Single Mother

Discarded and left to die in the gutters, Tawanda spent twenty years fueled by nothing but cold rage and the memory of his mother’s suffering. When a hidden clause in his late father’s will grants him absolute control over the Mthembu International empire, the street hardened survivor becomes the king of a world that once spat on him. Alongside Zanele, a sharp, tongued journalist with a vault of family secrets, Tawanda launches a ruthless campaign to dismantle the Mthembu legacy piece by piece. But as the line between justice and cruelty blurs, he must face the ultimate question: can he seize the throne without becoming the same monster he swore to destroy?

Ray Parker had nothing. No money. No options. Just a dying mother a lovely sister and a government experiment that promised to save her. It destroyed everything instead. Now the city is overrun. The dead are walking. And the man who built this nightmare is still alive, still in control, and coming for everything Ray has left. But Ray came back from the dead with something nobody expected. And this time he remembers everything. One man. One city. One chance to burn it all down before it burns him first. The apocalypse made a mistake the day it chose Ray Parker. It should have made sure he stayed dead.

[No.2 "An Intrigue Read" Novel In "Leap To The Top" contest] Lucas Baron grew up very poor and had to fend himself. One day he fought with a big shot and ended up going to jail. Whoever knew that it would turn out to be a blessing in disguise because his birth mother located him and revealed to him that he was the son of the richest man in the country. Lucas was happy to have found his real parents who happen to be rich but when he approached them, they insulted him and rejected him. Since then, Lucas decided that they would pay the price of leaving him when he was young and rejecting him now

Renggin Ang, a foolish boy with hidden talents, is often referred to as the trash of the Ang Family. This is because Seta Hun (Renggin Ang's father) hides his identity as trash. However, it turns out that he is a descendant of the world's strongest legend, Duata Hun. One day, a tragedy occurs. Seta Hun's identity is revealed, attracting the attention of the masters from Yu Continent. These masters hunt Seta Hun, carrying a mysterious book with the word N-O-V-E-L written on its cover. During the chaos, Renggin Ang and his sister, Ampy Ang, witness an epic battle between their parents and the masters. Their parents are trapped in a soul-sealing formation. Taking advantage of the situation, Meriy Ang (Renggin Ang's mother) manages to push Seta Hun out of the formation. The mysterious book opens, floats, and absorbs Meriy Ang's soul into it. The book then falls right in front of Renggin Ang. The masters glare at the child with a strong murderous intent. Seta Hun orders Renggin Ang and his sister to flee with the book. To save his children, he sacrifices himself using a forbidden technique known as the body-destroying move. With this technique, he kills six masters and severely injures one. Seta Hun's body is destroyed, and the remaining master leaves with Meriy Ang's body. What will become of Renggin Ang and his sister after this event? Can Renggin Ang find his beloved mother's body and free her soul, which is sealed within the ancient book, so it can return to her body? #Fantasy #Comedy #Romance

Nathan Cole gave everything to his marriage. He turned down promotions. He emptied his savings. He woke up every morning and chose his family even when his family stopped choosing him back. For six years he told himself that love was a decision, not a feeling, and he kept making it long after Vivienne had quietly stopped. Then came the diagnosis. Progressive Myelin Decay Syndrome. Rare. Degenerative. Expensive to treat. And the optimal window for treatment had almost completely passed, because every time Nathan had tried to get Lily seen, Vivienne had told him he was overreacting. Lily was seven years old. She wanted one thing for her birthday. Not gifts. Not a party. Just her mother standing in the same room long enough to watch her blow out the candles. It should have been effortless. Instead Nathan watched his wife choose a man's son over her own daughter. Watched her dismiss a dying child's collapse as manipulation. Watched her drive away and leave them on the side of a road while Lily fought to breathe in his arms. He buried his daughter alone on a quiet morning while Vivienne celebrated someone else's birthday at home. ~.~ When a mother chooses the wrong child to save. And a father is left with nothing but a drawing and a promise he made while running. How do you rebuild a life from the wreckage of everything you gave away?

Vance was born to bleed. In the neon lit gutters of Veridian City, he survives by taking brutal beatings as a sparring partner for elite underground martial artists. He has zero power, no money, and a massive syndicate debt hanging over his head. When a rigged deathmatch goes wrong, Vance is tossed into a wet alley with a shattered spine and a punctured lung. As his vision fades and the cold rain washes his blood away, a cold mechanical voice echoes in his mind. System Initialized. Lethal Damage Detected. Activating Extraction Protocol. Vance does not just heal. He awakens with the terrifying ability to extract the stats, combat skills, and hidden memories of anyone he defeats. The weak, pathetic punching bag is gone forever. In his place stands a predator. His first target is the fight club boss who left him for dead. His next target is the entire corrupt underworld of Veridian City. They thought they buried a nobody. They actually unleashed a system bound monster. Now, every single enemy he crushes only makes him stronger, faster, and deadlier. The entire city will soon learn to fear his new name. He will consume all their stolen power without mercy.

They traded his life for a box of canned food, but fate gave him a second chance. When the global freeze hit, Lin Feng gave everything to protect his wife and her family. He hunted in frozen ruins, fought wild dogs, and starved so they could eat. In return, they poisoned his water and handed him over to a ruthless gang of scavengers for a single box of canned beef and a small jug of water. As Lin Feng froze to death in the snow, his heart burned with pure hatred. Then he opened his eyes. Lin Feng wakes up in his old room, exactly three months before the apocalypse begins. He remembers every betrayal, every lie, and every secret location where supplies were hidden. Even better, his rebirth awakens a unique spatial power, giving him an endless pocket dimension where time stands still. Refusing to play the fool again, Lin Feng cuts ties with his greedy in laws, liquidates his assets, and begins stockpiling millions of dollars worth of survival goods. When the world freezes and his former family comes begging at his door, they learn that the man they stepped on is now the sole master of their survival.

In a world where sorcerers, demons, and magic exists, lies six kingdoms, each with their own history, culture, and ruling familes, and all of whom are combined into one greater magical empire, THE SUPREMACY. The supremacy is an empire of the only six kingdoms in the world with natural born magic users, and has been ruled over by the Royalé family, the most powerful family of sorcerers in existence, for almost a thousand years. When a great calamity strikes, an unknown force wipes out the entire Royalé family in a single night. Lord Hector, king of Tremore, one of the six kingdoms of the supremacy, walks over the rubble and finds only one survivor, a new born daughter, the last living member of her family, and decides to raise the child as his own Valkori, his adopted daughter, grows quickly and more powerful each year, and all seems to be going well for King Hector, who had been appointed as the new Sovereign of the supremacy in light of the Royalé family's extinction, however a new threat arises when external forces begin to plot a rebellion for his throne, an extraction of princess Valkori, and King Hector must do everything he can to protect his empire, by any means necessary...

For ten long years, Ethan lived in the shadows as the outcast of the Sterling family. To Robert and Martha Sterling, he was nothing more than a tool, a disposable cog in the company’s dirty machinery, someone who could be cast aside at any moment to make way for the return of their beloved heir, Liam. When Ethan was thrown out into a stormy night without a single cent to his name, the Sterling family celebrated as if they had won a great victory. They had no idea that the young man they had so easily discarded was the sole owner of Apex Capital, the unseen god of the city’s economy, the one who controlled the very pulse of the world’s financial system. One by one, the fortress of the Sterling family’s wealth began to collapse from within. As Robert and Martha knelt on the marble floor of Apex Tower, tears of regret streaming down their faces, they finally realized a truth far more devastating, the monster destroying their empire was the very blood they had once so cruelly cast aside. But forgiveness was never part of Ethan’s vocabulary. When the secrets of the past came to light and the conspiracy of a global mafia syndicate was exposed, Ethan stood at the top of the pyramid, demanding retribution without mercy.

Zaqqy was just an ordinary security guard. He wasn't rich. He had no power. He had no one. Until that night... he chose to fight back. He fought his own master to save a woman from humiliation. That decision got him fired, slandered, and then thrown into the forest to die. But fate wasn't done with him yet. Under an ancient banyan tree, as his life hung in the balance, something ancient and forbidden revived him. The Brajamusti technique, a deadly striking technique, only chooses souls with courage and wounds. From that moment on, his hands were no longer merely human hands. A single strike could shatter bones. One burst of anger could destroy a life. But power always comes at a price. Hunted by cruel humans and invisible creatures, Zaqqy must learn to control the energy that could burn him from within. Around him, women with different destinies began to be drawn to that thunderous aura, love, jealousy, and betrayal intertwined. When his master's past is revealed and the dark prophecy about Brajamusti resounds once more, Zaqqy is faced with a choice: to become a protector... or to transform into a storm that destroys everything. Because when fate chooses you, there is no turning back.