Hot Among Us

"How would you feel about facing death, knowing you've been cast aside by the people you loved the most?" Bryan pondered this question as it echoed in his mind, but as he opened his eyes to a new beginning, a fresh chance at life, he felt a surge of determination. He was willing to do whatever it might take to make those who had caused him pain pay, even if it meant shedding tears and blood as he had suffered. "Bryan, Mom was wrong. Please come back to us," "Bryan, Dad admits his mistakes, please forgive me and return to us?" "Bryan, we're sorry for neglecting you, we regret it now," even his three sisters who despised him the most. These were the same people who had never spared him a single glance, despite his longing for their love and affection his entire life, even when he lay on the brink of death they chose an outsider over him, now they beg for his forgiveness and plead for his return, it was ironic, almost laughable. "I don't have a family, and I'm perfectly fine being an orphan," Join the incredible journey of Bryan Winterwood as he goes from being an orphan to discovering as the long-lost son of one of the richest families, but despite appearing to be having everything there's nothing for him not even love until the moment he was dead, just when it seems like everything ended, fate has its own play for him, Bryan is given a second chance, instead of embracing the life of an heir to a billionaire family, he decides to walk away and return to the life of an orphan once again to rise and shine by his own

"It's late, but leave my house and never come back here." Believing he was nothing more than a worthless live-in son-in-law, a forgotten son abandoned by fate, Kael Draven endured endless humiliation without ever knowing who he truly was. Everything changed the night his true identity awakened. He was the sole successor of the mysterious Primordial Overlord, the unseen ruler whose influence controlled the world's most powerful fortunes, hidden organizations, and dangerous syndicates. Those who mocked him would soon kneel. "Supreme Chairman Kael Draven, please have mercy on us!" Unfortunately for them, it was already too late.

"I, Alastair of the Elderien's Keep, renounce you, Jaghryx as my Dragon. I break our connection, I break all that binds us together and I renounce my status as Dragonlord." *** Forced to renounce his dragon in an attempt to correct a fatal mistake, Alastair finds himself in a world of grief and chaos. But when he meets a child with a destiny far greater than his, he is forced to tear down the walls he had built to separate him from the world around. Will he succeed in bringing her to the light, becoming the salvation the world might just need against a great evil, or will she fall to the darkness, becoming the very thing that destroys the world itself? Stay and find out!

"We'd like you to come with us to the station immediately," Vanessa's heart began to beat faster, "I don't understand," she said, "What for?" "Mrs Spencer, you're wanted as a prime suspect in the murder of your husband, Mr Christopher Wesley. You need to come with us to the station for questioning. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you do or say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. I suggest you don't try to resist. Do you understand the rights I have just read to you?" Vanessa's jaw dropped. Christopher was dead! It was impossible to believe. She'd just spoken to him that afternoon. It had to be a mistake. She nodded, "I…. I…. I need to call my lawyer," she said, when she finally found her tongue," "Ma'am, you can do that at the station. Turn around, please," —----------- Politician and governorship candidate, Christopher Wesley is dead; shot in the head right in his own house. The killer is unknown, but the police have a suspect —his estranged wife, Vanessa Spencer Detective Alaric Harper and his partner are placed in charge of this case and at first Alaric is certain that Vanessa had killed her husband. Her motive? He's not sure of. When Vanessa begins to get calls from an unknown person wanting money he claims Christopher had stolen, Alaric has no choice but to accept that their killer is yet to be found. He is determined to get to the bottom of this case and he's sure that he will, but one thing he never expected — falling for Vanessa.

Caelan Ashborne was once destined for greatness until his mother’s mysterious death erased his name, his future, and his place among the elites. Forced to live under a false identity, he endured humiliation in silence, believing love and family were his final refuge. Then his daughter was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Before Caelan could fight for her life, his wife betrayed him. She demanded a divorce, publicly abandoned him, and returned to the powerful man she had always loved , declaring Caelan and his dying child a burden no longer worth carrying. Cut off from medical access, mocked by society, and crushed by a world ruled by power and privilege, Caelan reaches the edge of despair. That is when the system awakens. Cold , Ruthless and deadly. It does not save the innocent, it rewards the decisive. To protect his daughter, Caelan must rise through blood, judgment, and sacrifice… and become something the world never intended him to be. The system chose him. Now the world will pay.

[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…

"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.

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.

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.

‎The shadow king would rule despite his solar lineage. Raised among the wolves at the High Kingdom's royal court, the son of a deposed god and exiled goddess was Kaelen, a perfect, divinely perfect archer, a god of hunters, a holy and perfect weapon of war. He masked his monstrous, divine talents from his mortal, warring brothers to avoid their hatred; however, a god could not forever be hidden away. ‎ ‎Abandoned with nothing but a bow and bloodline to the fragmented wilderness of the Outer Marches, Kaelen was destined to be more than just a conqueror; he was to become a king of them. With Vanya, a calculating and brilliant queen-merchant of steel and greed, Kaelen forged an iron alliance and began building a kingdom of outcasts from the discarded, broken remnants of society. Aethelgard would become his new, divine High Kingdom, but when the forces that yearned to annihilate him rose to attack, Kaelen would face his destiny: was he truly a God of War? When all is said and done, Kaelen lost himself in his struggle for his throne and found out the seat of power was a chilling, lonely thing to sit in. ‎