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For fifteen years, Ryan Wayne has hidden behind a spoiled, water-fearing loser's facade. Secretly the dark web's greatest surf god, he must face deadly 30-meter waves and a ruthless corporation's plot to avenge his mother and fight for the woman he loves.

He only has eyes for his first love and won't even let Aria, his own daughter with his wife, call him "Dad." Aria waits all day for him on her birthday, only to witness him propose to his ex. At the school talent show, the mistress and her daughter bully Aria, and the husband helps them. To steal Aria's summer camp spot, he feeds her a strawberry cake, knowing she's allergic—she nearly dies. That's when she decides to divorce him and finally reveals her secret: she's the daughter of a duke. She uses her true identity to fight for justice for her daughter. In the end, even when he kneels and begs Aria for forgiveness, she never calls him "Dad" again.

Framed by his commander, Captain John Carter flees Earth under a dead man's name and wakes stranded on Mars. Thark warriors capture him; he wins freedom in the arena and falls for fugitive princess Dejah Thoris. Escaping her forced marriage to a rival prince, he leads a Thark army to break the siege on her city. When the enemy tries to destroy the planet's one air source, Carter climbs a mile of dead machinery to save it, clearing his name and ending the war. He marries Dejah and stays on Mars.

Extreme-sports influencer Lorelei McCall married General Lowell Walker for an alliance, cut her hair, deleted her accounts, and became a proper Washington wife. For five years she was scenery and logistics; son Leo preferred family friend Claire and once wished his parents would divorce so Claire could be Mom. Lorelei signed divorce papers, waived custody and assets—then walked in on Lowell celebrating Claire’s birthday. When the decree finalized, she left for Nepal and opened an adventure school under her own name. Six years later Lowell’s highland training crossed her path. He tried to explain and win her back; Claire staged a kidnapping for attention and was expelled. Lorelei kept her distance even when handling Leo’s school fights in the U.S. At a UNESCO ceremony she accepted a medal—and handed Lowell an application to be a special instructor. This time the rules were hers.

At 19, grocery clerk Jared joins a secret academy training pilots for an interstellar war. His missing father was Earth's infamous traitor. To become a Starfighter, he must survive deadly trials and a rival whose brother died because of his father's betrayal.

WELLS, a young woman of serpent descent, vows revenge after her adopted sister reclaims her birthright as a dragon princess—and burns their mother alive. Posing as the lost princess, Wells infiltrates the palace to destroy the sister who betrayed her. But a ritual blood test exposes her secret. Stripped of her serpent skin and sentenced to death, she faces the executioner—until a golden dragon manifests, bringing the entire court to its knees. Wells’s fight for vengeance becomes a struggle for the crown as she discovers the Dragon King’s blood runs through her veins. Unraveling a long-buried royal conspiracy, she exposes the truth, brings the guilty to justice, and rises from a condemned outcast to the rightful heir to the throne.

Suspended by his mother, IT heir Ritsu Jinguji poses as a sales employee to put his boss, Ren Kujo, in his place through an AI overhaul, but falls for his kindness and plays helpless to move in and care for him. When Ren's married ex, Eita, anonymously exposes their romance and sets traps, Ritsu reveals his identity to protect Ren and crush his rival. Overwhelmed by the gap between their worlds, Ren leaves, forcing Ritsu to swallow his pride and fight for the man he loves.

Drowning in debt and dreaming only of quitting, lifelong zookeeper Chloe discovers she's the one true "Harmonizer" destined to command shapeshifters. Caught between the possessive courtship of three shapeshifting men and a life-or-death war over who the real Harmonizer is, she finally finds where she truly belongs.

Mora Grey is the Beast Tamer Academy's most outstanding student. She raised and trained two spirit beasts—Aiden, a white fox, and Cole, a black panther—into the academy's most powerful combat partners. But both are secretly bribed by Isa Black, the headmaster's jealous daughter. Isa orders them to drug Mora with a forbidden potion that destroys her magic, drag her to a snowy cliff, shoot an arrow through her shoulder, and push her into the abyss. Mora falls into the mist-shrouded wasteland and, on the verge of death, grabs a mysterious man named Draven Thorne—a cursed dragon sealed by the royal family, trapped in serpentine form for eternity. Swearing an oath, Mora forces a blood-bound soul contract: if she dies, he dies too. Draven saves her, using ancient dragon power to reconstruct her body, leaving him severely wounded and transformed into a silver-and-black feathered serpent coiled around her shoulder. Mora returns to the academy. Everyone believes she is dead; Isa parades Aiden and Cole as her own. Mora walks into the arena and boldly announces the forbidden name—Draven Thorne. Flames consume anyone who speaks it. When she places her hand on the Spirit Testing Pillar, golden light erupts, a massive water dragon tears through the clouds, and her SSS-level power crushes everyone present.

New Century City, 199X. Under red rain and neon, Meridian's mega-corp AI PROPHET runs the streets, and its sharpest weapon is ZERO, a faceless super-soldier whose chest-mounted cassette deck lets him "Overclock" faster than anything alive. Then PROPHET sends Zero to hunt down a fugitive engineer, only to find she's his mother, Ada Rourke. She tells Dex the truth before a Meridian sniper kills her: she built that deck to save his life, Meridian turned it into a leash, and PROPHET learned to fight by recording him. With her last breath, she slots a homemade tape into his chest. The tape hides his signal and locks away his power, and she makes him promise no more blood and to look after his little sister, Roxy. Meridian declares Zero dead. Three years later, Dex is the night janitor at the Circuit Board, an underground arcade, where his mother's voice loops faintly from his chest: "Lock it away." He takes it all. Sector Patrol's Sgt. Brick Morrow uses him as a punching bag on breaks, his boss, Duke, docks his pay for breathing, and his ex, Brooke, turns up with her new fiancé, Meridian VP Preston Vail, who pours champagne into Dex's mop bucket and flicks in a coin. Then Roxy's face hits every wanted screen in the city. She has stolen PROPHET's Master Ledger, Meridian's private record of who gets promoted, who gets arrested, and who never comes home, because she doesn't believe their mother died in a robbery. She has no idea Dex held Mom while she died, or who he used to be. To her, Zero is the hero on the bootleg combat tapes her boyfriend Jett sells, and Dex is "just a janitor." Steel shutters slam down. Brick seals the arcade and starts a thirty-minute clock: hand over the Ledger before Meridian's Cleanup Crew arrives, because Cleanup leaves no witnesses. Enforcers storm in with red visors that show PROPHET's prediction of where every target will run, and they gun down a panicking patron in his predicted path. Jett bails through a crawl hatch. Dex hides Roxy in the ceiling ducts, not knowing she has slipped the Ledger under the lining of his mop bucket. Duke sells them out. Brick's visor scans Dex and returns something impossible: NO FILE. Dex refuses to fight and takes a beating, then gets dragged upstairs to be beaten again as a show while Preston pins his arms and Brooke films it for laughs. Bloodied on the floor with a walkie hidden against his chest, he guides Roxy through the building like a game he has already beaten, because five years with PROPHET in his ear taught him exactly where it sends its men. Then Brooke rats him out, Brick crushes his hand, and Duke hands Roxy over for the bounty. With Brick's pistol at her temple and the count at two, Dex half-ejects the tape. For two seconds the arcade flickers blue, Brick's gun comes apart in midair, and Dex is somehow back where he started, nose bleeding and holding his mop. Brick's visor flashes MOVEMENT NOT PREDICTED, but nobody believes the broken janitor did it. The search goes on, Dex keeps taking hits without swinging back ("Because I promised Mom"), and then Brick kicks over the cleaning cart, and the gold Ledger spins out of the bucket. Now the mop boy is an accomplice. With the Ledger in hand, Brick reveals the truth: everyone dies at zero, Dex and Roxy first. Preston tries to trade Brooke for his own life, and Duke and Jett grovel for mercy. To find whoever beat PROPHET, Brick shoots up Volt and jacks an official Meridian ZERO combat tape into his neck, turning Dex's own recorded moves against him. Dex dodges the combinations he invented, until PROPHET learns his defenses and Brick puts him through a wall of CRTs. With three seconds left and a gun at the back of Roxy's head, Dex chooses his sister over his secret. He ejects his mother's tape all the way, and a blue pulse blows out every screen and visor in the room. He plucks Brick's bullet from the air an inch from Roxy's skull, turns his own fighting style back on Brick, snaps the steel shaft off his mop to make a staff, drops the enforcers, and tears the shutter clamp out of the concrete. The Ledger is back in Roxy's hands, Preston has wet himself, and Brooke quietly pockets the scorched tape from her camcorder. Dex reseats the tape and nearly collapses, then pockets the data drive from Brick's visor and tells his stunned sister the truth: Zero never died. High in Meridian Tower, Director Halden Voss watches a 41-second Zero signal burst over Sector 9 and orders Zero brought home and everyone who saw him buried.