Middle-aged

Being wealthy is fun especially when you grew up as an orphan. But the seemingly flashy and glamorous world of wealthy men has hidden secrets, so dark and so diabolical, and it took Oscar only one week to realise. Due to certain circumstances, and perhaps sheer luck, Oscar was lifted from a common employee to the CEO of a prestigious organisation. But while he tries to pay back those who wronged him in the past, Oscar is also faced with life-threatening situations. Tasked with finding his missing father and staying alive, Oscar couldn't tell whether he was better off wealthy or middle class. ______ The story starts like any other urban novel but proceeds slowly, leaving hints for future events to look forward to. The story is rated 18, but contains little to no s*x scenes. However gruesome and graphic fight scenes, socially intolerable habits including drug usage, may be included, but will not be praised or supported. Chapters will be uploaded daily before 17:00 UTC +01:00 Thank you for giving this book a try, and I will try to answer any questions I come across as comments.

Dominic Rice was the CIA’s most lethal ghost—until the day his own agency erased him. Framed for a massacre he didn’t commit, Rice is left for dead in a black-site prison in the middle of the Sahara. But death doesn’t want him, and the men who buried him just made the biggest mistake of their careers. Armed with nothing but a smuggled SIM card, a broken body, and fifteen years of black-ops training, Rice escapes into the underworld of international espionage. The target isn’t just the corrupt spymaster who sold him out. It’s the phantom organization pulling the strings behind the West’s most volatile conflicts—a shadow syndicate known only as The Meridian. Hunted by the world’s most sophisticated intelligence agencies and a rogue Delta Force operator with a personal grudge, Rice must navigate the violent borderlands between Europe and Africa. Every ally has a price. Every step forward is booby-trapped. And the one woman who knows the truth about his past might be the deadliest weapon of all. To clear his name and stop a geopolitical catastrophe that will ignite World War III, Rice must become the monster his enemies fear. This is not about justice. This is about extraction.

Osric Thorne was the discarded heir of the Thorne shipping empire, a man who thought he had everything until his wife, Elowen Vane, and his best friend, Cuthbert, threw him off the Gilded Sovereign in the middle of a Category 5 storm. With his feet chained to an anchor and the scent of Elowen's expensive perfume lingering in the salt air, Osric was meant to be a forgotten feast for the scavengers of the abyss. Instead, his family’s "worthless" heirloom—the Abyssal Pearl—reacts to his dying rage. Fusing with his heart, the pearl awakens the [Leviathan Evolution System]. In the crushing, lightless depths of the Atlantic, Osric doesn't drown...he adapts. By consuming the apex predators of the sea, he gains their power: the obsidian armor of the great white, the bio-electric discharge of the deep-sea eel, and the terrifying sonar of the prehistoric leviathan. Now, a monster is rising from the depths. Osric Thorne isn't coming back just to reclaim his company; he’s coming back to dismantle the Vane legacy piece by piece and turn the surface world into his personal hunting ground. He was once a man of the boardrooms, but he has returned as the Warden-King of the Abyss. The elites of Oakhaven are about to learn a bitter truth: the ocean doesn't forgive, and neither does Osric Thorne.

Synopsis: The VIP Landlord Colter "Colt" Burke thought inheriting his grandfather’s property would solve his debt. Instead, he got a death sentence. The will is clear: manage a rundown apartment block for 100 days. No tenants can move, get arrested, or die. Fail and Colt loses the inheritance — and his life. The catch? The building houses the world’s most wanted fugitives. Room 301: Ines Mercer, an international assassin. Room 302: Linus Floyd, a federal hacker on the run. Room 303: Harlan Montgomery, a corrupt ex-minister who faked his death. They trust no one. Night one goes wrong when a body turns up in Ines’s room. As Colt scrambles to hide the evidence, ruthless attorney Mr. Henderson arrives for a surprise inspection. Then Henderson’s assistant, Duncan Briggs, betrays them and leaks the building’s location to the dark web. Now hit squads are sieging the building. To survive, amateur Colt must lead his dangerous tenants and use the building’s secrets — including a hidden 4th floor — against cyber attacks and a global war. As day 100 nears, Colt learns the truth. This isn’t just a safe house. It’s a fortress built to fight The Syndicate. And he’s in the middle of it. Genre: Urban Fiction / Suspense / Thriller-Action

Ethan Vance was a great soldier in a high-tech land war, fighting with a digital gaming battle system. His life was ruined when he found out his wife, Chloe, was having a secret affair with his older half-brother, Julian. During a giant enemy base raid, Chloe and Julian hacked Ethan’s system account and stole his high-level power shield. Left without any armor in the middle of a major bomb strike, Ethan was blown up on the battlefield. His very last thought was to get revenge. Then he wakes up in his bed two whole months before the destruction even starts. With his clear knowledge of the dark future, Ethan takes action. He leaves his cheating wife and cuts off his biological father, Arthur, and mean stepmother, Eleanor, who always loved Julian more. Ethan uses his secret savings to build an underground fort and unlocks a special cheat code in his gaming system. He plans to stay safe and warm inside his base while his old family gets crushed by the incoming enemy forces. But Ethan does not know that a much bigger trap is waiting for him. Because the global war and the gaming system are not real. They are part of a giant game experiment run by a scary group of scientists. Stay tuned for this dangerous ride with Ethan And The Experimental team.

The dying star pulsed, it’s heart on the verge of collapse. Twelve figures, cloaked in unimaginable power, stood amidst its final throes. On one side, six beings (the angels) blazed with light so intense, it dwarfed the star's dying brilliance. Across from them, five figures (the demons)exuded a chilling darkness, a black hole's silent hunger, their very presence accelerating the star's demise. And in the center of this cosmic ballet of light and shadow, stood Reaper. He seemed to absorb the dying star's essence, his form cloaked in a darkness deeper than any of the others, a living embodiment of the star's final, terrible scream. But then, the things discussed were by no means simple, the fate of the world was resting on their soundless star toppling discussion. The intensity of the conversation loomed above the star like an omen of death, accelerating it's death even further. Suddenly, the figure in the middle broke the sacred rule, yelling in a language that speaks for all, his voice was like the rushing of a mighty wind. I Reaper, will dethrone and destroy that God, make him pay for neglecting us all and if you don't join me, you will all suffer the same fate. The faces of the angels and demons -a vortex of light and darkness- went grim as they moved to strike down the tyrannical being. But before they could, Reaper, the demon of death and chaos was gone. Our story...begins here.

He died at the height of cultivation. He woke up in the body of Lin Fan — F-rank, the weakest awakened human in the eastern city, a name people use as the punchline of a joke. He planned to sit quietly, heal, and work out who killed him. He never gets the chance. Because people keep kneeling. An old woman bows to him in the middle of the road. A billionaire forgets his own sentence halfway through it. A beast that hasn't lowered its head to anything in a thousand years calls him Your Majesty. And the girl who spent three years guarding a loser's reputation looks up at him without a flicker of surprise and says, softly: "You finally came back." He has never met her. That is the whole problem, and it is total. Everyone who looks at his face is remembering a man he cannot recall. His memories are complete — he's certain of it. He remembers the climb. He remembers the sky. He remembers the poison. He just can't remember his own name. Somewhere behind him is a life so vast the world still bends toward it. Somewhere ahead is the woman who has been waiting for him to come back. And the people who killed him the first time are still out there — still powerful, still watching, still certain he is dead. They're about to be very disappointed.

Kaizer Jin, on day 11,024 of surviving in the crazed frozen world looked at his final seconds as he was being devoured alive by an evolved creature called Silver Ice Dragon, he was nothing but a weak person but he managed to survive till this day attaching himself to a group of kind people. Yet, at this day, they were all killed. He had witnessed many people die before him, those who had protected him at the cost of their own lives, those who had loved him and given him their food. They were a group of outcasts who would not bend to the rules of the corrupted. How did all of it happened? It was nothing but a normal day, but suddenly, the world had gone cold, and it kept growing colder. It was so sudden when in the middle of summer, snow started pouring nonstop, till even ice dropped from the heavens. It was the start of how civilization halted, like the world frozen in time. After a year, people also evolved, trying to survive, and gaining powers they never knew were possible. Even monsters started to evolve, creating a new era, an era of the frozen world, its rebirth! He stared at his comrades lying on the ground. What was once a group of 450 people was now dead, being eaten by frozen dragons. As he closed his eyes, he heard something. [Frozen World Rebirthing in progress!] [System activated! Power gained!]

I'm thankful that you freed me from that f**kin' mountain, but..." Axl finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict between the protagonist and the villain. Due to his past, Axl finds himself entrenched in the villain's camp where he is assigned as a double agent to spy on the protagonist. The problem is that the protagonist is his older brother who had lived with him in the mountains for seven years! "What a wretched plot," Axl sighed as the realization of the dangerous game he had been pulled into. According to the plot in his memory, he only has a few chapters left as his identity will be revealed because of a certain moron, which will invite the wrath of the protagonist. Thinking of this, Axl couldn't help but feel a heart attack. There is no way to escape; he is trapped here. The villain camp background is simply too much for him to handle, and as for joining the protagonist camp, looking at how his master and senior brother treat him like a servant, he would rather die again rather than become someone's servant. "Never mind," he tells himself. let's take this one step at a time. I know the plot already, so I should be able to make it through. He resolves focus on surviving the conflict between the two opposing factions. Despite the odds, Axl believes in his abilities and feels confident that he can navigate the dangerous landscape.

The story is about a man named Geordan Auroran who is a native of Skyreach and a knight-errant. He's an only son of a minor noble in Skyreach, in the trading village of Faulterth. He was raised by his parents as a young man who is virtuous yet, full of curiosity and treats his people equally making him well-known to the commonfolk. In his coming of age, after being knighted by his father and to further hone his skills as a knight, he was sent to the capital of Central Gaedas, the Imperial City of Cyrius. He was registered to the Imperial Military Academy and began his studies for two years. Unbeknownst to him, his homeland I is in the middle of a civil war, the Duke of Winterhelm, Duke Jarric the Chillrend, killed the new High King of Skyreach in a duel for the crown. Jarric killed the newly King because he disapproved how dependent Skyreach have become to the Empire, and Jarric ultimately believes that the "true" Highlanders must stand on their own never bow to anyone but themselves. As a knight of the Empire and a son of Skyreach, his resolve was shaken between serving his homeland or staying true to his oath as a knight of the Empire. The conflict was more than he thought as he witnessed innocent people who are not even involved to the conflict are also getting in between the slaughter of the two opposing sides. Is this the welcoming he will receive from his homeland after returning for the past two years? This is the tale of how Geordan Auroran became the legend known as Champion of Dawn, a fabled title given to the one who bears the radiance of the God of Creation.