When Beauty Meets Beast

When Victor Lazarus, the world's most powerful art broker, dies suddenly, the international art scene holds its breath. For decades, Lazarus built an empire not by owning the world's rarest masterpieces, but by exhibiting them—Monet, Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Da Vinci, Hokusai, and more. These works, entrusted to him by the world's wealthiest collectors, turned his gallery into their stage: where masterpieces drew crowds, prestige, and profit, until the moment the owners chose to sell. Now, with Lazarus gone, the curtain is rising on the greatest auction of the century. Twelve priceless works, each carrying centuries of history, are set to leave his gallery forever. For the elite, it is a chance to claim cultural immortality. For the press, it is a spectacle without equal. For one crew of six, it is something else entirely. They see more than paintings under glass. They see a once-in-a-lifetime fortune, one last performance of Lazarus's legacy, only rewritten in their favor. With few months to prepare, outthink security systems, staff rotations, and every eye that will be watching. Few months to pull off a heist that would shatter records and rewrite history. But art has a way of ensnaring those who covet it. In the chase for fortune, the question is not only whether the heist can succeed, but whether Lazarus's legacy will be honored, betrayed, or reborn in the shadows. The Lazarus Job is a razor-sharp thriller of art, ambition, power, and the dangerous game played where beauty and power collide.

Have you ever experienced the crushing weight of humiliation so heavy that it makes you contemplate taking your own life? If you haven't, count yourself lucky, because it's not a feeling anyone would want to experience, let alone brag about. Meet Kelvin, a college student whose financial struggles are no secret. Despite feeling like the world is against him, he finds solace in his girlfriend Vanessa, or at least he did until her birthday party. When he arrived with nothing to offer but his love, she not only broke up with him but also subjected him to public ridicule. The pain of such a betrayal and public humiliation can leave a lasting impact on one's mental health and self-worth. He had grown accustomed to enduring the constant harassment from her and others, but today it reached a new level of cruelty. As he ran home, tears streaming down his face, he was so consumed by his emotions that he didn't see the curb ahead. He tripped and fell, hitting his head hard on the pavement. When he finally regained consciousness, he heard a faint voice calling out to him. ** ** ** "Host detected!!! Beauties picking system activated in 1%..." a computerized voice said out of the blues. "Who's there?" Kevin asked. "10%...89%...100%... system uploaded." It continued. It took a moment and he realized it was coming from his head. Kevin was scared that he was going mad. "Who are you? What are you?" he demanded, holding his head in his hands but then suddenly it spoke again. "Now find a beauty and make her fall in love with you in 72 hours," it said.

The Heavenly emperor is put in panic when demonic evil begins surfacing to the three realms, threatening to bring back the Demon sect he had wiped out thousands of years ago. And all these because of a young man called Asura. A mysterious mortal, Asura is ambitiously bent on destroying the heavens in revenge for wiping out his family and making his life miserable! And to do this, he must cultivate, even when his spiritual core is blocked and he, Cursed to never cultivate! Asura's ambition for power and revenge leads him into the extinct demon path. He recreates his method of the abolished demon cultivation, shaking the foundation of the universe, and making all tremble at the mention of his name. He meets the mysterious high-level cultivator, Kai, who might have some relations with the heavens and demons, all good and evil. The road ahead is muddy and the schemes are devilish. A step ahead would alert the enemies and a journey through lands and lifetimes is what it takes to solve the puzzle and Uncover Hidden truths of This so called good and Evil in the three Realms! What is good? What is evil? what is white, what is black? what is day? and what is night? If no one has no answer, Let Asura speak.

For ten years, Harrison lived as a tactical analyst, desperately guiding humanity through ninety nine separate timelines to stop the apocalypse. He has tried everything fighting as a frontline warrior, playing the politician, and leading as a commander only to watch the world get utterly erased by a colossal, crystalline world boss known simply as The End. Every single loop concluded the same way: with the total destruction of Montana City and Harrison being violently reeled back to the beginning. But as the final defense line collapses in his ninety ninth life, something changes. His generic, low tier system glitches violently and undergoes a massive overhaul, sending him back five years into the past for his 100th loop and his absolute final attempt. The safety net is gone; if he dies now, there are no more regression. This time, Harrison doesn't awaken with his useless basic stats. Instead, he unlocks a broken, rule bending EX-Rank talent: The Casualty Counter. With golden holographic screens overlaid on his retinas, Harrison can now see the exact time, cause, and probability of death for any living soul around him. ​When the countdown timer blinks a bloody scarlet above Aella Vance a girl destined to become one of humanity's greatest A-Rank defenders Harrison realizes a localized supernatural beast outbreak is about to strike a crowded sector mall in just fourteen minutes. Arming himself only with a hundred lifetimes of tactical data and a system that rewards him with a target's latent power for changing fate, Harrison steps into the crowd. ​The clock is ticking. The world ends in 365 days. To survive the final loop and save Montana City, Harrison must grind, exploit the system, and rewrite the threads of mortality one casualty at a time.

Additional Tags: #Romance, #Evolution, #Antihero Power in Aethelgard does not come from prayer. It comes from Divine Marks, fragments of Authority carved into existence itself. A single Mark can lift a mortal beyond the limits of flesh. With enough Marks, a being may evolve into a Saint, a Demigod, an Angel, or even a True God. But every Divine Mark has a sequence, a stage, and a burden. Ilyan Morveth was killed for one. His heart was pierced in an abandoned ruin. His killer left him there, waiting for the Divine Mark inside his body to appear. It never did. Before the Mark could manifest, an ancient soul drifted into the corpse. Then the dead man opened his eyes. Now Ilyan wakes with a closed wound over his heart, broken memories that do not belong to him, and a power he does not understand. His first day alive only gets worse. A Beast attacks him in the ruin. A mysterious Divine Mark rises from its corpse. And when Ilyan reaches Blackstone, the city gate already has his name written in the death ledger. According to the records, Ilyan Morveth died before dawn. To survive, he must play the role of a dead man whose life he barely remembers while hiding the impossible power awakening inside him. Because Miracle is not luck. It is not fate. It is the quiet violation of reality itself. A falling stone at the right moment. A wound that should not heal. A question asked one breath too late. A coincidence too perfect to be coincidence. But miracles attract attention. Ilyan is not a chosen hero. He is a survivor wearing a stolen life. And if the world insists that Ilyan Morveth should have stayed dead, then his first miracle will be proving it wrong.

In a life marred by profound loss, Nathan White meets an untimely and horrific demise, only to be reborn as Alan Hermolith in a realm where magic thrives. Gifted with a mysterious system in this new world, he starts as the weakest Mage. Through the system’s guidance, Alan’s power grows boundlessly, setting him on a path to become the most formidable Mage ever known.

A sane man hides in a psych ward, meets the love of his life, and marries her to protect a secret — then abandons her on their wedding night. Six years later he returns as a decorated commander. Now he will burn the city to the ground to restore her name. Crush the gangs. Humble the powerful. Kill anyone who dares shame the mother of his child.

Mason Gray, a poor student of a rich university is constantly mocked by all because of the woman he loves but one day when he chose to die after going through what was the most worst moment of his life, luck shined upon him as he inherits a treasure that changes his entire life making him the most powerful man in the world. Then and there he vowed that he will never let anyone work over him without making them pay, however, there are other powerful individuals who wants his treasure and his destined wife. A wife in which together they will become more powerful, however, Will Mason Gray be able to get his wife attention as a poor man in disguise and fight his enemies in the shadows?

A scattered life, between darkness and light, angels and demons, magic was the most powerful weapon in the hand of heartless wizards, the only survivor must kill all the others with ruthless. But even the war had finished, there is always the little fire that will one day reappear and burn again and again. From RASEN the land in the Indian Ocean and the power of RESRAST to the magical forest, the Age Stone was created for the first time, the stone of the immortal power, and the many wars between strong wizards to have the special power and ascend the throne of the magical world but as they said if you want the throne there will be a lot of blood. Until one day the terrible mistake happened by using the dangerous spell and many wizards become alive again, and a lot of new weapons “THE FORBIDDEN BOOK and THE BEJEWELD CREST“ to let us see the trip of many wizards to go “THE ISLAND OF SPIRITS” and save the world of magic from being doomed in darkness forever.

🏆[No.2 "Outstanding An Story" of "The Ultimate Fantasy" Contest]🏆 Two hundred years ago every person on planet Mirmid heard a voice in their head '' Planet has reached the initial requirement for evaluation awaking mana for evaluation'' And from that day onwards life of every living being on planet Mirmid changed completely. A status window appeared in front of every person who was at least 15 years old on the status window they can see their strength, skill, mana and everything related to them. Dungeons started to appear all around the planet, animals started to evolve into magic beasts. Humans can also grow with the help of mana, they can enter dungeons and can kill the magic beast to level up and gain new skills and power that can make them extremely powerful. In this world Ethan a fifteen year old boy is starting his journey of evaluation where he has to face many challenges. Will he be able to overcome every challenge and become the strongest or he will just perish before reaching the top? Join Ethan in his adventure to know about it