Village Hidden In The Rain

🏆 ["Sliver Medal" in Urban Category of "Meganovel Annual Writing Contest 2022"] 🏆 "Who are you? I'm not sure I've seen you around... not in any of the meeting of the company." Alves wanted to tell Manuel as much as he could. About how he has been deprived of every right in the house. About how he was made to live like a dog and barely noticed. Often talked down. But Madam laughed out loud, "Oh, he's Alves, our gate man's son!" |---------------------| Yes! The gateman was treated better than him. He was treated like a riff-raff and eventually thrown out in the rain, on the same day his grandpa died; the man who had been his only hope. But that can't be all. Fate has a tricky card... And when the card is tossed, no one will be able to look him in the eyes, not even the deitified madam!

Title: The Secret Billionaire Son-in-law Synopsis: For three agonizing years, Ethan Vance lived as a broke, humiliated nobody. To fulfill a strict family trial, he hid his true identity and married into the mid-level Collins family, enduring their relentless cruelty. To his mother-in-law, he was an embarrassing servant. To his wife's arrogant cousin, he was a footstool to be stepped on. Even his wife, Chloe, looked at him with growing shame and coldness. The breaking point comes at the grand Collins Family Gala, where Ethan is publicly humiliated, thrown out into the rain, and handed divorce papers so Chloe can pursue a mysterious, ultra-wealthy tycoon coming to town. But as the clock strikes midnight, Ethan’s three-year trial officially ends. A fleet of luxury Rolls-Royces pulls up, and the city’s most powerful elites bow before him. The mysterious tycoon the Collins family is desperately begging to meet? It’s him. The global conglomerate that controls their entire family's financial lifeline? He owns it. When Ethan steps back into the gala dressed in bespoke luxury, the laughter dies, and the face-slapping begins. Those who trampled on him will now have to beg for his mercy. But the game has just begun, and the secret heir is ready to claim his empire.

Mercy is a luxury when currency of survival is lifespan. Crackle . . . hiss . . . boom . . . rain falls on corpses. The storey opens on the mountain of the dead - the last battlefield of the human race. Li Wei, who is a broken man under the curse of accelerated ageing, stands among the ruins of the Ancient God. His shaking hands hold a divine artefact - The Eye of Judgement. His body decays. His breath comes out in broken gasps - huff, cough, splat. And then… betrayal. The only family he's ever had - his sister, Li Xue - looks coldly on as she drives the dagger deeper into his chest. Thud… hiss… crackle… She calls him "nothing but an adopted mistake." A man named Yang Xun, brilliantly like an idol of deceit, thanks him mockingly. That's when Li Wei realises - the world doesn't reward love. It rewards survival. When he dies, something ancient is roused inside The Eye of Judgement. And when he opens his eyes again - it's 2025, the day the god forsaken game, LYTABern, descends upon Earth.

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?

James Thomas is the live-in-son-in-law of the Leonard Parker family, and they all humiliate him without knowing his true identity, which he had hidden from them. And he vowed to bring all those who humiliated him to their feet, and it happened! Read on to see how they all regretted finding out his true identity...

After months on business abroad, Alex suddenly gets rejected when he returns home. His wife just gives a letter stating she has been officially declared a widow. To add salt to his wounded pride, he is also denied to meet his beloved daughter due to the accusations of obscenity against him. Until he realizes that everything is just a setup only to kick him out. The family that he had previously saved from the sinkhole of debts, is now kicking him out so cruelly like a street dog. Will he choose silence? Or, will he pay them back, reclaim his rights over the daughter, and get back his dignity as a respectable man.

Centuries have passed since the monstrous wars of magicians died down, and half of the continent turned into an ash-covered wasteland unsuitable for life. Once magnificent cities now lie in ruins inhabited by dark creatures so dangerous that they had to build a Border Wall in order to protect civilians from a deadly threat. This is how the Wild Lands appeared... A small detachment led by Baron Koris Van Yser was exiled to a permanent settlement in the Wild Lands, which, in fact, is only a reprieve of the death penalty - the collapsing Empire, ruled by the hand of an aging king, gets rid of the objectionable. The settlers have one goal - to survive at any cost, against everything and everyone. He survived and recovered from his mortal wounds, only to learn that his past deeds had doomed a hundred people to certain death in the Savage Lands.

Shortly before the field trip to Drada, Jimmy is dumped by his girlfriend, Anna Campbell, who feels embarrassed for having such a poor boyfriend as him. The girl even openly flirts with Dwayne, the boy who often bullies Jimmy at school. Worse yet, Jimmy witnesses them commit lewd acts on the bus, on the way home from Drada, which then leads to disaster. The bus falls into a ravine, and Jimmy, in a dire situation with a broken spine and leg, accidentally accesses a strange system which transports him to a realm called Icalaterra. This system allows one to collect money quickly through several hunting quests. Since then, there has been no bullying, insults, and mockeries, without any consequences.

Henry Austin was disregarded by society. He was left with nothing but his girlfriend when she cheated on him with his best friend. Heart broken by the situation he got into an accident only to wake up with a "Wealth System" He was given only one task, which was to spend a million dollars everyday otherwise the system would vanish. "Let's make everyone regret now!"

Being betrayed and humiliated by his girlfriend right in front of hundreds of students, Norman had to accept the fact of being the most embarrassing man at Dorhaven University. They laughed at him, insulted him, and looked down on him. And, as Norman fell into indescribable rage and despair, a blue hologram that gave great hope emerged from his vision. [Congratulations, Host. You are currently connected to the Destiny Changer System! Your terrible fate will soon turn wonderful!] Can Norman really change his destiny with this? Will Norman be able to take revenge for all the insults they have given him? I own the copyright to the cover.