Bitter Love

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?

Beneath the glamour of the Whitlock Group lies a betrayal of the most vicious kind. Martin Whitlock, a seemingly perfect billionaire CEO, is stabbed and thrown off a cliff by Miller, his identical twin brother who grew up in bitter poverty. But death refuses to claim Martin. Saved by a mysterious doctor, he awakens with a ruined face and a reality far more excruciating than his stab wounds: his beloved wife, Moana, isn't even looking for him. Instead, she willingly welcomes his murderer into her bed and his company, all for the sake of power. Betrayed by his own flesh and blood and discarded by his wife, the angelic side of Martin died in that forest. He returns to his empire from the very bottom, disguised as a disfigured courier. He doesn't come demanding answers. He comes to reclaim his empire, shatter his enemies' sanity, and make the wife who betrayed him crawl and beg at his feet. Because the ultimate revenge isn't murder; it is absolute poverty.

"I regret the day I met you. I regret foolishly giving love a chance for the first time." Emily’s words pierced the air, heavy with regret and heartache. Her voice trembled as she uttered each syllable, her eyes glistening with unshed tears. But Alex stood before her, his own heart aching at the sight of her pain. He longed to comfort her, but the weight of his own decisions held him back. **** Alex was a billionaire and independent man who lived a life of fulfilment but was marred only by the suffocating grip of his parents. Just like a dog on a leach, he always did as they wished, whether he was good with it or not. He despised women and perceived them all as serpents in designer dresses. His parents arranged a marriage devoid of love with him and a fellow billionaire's daughter, Isabella, which he reluctantly agreed to. Since he had no affection for her, they lived in his house like cats and rats, with no intimacy between them. However, meeting Emily challenged his negative view of women and made him want to marry her, as they became drawn to each other like a magnet. He was willing and determined to marry Emily instead of Isabella, especially after she revealed she was carrying his child. Isabella harboured a hidden agenda far more intricate than mere unrequited love. As Alex's heart turned to Emily, she unleashed deadly plots, determined to retain her place in Alex's heart, even if it meant silencing her rival permanently. Will Alex break free from his condescending parents to choose his own future? Can Emily survive Isabella's wrath and plots? Since only a woman would emerge victorious in winning his heart, who would it be and at what cost?

He was an immortal sovereign who forced gods to their knees, but a desperate sacrifice from his enemies stripped him of his physical form. Betrayed and sealed, his soul was forced to flee across dimensions, only for a bitter curse to derail his path at the final second. Instead of waking up in the body of a flawless prodigy, he opened his eyes to a cruel reality. He was now a fifteen-year-old orphan on the Sky Continent—a boy beaten to the brink of death, left with a completely shattered spirit power center, and feared by everyone for his "cursed" blue eyes. Stripped of his godlike might and trapped in a body labeled as a worthless cripple, he has to start from absolute zero. But they forgot one thing: his wrath didn’t stay behind. With his memories wiped but his instincts sharp, and an ancient spirit of wisdom guiding his mind, he will rewrite the laws of this new world. They thought a broken center meant his end. They were wrong. The sealed god is back, and he will climb his way back to the peak—even if he has to break this world apart to do it.

The war in the Eastern Land dragged on far longer than anyone expected. It left behind nothing but desperate orphans. But one child was different. Driven by vengeance, he slaughtered over a hundred invading soldiers with his bare hands. Fifteen years later, he became a god of war hidden in plain sight. No one knew who he truly was. To the world, he was nothing more than a loyal stay-at-home husband—until the day his wife betrayed him for another man. "So, money and power were all you ever wanted?" he asked. "If you had told me from the start, I could have given you more than he ever could. I am King Fox, the legendary God of War!" SLAP! His wife struck him across the face before the crowd. "You’re nothing but a cheap mercenary. I wish you had died in the trenches!" That divorce forced him out of hiding. Now, he will take his revenge to the bitter root and build an unmatched military dynasty.

On the day he awakened his martial spirit, a disaster struck the Shang manor and exterminated the entire clan. He lost his father, his mother, his entire family, and the love of his life. As the only survivor, he changed his identity into gore and swore to avenge their deaths even if he has to slaughter them till the end of time. With a tremendous craving for vengeance, Gore raised across the rankings, conquering kingdoms, defeating the chaos lords one after the other and becoming the overlord of the chaos realm, unsatisfied by his rain, he attempted to conquer another world only to fall into a treacherous scheme by his greatest enemy, the hand behind the calamity that took away his loved ones. The person he tries so hard to find but never met, the person who always lay in front of him as his most trusted subordinate. Gore resurrected on earth with the identity of Lionel grieves, a young man whose extended family tormented after his parents passed away, but will the ferocious gore lie low after recovering his past life memories? will he come back to get revenge?.

The people bullied his ugly appearance and personality, among them there was a flawless girl who presently lived his heart. He abruptly transformed into dragon facing the woman who bravely discriminated him. His intention just to court for her. Will he express his love explicitly for her?

We all were born into this world without our knowledge. We weren't given the chance to choose our origin: race, tribes, or even the family where we came from. Then what crime have we committed for being who we are today? Alator was a boy without an origin, name, family, or place in the world. He was left to survive in the wastelands. A land once raided by demonic beasts one thousand years ago. Now ruled by the powerful noble houses. In the wastelands, power is everything and being weak means death.The soil is soaked with blood, the roads is littered with bones, and only the strong take anything for themselves. Every day is a fight to survive, every choice is a gamble against life and death. But Alator has a single goal, to awaken his soul essence, rise above his insignificance, and to finally take control over his own life. As he struggles to rise, he faces mysterious forces far beyond mortals, one that wishes to erase his existence, because of his sacred origin. In the wastelands, nothing is fair, nothing is safe, life is earned in blood, and survival only keeps you on the ground to fight again. Join our MC as he embarks on this brutal and thrilling journey towards defying his fate and discovering his true identity. Will Alator defy his fate or will he bow to the will of heaven, wishing to destroy him and erase his existence?.

A symphony's harmony is a fantasy fiction novel based on the story of Priscilla. She is renowned for her achievements in her war of being a successful musician. Therefore, she relates every single moment of her present life with her past junctures. But things get more interesting when she starts liking someone and shuffled herself in love triangle scenes that attain the attraction of a whole story. To be continued!

To her family, Alexander Chen is nothing more than a polite, struggling marketing coordinator — lucky their daughter hasn’t left him yet. To his wife, Victoria, he’s a convenient placeholder while she laughs a little too loudly at another man’s jokes and slips away for “late meetings.” But Alex has secrets. Behind the patient smile lies a mind sharper than steel and a fortune far greater than anyone suspects. For three years, he’s played the role of the obedient husband, enduring the humiliation, the betrayals, the lies. Now, the mask is coming off. As Victoria falls deeper into David Morrison’s orbit, Alex prepares to show them both what choices cost. Love may have made him weak. Betrayal is about to make him unstoppable. Marriage was her game. War will be his.