A Record of Ash & Ruin: The Grieving Lands - Chapter 23Book 3: : The Feathered Gates

Ha Si-heon is a brilliant but obsessive Wall Street financier who has built an immense fortune driven by a fear of financial insecurity. After enduring a tragic childhood, losing his mother, and navigating financial ruin with his father during South Korea’s 1997 financial crisis, Si-heon immigrates to the U.S. He fulfills his father’s wish by becoming a doctor but finds himself drawn to the lucrative world of Wall Street.At a top hedge fund, Si-heon leverages his medical expertise to dominate biotech investments, thanks to an unusual ability to predict successful FDA drug approvals. He amasses wealth quickly, yet struggles with a pathological fear of spending money. His relentless pursuit of profit takes a dark turn when he’s diagnosed with idiopathic multicentric Castleman’s disease (iMCD), a rare, life-threatening immune disorder with no cure. His condition worsens despite aggressive chemotherapy, as the lack of research funding for this “orphan disease” leaves him without options.Just as Si-heon faces death, he miraculously awakens to find himself transported 10 years back in time, to the beginning of his career on Wall Street. Realizing he has a second chance, Si-heon is determined to not only reclaim his wealth but also amass enough money to fund a cure for iMCD. The story explores themes of greed, ambition, mortality, and redemption, as Si-heon seeks not just to survive but to redefine the meaning of his life.

An incredibly athletic older brother, Tenryu Taiga. A programming genius girl, Tenryu Fuyuki. The two siblings separated for eight years ended up living under one roof again after facing the problem – a lack of funds for living expenses.

Fuyuki proposes a way to earn money, a core system deeply involved in people’s daily lives, a game that awards you money as a prize for defeating malicious bugs in cyber world, the 《Aries》structure. Taiga after becoming a warrior in the game relying on his inborn senses, is puzzled by the unfamiliar sensation.

One day Saionji Rui, Fuyuki’s best friend appears and is attacked by a mysterious bug― “I’ll be waiting, my prince.”. Hybrid fantasy battle of cheating siblings begins here!

Li Xin has transmigrated to a world ruled by kings and gods. Armed with a die left behind by an unknown deity, he struggles to survive in a land crawling with abyss worms.“Young man, nice skills. Are you two in this together?”“Captain Luo, you must be joking. I'm a righteous citizen; I don't even know this thug. I'm just passing by. This has nothing to do with me, so goodbye.”

Elio Stardret dies betrayed by those he had always been so kind to, only to find himself transmigrated into a body of a king who is going through the same kind of betrayal. To avoid meeting the same fate, he vows to only do what benefits him. To indulge in everything the selfish society of his previous life brainwashed him to stay away from. Luckily, now he has a system that can help him achieve this.*Ding [Claim a Queen and Earn Rewards System activated!][Infatuating any queen gives you power over her kingdom and ability to earn more Purchasing Power Points... simply, PPP.][PPP are points with which you can buy anything you have seen. Everything, even from your previous life.]'Wait! I can even buy a phone and troll the people who betrayed me? Damn! I'm gonna give these mofos some hell!'