The Chosen Varia

Something bad happens to the mc before the story even starts, and instead of falling apart he comes out the other side with power he didn't ask for and a list of people who are going to regret hurting him. Revenge is the starting point, not the whole plan.

That new power turns out to be the door to everything else: distant lands, new faces, and the kind of opportunities a normal life never would have offered him. Somewhere in the middle of hunting down the people responsible, he's also supposed to fall in love, whether he's looking for it or not.

You name him, then push him from confrontation to travel to whatever relationship happens next, watching a revenge story quietly turn into something softer along the way.