when beauty meets beast

Clayton lost his memory and ended up married to a woman from the Astor family. When the death of the head of the Astor family just occurred, he has been pressured to divorce. At that time he also learned about his true identity, he came from an extraordinary family. However, who is the enemy that has made Clayton lose his memory?

Jinhoo spent his whole life being bullied. He is the only child of his parents and he never told them about his condition in school because he never wanted to get them worried. Even after leaving school and becoming an adult, he never achieved his dreams. He was still at the bottom of the food chain. But even with his life being as hard as it was, jinhoo never thought of suicide. He always finds the light in his dark world. His optimistic attitude towards life didn't go unnoticed by the lords of the universe. So, when he was forty he saved a child from being run over by a speeding car, that was seen as an act of heroism and it earned him a reward. As a reward, Jinhoo was sent back to start his life again from when he was fifteen years old. That wasn't the only reward, he was also given a system that turns his accomplishments into points, and those points could be used to make him stronger if he chooses. When Jinhoo got his second chance, he vowed to make his life better, and the only way to do that is become a gangster or be corrupt. Jinhoo didn't want the two options so he made a third option and that is to become stronger than the gangsters. Jinhoo decided to become strong, strong enough to go against the gangsters and corrupt officials, he knew it was possible with the system Along the line, Jinhoo discovered he wasn't the only one with such a special ability and most people with the ability want to rule the world with an iron fist...

Synopsis: Edward was adopted when he was five years old—a dream come true for orphans. However, his life was anything but happy. His adoptive father was a scoundrel, always cheating, drinking, gambling, and abusing his spouse and Edward. After years of gambling and drinking, there was nothing left but countless debts and four pale walls in the house. Though weak and sometimes neurotic because of her husband, his adoptive mother always showed great love and affection to Edward. However, good things could never last long. Unfortunately, his adoptive mother soon fell ill when Edward was seventeen. His scoundrel father shunned the responsibility by deserting them and ran away. Edward had no other choice but to drop out of school and toil himself day and night in restaurants, gas stations, and convenience stores. Yet, he could merely earn a little money that could not even support him to keep his head above water, not to mention pay his mother’s expensive medical expenses. One day, a chance came. One of his boss’s good friends offered him a better job as a salesman. Things seemed to go well for Edward. He got a girlfriend named Rebecca in his new company. He also had made a good friend, James, there. And above all, he got a better salary. However, something went wrong on the day he demonstrated the slide before his customers. Would he lose his job and come into the same plight again? Would his girlfriend be nice to him like before? Would Edward stay at the bottom rung of the social ladder forever? Read on to unravel Edward’s journey in this mundane world to become the extremely wealthy Supreme Trader with the help of his Super Trading System.

Frank Hart lived a peaceful life with his mother in the lonely town called Marble, he had most of the things he needed and life didn't seem to be harsh on him without a father. Deep in the forest of Marble town was an underground settlement but it was abandoned. The body of a tyrant was buried beneath it, but it wasn't locked up forever as the duration of the spellbinding the tomb was complete, the beast lord broke out and along with his ugly beasts turned the world into a state of dilemma. Frank had to flee along with his mother into one of the few refugee camps that the humans had. There was a war, a war between humans and the beast lord, with the population of humans declining Frank was forced to go to war. With no experience at all on how to fight, he struggled until he was at the point of death. "Is this how it ends for me?" Frank grunted as he pulled himself across the hard floor. A drop of blood fell from his forehead and landed on the blue necklace on his neck, a gift from his mother. The necklace began to glow and at that point, he lost consciousness. [ System Active ] [ You have obtained the wonder system ] P.S: The system is not the main focus of the novel.

Benjamin, a poor and struggling orphan, the butt of everyone's joke in the society. Benjamin met his low when his girlfriend betrayed him to be with the richest guy on campus. Faced with humiliation and the risk of losing his education, Benjamin encountered a strange revelation that changed his life. He is Benjamin Whiteridge, the sole heir to the Whiteridge empire. Now everyone must bow to him.

My peaceful short life had been quickly cut off by a band of bandits that had raided my village, killing my father and capturing my mother. The bandit leader took a fancy to me and decided to make me one of them because of my face, for reasons unknown to me, but this was only the start of my journey. The more I grew up the more I realized that I had no talent, I was as ordinary as I could be, with no inherited memories, no old masters to help me improve my talent, no legacies left behind, no locked bloodlines that would burst into activity when I was in danger. But I still had something that most people didn't have. A stubbornness that many wouldn't possess, the stubbornness and sense of danger that I got for life after I saw my father die in front of me. And with that, I shall predate upon those that are more talented than me. I shall walk forward and reach the apex of the world, not because I want to protect anyone, but because that's simply what I want to do! Regardless of the methods that I have to use or the people that I have to push out of my way!

Following his accidental death on earth, Vandread Le Crozerea is summoned back to be reborn again in the parallel world of Dizencia. He steps into a realm rich in myths and magic, where he will one day be hailed as the legendary earl and hero tasked with saving Dizencia from the brink of oblivion. When Vandread stopped the wild wyvern from attacking Dizencia, he was promised wealth and a marriage to Princess Camilla Sulivec, the heir to the kingdom. However, the princess had evil plans for the earl, and on the night of their wedding, she used an incantation to drain his omnipotent powers, leaving the earl defenseless when the whole kingdom disposed of him to the ogres' lair. Ever since that day, the earl had a deep well of resentment, and he intended to use it to exact revenge on those who had betrayed and used him like a fool, even if it meant being renowned as the legendary dark hero.

Devano Abraham, the man whose real name is Arya Wijaya, is now filled with a burning grudge. An accident, unexpectedly, instantly changes his gloomy life of revenge and betrayal. He got a new face now. The face of a ruler, the rich. He will repay all the pain in the past when his woman could insult and betray him because he was a poor man. Also, the family who had the heart to dump, "Wait for my vengeance! I will destroy the treasures and thrones that you are proud of!~ Arya Wijaya

Alexander Sterling is a pauper who found himself forced into an arranged union with the daughter of the business tycoon whom his father owes. He was turned into an errand boy and was made to understand that his life doesn't belong to him anymore. He became a shadow of himself until luck decided to shine on him. What happens when Alex stumbles upon a man who changed his life for good? Will he get back at the Kingstons for all they put him and his family through?

JONATHAN STONE has been treated like trash for as long as he can remember. He has been looked down upon and concluded that he could never result in something good. The last straw was when he caught his girlfriend cheating on him, he was ridiculed by her and her new man - but that was also a turning point in his life as that same night, he was contacted by his family. His TRUE family. One of the largest, richest and most feared in the world and he was the next in line - the HEIR. But that wasn't all, “The family has lots of money, power, riches... and also enemies,” Vincent said. “Being in the family comes with a lot of responsibilities" Inadvertently, Jon had inherited generational enemies. Jonathan is forced to take the narrative of his life when a loved one dies. Read and follow Jonathan Stone on this adrenaline-filled, blood-curdling, sometimes life-threatening adventure of his life as he puts plans in motion on making his enemies pay for all they've done.