once bitten twice shy

🏆["Silver Medal" in System Category of "Meganovel Annual Writing Contest 2022"]🏆 Aoi, a Japanese kid, stumbles upon a portal and witnesses his parents die in front of a masked man wielding a gun in his hand. He becomes an orphan and lives with a foster family, which fortunately treats him as their own child. Hina, Aoi’s step-sister, grows up and takes a liking to Aoi. However, something terrible happens. After twelve years, portals have emerged once again and granted most people powers beyond their imaginations. And Aoi is one of them. He receives a system and a sniper as his primary weapon. But after everything he has been through, Aoi struggles to use his sniper and system. So when a portal materialises in their school, Aoi has no choice but to fend off the monsters inside the portal and hunt down the masked man who killed his parents twelve years ago.

Five years of being married to Archer's daughter,it was all full of humiliation and was despised by even his wife. Taking on the blame for an aided suicide Harry went to jail just to get his in-law's approval of being worthy enough for their daughter. Weeks passed and what did he get? Betrayal and Divorce papers in his cell room. But now he is out,thanks to the birthmark tattoos at his back but the Archer's have only bitten the hand that pushed them to stardom and Harry doesn't wait; he is out to inflict his own karma on all those who wronged him.

"Useless, impoverished son-in-law!" "Get lost!" ... These were the harsh words that Elmo Brown constantly had to endure while living with the Lara's family. His wife's family looked down on him, her relatives belittled him, and even his wife who is an upcoming actress constantly berated him, going as far as betraying him and being with another man. She had no shame when Elmo confronted her with evidence of her infidelity, and they forced him to divorce her. Little did they know Elmo had inherited the mighty Brown family fortune and now possessed wealth and power. The wife's relatives who once scorned him would now be trampled beneath his feet, one by one! The family that humiliated him would now be forced to grovel at the soles of his shoes! His unfaithful wife sought out a wealthy and powerful man, so he would show her what true, absolute power was. With Elmo's appearance, everything else was merely a speck of sand in his journey of revenge and reclaiming all that was rightfully his.

Get ready to be dazzled by the story of Nathan - a once struggling individual who suddenly became an heir. Nathan's life was transformed overnight, as he entered the glamorous world of the rich and famous, leaving his humble beginnings behind. However, Nathan's past experiences of being bullied and cheated continue to haunt him. With his newfound power and wealth, he plans to seek justice and claim what's rightfully his from those who once treated him poorly.

Pavel Antonov, a delivery man leading a happy life with his beautiful girlfriend, Evane, is deeply shattered when he witnesses his girlfriend's infidelity. He experiences humiliation and eventually faints. Pavel wakes up with a mysterious message in his brain: "System activated." On a journey to comprehend the situation, he becomes entangled in an intrigue that unveils a dark secret, ultimately altering his life. He starts taking revenge and earning good money, he is no longer the poor man he once was!

Andrew Smith, a pro player in the virtual reality game curia online, a game that models a magical world called curia. Andrew Smith and several thousand other players fought the last boss the demon sovereign and lost. No one on earth knew exactly what happened, but those several other thousand players who died in the game, fighting the demon sovereign, never woke up from their virtual capsules. Azraf Skythunder, a young man from an ancient World called Valens, hailing from the Ancient Skythunder clan, an ancient clan that has a glorious history and an age-long mission of protecting all worlds was sent on a mission to prove himself a worthy man who is worth upholding his Ancestors mission. Andrew Smith's and Azraf Skythunder, faith, crossed paths when Andrew smith died in the virtual reality game and when Azraf Skyrhunder died on the mission after slaying the mighty lightning blue dragon. Their souls intertwined and Azraf Skythunder reincarnated into Andrew Smith's modern world. A world that was bizarre in his eyes, was filled with wonders to him but at the same time, a disaster lurked behind the curtains. he could not understand the reason why he was sent into this foreign world, his father had once told him that nothing in this world is a coincidence, so coupled with Andrew Smith's memories, he tries to find out his place and mission in this endangered world.

Scott, the son-in-law of the Campbell family, was notorious as a useless and impoverished man. After being kicked out of the house for a year, he returned to the city with an entirely different identity, revealing countless mysteries never before disclosed. Behind the facade of being useless and poor lay a story with secrets that shook the upper class, involving conflicts among the wealthiest families in the country. Now, he has returned from the peak, not only to open the eyes of those who once looked down on him but also to make his enemies tremble in regret!

At his Point of Death, Dave caught his wife cheating on him with his Best friend. The two shamelessly mocked Dave for being a Useless Cripple with no power. And to hide their shameless deeds, They killed Dave at the spot. [SYSTEM ACTIVATED: YOU'VE BEEN REBORN FOR REVENGE] Now the Once Crippled Dave, Ridiculed and Mocked by All, is Back. And better with a System. And this time, he swears to Make Them All Pay. "Let the Real Game begin" Dave smirked.

Mike Carson, a twenty-three-year-old man, and the proud owner of a gaming corporation. He launches the first ever VR game named, “Nexus Online”. He was an ordinary man, living a normal life until in a twist of fate he loses the people he loved. Sometime later, he was floating, watching his own funeral, and in the next moment, he was standing at the court of Lord Yama. Bored and in need of entertainment, Lord Yama gives him another life. Mike is now reborn in a new world, quite similar to the game he once created. Now, all he has to do is climb up the ladder of power and survive. Easy right?

A construction worker awakens to a blank slate—his memories erased. His world built with new people is simple—until he discovers his fiancee’s real face. She is crooked as they come, but the truth is more twisted than she realizes. Beneath the surface of the construction worker lies a hidden legacy, rolling with riches beyond the dreams of avarice. As the past returns piece by piece, great secrets unravel the game of wealth, power, and deception, and Denver must navigate a world he never knew existed. Who can he trust? Who can he love? In the end, will the truth set him free or shatter his heart once more? Who is Don Denver really? Whether he likes it or not, secrets simmer, and the truth awaits to be laid bare.