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Clarke Wiseheart wears a gentle mask, but beneath it lies a brutal will. A man who plays the fool until the time comes to strike. After twenty years of obscurity, Clarke’s hunger for dominance never faded. When his father gave the order, Clarke unleashed his brilliance, stepping back into a ruthless world where only the cunning survive. But this time, he’s not just the heir of a shadowed empire; he’s an outsider turned family man, married into a household that underestimates him at every turn. As he climbs to the top with unrelenting strategies and calculated ferocity, the people who once dismissed him as a failure are left stunned. Is Clarke Wiseheart, the accidental son-in-law? How is it that he now rules us all?

Allen, chosen as the guardian of the universe's successor, because of that he was put through countless experiments that where aimed at harnessing his power to fight off the crisis of the monster invasion, was it really necessary or was it just because if human greed, a young boy who wasn't even allowed to live a normal life, orphaned. yes humanity acquired his power and forgot about him.... its been 70 years since then and Allen is finally free again, but is he really? he just wants to live a normal life but will the forces of darkness sit still? it seems he has to one day shoulder the responsibility of something grate but until then let us see and witness the daily life of The world's greatest super power

“How dare you, a pauper, mock us?” Ava asked, her tone condescending. Damian raised a brow and looked Ava in the eye. “No, Ava. How dare you mock me?” *** After a humiliating rejection and a divorce agreement from his wife, Ava, Damian Giovanni Smith was tossed out in the streets, and mocked by everyone around him, leaving him with nothing. And Ava? She was engaged to the rumored heir of the highest-ranking family in the country, Carson Ferremento. As Damian thought that his life had already ended, suddenly, a man in a suit approached him. “You're the real heir of the Ferremento family, and I will help you reclaim your power, young master.” With the sudden wealth and power at his fingertips, how would a fallen son-in-law like him retaliate?

This is the Seven Deadly Cardinals - seven stories of seven different people, how they embody the heavenly cardinal in its goodness and then how they are dragged to become the opposite sin. No story is the same, no life is similar. The mental strength and capacity of one might be bigger, but that does not equal certainty of getting out from the troubles of life. There might be longing for what we don't have, driving us to do the unthinkable. Strengths becoming weaknesses, weakness breaking into new strength - it's dance of madness, chaos. Not all is set in stone. The stories include a lady that falls for a serial killer, an actor and tailor, the flower shop owner and orphanage, a priest and gangster mob, an office worker and a stalker, landlords son and new tenant, youth centre worker and how things did not go as it should.

Blake glanced at everyone in the room. Despite how they just treated him, he went down on his knees to beg them, throwing the shame and the hurtful feeling he was having at that moment through the window. “Please help me, my sister is dying. Even if you don't pay me for being a substitute husband on the wedding day like you promised, I will pay back every single penny” he pleaded. Maria kicked him hard on his stomach, making him stumble on the ground. “Were you assuming that I would give you a ten million you didn't work for? Are you stupid or pretending to be stupid?” she fired. Maria used Blake to save her face that day, a year ago. He was just the perfect person she needed, he was a cleaner, and it also felt like he needed money. Promising him money was the only thing that got him married to her. He is just a wretched pauper, she would never give her money to someone like Blake. “How do you intend to pay back if we lend you the money? From your part-time jobs?” she taunted. “Is leeching off us not enough? Now, you want more?” Mrs Jones added, bursting into a cynical laughter. “What have you done for us? You couldn't afford your tuition fees and dropped out because of that, what should I expect from someone of your caliber?” At that moment, Blake knew that they would not help him no matter what. Standing up with a shallow sigh, he peeked at them and shook his head. What was he thinking? **** Just when he thought life has ended, Blake found out that he was the owner of a company worth trillions of dollars. Will he seek revenge or hide his identity from his In-Laws?

[My second story; ”Michael Scofield Has Returned!”, has been on hot cake! Do check it out and get completely hooked] Julian, a penniless nobody from England— for over five years lived in a certain part of the world that believes being poor is an absolute sin. Living with his family in-laws for over four years and losing his job as a part-time waiter of five years, Julian was stunned by an instant divorce from his wife, which changed the course of events. Julian turned the stumbling blocks thrown at him into stepping stones to become victorious and make his oppressors bow to him and swallow their words at his feet when they realized he had always had their fates in his hands. The story of Julian explicitly unleashed the journey of a weak underestimated son-in-law who clinged back to his roots when all wrongly presumed that life was done with him... Unknown to all, fate hasn't begun with him yet…

Kai is a scrap miner from the lowest tier of Sanctuary, a domed city where your genes decide your fate. His left hand is mangled. His sister is dying. He expects nothing from life except work, pain, and an early grave. Then the Scanner turns red. Branded with a genetic strain thought extinct for 147 years—a strain called Hyperion that can bond with monsters and push the human body beyond its limits—Kai is dragged into Olympus Academy, where the elite train to rule. Everyone wants him to fail. Some want him dead. And the power burning inside him has a cost: every time he uses it, something else wakes up in his mind. Something that isn't him. When a coup tears Sanctuary apart, Kai is exiled to the irradiated wasteland beyond the dome. There, among outcasts and ancient creatures, he uncovers the truth about Hyperion—a truth that could save what's left of humanity or finish what the Collapse started. But the real question isn't whether Kai can win. It's whether he can remain himself.

Mercy is a luxury when currency of survival is lifespan. Crackle . . . hiss . . . boom . . . rain falls on corpses. The storey opens on the mountain of the dead - the last battlefield of the human race. Li Wei, who is a broken man under the curse of accelerated ageing, stands among the ruins of the Ancient God. His shaking hands hold a divine artefact - The Eye of Judgement. His body decays. His breath comes out in broken gasps - huff, cough, splat. And then… betrayal. The only family he's ever had - his sister, Li Xue - looks coldly on as she drives the dagger deeper into his chest. Thud… hiss… crackle… She calls him "nothing but an adopted mistake." A man named Yang Xun, brilliantly like an idol of deceit, thanks him mockingly. That's when Li Wei realises - the world doesn't reward love. It rewards survival. When he dies, something ancient is roused inside The Eye of Judgement. And when he opens his eyes again - it's 2025, the day the god forsaken game, LYTABern, descends upon Earth.

Five students. Five marks. One future that should not exist. When Orison Academy brands its incoming class, most receive a rank. A select few receive something else. Riven is precise, disciplined, and built to win through restraint. Cael burns too hot and refuses to slow down. Ilyra heals because she can, not because she wants to be worshipped for it. The others have their own fractures. During the ceremony, they see it. The academy in ruins. The sky wrong. The world already lost. And at the center of it— Themselves. Now marked by something the ranking system cannot classify, the five are quietly labeled anomalies. Misaligned. Unreliable. Dangerous. The academy wants to shape them. The system wants to measure them. But something else has already chosen them. As their magic begins to slip, twist, and answer in ways it never has before, the truth becomes impossible to ignore: They are not here to become the strongest students. They are here to survive what is coming. And if they fail, There will be no one left to remember they tried.

"They gave me a death sentence. I turned it into a power source." In a world of Absolute Zero, heat isn't a right—it’s a debt. Sky John spent his life building the heaters for a city that eventually threw him into the frost to die. They called it 'resource management' but it was a mistake. Cast into the barrens where the laws of physics are breaking, Sky almost froze to death but his Eternal Hearth System allows him to do the impossible: devour the cold to fuel his own evolution. While the elite huddle in bunkers fighting over Heat Credits, Sky is outside transmuting the killing frost into Sol-Steel skin and a thermal-kinetic pulse. He was a Tier-Zero architect but now, he’s a living singularity. Sky isn't just coming back for his stolen designs—he’s coming to show Supervisor Vance that the 'Great Freeze' is actually a harvest. The reapers are at the door, and Sky is the only thing hot enough to melt them down. The bunkers are cold. The Sun is coming. And the bill is finally due.