Stand-in

Leo thought his biggest problem was paying the rent for his small apartment and keeping his older sister, Chloe, happy. But one rainy night, a scary man in a black suit walks right through Leo's locked front door and tells him he owes three months of rent in magic. Suddenly, Leo is pulled into a hidden city full of ghosts, monsters, and magical rules. Even worse? Chloe is hiding a massive secret that could bring the whole world crashing down. To save her, Leo has to step into the dark and figure out who to trust before time runs out.

“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.

When Damien William woke up in that hospital eight years ago with no memories, a kind woman named Sophia helped him recover. Grateful and lost, he married into her family, the Vaughns, and became their live-in son-in-law. For seven years, they treated him like garbage, a brain-damaged charity case who should be grateful for the scraps from their table. One month ago, Damien's memories returned in full. He remembered that he's the true heir to the William Empire, a trillion-dollar dynasty that controls half the world's economy. He also remembered that the accident that caused his memory loss wasn't an accident, but a perfectly staged incident orchestrated by his cousin, Raymond, and Sophia's uncle was the inside man who helped them. But Damien didn't reveal himself immediately. He continued playing the humiliated son-in-law, while planning his revenge on everyone who had wronged him.

A group of adventurous students take a cross-country holiday. Each of them, with different reasons and agenda for taking the trip. But then, they find themselves stranded on a lonely road in the middle of the night. They are faced with two options, either they move forward to a village with lots of secrets and weird history that they had been warned about, or they remain in the middle of the road, exposed to any danger of the night. They choose the first option and mistakenly free a dangerous mystical creature that has been bound for over a century under the grounds of the village. Is the creature somehow connected to the eerieness of this village? Is it just fate that the one who released the creature is the grandson of the man that chained it? Will they survive the horrors of the village and the carnage of the ruthless creature?

They call me Julian Mercer and I keep my head down because I learned the hard way that a name can be a target. I answered an ad for a rental and signed a paper I promised myself I’d never sign: a marriage contract. The job was simple — be the son-in-law for thirty days, take the money, be gone. The family needs a “son” to secure a heritage grant and I need the cash to buy a clean slate. What I didn’t plan for was the way Lila Ardmore looked at me like she already knew what I was hiding. Another thing I didn’t plan for was the ledger in an old piano and the way a neighbor called my mother’s name, and the knot in my gut that felt like an alarm the night someone tried to burn the past into ash. I came to act. I stayed to fix what I broke, and the longer I stayed the more I realized the man I was taught to be will not survive who I have to become. If you want my story, read it from where the dark starts.

The origin of greed and the starter of war -money. The most important thing needed to cultivate -Money! Han Yichen an ordinary transmigrator in the world of cultivation filled with dangerous beings where one could die without strong backing or strength. Ding! This ordinary transmigrator was destined to be the richest cultivator... And maybe, just maybe, the strongest too.

After three years of the first wave of the apocalypse, and years of bleeding for a woman who he thought he loved, she betrayed him. After his mother and his sister died to save her, she stabbed him in the back for another man, because she thought he was worthless. "This is Rufus, my personal loyal dog. I prefer sly mutt, by the way!" She said it with a smile on their wedding day, then fed him to the zombies. But Rufus didn't die instead and thanks to her betrayal, he awakened. Now the dead take orders from the man who was supposed to be their meal, and the monsters who betrayed were about to learn that they tossed off the most powerful man in the Apocalypse.

For three years, Lex Andrews endured it all: the insults, the beatings, the humiliation of being the useless son in law everyone despised. His wife’s family treated him like dirt. Her relatives spat on him. Business rivals laughed at his silence. They thought he was nothing. They were wrong. When his supposedly dead father resurfaces with a revenge plan, Lex discovers his suffering was no accident. Everyone played him. His father. His wife. His enemies. They all needed him broken, desperate, and exactly where he was. Now Lex must decide: become the weapon they forged, or destroy them all and forge his own path.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Bara Adhitama is twenty-five years old, and the world has a nickname for him that nobody says out loud but everyone means: sial. Cursed. Broken. Wrong. He hauls boxes in a grocery store that pays him less than the interns, gets blamed for things he never touched, and goes home every night to the only person who has never once looked at him like he was a mistake his mother, who scrubs other people's laundry until her knuckles crack so he never has to feel like a burden, even though he already does. Then, on the worst night of his life fired, humiliated, thrown out with nothing he finds a green bottle drifting in the river. Inside it isn't a wish. It's a warning, a stowaway, and the first thing in twenty-five years that has ever chosen him. His luck is about to flip inside out. So is everything he thought he knew about being unwanted.

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!