Lincoln was supposed to inherit a great legacy, but he was cast aside to die in the shadows. After his mother, a talented Forge Master, passed away, his stepmother Cressida and half brother Angus stripped him of his title and banished him to an abandoned mine. Left with nothing but a dying servant named Santiago and the biting cold of an endless night, Lincoln faced certain death. Yet, his enemies made a fatal error. When his blood dripped onto his mother's ring, it unlocked a hidden system that allowed him to see the true nature of everything around him. He learned to fuse raw materials to forge items of power. Now, the mines are not his tomb, but his training ground. Lincoln has begun his climb from the depths, and he will stop at nothing to settle his debts. This is his story of survival and ultimate retribution.

The night Lucien Vance loses everything, he has only forty-two dollars left to his name. His girlfriend of three years leaves him for Julian Sterling, a wealthy heir who can offer her the future Lucien cannot. Hours later, his corrupt boss frames him for fraud and fires him. Broken and humiliated, Lucien spends thirty dollars on a cheap diner meal. Then his phone flashes. SYSTEM ACTIVATED. INITIAL CASHBACK: $30,000. What begins as an impossible second chance soon becomes an unstoppable rise. Every dollar Lucien spends returns unimaginable wealth, assets, and influence. He crushes his former employer, acquires powerful companies, and forces those who once mocked him to kneel. But his fortune has a terrifying secret. Every reward carries encrypted transaction codes connected to offshore empires and criminal networks. Then Lucien discovers his missing father's name inside the system. Someone created his wealth. Someone has been waiting for him. And someone will kill to stop him from learning the truth.

The first thing Shen Rui sees after opening his eyes is a corpse hanging from the city gate. The second is his own name carved beneath it. Transmigrated into the body of a disgraced young lord, Shen Rui inherits a starving city, an empty treasury, a broken army, and a family condemned to die. Outside Blackstone’s walls, war rages. Inside, nobles hoard grain while desperate citizens eat tree bark. Worse, the Northern Kingdom is marching toward them. Shen Rui should have died like his predecessor. Instead, armed with knowledge from a far more advanced world, he begins rebuilding everything: agriculture, medicine, industry, military strategy, and trade. But every improvement attracts enemies. Soon he discovers the famine was deliberate, the war was engineered, and someone within the empire has been waiting for Blackstone to fall. Now Shen Rui must choose. Submit to a dying empire or build a kingdom strong enough to bury it.