love, A Son's ShameA father sold his kidney to pay for his son's future, but he banned his father from his wedding. Learning the truth, he finally saw his selfishness. When his father's life hangs in the balance, he cuts himself open to save him. As blood binds them closer, can a wound this deep ever truly heal?
My System Says: Tame Them All!Jiang Cheng's parents went missing when he was young. He grew up with a chaos beast called Snowball, which had been with him since childhood, and to look for them he entered the beast tamer tournament.
In a tight spot during the competition he awakened the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect King System. He went on to tame powerful spirit beasts and broke up the Shadow Church's plots several times. His bond with Snowball deepened, and the seven divine beasts and the seven spirit pearls came together one by one, bringing the chaos beast's full power closer to being unsealed. There was an informer close to him the whole time.
Yeah, I Rule with InstrumentsIn a world of powerful awakeners and fierce beasts, everyone awakens legendary weapons. I, however, awaken two ordinary instruments. Dismissed as a useless support, I unleash terrifying souls with my melodies, surrounding beasts in an instant. No one expects this "support" to hold such horrifying power. What truly lies behind my instruments?
The Rise of the Apex PredatorThe young man is one of the humans the other races keep, which in the beast city means a pet or something on the table. By the year 3055 that is where the whole species sits, under the name naked apes.
He wakes a system on an operating table, the Taotie ancestor god, which works by swallowing what he kills and taking its strength. "If this world will not treat humans as human, I will become the nightmare of every race." He gets off the table and out of the building, then goes up through the Dragon God's tower, taking the blood of one race after another as he goes.
Country Girl, You Deserve Love Too!Sierra Stewart gave her best years to Evan Murphy. She loved him with everything she had, all while longing for a wedding that never came. Instead, she saw him with another woman... and a boy. Then she walked away and met Zane Gulliver, a self-made man. Kind. Steady. Will Sierra’s new beginning really survive?
Too Late for Your Regrets, Husband and Son!Fanny wanted the family she thought she already had. She and Philip had loved each other for years before they married, and afterward everyone around them envied what they had built. Philip was the model husband, and their son was well behaved.
By chance she found out that the whole thing was arranged for appearances. Philip had been unfaithful for a long time. The son she doted on had been calling another woman Mom. Her place had been taken years earlier and she was the only one who did not know. Fanny dried her eyes and made a choice nobody expected of her.
Love on the RunWhile covering her mother's night shift at a hotel, recent graduate Chloe Sinclair crosses paths with Gavin Thornton, a man caught in a plot against him. She later becomes his assistant, but their growing relationship draws a warning from his official girlfriend. Pregnant and facing danger, Chloe leaves.
Wild Ride With My StepbrotherEmma Wright is the obedient daughter of a strict clergy family, raised to be humble and to follow the rules. To restore her humiliated brother Noah's dignity, she secretly enters an off-road motorcycle race and stuns everyone by defeating Jake Morrison, the school's notorious bad boy and billionaire heir. The victory gives Emma her first taste of freedom and ignites a dangerous, magnetic spark between her and Jake.
Cash Girl, Cash QueenMia Parker is eighteen and lives with her aunt Lena in a run-down trailer. There is a car accident, and afterwards Mia can see the hidden value of a thing and the risk attached to it. She starts buying secondhand goods and reselling them, then bids on storage units, wins them, and puts the money into a brand of her own.
The money brings attention. People with older money look down on where she came from, and Blaire works against her in ways Mia has to keep uncovering. Two men who dislike each other both want her. Mia keeps trading, and she pulls Lena and the people around her out of the trailer park with her.
My Boss, My Baby DaddyIsabella Sterling was raised by a butcher and grew up killing pigs. She is the true heiress of House Sterling, and when she comes back to the manor everyone there knows where she has been and expects her to make a fool of herself. The false heiress goes further than that and tries every way she can think of to kill her. What none of them know is that Isabella is the Guardian Saintess, the strongest woman cultivator in the Nine Realms. She buys a slave who is written off as worthless. He is the Ascendant Lord Oracle, who reached the Divine Realm, and the Nine Realms both revere and fear him.
The Abandoned GeniusEva is an expert who believes intelligence is something you are born with. A test came back saying her twin son Leon was retarded, so she treated him accordingly and praised the other twin, Noah, who is average. The test was faulty. Before an important exam Eva locked Leon up. He got out, sat the exam, scored full marks, and was then framed over it and ran. He went abroad. Years later he comes back as Prof L, a name out of Wall Street that nobody can put a face to, and solves a puzzle at a summit that no one else can. Eva and Noah accuse him in public. He tells them who he is and shows the diagnostic error for what it was. Eva loses the belief she built her life on and kneels to ask his forgiveness. He refuses it and goes on to redefine how education is done.
No More Vows, Only VictoryLu Xu was a drifter when Chu Zhinan met him. He had helped her mother, and she took him in as her husband. She had been fighting alongside her father since she was ten, and when her father was dying he asked her to leave the army, so she gave up the command and buried her record and moved into the household.
For eight years she put the Chu family's money and connections into Lu Xu until he took the top place in the military examination. Once he had it, he brought a second wife into the house at equal rank. He broke the vow he had made her, moved to take the Chu property, and then moved against her life and the family itself.
Chu Zhinan goes to the court and asks for the divorce. She puts the armour back on and takes up the silver spear. The Crown Prince is in danger and she gets him out, and rides for the northern border to hold it.
(Dubbed) Wukong vs. The Beast KingdomThree demon kings have ruled a nation of bones for five centuries. Tang Monk is their newest trophy. Sun Wukong has been swallowed, poisoned, and trapped, but he keeps coming back. This isn't a pilgrimage. It's a war. And the only way to win is to burn the kingdom down.
You Are My Only OneSonya's mother would not stop pushing her toward marriage, and Sonya, a director at her group, settled it by marrying a younger man she had met once at an arranged meeting. He kept the house, looked after her in small daily ways, and then joined the company as an intern, where he helped her get through several crises at work.
She found out he was the company's CEO, the one nobody had ever seen. He had been running the group the whole time she thought she was carrying him. What came after was family grudges going back years and situations where her life was at stake, and the gap in their ages was held against them both.
My Stripper Lover Is The Mafia KingAlice Hawthorne meets Ryan Blackwood, a club dancer who strips, and falls for him. Her father's business is failing, and to save it she is made to marry Black Mamba, a mob boss who is brutal and wears a mask. She does not know the two men are one person, or that the marriage is a test he arranged to see what she would do. When a bullet is fired at her he puts himself in front of it, and the deception between them turns into something else.
Becoming the Wicked StepmotherFour stepsons in the otome game Night of the Blood Oath want their stepmother Luna dead. One is obsessive, one calculating, one untamed, one broken, and between them they are the reason Luna does not survive the story. An ordinary girl called Lucy wakes up inside Luna's body, in the moment just after Luna has gouged out the eyes of Ian, the youngest of the four. Lucy has to turn their hatred around, and the way to do it is a blood oath that cannot be broken. She sets about it while the four of them circle her, with the redemption and the wanting tangled together.
Try Me, Boys.Born unwanted into a family that favors sons, a girl secretly masters martial arts. She shames elite rivals, exposes a master's dark crimes, and gains her legendary mentor's ultimate blessing. Just as she abolishes old rules and saves a clan in crisis, she sets a final challenge for every man. But will they dare to face her?
The Last Oath of Agent DeathMack is killed by the Black Cross, and before he dies he asks Will to look after his daughter Lillian, her small son Andy, and a secret he has been keeping. Will, an agent known as Death God, watched it happen.
This is Chicago in the 1920s. Will stages his own death and takes work in a diner under the name Cain so he can stay near the mother and child without being known. He fends off gangs who come after them, and while doing it he finds that officials in the city are working with the Black Cross. He takes on the two of them together with one person he trusts.
Married a CEO, Reclaimed My LegacyNathan wants the life his ex took with her when she left him. What he gets instead is a rushed marriage to Claudia, a CEO who is running from an arranged marriage to Lex Norrington. Claudia helps him look into where he came from, and Nathan learns he is the missing heir of the Norrington family. That puts him in the middle of a fight over the inheritance. He works under the name Cipher, an AI genius nobody has matched to a face, and he uses it to dig up the past that was taken from him and to go after the people who took it.
Surprise! The Mafia Daddy’s SextupletsVincent runs a mafia family, and the night Bianca spent with him was arranged by her stepsister, who set the whole thing up as a betrayal. Bianca had sextuplets from it. Years later the stepsister takes the six children and uses them to force Bianca to attend a mafia banquet, where Bianca is tortured. Vincent sees a birthmark on her during it and understands who she is. The babies are then found to have a rare blood type, and Vincent goes after the people who hurt them to take back Bianca and the children.
From Victim to Mrs. CEOA young designer watches her parents die and her award-winning work stolen by a wealthy heiress. Then a store explosion gives her a dead woman's face, the wife of the very CEO the heiress works for. Now wearing another woman's skin, every smile is a weapon. And when the final collection walks the runway, the heiress will lose everything.
Wait, His Majesty Can Hear Me?I traveled back to an ancient dynasty and found myself inhabiting the body of a simple-minded prince. Fortunately, I was granted a system. As long as I kept a low profile and did nothing every day, I could quietly accumulate points. But one day, I suddenly found that His Majesty could hear my inner thoughts…
I Ruined their Wedding with 40 BUCKS!I laid two brand-new 20-dollar bills on the wedding gift table. The noisy hall turned dead silent instantly! The gift-taker froze in shock. My husband and mother-in-law looked horrified. What made me do this on purpose?
Playing the Fool, Plotting Their FallMicah Lowe was the illegitimate son of the Lowe family and Zane Lowe was the heir. Three years earlier Zane saw Micah kill his mother and his sister. He was beaten badly for it, then acted insane and was sent to a psychiatric hospital, where he spent three years quietly gathering what he could.
The family needed a marriage alliance with Eva Shaw, whose father headed the merchants' association, so they brought Zane home. He came back still playing the madman. At the family banquet he beat Micah using a stock known as the twilight share, then produced orders worth hundreds of millions through a man he had planted, and his father accepted him. He and Eva took over the investment division.
Micah worked against them there. Eva's investment lost seventy percent, and Micah made fun of Zane for buying an unfinished building. Thirty days later the city announced a school would go up next to it. The site became school district housing and the return on it reached five thousand percent. His father then set the terms: whoever brought in the Morgan Group contract would inherit. Micah and his brother stole the invitations to the Morgan dinner and were named for it on the spot by the younger Morgan, and the contract went to Zane.
The Royal ScandalPrincess Lilith is cruelly betrayed by her husband Prince Patrick. While she lies unconscious and gravely injured, Patrick cheats on her with his mistress Kalixi right by her hospital bed. Lilith records the truth and dies in despair. Reborn on her wedding day, she resolves to change her fate with past memories and hatred. Pretending to marry Patrick, she secretly allies with Jervis, a double agent with a secret mission to create royal scandals. Their relationship shifts from mutual use to deep trust. Lilith gains power through royal resources and a charity foundation, exposes scandals, and brings Patrick to justice. She divorces him, rises as the Queen of the Underground, finds love with Jervis, and completes her revenge and redemption.
Love Realized Too lateCynthia is married to Aethon, the God of War, and finds out the story he has told her about their marriage is a lie. She says so in front of everyone and leaves him, and marries the son of the God of the Underworld instead. The new husband is injured, and she heals him. Aethon comes to regret what he did and tries to get her back, but she has already moved on, and he has no way in. Cynthia's new life comes with power as well as the marriage.
HOUND：KILL ORDERRyan works as an assassin for the broker Lucifer under the codename Hound. His mentor, Grey Shadow, disappeared and left a kill order unfilled, and Lucifer passes that order to Ryan. In Sin City, Ryan takes a position on a jungle ridge and kills the drug lord Pablo with one shot to the head from over 700 meters. Pablo's men move into the streets and attack civilians. Ryan intervenes and is seen. Pablo's girlfriend Helen, called the Black Widow, posts a bounty of $500,000 on Ryan on the dark web. Mercenaries follow him into the jungle and gang crews come after him in the city, and he kills them.
Ryan goes to Helen and kills her, which ends the bounty. He then takes further contracts rated S and SSS. One of them is against the William family, and he carries it out: Mordo is shot through a wall, and Ada cuts her own wrist in surrender and is spared. There is a job involving Capone in New Rome and another for the CIA in Freeport. Ryan turns down an offer from the CIA. Lucifer then passes him a new lead on Grey Shadow, and Ryan leaves on it.
Stuck in Class with My Rebel SonAfter a fierce clash with her wayward son over a missing fortune, a mother is sent 15 years back—into the body of an abused teen. Saved by a rebellious boy who turns out to be her younger son, she stays close to change his fate. But his rebellion hides a darker truth and a plot already in motion
Chained to My Mafia KingWaitress Grace treats a wounded stranger on a rain-soaked night without knowing he is Dante Moreau, the city's most feared crime boss. She rejects his interest because she plans to marry Daniel, the man she credits with saving her life. When Daniel betrays her at the altar, Dante storms the ceremony and carries away the bride he has decided to claim.
I Strip My Husband of His Power!A private doctor is working her way toward a married man, and the wife comes home from treatment abroad to find her in the house. The wife asks for her to be dismissed. Her husband takes the doctor's side instead, and believes what the doctor says against his wife. The doctor breaks the urn holding the ashes of the wife's mother. The husband still protects her, and strikes his wife. She stops trusting him after that and moves to remove him from the acting presidency of the Mountain and River Alliance so she can run it herself.
Dear My CountessThree months after Eleanor's husband left the estate she was still living there alone. She did not take a lover. What she had instead was a phone call that came in every night at midnight, obscene, from a man with a low voice, and she got used to waiting for it.
Over time the voice started to sound like someone in the house. She began to think it belonged to her stepson, Julian.
Don't Mess With the Sweet OneSu Li's mother died when she was young and the household closed around her afterward. Her father took the stepmother's side in everything, her grandmother had no use for granddaughters, the stepmother wanted the family's money settled on her own child, and the half sister was pleasant in company and ruthless out of it. Su Li's answer to all of it was to be good. She swallowed the accusations, did what she was told, gave up what was asked for, and kept expecting that at some point it would count for something. It did not. She was set up by the people she had spent her life accommodating and she died angry, with the whole account still open. Then she opens her eyes years earlier, before any of it has happened, in a body that has not yet learned to keep quiet. She knows what each of them will do and roughly when. The obedient girl they are used to is gone from the first morning, and she starts working through them one at a time, beginning with the ones who move first.
Mr. Dragon in a Mop BucketFor twenty years, the most powerful man on Earth has mopped floors and cleaned toilets, all to raise his son in peace. When his future daughter-in-law humiliates his family on the wedding day, his phone rings. And the man holding a mop reveals he owns everything she ever wanted. The wedding is off. The Dragon returns. And hell comes with him.
Born to Rise: A Dragon’s Ultimate FateThe dragon clan spends the last of its bloodline energy hatching an egg and gets what it takes for a defective dragon, calling him a lizard. He is in fact a lifeguard from another time who woke up in that body in the primordial world. The Ancestral Dragon Pearl picks him as its master, which ties the fortune of the whole clan to a dragon nobody in it respects.
He falls into an abyss, eats demon beasts down there, and works his way up to a ninth-rank true dragon. The phoenix clan attacks. The heavenly court moves to seal him, and his relatives are held in a prison beneath the sea. He uses the Ancestral Dragon bloodline to break the seal, and sets about restoring the clan and dividing the Four Seas.
(Dubbed) Mr. Dragon in a Mop BucketFor twenty years, the most powerful man on Earth has mopped floors and cleaned toilets, all to raise his son in peace. When his future daughter-in-law humiliates his family on the wedding day, his phone rings. And the man holding a mop reveals he owns everything she ever wanted. The wedding is off. The Dragon returns. And hell comes with him.
Reborn Rich by Spending on My Wives!Betrayed and fallen low, a man accidentally unlocks a rewarding spending system. He gains huge wealth and meets diverse charming women. Mocked by his ex and her lover, he stuns all with his fortune. Amid tangled romances, can he find his destined love?
Well, I'm the Underworld Ruler NowA man is thrown into a world haunted by deadly ghosts. He gains a system that lets him bind and upgrade powerful ghost servants. As he fights against hidden schemes and a mysterious cult, he uncovers shocking truths. The ghosts come from another world and this reality is the realm of the dead. What will he do to rebuild the order of this realm?
Doomsday Scavenger: Ocean KingEugene digs the beach on a small island. Supplies come up out of the sand for him, and the sea animals that come near the shore will do what he tells them. He got hold of this after the water took the land. A tsunami went over the continents and never went back down, and what is left above the surface now is islands like his.
Other survivors are scattered over the water. He brings them in a few at a time until the island holds a group of them, and the outfits that want the sea to themselves come after what he has. Then a merfolk civilization comes up from the deep water, and some of the help he has been getting turns out to have come from them. While he is working out terms the two sides could live under, the system puts a warning in front of him: the person he trusts most is carrying the curse mark of the merfolk royal line.
Please! Just KILL Me Already!Eason Davis found a Magic Lamp and asked it for immortality, and what he got is a smaller version of that. Each time he is killed he comes back to before it happened, holding one item from the run that ended. The wish also dropped him inside the Demon Sect, where the senior disciples treat a new arrival as material.
He is put on the peak run by a senior sister, who calls the blood pool part of his training and uses it to draw the essence out of him. He dies there, comes back with her bell, and makes her submit. A senior brother then hands him the first half of a cultivation manual as a favour, having arranged to eat Eason's dao foundation once the technique was in him. Eason dies to that as well, returns with the second half, spends spirit pills to push his cultivation up, and beats him.
Wait, Bride! I'll Spoil You!A runaway bride accidentally marries a mysterious man, only to discover he is the groom she was supposed to wed. He hides his true identity, pampers her endlessly, and protects her at every turn. She tries not to fall... but how can she resist a husband this devoted?
Beast Power: My Epic Comeback!Betrayed and abandoned by his ex-girlfriend, Eric Grant returned home to search for his missing parents. On the way, he saved a widow named Rebecca Ford, and stumbled upon the Beastmaster's Codex… What would happen next? And what power would he awaken?
The King Returns for RevengeCarter Warren is released from prison and sets out to avenge his adoptive parents. As he protects his sister and faces powerful enemies, he uncovers a hidden link to the Gray family and his true identity. With allies at his side, he fights to expose their crimes. Will justice prevail, or will the truth be buried forever?
99 Deaths: Kill the Toxic CEOActress Georgia Hall awakens inside the melodrama she performed at the exact finale where its heroine dies—and discovers she has already suffered that ending ninety-nine times. Refusing another repetition, she attacks the false heiress, confronts a mother who cannot distinguish truth from lies, and knocks down the toxic male lead. A kind, handsome stranger who was never central to the script may be her route beyond its hundredth death.
My Son Let Me Die For A House!Grace's son and daughter-in-law try to drive her from her old house, then leave her to die during a medical crisis so they can inherit it. Returned to the days before their betrayal, she no longer intends to protect the greedy couple or conceal the darkness buried in the property. This time Grace will defend her home and make them pay for what they did.
Drowned, Reborn, Bankrupt Them!Luna is about to take over the company when Quincy arrives with his whole family and introduces himself as her birth father. He has a girl named Daisy with him who is presented to Luna as her sister. The family tell Luna what she owes them for having given birth to her and start treating her as a source of money. Daisy gets to Luna's fiancé with a few sentences and he begins to drift away from her. The last time this happened, Daisy used a virus to empty every account Luna had, and when Luna went to the family's house to have it out with them, three of them held her head under the water in a fish tank and drowned her. Luna came back to herself on the day the trap was laid. She swaps her smartphone for an old feature phone so that Daisy's software will have nothing to work on. Then she goes to pay for something, satisfied that nothing can go wrong, and the old phone shows a deduction going through that leaves her balance at zero for the second time.
Wife And Son Can Break A King!Ryan Wells gave up ambition for love, choosing marriage over empire. But when Lena's first love comes back, cracks spread through their family, and Ryan reaches his breaking point. This time, he won't walk away quietly. When the truth comes out, will regret be enough to change her fate?
Need a Wedding Crasher? Lifetime Chaos GuaranteedNora's father needed an operation and she did not have the money for it. The heir to the largest group in the city put out a job that paid: someone was to wreck his wedding. Nora took it.
At the ceremony she said in front of everyone that she was the woman he loved and that she was carrying his child. The wedding did not go through. She had understood that the job ended with the payment. He then required her to go on as his girlfriend, and she agreed, since the money went on. What the two of them were doing stopped staying inside the terms they had set.
My Husband Cheated on a Mannequin?Wendy files for divorce at her anniversary party, accusing Leon of cheating with a mannequin doll. Leon plays victim, hinting Wendy is the unfaithful one. In court, Wendy submits video proof of Leon's intimacy with a veiled doll. He claims emotional neglect drove him to it. As everyone was accusing Wendy of disregarding, the doll moves...
Blessed or CursedShelly Quinn, born with good luck, brings fortune to those who treat her well, and misfortune to those who wrong her. Both her husband and brother die due to an accident, leading people and her son to believe she's a "bad omen". She is desperate while she unexpectedly meets president, Tracy Zayas. From that moment on, Tracy’s luck skyrockets.
Loving You Costs My LifeElven maiden Mira forsakes eternal life to save lost boy Ethan, then drains her spirit to rewrite his fate into corporate glory—only for him to sever her wings as a proposal gift for another woman. Disintegrating in a storm, she is resurrected by the Forest God at cost of his own life, and severs all ties to her past. Ethan, seeing the truth too late, loses everything—career, allies, dignity—and ends three decades later as a broken old man in a ruined shack, watching Mira walk away with her soulmate, dying quietly in remorse.
Small Fruit, Big FortuneBai Xiaochuan comes home from the army and puts his own money into selling the village's kiwis for the growers. The profit is thin and every cost comes out of his pocket. Li Mei, an official in the village, starts telling people he is making dirty money off them and squeezing the growers. The villagers take her side. They turn on him all at once and curse him to his face, and his own family will not believe him either. Bai Xiaochuan tries to explain and nobody listens.
Wanna Leave Me? I’ll End the World!A brilliant scientist gives up everything for a woman and her son, only to watch her run back to her powerful ex. When a solar crisis erupts, he secures their escape. As the second ice age closes in, his true identity is revealed. When the man they discarded becomes their only hope, who will be left outside when the doors finally seal?
THE JANITOR: Rise of The PrimeThe Augmented run an empire that mass-produces synthetic warriors, and the warriors are directed by an artificial intelligence that predicts what an opponent will do. Cole is the strongest soldier alive, and he has spent three years with his powers sealed, working as a janitor that people look down on, because his mother was murdered and he is in mourning for her. The seal breaks when his sister's life is at stake. He turns everything he has kept shut away on the Augmented, a human will against a thing grown in a laboratory on data.
Tasting All My AlphasSelene is engaged to nothing and owed nothing until her ex, Damien, chases her over a cliff. She survives the fall and meets Ronan, who is her fated mate. The White Wolf Queen bloodline wakes in her blood. Her enemies pin a charge on her almost at once, and Ronan goes against everyone to clear her name. Selene then finds out she is the Moon Goddess reborn. She is abducted and held. She stays with Ronan through it, has sextuplets, and takes the throne as queen.
Reign of the WastelandEli wants his mother Maren fed and the family house left alone, and in a drought-struck town after the collapse he can have neither. He died in his last life, betrayed by a friend, and he is six years old again in a sick and undersized body. The family has nothing. Relatives take what little is left and the Vulture gang takes the rest.
The Wasteland Trading System opens to him. He buys food and supplies through it with a currency he does not understand, and he can hire fighters. He gets his mother out of danger, starts making soap and selling it, and has money coming in. Thugs come, then rebels. When a barbarian army moves on the town, Eli marks out a safe zone, puts elite guards on it, and works on rebuilding the house.
False Weakling, True PowerThe Aurellian Empire hosts a martial tournament to find Princess Isolde a husband, drawing fierce mages from the Northern Kingdoms to challenge the realm. When a Northern rogue wreaks havoc on the streets, a mysterious god-tier spell instantly vaporizes him. Investigating the high nobility for this hidden protector, Aurelian's First Mage, Kael, is shocked to discover the true master is Lucien, the very man everyone ridiculed as a worthless nobody.
A Perfect Trap, A Vengeful BrideAfter being murdered by her mother-in-law, Darlene Bancroft, through a scheme to steal her good luck, Lillian Hartwell is reborn on her wedding night. She cleverly turns the Bancroft family's tricks against them. While pretending to be the perfect daughter-in-law, she slowly exposes their dark schemes and despicable plots one by one.
Checkmate, Scumbag: Revenge of the Forgotten WifeThe marriage was kept hidden, and it stayed hidden for six years. For five of those she raised their son by herself. Her husband gave her coldness in return and wore her down over that time. Then a letter came suspending her from her job.
The boy was running a high fever. She carried him into the company board meeting, walked in on the directors and said, "He is your grandson." The room went quiet. Her husband had no answer for it. Her mother-in-law, who holds the family's money and power, took her side against her own son.