The Unwound Heart
By @john1208
Zofia Volkov was once the heir to a celebrated family of automaton music box makers, until their name was shattered by bankruptcy and scandal, driving her parents to suicide. Decades later, Zofia dies alone, a bitter and forgotten woman haunted by regret. But instead of an end, she wakes up twenty years in the past, a week before the disaster that ruined everything. Armed with foreknowledge, she moves to prevent the key events that led to her family's collapse. Her first success, however, triggers a horrifying new reality: for every person she saves, the threads of fate demand a substitute. A dear family friend dies in a freak accident exactly when a creditor should have. Zofia is trapped in a cruel equation of fate, and her frantic, inexplicable actions attract the cold, calculating gaze of Stellan Koslov, her family's greatest business rival. He was the architect of her original misery, but now, he might be the only person powerful enough to help her defy destiny. Can Zofia rewrite the past without paying for it in blood, and can she trust the man she was born to hate?
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The Causality Hustle: Rewriting My Rock Bottom
By @john1208
Banyu Darma hit rock bottom when he took the fall for a disastrous structural collapse in the vertical mega-city of Jakarta-Tiga. Now a destitute scrap-diver drowning in debt, he awakens the [Causality Patch Engine]. The System doesn't hand out gold or magical superpowers; it awards retro-revisions. [Mission: Sabotage the espresso machine in the Pan-Indo Corp lobby.] [Reward: Revision of June 4th - You never sold your mother's antique watch.] The moment the bizarre mission is complete, reality shimmers. The watch appears on his wrist, his bank account updates, and his flooded basement instantly transforms into a clean mid-level apartment as his personal history overwrites itself. But rewriting the past creates terrifying friction in the present. As Banyu takes on increasingly unhinged missions to ultimately gain enough authority to undo the disaster that killed his sister, the city's ruthless elites begin suffering violent phantom memories of the timelines he is erasing. With a relentless corporate fixer hunting the source of these temporal tremors, can Banyu rewrite his ultimate tragedy before reality autocorrects and deletes him entirely?
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The Tulip Algorithm
By @john1208
In my first life, I was Lieselotte de Graaf, a wallflower who watched helplessly as my brilliant grandfather, Kasper, withered away from a misdiagnosed illness. His death was the first domino in our family’s spectacular collapse. When a freak accident sends me back five years, I’m armed with a single goal: save Opa. The plan is simple. Use my future knowledge to secretly invest in 'Tulip', a laughably small start-up that will one day revolutionize the world, and use the profits to get Opa the radical treatment he needs. But every time I nudge fate, it shoves back harder. My investment creates a bizarre market panic. The doctor I bribe to re-diagnose Opa wins the lottery and retires to a private island. And now, the ruthless CEO of a rival corporation, Bastiaan van Dijk, is convinced I’m some kind of industrial espionage prodigy, not a terrified girl running on coffee and desperation. How can I save my grandfather when the universe seems to have a sick sense of humor, and my greatest ally might be the one setting all the dominoes up to fall?
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