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Daniel Chen’s world ends with a text message. After three years together, Vanessa Marlow—the woman he loves—announces her engagement to Adrian Castellane, a billionaire heir. She calls Daniel ordinary and dismisses him with a check of two million dollars. What she doesn’t know is that her meteoric rise to success was built by Daniel’s invisible hands. Every obstacle removed, every competitor neutralized, every miracle—all orchestrated by the gifted hacker from the shadows. Heartbroken and erased, Daniel decides to show her what ordinary really means. From the same hidden networks he used to elevate her, he begins dismantling his protection around her empire piece by piece, and plans to show her the true colors of the man she had chosen over him. But his attacks expose something darker: Adrian Castellane is not just the billionaire businessman he seemed. When Adrian discovers that the man he dismissed is actually an elite hacker who now knows his secrets, he orders Daniel’s assassination. The attempt fails. Now, Daniel wages total war. A petty revenge—now a debt of blood which has to be paid. His vengeance though, unleashes more terror—on a global scale—than anyone could imagine an ordinary man could do. As Daniel falls deeper into the wormhole of vengeance, he uncovers secrets about his own past— secrets that connect him to the very empire he’s trying to destroy. The battle becomes personal in ways he never imagined. What began as heartbreak becomes revelation. What started as revenge becomes war. And what was hidden in shadow will come to light but at what cost?

ECHOES OF VOID KING The Shattered Throne — Book One Kael Dawnveil was the Empire's greatest weapon. Youngest Commander in three centuries. Undefeated on the battlefield. Loyal to a fault — and that fault cost him everything. Betrayed by the man he called brother, framed for treason he never committed, and stripped of his power before the eyes of the very Empire he bled for, Kael is left to die alone in the Ashen Wastes — broken, bound, and forgotten. But something in the dark remembers him. The Void — an ancient, forgotten force older than magic itself, older than empires, older than the gods men chose to worship when the truth became too heavy to carry — stirs for the first time in a thousand years. It has watched countless men rise and fall. It has never chosen one. Until now. Reborn with a power no mage can counter, no army can suppress, and no throne can survive, Kael rises from the snow not as the golden soldier the Empire discarded — but as something the Empire has no name for yet. They will learn one soon enough. Cold. Calculated. Unstoppable. Kael Dawnveil walks back into a world that tried to erase him — and this time, he isn't fighting for loyalty, for honor, or for a crown. He's fighting to make sure every single person who smiled while he bled understands exactly what they unleashed. The Void doesn't forgive. Neither does he.

In another world some humans have attained special powers and abilities, some humans have used these abilities to do harm causing the government to establish heroes and quads to keep the streets safe for civilians. But every world has its own myths and legends, what is this world? why do people have powers? what is the truth behind humanity? Join choda on his journey to heroism, the closest there is to the 12 originates who have disappeared from society. The truth always comes to light...or your country.

When betrayal costs him everything, including his life, Jake Carlson gets an impossible second chance. In a frozen apocalypse where humanity huddles in underground shelters and frost beasts prowl the surface, Jake has always been the family scapegoat, the adopted son who risks his life for supplies while his stepmother Angela, stepbrother Markus, and ex-girlfriend Hailey take everything and give nothing. When a frost beast attack forces survivors into a sealed shelter, Jake is left outside to die, betrayed by the very people he sacrificed for. As monsters tear him apart, Jake's final thought is a desperate wish: "If only I could go back." Then he wakes up. It's April 4, 2024 three months before the apocalypse begins. Jake remembers everything: the brutal cold, the frost beasts, the betrayals, and most painfully, the death of his childhood friend Jules two weeks into the disaster. Armed with knowledge of what's coming and a mysterious icy power awakening in his chest, Jake has one goal: survive, thrive, and infiltrate the organizations that hold the key to understanding and possibly preventing the apocalypse. His childhood friend Jules works for Nexus Corp, one of the mysterious "Four" companies building high-security shelters across the country. But Jake suspects they know more than they're letting on. To save Jules and uncover the truth, he must get inside Nexus Corp before it's too late. What Jake doesn't know is that deep beneath the earth, a shadowy council controls four ancient sources of power connected to the coming disaster an event they call "The Rupture." These sources are destabilizing, and the council is racing to complete "Phase One" before everything collapses. But something has shifted in the balance. An anomaly. An energy disturbance that occurred exactly when Jake returned to the past. As Jake fights to reclaim his father's stolen hotel empire, outmaneuver his treacherous family, and infiltrate Nexus Corp, powerful forces are beginning to notice him. The council monitors their sources obsessively, and any disruption could expose their carefully laid plans or doom the world before Jake can save anyone. Jake knows when the world will end. What he doesn't know is that his second chance may have already set forces in motion that no one can control.

This world has ended—yet it was never given the chance to mourn. From the ruins of the old civilization, a new and brutal order was born: magic and machines were forged into weapons, cities rose atop shattered foundations, and history was rewritten by the victors. In Galmasca, slavery was legalized in the name of reconstruction—and slaves were turned into soldiers, thrown onto battlefields so the “free” world would not have to spill its own blood. A man—one slave with no future—is forcibly drafted into Galmasca’s military. He does not fight for glory or hope. He fights because if he doesn’t, he’ll die sooner. But on the battlefield, he loses something that should never have been the price of the world’s stability. From that moment on, war stops being about survival—and becomes about revenge. His search for answers drags him deeper into the state’s war machine: operations buried from official records, cities sacrificed in the name of “necessity,” and lies repeated endlessly so the world won’t collapse under the weight of its own past. Each step toward the one responsible for his loss only tears open a greater wound—that the world’s destruction was not an accident, but the result of deliberate choices, inherited across generations. Caught between the urge to retaliate, the need to stay alive, and a system that requires his blood to keep standing, the former slave learns a truth no one ever taught him: this world does not endure because of justice, but because of lies repeated until they become reality. And if he chooses to demand the truth, he may have to become the enemy of the very world he wants to destroy— or save—on his own terms.

Ethan Cole, is a down-on-his-luck individual in the original timeline who suffers a devastating failure in investment. Overwhelmed by failure and heartbreak, Darren meets a tragic end. Miraculously, he regresses nine years to 2009, awakening in his younger body with all his future knowledge intact Armed with foresight about Bitcoin’s explosive growth, Darren immediately starts investing. He buys massive amounts of Bitcoin early, avoids market crashes, and diversifies into other future winners like stocks (e.g., Facebook/Meta, Tesla-inspired companies) and altcoins.

Gao Yang thought he was the luckiest transmigrator alive. For twelve years, he lived a blissful second life with doting parents, a cute sister, and a beautiful childhood sweetheart. But on his 18th birthday, the illusion shattered. A dying madman screamed the truth: "Monsters are everywhere!" Moments later, the girl he planned to confess to peeled back her skin, revealing writhing tentacles, and tried to crush his skull. Gao Yang realized the terrifying truth: He has been living in a nest of monsters for twelve years. The neighbors, his friends, perhaps even his loving family... they are all beasts wearing human skin. Just as despair consumed him, a System awakened. [Talent: Lucky] [Effect: The longer you survive, the stronger you become.] In a world where every smile hides a row of fangs, Gao Yang has only one goal: Survive. He must act like a clueless sheep while secretly sharpening his claws to become the ultimate hunter. Trust no one. Not even your family.

A child enters a fantasy world born from a novel that was never finished. The world continues to exist, but it is broken, unbalanced, and filled with the remains of choices that were never resolved. Ashaloin is not “the chosen one.” He is a burden, an anomaly, and a consequence of a story that was abandoned.

In a world on the brink of collapse, where the lines between ally and enemy blur, a group of powerful individuals discovers the unimaginable. As ancient forces stir and dark secrets unravel, the survivors must navigate power struggles, treachery, and their own inner demons. With the world hurtling toward chaos, uncertain alliances will be tested, and sacrifices inevitable. Amid the destruction, each person must decide: will they fight for redemption, or will the desire for power destroy them all? What emerges from the shadows will change everything—forever.

Not just moments, but entire lives—erasing histories, identities, and souls with ruthless precision. Those who lose their memories become shadows, wandering the city of Vaelith like ghosts without names or pasts. Cael Ardent is one such ghost. Stripped of everything, haunted by the fractured memory of a sister who disappeared into the heart of the city’s darkest secret—the Vault of Echoes. A place where the Order imprisons stolen souls and buries the past beneath layers of stone and silence. Armed only with an ancient blade humming with forgotten power, Cael walks the razor’s edge between hope and despair. When whispers of a rebellion ripple through the city’s underbelly, promising truth and vengeance, Cael is drawn deeper into a world where memories bleed like wounds—and the price of reclaiming the past may be more than he can bear. In a city where forgetting is survival, Cael must decide: is it better to live as a shadow with no past, or to face the darkness lurking within his own fractured memories? Because some secrets refuse to stay buried, and some debts demand a sacrifice beyond remembering.

NOVEL TITLE: BRANDTONGUE --- In a world where betrayal is a physical taste, one man must devour the sins of others to remember his own. The skies are bruised. The sun is a blind, white eye. In the wound-scarred realm of Midland, people don’t dream—they have Echoes, fragments of others' trauma that replay in their sleep. Here, sin doesn’t just mark the soul—it warps the flesh. Those who commit acts of profound, intimate betrayal risk becoming Apostles: monsters shaped by their own treachery, doomed to reenact their crimes for eternity. Cassian is a hollow man. His tongue is a ruined lump of scar tissue, branded during the Feast of Coherence—an event where his closest comrades weren't just killed, but unwritten. Their trust, their memories, their love were harvested as cosmic art by the Godhand, beings of pure emotion who feed on humanity’s capacity for treachery. Now, Cassian is cursed. His branded tongue leaks memory and attracts horrors. But it also lets him taste the stories of other betrayers. To survive, he hunts Apostles, consuming their tainted memories as fuel for his own broken body. He is not a hero. He is an addict, feeding on the very poison that ruined him. Gareth, the luminous, cruel architect of the Feast, watches from the shadows. To him, Cassian is not a victim—he is a masterpiece in progress, a walking tragedy whose suffering only deepens the beauty of his grand design. Accompanied only by a Glimmer—a shard of stolen hope that weeps like a dying star—Cassian journeys across a dying land. He will walk through fortresses of psychic stillness, galleries of frozen suffering, and into the heart of the world’s oldest wound. Not for revenge. Not for redemption. But to find the reason he sold out everyone he ever loved—and to decide whether the truth is worth swallowing, or if some lies are better left to rot. --- BRANDTONGUE is a dark fantasy epic for readers who found Berserk poetic but wanted the horror more intimate, the pain more psychological, and the tragedy more irredeemable. It’s a story about the addiction to suffering, the architecture of betrayal, and the brutal truth that sometimes, remembering is worse than dying. For fans of: · The visceral, psychological horror of Clayton Snyder’s River of Thieves or Michael Fletcher’s Beyond Redemption · The tragic, character-driven ruin of Anna Smith Spark’s Empires of Dust · The cosmic, intimate dread of Gareth Hanrahan’s The Gutter Prayer · The unflinching grimness of R. Scott Bakker’s The Second Apocalypse Content Warning: Graphic body horror, psychological trauma, existential dread, intense violence, and explorations of betrayal, addiction, and moral decay. This is not a story about hope. It is a story about what happens when hope becomes the sharpest weapon.

Rayyan grew up in a house where silence was safer than words, and survival was more important than dreams. Education became his escape. When he earns a place in college, it feels like the world is finally opening — just enough for him to breathe. But hope is expensive. He learns to study without a laptop, to stretch a few coins across many days, to carry loneliness quietly. Then he meets Lisa and Monica? Is love more expensive than hope and pain? Who is the evil here? Lets find out. it’s a journey of hope, love, betrayal, and survival for success. This is Rayyan.

At the elite Arisugawa Academy, Japan’s most prestigious school for the children of the wealthy and powerful, only the brightest, cunningest, and most ambitious survive. Among them is Hoshikawa Rin, a 17-year-old prodigy a reputation that precedes him. Handsome, wealthy, and endlessly composed, Rin is the perfect face of the academy—but appearances are only the beginning. Born into a family of global influence, Rin was raised amid corporate empires and silver-tongued negotiations. His father, a top CEO, taught him the art of strategy and business manipulation, while his mother, a masterful saleswoman and CEO in her own right, schooled him in the power of persuasion. His grandfather, a ln international martial arts champion and former corporate president, forged Rin into a skilled fighter capable of handling threats both physical and psychological. Now, Rin navigates a world steeped in deception, where almost every classmate is a rival, every smile hides a scheme, and betrayal is the currency of power. At Arisugawa Academy, games of manipulation, cunning, and intrigue are part of the curriculum, and Rin is both player and pawn in a high-stakes battlefield where failure means social ruin—or worse. .... if you're hooked, just add it to your library, bruh!!

She wrote the words she could never say, letters that carried her deepest feelings— but never sent. Now, each unsent letter holds a secret, a regret, and a hope she can't share. Will she find the courage to let her heart be known?

A boy who remembers nothing but the burning image of fire and tragedy is left alone in a cruel world. With no one to rely on and nowhere to go, he struggles to survive — until a mysterious old man appears. The old man offers him shelter, kindness, and teaches him the art of the sword — not just to fight, but to live with strength and purpose. Over time, their bond grows deep, like that of father and son. But the world’s cruelty never fades. After a promise is made, the boy sets out alone once more — to survive, uncover the truth behind his forgotten past, and fulfill the final wish of the man who gave him a reason to live.

Aria Sinclair has never needed saving. Raised to fight for everything she has, she built her reputation with sharp intelligence, fierce independence, and a will that refuses to bend. But when her father’s company stands on the brink of ruin, even she cannot stop the collapse alone. Enter Adrian Locke — the city’s most feared CEO. Cold. Calculated. Brilliant. A man who built an empire with his own hands and never let anyone close enough to touch his heart. To the world, he is power itself — unshakable and untouchable. Adrian needs one thing to secure his next global deal: A wife. Not a lover. Not a partner. Just a name and a role. And Aria is the only woman strong enough not to break under the pressure — or fall in love with him. So begins a marriage bound by signatures, convenience, and rules that both swear to uphold. But in private: They clash. They provoke. They burn. Their arguments are fire. Their tension is undeniable. And every time they collide, the world around them seems to stop breathing. Yet in the world of power and ambition, enemies hide behind smiles — and the past never stays buried. When threats close in and truths unravel, the line between hate and desire blurs dangerously. And the contract that once kept them apart becomes the very thing pushing them together. Not because they need each other. But because they choose each other. Even when it hurts. Even when it’s impossible. Even when love was never part of the deal. ---