After being hit by a car, broke NYU student Ethan becomes able to appraise antiques, read stock trends, and see the true value hidden inside raw gemstones. With this power he rises from nothing: flipping antiques, betting on stone, dominating the stock market. The rich kids who once looked down on him now beg for favors, and the campus beauty who mocked him throws herself at him. But Ethan wants far more: an empire of his own.
Dismissed as clumsy and overlooked by her own family, she stays silent while they mock her. When gunfire erupts and a chase breaks loose, she reveals an IQ over two hundred and instincts nobody expected. The real fight is only beginning, and she has no plans to stay quiet.
Fifteen years after his wife and son were murdered, a man hiding as a lowly cleaner is secretly the fighter everyone calls the War God. A familiar brand turns up on one of his attackers, and it points straight back to the killers who wrecked his family. He starts hunting the group behind it, one name at a time.
He wakes up remembering a night with a powerful woman he calls a goddess, unsure what it means. By day he is just a D-rank laborer, one of the powerless people who move supply crates while awakened fighters handle real threats. But the encounter has left something behind, and his ordinary life is about to end.
Agent Martina Hayes single-handedly takes down a gang hideout to complete her final mission. On the very day she officially retires, she learns her daughter Claire and son-in-law Kane have both been killed in the line of duty. She turns down the agency's request to come back and take on the Silver Gun gang, wanting only a quiet life with her granddaughter Daisy. But when Daisy publicly rejects Jax Harrington, son of the mayor-to-be, he makes her his target. When Jax bullies Daisy at school and shows nothing but contempt for her grandmother too, Martina decides to reveal who she really is.
A watch shop clerk can see flaws no one else can, spotting a half-millimeter defect in a five-hundred-thousand-dollar timepiece. The luxury empire's mysterious new owner walks in unannounced, then armed robbers storm the store, and the clerk answers their threats with a calm five-second countdown.
On the day she moves to a new city, the apocalypse hits and Anya turns into a zombie—yet she can still think and talk. Too anxious to ask a neighbor for help, she sets out to walk home alone. Then a stranger with superhuman power starts clearing zombies block by block, and Anya realizes she looks like easy prey.
A security guard on a barely-livable salary is called in and berated for taking leave three times, accused of abandoning his post for a five-minute bank errand. Someone else is also demanding money from him he doesn't have. Under the humiliation, something dormant in him starts to stir.
Xixi is left to drown when her parents rush to save her adopted sister first. She dies, discovers she is trapped inside a short-drama world, and wakes again at the welcome dinner where her birth parents finally claim her. There she gains the strange ability to hear people's unspoken thoughts, and hears exactly what her smiling sister is hiding.
A young man climbs a remote mountain to beg a legendary healer to save his dying father, while a village-raised girl is welcomed back into the wealthy Wijaya family. She vows to hide her true abilities and live as an ordinary granddaughter, but her strange composure already hints she is far from ordinary.
A young man in casual clothes can spot a five-hundred-thousand-dollar watch's hidden flaw at a glance, yet the staff mistake him for a bodyguard. When gunmen storm the store and aim at a child, he studies an attacker's wrist and names an old fracture beneath the skin. His real identity is only beginning to surface.
Gu Shen inherits the divine eye his father left behind; a single glance lets him read desire and lies. One word, "Look at me," and the person facing him can no longer move. As night falls over the city, blue light glows in his eyes and the women around him draw near one by one. When those eyes turn toward the people closest to him, control and taboo begin at the same time.