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ALL IN:The Rise of Ren

!!!! A dark psychological novel where mind games, risk, and human weakness collide, wrapped in a shōnen-style rise from nothing to the top !!! Ren Takahashi is an 18-year-old high school student living in Tokyo, trapped between two crushing realities: an uncertain future and a present that is slowly collapsing. A senior in his final year of high school, unemployed and without any practical skills, Ren survives on the small amount of money left behind by his deceased father. His mother—the only person giving meaning to his struggle—is permanently hospitalized, kept alive by medical machines. Every day is a countdown of bills, limited time, and relentless pressure. After countless failed attempts to find a job, Ren receives a mysterious invitation: a nationwide poker tournament, spanning all of Japan. This is no ordinary competition. It is a brutal selection process where only the coldest, most calculated, and most dangerous players can advance. Lose once—you’re eliminated. Make one mistake—you cease to exist. As Ren enters the tournament, he quickly realizes that poker is no longer about cards. It is about ego, control, and psychological destruction. Each round becomes a battle of wills, every opponent a monster shaped by trauma, obsession, and ruthless methods. Here, players are not gambling for money—they are gambling for identity. Yet with every victory, Ren drifts further away from the boy he once was. With every successful bluff, he begins to question whether he is still playing to survive… or playing to dominate.
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Godless System: Rise of the Crimson Prince

A thousand souls died to give him a second chance. He plans to spend every one of them on revenge. Nova Almond awakens on Earth without memories—just a sickly child raised by a kind foster mother in a world where dungeons spawn monsters, the Universal System governs power, and the strong devour the weak. But when fragments of his past life as a cold-blooded prince of a fallen Ancient Human family begin surfacing, he remembers the truth: his father butchered, his sister hunting redemption through atrocity, his closest friend's knife in his back. Now, armed with genius-level technological knowledge and the slow return of his superpowers, Nova must navigate academy rivalries, Earth's shadowy organizations like the FIENDS, and the cosmic forces that destroyed his family—while rebuilding the Shadows, collecting his scattered soul pieces, and deciding whether the man he's becoming is the monster they made or something far more dangerous: a brother, a lover... and the rightful claimant to a throne stained in blood. "The universe is vast and cold and utterly indifferent to our suffering. But we are not indifferent. We are not cold. We are the fragments of shattered crowns and broken souls, and we will build something new from the ruins of everything that tried to destroy us. This is not a story about vengeance. It was never only about vengeance. It is a story about coming home." — Nova Almond, The Crimson Dominion of the Godless System
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