Married At First Sight

Silence. Like a nice bucket of shhhhhhhhh. Everyone shut the effing fudge UP! That's all I've ever wanted. *Sigh.* But silence comes in different flavors. There's mint - the peaceful kind that wraps around you like a blanket. The kind I chase at 2 AM. I've cried once. Just once. With a bucket beside me, watching heroes with super suits and impossible strength tear each other apart. Somehow that feels less broken than my reality. Then there's the suffocating silence at school. Not an ice cream flavor. This one tastes like metal and shame. High school is my personal hell. Empty wallet, empty lunch tray, empty seat beside me like I'm radioactive. Empty soul on Wednesdays because middles are always the worst. *The usual.* But Emily made the silence bearable. Mint-flavored again. Until she broke something between us. *Snap.* One moment she's whispering secrets with me, the next she's weaponizing them. She scattered my private thoughts, added her own twisted lies. The betrayal burns hotter than the stares drilling into my back. I went from invisible to spectacle. Being a ghost feels like luxury when you're dodging spit balls and "accidental" lunch trays. But somewhere between my third panic attack and contemplating switching schools... *Something shifted.* Like in those games you play, when your character suddenly glows and the screen flashes: "New Skill Unlocked" And it wasn't just in my head. I tested it. Small things at first – a pencil moving across my desk when I focused hard enough. Then books. Then someone's lunch tray right as they walked past Emily. *tap tap tap* I used to think rock bottom was the end. *Well ladies and gentlemen,* it's just a really messed up spawn point. And now? I don't stumble from cliffs anymore. I swim in gravity, and dive head first.

The world is a machine built on a lie. Ethan is the bug that will break it. In the vertical city of The Hollows, your rank determines your right to breathe. While the elite live in eternal sunlight, Ethan Cole survives on the "scraps" of the lightless slums, a low-level clerk who just wants to stay invisible. Then the sky cracks. As the "System" initializes, the world turns into a lethal game. While everyone around him is granted the power of heroes and gods, Ethan is branded with a glitch: [Class: ERROR - CIVILIAN]. He’s supposed to be the first to die. But Ethan sees what the "Heroes" can't. He doesn't see monsters; he sees flickering code. He doesn't see magic; he sees unoptimized hitboxes. To the world, he is a nobody. To the System, he is a virus with Administrator access. Now, Ethan must climb the layers of the city he once feared, "deleting" the digital gods that treat humanity like fuel. He isn't here to play the game. He’s here to rewrite the rules. He’s not a hero. He’s the patch the world didn't see coming

In his first life, Ethan Vance was a dedicated logistics manager who sacrificed everything to keep his fiancée, Clara Sterling, and his best friend, Garrett Hayes, alive during the Great Freeze, a catastrophic climate collapse that plunged temperatures to -60 degrees. In return for his devotion, Clara and Garrett betrayed him. After Ethan spent months braving freezing blizzards to scavenge the last remaining rations, Clara and Garrett ambushed him, chopped his body for food, and tossed him into the snow to die. Dying in agony, Ethan swore an oath of vengeance. Then, he snaps awake. It is August 10, 2026, exactly 60 days before the Great Freeze hits civilization. The sun is shining, society is functioning normally, and his betrayers are still treating him like their personal piggy bank. Better yet, Ethan discovers he has unlocked a soul-bound Dimensional Vault System, an infinite storage space with total time-stasis and range-based resource absorption. This time, Ethan will not give away a single cent. While Clara and Garrett demand money for luxury trips and bad debts, Ethan silently liquidates his assets, secures billions in loans, and absorbs millions of tons of high-calorie foods, fuel, generators, and military supplies into his dimension. When the temperature drops and the world freezes, his betrayers will shiver in the dark, begging at his door. But Ethan will be sitting in his heated fortress, enjoying a hot meal, and watching them burn.

Stephen Vale built one of the largest business empires in the world from nothing. Powerful, respected, and feared, he had everything money could buy—except genuine love. After a devastating car accident nearly kills him, Stephen becomes partially blind and confined to recovery. Forced to step away from his trillion-dollar empire, he entrusts his entire world to his beautiful wife, Melisa—the woman he believed stayed by his side out of love. But behind closed doors, Melisa is living a different life. Secretly reconnecting with her ex-lover Adrien, she begins sabotaging Stephen's recovery with harmful substitutes to stop his healing permanently. As Stephen's condition worsens, the once-powerful billionaire becomes trapped inside his own mansion while the woman he trusts humiliates him, cheats on him, and slowly steals everything he owns. Then one mysterious encounter changes everything. A strange beggar warns Stephen not to trust his wife and secretly sends him back to the hospital, where doctors discover the horrifying truth: Stephen has been deliberately harmed by what he was given. Now cured in secret, Stephen regains his sight and strength little by little—but pretends to remain broken.

First, it was the Gates. Now, an ancient alien species is subtly invading, planning to turn humanity into livestock. This is the Second Calamity, a prophesied trial that must be overcome to face the true end of the world. Just as a new apocalypse begins, Orion awakens with a system. Ding! [You have awakened with the Evolution System!] Thrown into a parallel Earth plagued by monsters and Hunters, Orion receives his first task. [one must stay proactive!] [Your first task: Character Development!] The system reveals his first daily quest: a grueling workout regimen of push-ups, sit-ups, and running. The goal is to transform him from his "ugly, obese" state into something better, rewarding him with points in Charisma, Agility, Strength, and Endurance. [Is this torture!?] Orion shouts. Ding! [No, it's Character Development! ^-^]

Even when he was pretending to be poor, Prince helped place his wife at the peak of her career the moment they got married and she thought he was his lucky charm. However, his mother in-law would see to it that Lara divorces him so he would be kicked out of the house. In time, Lara gave in to her mother's pressure and got pregnant for her colleague while still married to Prince. She even had to break the news to him in the most ridiculous way and on his birthday. Angrily, Prince retorted and tried to settle the scores with the man who had been sleeping with his wife. He was humiliated by his mother in-law and made to sign the divorce papers after which he was thrown out of the house. Leaving the place in disgrace, Prince decided to return back to his life after promising to take everything away from them.

Dahlia Nicholson and Dustin Rhys had been married for three years. After Dahlia’s meteoric rise to success, she abandons the useless dead weight that’s Dustin, proposing divorce. Unbeknownst to her, everything she had ever achieved was only because of him.

Morgan has always liked Lyndsey since childhood but was rejected due to his background. His marriage was arranged, Morgan married Lyndsey and became the son-in-law of the Brown family. However, Morgan and Lyndsey’s marriage after marriage was not happy, because Lyndsey liked her ex-boyfriend, so after getting married for a few months, she didn’t even let Morgan touch her body. Mother-in-law and younger brother-in-law also often trouble Morgan, constantly mocking him, even withholding Morgan’s monthly salary and only giving him a few hundred dollars as pocket money. Morgan had thought of resisting, but because his father, Patrick Johnson, had heart disease and owed the Brown family sixty thousand, he could only endure and live in grievance under the roof of the Brown family. Will he be able to survive the humiliation?

Rule #1: The door opens at 3:04 AM. Exit before 3:50 AM, or you become part of 1984. Rule #2: You may carry only one item out per night. Everything inside has a price. Rule #3: If Room 404 appears on your own bedroom door... do not attempt to leave. ​Crushed by university tuition and facing imminent homelessness, engineering student Julian thinks he found an impossible deal: Studio 403 in the historic, decaying Sterling Manor for a fraction of market rent. ​The building has only one flaw—according to official city blueprints, Room 404 was demolished forty years ago following an unsolved massacre. ​Except Room 404 was never destroyed. It shifts. ​At 3:04 AM on his first night, Julian investigates a rhythmic tapping in the hallway and finds a heavy oak door where a blank brick wall stood hours prior. Inside lies a frozen pocket of 1984: an unfinished diary, a spinning record player, and the lingering traces of a student who vanished decades ago. ​When Julian retrieves an old brass key from the phantom room, he realizes objects taken from inside possess supernatural utility in the waking world. But Sterling Manor’s landlord and a shadowy occult syndicate have been searching for Room 404 for forty years—and Julian’s interference just put him on their hit list. ​Armed with an analytical mind, strict rules, and an evolving arsenal of paranormal relics, Julian must solve the 1984 murder mystery before the shifting room consumes Sterling Manor floor by floor.

Liam Tate is the son-in-law they never saw coming. Neither did they expect him to be married to their daughter. After being shamed by the Grayson family for being poor, Liam meets a man who changes his life. Now the Grayson family is on their knees begging Liam for forgivness.