A Dish Best Served Cold

When the demon finally harnessed human sins and negative emotions to harvest negative energy, it opened a spatial gate to the planets that were already ravaged by monsters and teeming with dark creatures. The beasts and monsters passed through the gate, unleashing havoc upon Earth. These monstrous creatures caused destruction on a massive scale, pushing the earth toward an apocalyptic catastrophe. In this dark time, The Creator granted certain humans the ability, marked by symbols on their right hands, to wield the power of gods and angels to combat these dark creatures. My ability was 'Overthinking,' the weakest, but with hard work, I persisted for 60 years to become the most powerful and the savior of the world. However, in my final moments, I was betrayed by a friend who was born rich and noble, who forced me to die to obtain everything I had worked so hard for. Nevertheless, before my demise, I sent my memories back to my younger years. This time, I will obtain everything: the best items, the finest women, and the most potent abilities. All will be mine!

Ryan King had it all: billions in the bank, the city’s biggest company, and a beautiful wife. But in one rainy night, he lost everything. Betrayed by his wife and best friend, Ryan was left paralyzed, a prisoner in his own body, forced to listen as they spent his money and plotted his murder. For six months, he was a vegetable. A silent witness to his own destruction. Then, they made a mistake. They killed him. But death wasn't the end. As his heart stopped, a blue light pierced the darkness. [SYSTEM ACTIVATED] [HATRED LEVEL: MAXIMUM] Ryan wakes up with a second chance and a mysterious System that grants him god-like abilities in exchange for one thing: Vengeance. Now, the man who couldn't move a finger can control technology, crush bones, and manipulate the stock market with a thought. He won’t just take back his company; he will burn their world to the ground. They thought he was a broken shell. They are about to find out that they just woke up a monster.

Due to a painful past, Nathan has dreamt of becoming a hero. However, in reality, he is nothing more than an average teenager in an average world. On his 16th birthday, his fate is changed when he and his two best friends (Sindy and Andrew) are summoned to a world known as the Mind World. Nathan quickly comes to bear the title of the Mind Hero and is tasked with the duty of saving the world from its impending chaos. However, Nathan soon comes to realize that the people of the Mind World hate the people of the Real World (The world where he's from). The Real World summons dangerous monsters known as Demon Beasts to the Mind World that constantly wreak havoc, making life in the Mind World a living hell. Due to this, many people of the Mind World wish to see the Real World and everyone from it destroyed. Now Nathan and his friends must go through a perilous journey to save both the Mind and Real Worlds, battling Demon Beasts, villains, and even Angels and gods. I will also be posting this story on Royal Road.

Alice and Eve: young and bound by the irrevocable bond of sisterhood after traumatic events from their past. But tragedy strikes the Aidoo family when Eve is involved in a car crash that also claims the lives of her boyfriend and best friend. Now, on the morning of Eve's funeral, Alice discovers a drenched envelope with two letters abandoned outside her home. What shocks her most is that they are all in Eve's handwriting. The instruction is even more ominous: "Do not tell anyone about these letters. If you do, I will know and they'll stop coming. And you will risk not knowing the truth behind Eve's death." The letters keep coming and this causes Alice to question her reality as she reads them. Who was sending Eve threatening notes days before she died? And who in Golden Gates would want to harm her sister? And if Eve truly loved her sister so much, how far was she willing to go to protect her? If lies won't kill her, the answers just might.

Cyprian Fenwick was the silent architect of the Beaumont Empire—the genius strategist who turned his best friend, Alaric, into a titan and his wife, Isadora, into a queen. His reward? A bullet to the chest and a watery grave in the Blackwood River. But death was just a hostile takeover. Awakening with a blue interface flickering in his dying vision, Cyprian discovers the Soul-Code System. He is no longer a man; he is the CEO of the Dead. From the "Grey Layer" of the city, he begins to headhunt the only employees who can’t be bought: the vengeful spirits of every genius, assassin, and accountant the Beaumonts stepped on to reach the top. As the Ghost Conglomerate grows, the living world begins to bleed. Stocks crash, secrets leak, and the elite tremble at an invisible hand strangling their empire. But the System demands a price: for every tether Cyprian exerts on the living world, he must trade a piece of his humanity. In a city run by an occult cabal known as the Silver Circle, Cyprian must decide if he’s willing to become a monster to destroy them. They thought they killed a man; they just gave him a promotion.

Carter Van Alen was dumped in the rain for being poor. His best friend stole his designs. His rival stole his future. His ex married the man who ruined him. They thought he was finished. They were wrong. Carter wasn't broke. He was the sole heir to the empire that owned the city. He crashed their wedding. Bought the church. Owned the guests. And began erasing everyone who ever laughed at him. But Julian Pane had been waiting. He knew who Carter was before Carter made his move. And a man with nothing left to lose is the most dangerous thing in any room. The Council of Five had the city in a chokehold for forty years. They didn't survive Carter's patience. Now Kingston belongs to him. He doesn't forgive. He doesn't negotiate. He builds...and then he buries. And when the dust settles, only two people are left standing at the top. The King. And the woman who made him one.

The three ladies (his daughter, maid and lover) want a half of him, but seriously, who divides a half into three? * * * Athena has given her words to her father that Vulcan, the mortal is better than every god, Zeus, her father formed and proposed that she marry. Because of that, she can't return to her father with shame and regret. She stands her ground, she will fight for who she loves. The Nymph will not back down, because all her life, she had only been a puppet to Athena's will, and taking her man will be the best comeback. Prium will not let Vulcan off her hook because she had left every thing she was and had back in the village because of him. Returning to the village is a 'NO'. And Vulcan? He holds them all in same regard because all of them have been useful in one way or the other. But deep down, the memories he has shared sexually and emotionally with Athena back in fantasy keeps reminding him of his love for her.

Lincoln was supposed to inherit a great legacy, but he was cast aside to die in the shadows. After his mother, a talented Forge Master, passed away, his stepmother Cressida and half-brother Angus stripped him of his title and banished him to an abandoned mine. Left with nothing but a dying servant named Santiago and the biting cold of an endless night, Lincoln faced certain death. Yet, his enemies made a fatal error. When his blood dripped onto his mother's ring, it unlocked a hidden system that allowed him to see the true nature of everything around him. He learned to fuse raw materials to forge items of power. Now, the mines are not his tomb, but his training ground. Lincoln has begun his climb from the depths, and he will stop at nothing to settle his debts. This is his story of survival and ultimate retribution.

Ten years after the world froze, Rhys Darby is dying at the bottom of a ravine. His wife and her lover put him there. She wears his family ring. She tells him the son he raised was never his. Then he wakes up in a bank, in the last warm summer, ninety-two days before the sky falls. Lexi is pushing a pen into his hand. He tears the contract in half. Rhys has a lottery number he can’t forget, a ring that holds an entire world, and the one thing nobody else has: the exact date everything ends. The Stowes see a rich ex-husband and fight over his millions. They have no idea money has ninety-two days to live. Across the street, Rhys is building a fortress. When the cold comes, there will be one warm house on the block. And the Stowes will be standing on the wrong side of the door.

On a storm-soaked night, Ethan Vale was betrayed by the people meant to protect him. Framed for a crime he didn’t commit, abandoned by his own parents, and declared dead to preserve a powerful family name, Ethan vanished without a grave—without justice. The world mourned him. His family moved on. But death did not take him. Ten years later, a man known only to the elite returns—cold, untouchable, and impossibly powerful. As a hidden billionaire and master strategist, he controls wealth, influence, and secrets capable of shaking the entire city. The family that erased him has no idea the king they now fear… is the son they buried. As truths surface and regrets come too late, Ethan must decide whether vengeance will finally free him—or complete his transformation into the very monster his betrayal created. Because this time, he didn’t come back to beg. He came back to judge.