The Dragon Year Awakening

Crushed by debt, middle-aged and trapped between aging parents and hungry mouths to feed—this is rock bottom. But when the old laws forbidding the supernatural begin to crack, one desperate man discovers a sliver of power in a world that thought magic was dead. No system. No shortcuts. Just grit, cunning, and the slow, dangerous climb from nothing. In modern China, where cultivators were erased and monsters became myths, he'll forge his own path—or die trying.