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Investing in My Crippled Wife: Every Return Makes Me Stronger

Soren Valmere, unawakened and treated as family garbage, is forced into an arranged marriage with Ethea Morvain, the once-legendary Ice Empress now completely paralyzed after a catastrophic Gate incident. Both families exile them to a modest house in a working-class neighborhood, washing their hands of two "problems" they no longer want to deal with. But on their wedding night, Soren awakens a hidden power: the Investment Authority. Whatever he invests in Ethea—time, money, care, emotion—returns to him amplified by 10,000 times when she achieves breakthroughs. Buy her medicine with his last credits? Receive a hundred million in return. Spend sleepless nights helping her move a single finger? Gain decades of martial experience instantly. Risk his life to save hers? Unlock abilities that shatter the heavens. As he pours everything into the wife everyone abandoned, Ethea slowly transforms from a broken doll into something that surpasses even her legendary past. And Soren? The "worthless" unawakened trash becomes the most dangerous investor the world has ever seen. Their families wanted to forget them. The world dismissed them as failures. They're about to learn that the greatest returns come from investing in someone everyone else deemed worthless. "You threw us away. Now watch us rise." _______ _____ _ Author's Note: Hey everyone! This is my first time writing in this genre, so please go easy on me. Furthermore, this is purely a work of imagination. Any similarities to real persons or events are coincidental. I'm just here to have fun and hopefully entertain you along the way. If you enjoy the story, please add it to your library and throw some power stones my way. Comments and feedback are always welcome (the good kind and the constructive kind). I'll try to update regularly, but life happens, so bear with me. Now sit back, relax, and watch Soren make the worst investment of his life. Spoiler: It turns out to be the best one. Extra Tags: #ArrangedMarriage #ContractMarriage #HiddenPower #Awakening #IceEmpress #CrippledFemaleLead #MaleLeadGrowth #PowerCouple #SlowBurnRomance #HealingTogether #Investing #Cultivation #AbandonedByFamilies #FromZeroToHero #EmotionalInvestment #WholesomeEndgame
Peace_in_Chaos · 2.2m Views

Demon Anomaly System

Blurb: He was once mindless trash. Vermin. An Imp. No name, no purpose. No future. He was supposed to die in the Maw like the rest. Mindless, crawling meat for something stronger to chew on. But something broke. A spark buried itself inside him... something ancient, older than Hell itself. Now he can see. He can think. He can Evolve. Hell doesn't know it yet, but the bottom just stood up. And he's hungry. Synopsis: The lowest demon in Hell. An imp without thought, spawned from filth, born for slaughter. Then he devoured a glitched system shard, something that shouldn’t exist in Hell. It gave him thought. It gave him power. It gave him the chance to evolve. Crawling through a realm of endless death and rot, he forced open a path to Earth. But in the year 2125, Earth isn’t what it once was. A hundred years ago, the Convergence shattered reality. Dimensions merged and the Dungeons fell. Civilization ended. Now, after a century of struggle, the Five Kings rule what's left, each carving out their own empires with overwhelming power. Like the Beast Taming King, who controls what was once Africa. His lands teem with monsters. Users flock to farm his dungeons, capturing beasts, gather rare materials...if they can survive, and don't forget to pay tribute. Or the Undead King, who holds what was once Europe and Russia in an iron grip. Endless legions of the dead serve him, his people loyal and fanatical. Behind an iron mask, he enforces absolute authority. A tyrant, loved by his people, living or dead. Everywhere, system users chase their own power. Shards grant anything from petty stats to world-shaking destinies. Everyone sees themselves as the hero, the protagonist of their own story. All of this is maintained and guided through the Network, a system-spanning infrastructure no human can escape. It ranks, registers, and controls. But not everywhere. Beyond the king's territories lie the Freelands, lawless zones they can’t or won’t hold. Here, gangs and corporations carve up ground while dimensional rifts swallow entire city blocks, wild dungeons drop without warning, and violence is the only law. He shouldn’t even exist in the Network. He’s not human. But his shard is corrupted...tainted. He slips through its firewalls, unregistered, unranked and free. Consuming the life and identity of Wohan Seo-jin, a system user and gang boss on the drowned coast of what was once Korea, he takes everything: his face, his memories, his men. Now he owns a foothold in the human world. And he plans to keep it. Survival isn’t enough. There is too much to want, too much to take for his own. System users, demons, dimensional races, even gods, he’ll push past every limit, evolve beyond every threat, and claim everything he desires...no matter the cost. #Litrpg #DarkFantasy #Grimdark #ProgressionFantasy #Post-apocalyptic
ValdenePatriarch · 238.2k Views

Doomsday Train: I Hoarded More Than Enough

Renee Kane is reborn back to before the Game's closed beta began. One week later, the apocalypse will arrive, and all of humanity will be forced to board endless trains and survive in various extreme environments. Renee Kane in her past life endured a father who cheated on her mother, a hypocritical stepmother and a malicious younger brother. That family drained the inheritance from Renee Kane's mother to get into a first-class carriage, yet turned around and threw her into hell. After she barely survived the initial stages, they used Renee Kane's name to make enemies everywhere, pushing her into a desperate situation step by step. This time, Renee Kane will no longer trust anyone. The first thing she does after being reborn is to first snatch her brother's closed beta spot, then exchange her mother's entire inheritance for game currency, and hoard like crazy! Upon entering the game, she first deals with that family, then obtains the S Level Skill Card: Annihilation! [Annihilation: The most complete form of disappearance is to be replaced! After activating the Skill, players who die by your hand can have their identities usurped by you.] Renee Kane, relying on her endless supplies and numerous alt-identities, becomes a one-woman army, growing bigger and stronger. It's not until later that everyone discovers in horror that the wealthiest merchant, the most genius Manufacturing Master, the most reclusive mercenary, and the player with the most god-tier luck... All the big names, turned out to all be Renee Kane's alt accounts! But Renee Kane's goal has never changed: she wants to survive until the day the train reaches the final station! As for those who stand in her way... Renee Kane, eating a grand meal and drinking red wine in a first-class carriage, gives a slight smile: "Then I can only invite you to go die."
Qi Lu · 141.3k Views

Rebirth before Apocalypse: My Whole Family are Bigshots!

Bai Xiqin only survived for three years in the apocalypse before dying. Returning to the time before the apocalypse, she unexpectedly unlocked a Personal Space, which even came with an ancient Mountain and Sea Exotic Beast. To her surprise, this time around, her whole family became elites. Before the apocalypse—— Bai Yifan asked his sister, "Did you dream the apocalypse is coming? What happened to me?" "You didn’t run as fast as mom and dad, but it's alright – better to keep it in the family!" Bai Xiqin responded calmly. Bai Yifan: ??? After the apocalypse—— Funeral Master Bai Mother waved her hand casually, and the Zombie was roasted crispy on the outside and tender on the inside by the Thunder Ability. Bai Mother frowned instinctively, "I really want to give them a makeup touch-up!" The forensic doctor Bai Family Grandma calmly dug out a Crystal Core, "Its lower jaw protrudes, clearly an underbite, even with makeup it wouldn't look good." Bai Yifan shook while holding a sack to collect Crystal Cores, bravely holding back tears. The teacher Bai Family Grandpa and top lawyer Bai Father heated oil in the pan, using the strongest Superpower to withstand the harshest blows, to make the most delicious meals. The Mountain and Sea Monsters with extraordinary skills—— Qin Yuan, being rubbed against the ground by Bai Xiqin: "Master, today you seem as gentle and kind as ever!" Taowu: "Move aside, you are blocking me from hanging clothes for the master." Water Python: "Someone, tie me to the tree as a clothesline." Leng Yebai's Chapter—— Recently, Leng Yebai keeps dreaming, dreaming that he is being experimented on and sliced, along with an elegant girl. He always thought it was just a dream until one day, the person from his dreams appeared right in front of him.
Hinata's Byakugan · 657.3k Views