If We Had 5 More Minutes

Stanford High was the most in-demand school not only known for its elite alumni but for its party games which are traditionally played during reunions. Who would not dream of attending the reunion when days after you would be hailed as the world's richest and most famous? The party invitation was deemed more than a lottery ticket in the world that's run by those at the top of the hierarchy and was hell for those at the bottom. Carsen Adams was dumped by his fiancée, who thought she had no future with a rookie investigator like him and left him for a wealthy man. One day he received a party invitation and was chosen as a game participant. This is the chance he was waiting to step onto the ladder of the elite, yet his work requires him to go undercover and destroy the very instrument that exploits their world. But more than surviving the cruel post apocalyptic world system, Carsen was unaware of the mystery of his roots. If he discovers who he really is, would he be able to save humanity from this cruel game of survival, and bring the world back to how it was before?

“I have decided not to stay broke and miserable with you, Xavier. Emerald is not your child, and I want a better life for my daughter because love doesn't pay rent.” Humiliated and ridiculed by Lisa and her lover whom she had brought home during a secret marriage proposal he had planned and streamed live on TikTok at their house, Xavier Lancelot watched broken as the love of his life told the world he isn't the real father of their child. And just like that, Xavier’s heartbreak went viral. The video of his failed proposal was all over TikTok, viewed millions of times with people laughing at the broke café worker who thought love was enough. But just when he thought life couldn’t get worse… he found a forgotten lottery ticket in his pocket and won big. Now wealthy and famous, Xavier is finally rebuilding his life, with the help of Amber, the loyal friend who stood by him when he had nothing. But just as he begins to heal, Lisa shows up again, with their daughter, the same one she once denied him. Demanding her share of his new life. But this time, Xavier isn’t the one who’ll end up heartbroken. Because what he has planned will break her more than she ever broke him.

Derrick thought he had it all. A wife he loved, a home he could call his own, and a job that paid the bills. But then his world came crashing down around him. His wife divorced him, his in-laws shamed him for being poor and classless, he was scorned and was left with nothing. Then, one day, he met a mysterious woman who offered to help him in his rising journey to the top. She claimed to be a friend, but he couldn't shake the feeling that there was something more to her story. As he got to know the woman, he began to realize that she wasn't who she said she was. As he wrestled with these questions, he found himself drawn deeper and deeper into her world. But was it all just a trap? Or could she be the key to unlocking his true potential? Suddenly, Derrick becomes rich and is ready to revenge those that looked down on him when he had nothing. How would he take his long desired revenge.? Find out!

Takumi Asano, a painter from Kyoto, Japan, had copied tens of thousands of Vincent van Gogh's oil paintings. One day, he traveled through time to Arles, a small town in Provence, France, just before Christmas in 1888. It could be said to be time travel, or rather, arriving in a parallel universe. There, he became Marcel Duval, a 20-year-old local "chimney boy". Right in front of him unfolded one of the most famous tragedies in art history: the impoverished and down-and-out Van Gogh, holding a razor, was pointing it at his left ear! — "Mr. Van Gogh! Put down the razor!" — "Tell Armand... I'll cut off my ear and give it to him right away!" Was there actually an untold secret behind Van Gogh's ear-severing incident? — "Keep it, and it will bring you more and greater works!" — "You're absolutely crazy! Who are you?" — "I'm your top-tier manager!" Years later, the Parisian art circle had undergone earth-shattering changes. Van Gogh, who had grown into a great master, no longer had darkness in his eyes: "Marcel, it really was a good idea to keep my ear. Without you, none of this would have been possible!" Takumi Asano, once a lowly copyist trapped in drudgery, had now become Marcel, the world's "Godfather of Art". He smiled and raised his glass: "Come to my Provence manor this summer. I've planted a vast sunflower field—tens of thousands of mu—just for you... By the way, would you like to see my new paintings?" 【Time-Travel Redemption + Underdog's Rise + Rewriting History】! Click to read, and join Van Gogh in defying fate to turn the tide, lighting up the stars on the canvas!

"You're nothing but a stain on the Kinkaid name," his father spat, the words sharp enough to leave a wound that would never heal. "Look at you, still clinging to that name like it means anything. You’re not a Kinkaid. You’re just the mistake we all regret." Laxus Kinkaid had everything taken away from him by his father and handed it over to his Favourite Son, Luther. From his inheritance, to his own fiance, and there was nothing he could do, after all he was the bastard of the family. Giving up, he decides to move on and start his life afresh but he was never able to escape his family's torment. Eventually, he learns the truth about his father's wealth; His father did not earn his wealth, he took everything from his mother in a plan with her sister resulting in her death moments after she gave birth to Laxus. This marks the beginning of his battle for his birthright and his vengeance. But, will Laxus prevail, or will he fall victim to his family's iron claw just like his mother?

Alarick has always thought that he is a poor orphan. He married into a rich family, the Blythes. But because of his poverty, he is humiliated, maltreated and shamed on a daily basis by his wife and her family. He finally gets fed up and asks for a divorce after he caught his wife cheating on him on their marriage anniversary of all days. Angry with his decision to end the marriage instead of remaining as her slave, his wife disgraces him further by throwing him out of the house and tarnishing his image by making it seem like he was the one who cheated on her. Penniless and with his name dragged through the mud by everyone, he thinks all is lost till he was found by a stranger who claimed that he is the heir to a multi trillion empire. Now he will make sure that everyone who ever mocked him, came crawling back to him on their knees, begging for a mercy he had no plan to give. Alarick's new world is turned upside down by unexpected betrayals, threats and danger. The past creeps back into his life and obstacles are placed before him. Will they bring him down? Or will we witness the rise of a discarded son-in-law?

I learned early that if you’re born at the bottom, the world doesn’t hate you. It just doesn’t see you. I wasn’t mistreated. I was useful. A donor. A background presence. The kind of person wealthy families keep around until they don’t need him anymore. I got good at being invisible. Then someone pointed a gun at my chest. And Seraphina Knowles, the most powerful woman in the city said, “Apologize to him.” Men who wouldn’t have remembered my name minutes earlier dropped to their knees. It should’ve felt like victory. It didn’t. Because power doesn’t erase what you were. It tests what you’ll become. Behind closed doors, I’m the Chairman of Prism Dragon Group. I could end careers with a signature. Crush bloodlines with paperwork. But I don’t move in anger. I watch. And when I start watching, I find something rotting inside my own empire money disappearing too carefully to be a mistake. Betrayal hiding behind polished smiles. This stops being about humiliation. It becomes war. Bennett Sterling inherited power but never discipline. He mistakes noise for strength. I let him believe that. Men who panic expose themselves. Now arrests are being made. Empires are trembling. And the boardroom is about to learn who truly holds authority. I won’t smile. This was never about proving them wrong. It was about making sure no one will ever decide my worth again.

SYNOPSIS Shawn Kaleb was the son of humanity's strongest humans. A meteor had once fallen on the world (2060) its radiation mutated half the human race, thus giving birth to those known as 'Variants'. Variants had one power or ability while Warlocks had two or more stronger powers. After his parents perished for the sake of humanity, he was sent to the government facility so they could keep an eye on his powers when they awakened. Unfortunately, even after five years, his powers didn't awaken, the government gave up on him and allowed the scientists to use him as an experimental subject for their painful tests on the human bodies. He died during the first test. He saw the smile on the scientist's face even as he took his last breath. Was it truly the end? But what happens when the boy who was presumed to be useless and dead awakens a demonic and devilish system whose sole purpose was 'world domination'? What happens when the boy who has now awakened several abilities at once starts seeking vengeance? Can the protectors of humanity face the wrath of this man-made demon? Can they stop the person who kills without blinking? Or are they destined to be swallowed by the darkness they created? Join Shawn on his journey of Vengeance as he wields the Demonic System with utmost perfection.

" Finally, I have found you guys" he paused before he continued " After hunting for you all this while, you guys can't escape any longer" " Who are you? And why have you been hunting for us?" I asked him while watching his every move " You don't need to know who I am but I was hunting for you because you are the key, the key that was hidden for sixteen years. THE SECRET KEY I burst out laughing "What's funny?" He asked puzzled " We don't know what you are saying about Hyacinth being the secret key but you are forgetting something very important" "What is that?" " We are the HUNTERS NOT THE HUNTED"

In the urban fantasy novel "Hellstinger," billionaire playboy musician Marcus Hellstinger is thrust into a world of supernatural forces and ancestral history after a mysterious visitation drives him insane. Discovering his parents' secret past as legendary superheroes, Marcus awakens to his own inherited powers and vows to avenge their deaths while battling the demonic god Romulus and his legion of minions. With the guidance of his devoted trainer/bodyguard/caretaker, Alexander Hill, Marcus must navigate a treacherous path of betrayal, self-discovery, and redemption as he faces the ultimate showdown against the formidable Romulus to protect his city and honor his family's legacy... ... "Ugh! Grr hmgh..!" Marcus grunts with effort as he climbs out of the cavern onto the leveled ground of the dark cave. "Argh!" He sighed and exhaled heavily, taking in a lungful of oxygen only to exhale more heavily as he crawled to rest his back on the cave wall. "Damn..." He huffed heavily, panting and aching. His fingers had blistered, aching, and bleeding, his back felt at its breaking point, his muscles could hardly respond to him anymore, and his stomach groaned relentlessly for food. He had collected the bow from the stream of luminous fluid, strapped it to his back, and climbed out of the cavern. Marcus had never been so out of his elements before, and climbing had never been an imagination much less doing it fatigued and hungry. Marcus laughed, who knew he could ever go this hungry and still climb several meters out of an underground cave? No one. Although he has no idea how long ago he had left his hotel room or how far he had walked to the forest, he knows he will have to do it all over again. "Ah f@#k!" ***