A Dish Best Served Cold

Sabito Dimon has always been at the bottom—broke, bullied, and barely scraping by in high school. But when a group of rich kids beat him senseless and tossed him into a lake, they unknowingly awakened something inside him. Now, with a mysterious system of granting high-stakes natural abilities, Sabito has a second chance. A chance to rise above his past, ace the toughest exams, and turn the tables on those who once bullied him!

Ralph Scott Taylor, wealthy businessman and CEO of the most renowned Lintel group of Companies had planned his revenge down to every last detail…he would shake the Abbey's perfect world till they came begging for mercy. He would make them pay for taking what was rightfully his. Nineteen years ago, Malcolm Abbey had killed Ralph's parents. Now the Jilted son is back, richer and better….and he wants his company as well as their lives. The game is revenge, the Mission is marriage, when two stubborn wills clash….Sparks fly.

Dominic Rice was the CIA’s most lethal ghost—until the day his own agency erased him. Framed for a massacre he didn’t commit, Rice is left for dead in a black-site prison in the middle of the Sahara. But death doesn’t want him, and the men who buried him just made the biggest mistake of their careers. Armed with nothing but a smuggled SIM card, a broken body, and fifteen years of black-ops training, Rice escapes into the underworld of international espionage. The target isn’t just the corrupt spymaster who sold him out. It’s the phantom organization pulling the strings behind the West’s most volatile conflicts—a shadow syndicate known only as The Meridian. Hunted by the world’s most sophisticated intelligence agencies and a rogue Delta Force operator with a personal grudge, Rice must navigate the violent borderlands between Europe and Africa. Every ally has a price. Every step forward is booby-trapped. And the one woman who knows the truth about his past might be the deadliest weapon of all. To clear his name and stop a geopolitical catastrophe that will ignite World War III, Rice must become the monster his enemies fear. This is not about justice. This is about extraction.

Betrayal didn’t just break Derick—it reforged him. When the woman he loved humiliates and discards him, Derick disappears. In his place emerges Ethan: calm, precise, and merciless. No rage. No chaos. Just consequences. What begins as revenge against an unfaithful wife spirals into a methodical takedown of everyone who ever belittled him—friends, rivals, power players hiding behind smiles and status. Ethan doesn’t destroy lives loudly. He lets people destroy themselves. And by the time they realize what’s happening, it’s already too late.

Rizal only wants a peaceful life as the owner of a coffee shop in Medan. Every morning, he serves bitter robusta coffee to his regular customers while enjoying casual coffee shop conversations. But behind this calm facade, Rizal hides a dark past—he was once the most feared enforcer in the mafia world. When Bang Togar, the biggest mafia boss in Medan, learns that Rizal is still alive, everything changes. Old grudges resurface, and Rizal finds himself hunted by assassins, corrupt cops, and former allies who have now become enemies. With the help of his best friend, Ucok—who cracks more jokes than he actually helps—and a former detective addicted to coffee, Rizal must face the world he left behind. Gunfights, brutal brawls, and deadly revenge plots turn his coffee shop into more than just a place to relax—it becomes a battleground. Can Rizal stay alive and protect his café? Or will he have to return to being a cold-blooded executioner to survive?

John Whitaker had nothing but his name—just a plain, useless name in a world ruled by money, influence, and cold-hearted power. He was the unwanted son-in-law of the Prestwick dynasty; an empire worth hundreds of billions. His marriage to Eleanor Prestwick was a shameful secret, something the Prestwick family pretended never happened, and whenever they had to acknowledge it, they reminded everyone that John was the charity case Eleanor brought home from a job internship in a poor neighborhood out of pity. They called him a parasite. They treated him like a stray dog that refused to leave. They spat on his dignity, sneered at his dreams, and sneered even louder when his mother was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. When he begged for help on his knees, in tears, in public; they laughed. John almost lost his will to live. But fate has a way of rewarding the broken. That very night, when he had no place to sleep, and his mother was on the brink of death in a public hospital ward stinking of poverty and pain, a letter arrived. An inheritance. John Whitaker was not who he thought he was. He was the sole blood heir to the late Howard Ravenshore, the secretive trillionaire who had disappeared from the global stage ten years ago. A man with holdings in every continent, silent power over more than forty governments, and a fortune beyond imagination. His assets were masked under shell companies, shadow trusts, and ghost accounts—untouchable, invisible, unstoppable. And now all of it belonged to John. In an instant, the man who once begged for pennies became the richest human being alive.

On the day of his graduation, Ethan Cole dropped to one knee before the woman he thought he would spend forever with. But instead of a "yes," her laughter cut through the air, sharp and humiliating. She told him he was unworthy, a nobody scraping by on part-time jobs, unfit to even breathe the same air as her. In front of the entire school, she walked away, straight into the arms of a wealthy heir who showered her with luxuries beyond imagination. What she never knew was that Ethan wasn’t poor at all. His family secretly controlled 70% of the world’s wealth, and by ancient family rule, he had been forced to live humbly until graduation. Now, on the eve of inheriting a global empire, Ethan will rise, not just to claim what is his, but to show the world, and the woman who scorned him, exactly who he is. But as Ethan steps into power, enemies circle. Greedy corporations, shadowy organizations, and even members of his own bloodline want him destroyed. In love and in war, he must navigate betrayal, vengeance, and temptation, while uncovering a darker truth: that power comes with a cost even money can’t pay. His ex thought she rejected a poor man. She had no idea she awakened a king.

At 2:17 a.m., morgue attendant Kian Mallory unzipped a body bag and found his sister inside. She was still breathing. To the hospital, Kian is a medical school dropout who washes corpses for minimum wage. To the world's richest families, he is Charon, the masked physician whose single visit costs hundreds of millions, and those face no one has ever seen. Someone poisoned his sister with the same black lotus that killed his master and rushed her towards the incinerator before dawn. Now a billionaire dynasty wants her silenced, their private doctor is smiling at him across her bed, and the brilliant rival who once mocked him has started staring at the scar on his wrist. For three years, Kian hid among the dead. But the poison was bait, and by saving his sister, he just told his master's killers exactly where to find him.

Liam Carter spent two years working double shifts and selling his belongings to support his girlfriend, Chloe. When a polar storm drops the world to negative sixty degrees, she repays him by locking him out in the blizzard so her new lover, the wealthy Julian, can stay warm. Liam freezes to death with one thought burning in his mind: revenge. He wakes up thirty days before the ice age begins. That same night, he tracks Chloe to Julian's suite at the Sterling Hotel and confirms his memories are real. He walks away calmly, then spends his last $1,000 on lottery numbers he remembers from his first life. The jackpot is $300 million. Liam wastes no time. He hires an elite security firm to turn the lot across from campus into a geothermal, steel-reinforced survival bunker and orders a warehouse worth of food and water. When Chloe and Julian discover he is rich, they decide his sudden wealth is a "loyalty test." Chloe tries to win him back, and Liam slaps her in front of the whole student elite. He slaps Julian too, then stares down campus security with a wall of private mercenaries. Julian refuses to accept defeat. Believing Liam will pick a new girlfriend to spite Chloe, he gets Liam's kind coworker Maya fired and blackmails her into seducing Liam and draining his fortune. Liam, who remembers Maya as the one good person in his past life, answers her call as she begs for help.

My wife gave our final piece of meat to her secret lover while I stood freezing in a sixty-below-zero blizzard. The man who had cast aside everything to keep them alive was now a joke, a useless son-in-law left to perish in the cold. They were never aware of the truth. I had been the secret heir to the most powerful family in the city. I had thrown it all away for her. Mocked by my in-laws and treated as a servant, I still believed she loved me. Until the Cold Apocalypse occurred. The world froze, monsters came out, and civilization collapsed. My devotion to blindness brought me a miserable, frozen death. But death wasn‘t the end. It was three days before the end of the world when I finally opened my eyes. This time, the obedient husband is gone, replaced by something much worse. The Chimera King System has loaded. When I carried the carapaces of mutated monsters, I absorbed their DNA and the strength that comes with it. This time, I will not plead. I will not give. I will not love blindly. My wife and her lover believe they will be able to use me once more when the ice thaws. They’re wrong. This time... I will make sure they freeze.