Tragédie

On our wedding day, she didn't say "I do." She toasted my health, slid a poisoned needle into my goblet, and watched me choke on my own blood. My last sight was her stepping over my body into the arms of the man who bought her. I thought that was the end. I was wrong. I woke up in the Valerian Empire as Cale von Valerius—a discarded, "crippled" Third Prince who everyone expects to die quietly in a corner. But at the Imperial Welcome Banquet, she walked through the doors. Same face. Same voice. Same cruel beauty. Now, she’s Lady Evelyn, the newly betrothed bride of my ruthless older brother, the Crown Prince. She doesn't remember the blood on her hands or the altar where I died. She thinks I’m just a harmless, coughing prince with one foot in the grave. Let her think that. I’ll let her walk down the aisle again—right into the trap I’m building underneath her feet.

Synopsis — Blood of the Synopsis — Blood of the Dragon When Kael survives an execution meant to erase him, he discovers the truth written in his veins: he carries the blood of a dragon long thought extinct. In a world where dragons were once worshipped as gods—and later hunted into legend—such blood is a death sentence. Hunted by the fanatical Order of the Severed Flame, Kael is forced into the depths of a cursed forest where his awakening draws the attention of an ancient dragon spirit bound to his soul. As scales form beneath his skin and fire answers his rage, Kael learns that his power is not a curse, but an inheritance born of betrayal, war, and forgotten gods. Torn between preserving his humanity and embracing the monster the world fears, Kael must choose whether to suppress the dragon within and die as a man—or unleash it and reshape the world in flame. As kingdoms burn and old powers stir, Blood of the Dragon is a dark fantasy tale of fate, identity, and the terrifying cost of becoming legend. Blood of the Dragon is a dark fantasy tale of fate, identity, and the terrifying cost of becoming legend.

**100 days. That's all humanity has left.** Arjun Mehta was the last man standing when the apocalypse consumed Earth. After watching his family, friends, and billions of others die, he made one final sacrifice to protect the last human shelter. But instead of dying... He wakes up exactly **100 days before the apocalypse begins.** A mysterious blue screen appears before his eyes. **[Survival System Activated.]** This time, Arjun knows when every disaster will strike, where the first monsters will appear, and who will betray humanity. With every completed mission, the System grants him powerful skills, rare equipment, and the chance to evolve beyond human limits. As the countdown to the end of the world begins, Arjun must race against time to grow stronger, build the safest fortress, save those worth trusting, and uncover the terrifying truth behind the System itself. Because the apocalypse isn't the real enemy. **Something far more powerful is waiting for humanity to survive... or become its next prey.** **100 days remain.** **The countdown has already begun.** ---

Five years ago, Ron Donaldo was a brilliant but naive aerospace engineer, framed for corporate espionage and the murder of his mentor—a crime orchestrated by the love of his life, Theresa Sterling, to seize his patents. Sentenced to "The Pit," a prison notorious for housing the world’s most dangerous warlords, mercenaries, and hackers, Ron was expected to die within a week. He didn’t. Five years later, Ron is released. He appears broken, wearing an ill-fitting gray suit and carrying a duffel bag of junk. On the prison steps, Theresa’s new husband greets him not with an apology, but with a severance check and a restraining order. They think they’ve discarded a broken man. They are wrong. Inside The Pit, Ron didn’t rot; he ruled. He saved the lives of disgraced generals, financial geniuses, and master assassins, earning their eternal loyalty. He is no longer Ron the Engineer. He is "The Apex"—the silent broker of the global underworld. Now, he’s out, and he doesn’t want his company back. He wants to burn their empire to the ground, one share at a time.

I died as the Nine Realms’ strongest Sovereign. Or so they thought. I woke up 5 years ago in a broken body — no memories, no cultivation, no name. The Carter family took me in as their live-in son-in-law, a dog they kicked for three years straight. The day my cheating wife threw divorce papers at me, I signed without looking back. At the crossroads, a girl in white was waiting. She called me “Your Majesty”... and returned something I’d buried: a shattered soul bead. With it came whispers. Fragments of a past life. And a truth: my death wasn’t an accident. It was betrayal. Now I have no power, but I have time. Nine soul fragments scattered across the realms. Nine betrayers who took my throne. Nine steps from trash son-in-law to the man who rewrites the heavens. They think I’m crippled. They think I’m done. Let them laugh. Every slap, every insult, every “worthless”... it’s all fuel. Because when the last fragment awakens, the Sovereign returns. And this time, I won’t die alone.

"Give your mask to Mike. He's important. You're just a firefighter." Derek removed his mask. Carried them both down three floors. A beam crushed his leg. His wife walked away without looking back. He limped home. Found Mike in his pajamas. Erin cooking steaks she never once made for him. "Do you love me?" "You gave me credibility. I gave you a life you couldn't afford. A fair exchange." She slapped him when he asked for divorce. Not because she loved him. Because his timing ruined her keynote speech. A wildfire swallowed an entire county. Derek walked into the deadliest sector. Nobody expected him to survive. Erin ordered sushi with Mike. But Derek didn't die. He pulled a stranger from a burning house and shielded him with his own body. That stranger was Jerry Black. The DNA test confirmed the impossible. The firefighter she left to die was the missing heir to a quadrillion-dollar empire.

When a high-tier mercenary squad leaves Logan Stone for dead inside a dangerous rift zone, they expect him to die quietly. Instead, the betrayal triggers something dormant in his blood. Left surrounded by ruthless beasts, Logan discovers a unique survival ability: every monster he slays and every lethal attack he survives grants him a fraction of his enemy’s physical strength and combat skill. Equipped with nothing but raw instinct, a heavy blade, and growing power, Logan fights his way out of the dead zone. He returns to the lawless outer sectors of the city with a single goal: to hunt down the apex beasts of the rifts and make the corrupt elite guilds pay for what they did. Operating as an unranked solo mercenary, Logan takes on the most hazardous contracts on the market. With every fight, his strength grows, turning him into a force that rival kill squads cannot stop. As the ruling factions realize a rogue hunter is dismantling their control block by block, Logan prepares to challenge the entire city hierarchy and claim his place at the top.

“Make a wish,child,or you die!” Laquan squinted his eyes in confusion. The old man’s words and attitude clearly took him off guard. “Uh... Excuse me?” he scoffed. The old man is either a con artist or he himself is hungry and is definitely hearing things “Don't you wanna get rich son?” Quan's brows shot up at the word ‘rich’ His mind drifted to how he's been humiliated in the past and,he unconsciously fisted his fingers. “I want to be powerful.” He breathed out, one could see and hear the desperation in his eyes and voice. “It's a done deal then. I'll change your fate for you. However...”The man paused, then continue the moment he knew he's got the young lad's attention. “know that you only have twenty years to spend on Earth!” Quan’s jaw dropped. “What?! Hey! I don't wanna make a wish any–” The old man smirked. “It's too late,child. A wish cannot be reversed.”

[Warning: This novel contains English and Nigerian Pidgin dialogue. Strictly Rated 18+.] Death wasn't the end for Chris. After a fatal accident in Port Harcourt, a fearless, street-smart Nigerian hustler opens his eyes in an entirely different world—inside the broken body of a dark-skinned orphan named Li Yan, a boy framed by his own Sect and left to die in the dreaded Void Mountain after surviving weeks across the merciless Red Sand Desert. In the brutal cultivation world of Tianhuang, strength is everything. The weak are trampled. The talented rule. The heavens favor only geniuses. Chris is none of those. He possesses no powerful bloodline, no influential family, no legendary master, and no natural cultivation talent. But the heavens made one mistake... They gave a Nigerian the Supreme Hustle African System. Fueled by Naija resilience, relentless hustle, crazy battle instincts, and a mouth that never knows when to stay quiet, Chris begins clawing his way from the very bottom. Every battle makes him stronger. Every setback becomes fuel. Every enemy is another stepping stone.

Two years ago, the trillion dollar king of the Sterling Financial Empire vanished after a brutal assassination attempt on a mountain road, left to die by his unfaithful wife and treacherous family. He woke up with zero memories in the muddy gutters of the city slums, taken in by a kindly diner owner and his beautiful daughter Clara, who named him Marcus. For twenty four months, he lived as a quiet kitchen beggar, chopping onions and washing dirty plates. But when a ruthless loan shark and a corrupt young master slide into the slums to destroy his new home and force Clara into a dark fate, a brutal pipe strike to his head shatters the mental wall. The amnesiac beggar is dead. Christian Sterling has awakened. Armed with a single text message that can freeze entire national banking sectors in two minutes, and backed by a fiercely loyal elite security shadow team, the ultimate master begins his terrifying cold blooded comeback. They thought he was a bug under their shoes, but they are about to learn the true price of crossing a hidden god.