Truth Be Told Mathew West

She thought she was divorcing a ruined man. He walked out of prison as a five-star general. Selene Carter believed her husband, Fowler Reddington, was nothing but a stain on her life, a convict destroying her career and reputation. She cut him loose, blind to the storm waiting in his silence. For Fowler, the divorce was a blade to the heart. But chains had bound him to a secret mission he could never reveal. When freedom finally came, so did betrayal, enemies, and a chance to rise from the ashes. In a city where power is blood and loyalty is war, Selene must face the truth: the man she abandoned is not only the one she needs most… but the only one she has ever truly loved.

Euphemia, the youngest daughter from Altair's Clan was caught in a tragedy, as their old house was turn into hellish pit of fire. After the incident she was shortly taken by the Chasseur to become a soldier of the great empire.  Many years passed, the young lady graduated from the Chasseur's school and descended to the surface. She was partnered with Sekki to do some job to the surface such as bounties and requests related to the Schatten, after awhile, she run into Haoxi, her childhood friend who was accomplices with the people who were against with the Empire. Euphemia was determined to stop him by formally joining the Empire force to track him down, and the longer she stayed on the same trail as these people, the closer she got to the truth she was looking for regarding Sabrie's tragedy.

🏆[No.2 "Hard to Put Down" of "The Legendary Urban Man" Contest]🏆 Anthony Star has a dark secret that no one should ever find out, especially his in-laws.Everyday he’s treated worse than an infection by those around him but thanks to his wife he manages. She is his light in this cruel world but in a single day he’s shot, beaten, arrested, almost dies then finds out that his wife is missing!To save her, he returns to his past as a big-shot in the underground crime world and takes his revenge on anyone who has ever wronged him before. Welcome back Mr. Star Dust and if that wasn’t enough, he finds out the truth of who he really is. He is….

In the opulent city of Greystone, where wealth and power create a stark social hierarchy between the elites and the struggling lower classes, Jason, a live-in son-in-law and common deliveryman, finds his life shattered when assassins are sent to kill him. Just as he dies, an interdimensional god disguised as a system syncs with him, granting him the ability to harness any talent—but at a cost. Resurrected, Jason uncovers the truth behind his assassination: his elite in-laws' involvement, a mob boss's vendetta—and more. Armed with the system’s power and a new appearance, he embarks on a quest for both wealth and vengeance. How far will he go to achieve his goals, and will the system’s costs ultimately consume him before he reaches his aim? Read “God Complex”

Nickel... It isn't a metallic element, but an unbearably dependent twenty-year-old boy living in the highest Nabe of the New World System, 400. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, it had become in his nature to care less about life, thinking obstacles would never be seen coming. He lived his life the way he thought would make it worth it... until it ended when his father, the co-owner of the System, was assassinated during his speech for the 60th anniversary of the New World System. Life churned; he found himself in the dumpster, running for his life as he holds the biggest wealth in the System. Danger, betrayal, and tragic truth unveiled. Entering the real race of his life, will Nickel be able to go through it all? Will he be facing it all alone?

In a world where humanity teeters on the edge of extinction, survival is no longer guaranteed—it is earned. Jake never asked to be reborn. Thrust into a vast, war-torn world where alien races, demonic beasts, and dungeon-born horrors dominate most of the land, he quickly learns one brutal truth: power is everything. Those who awaken rise above the rest as elite mech pilots and super soldiers. Those who don’t are left behind… or forgotten. Born into the lowest-ranked Region F—a place mocked as the “Region of Bad Luck”—Jake stands at the very bottom of a merciless hierarchy. Orphaned by a Kaiju attack and surviving on borrowed time, his future hangs on a single moment: the Awakening. With no talent, no backing, and no guarantee of survival, Jake must defy the odds in a system rigged against him..

Tony Cross, a broken ex-soldier, wakes up to a system interface flashing before his eyes: [ System Activated ] [ Reality is now under your control. ] What starts as a gift quickly turns into a curse. Every use of the system rewrites his past, altering memories and erasing parts of his existence. Hunted by black ops forces and a shadowy organization known as The Overseers, Tony discovers the system was never meant to empower—only to control. To survive, he must outmaneuver Zero, a ruthless assassin who has mastered the system, and find Dr. Valeria Kane, the rogue scientist who knows its secrets. But as reality fractures around him, Tony faces an impossible truth: He is no longer just a man. He is becoming something else.

They burned his legacy. But some ghosts refuse to stay dead. Adrian Knight was born to inherit the empire that ruled everything business, influence, and power. The Knight family name opened doors, but behind those doors lay betrayal, greed, and a truth too dark to survive the light. When a scandal framed him for crimes he didn’t commit, his world shattered overnight. The family he trusted turned on him. The woman he loved watched his empire fall. And in one violent night, Adrian Knight disappeared leaving behind a world that believed he was gone forever. Years later, a man called Adrian Cole emerges from the ashes. He’s not the golden heir they once knew. He’s colder now, smarter, dangerous a man carved by silence and vengeance. To the world, he is a self-made billionaire with no past. But to those who wronged him, he is the storm they never saw coming. His return shakes the foundations of the empire that betrayed him. But when he crosses paths with Elena, the woman he once loved now bound to his greatest enemy, Victor Knight old wounds begin to bleed again. The fire of revenge he’s carried for years threatens to consume him from the inside. Love and hate blur until he can no longer tell them apart. Adrian came back to destroy his past, not to relive it. Yet every step he takes brings him closer to the man he swore he buried. Every truth he uncovers forces him to question what kind of monster he’s become in the name of justice. Will he reclaim what was stolen from him, or lose himself to the darkness he’s been chasing? When the forgotten son returns, will vengeance set him free or finally destroy him?

Dylan Grenville, once the head of the world’s most powerful alliance, gave up his empire to protect his wife, Jane, and their daughter, Molly. Hiding his true identity, he chose a quiet life, only to be ridiculed by Jane and everyone around him for being a "nobody." Labeled a failure, Dylan faces constant scorn as Jane basks in the success he secretly ensured for her. But when their marriage collapses and Dylan decides to step away, the truth begins to surface—revealing the man everyone underestimated as the mastermind behind the city's most influential forces. Now, Dylan is ready to reclaim his power, and those who belittled him will come to realize they were mocking the wrong man.

The world became a robotic, emotionless, problem-free existence achieved through memory-wiping technology that erased fear, betrayal, sadness, love, sweet and all bitter experiences, installing a programmed, smooth, and peaceful memory under Arthur Huxley's rule. Everything goes smoothly until Wyatt Calloway emerges as the knife to break Huxley's rule, uncovering the cruel and unforgivable truth behind the memory-wiping technology revealed by his future version. He reveals his past traumatic, shattered, and regretful life, making him the most dangerous weapon against the Illusion of peace. "The Rewritten Memory" is a story based on a systematic sci-fi life. It explores how people live without their past emotions, regrets, and examines the impact of technology on society.