you're still mine

"Come on, waiter," Tom taunted, his voice dripping with contempt. "You should lick it up while it's still cool," he added with a sly chuckle as his friends eagerly removed their phones to capture August’s humiliation for their amusement. August was devastated, the money he had been saving for the past eight months barely amounted to $180. How would he muster $800 to spare himself from this humiliating ordeal? Stooping that low to lick the liquor on the floor was an option he rather succumbed to death sooner than consider.  "Please, give me until tomorrow. I'll find a way to borrow the money and pay you back," August pleaded, desperation creeping into his voice. But Tom was not having it with him. “No waiter, everything starts and end today. If you are going to pay me the money then is going to be today and right now, or I will have to force you to lick up the liquor”. August's devastation intensified as he realized the gravity of the situation, this was not optional like Tom presented it the first time. His intentions were clear; he did not at all cared about the money all he wanted was to have August lick the floor for their amusement.

Theophilus Jake was originally a poor man, but he accidentally saved the life of Dulcie Miller’s grandfather. As a result, he decided to engage and marry Dulcie for Theophilus. Dulcie was the most beautiful girl in Elysian Echo, and many men wanted to marry her. After marrying Theophilus, she did not hate his poor background, but she also did not care about him. They had two separate lives unrelated, but Theophilus fell in love with Dulcie from being around her for so long. Soon after, Theophilus’s biological father found him and wanted him to return to the noble Alexander family to inherit the family fortune. He refused the inheritance because he hated his father for abandoning him and his mother. He was a nobleman of the Alexander family but refused the inheritance because he only wanted to be a son-in-law in the Miller family. Despite the Miller family’s dislike, he still insisted on being a humble man. However, Dulcie was looked down upon and bullied by the Miller family. But no one knew that Theophilus had an even greater inheritance than the Alexander family. It was the Mysterious Royal-X, a family that had stood firm for hundreds, thousands of years. He inherited the fortune and returned as a noble son-in-law.

"You're a dirty poor orphan, who doesn't belong here in this University!" Mason Williams is a 21-year-old college student who is constantly reminded that he is irreverent and wretched by society, but everything changes when death slaps him into the life of a celestial billionaire heir. "My name is Mason William the Second, son of Grace William the First, heir to the Williams empire, host of the celestial system, and the master of the celestial assassins. With this, I pray heaven will help those who trespass me!"

"I can't believe you are so shameless! You don't feel any guilt at all." "I've been with you for a while now and all I have seen is poverty. How long do you think I can hold out like that?" Lisa defended herself "A poor guy like you does not deserve Lisa. You should be in the streets like the dog you are!" Mark spat at him. **** "You'll both regret doing this. I promise you." ••••••• Nicola is someone looked down on by so many people. He has no good job and he only has his good looks. He had only his girlfriend who he thought loved him until he found out she was cheating on him. She also looked down on him just like everyone else. Done with the betrayal, he had different thoughts running through his head until his breakthrough came. He found out he was the rich heir of the richest family in the world. All he had to do was come back to his family. His life changed overnight but many still did not know his identity. Will he be get back at all those who looked down on him or will he forgive them?

"I'll rise above this, and you'll face the consequences of your actions," he declared, a silent promise to himself amidst the noisy laughter. “Now, you see that she was only using you all these time,” Jack said, and Sydney smiled slyly. Sydney's cold words cut through the air, echoing her heartless confession. "That's so true, I only used you to solve my Math problems. I would never want to kiss a guy drowning in unending poverty. This is not a fairy tale, where a princess gets to kiss a frog," Sydney declared, glancing down at the hole on the top of Micheal's shoe.

"We are entering a different world, a world where our marriage no longer fits. How do you want people to see me, having an Ex-Convict by my side? Oh no! Just take this check and get the fuck out of my sight. Your presence irritates me," Niçholas Loughty served jail time for his wife, where he encountered a mysterious old man. The man, recognizing Niçholas potential, imparted medical knowledge and martial arts skills, and appointed him as his sole heir. After three years, Niçholas now inheriting the world's largest company, sought to return to his wife, but was met with divorce papers instead. His wife, now a renowned CEO, feared that Niçholas reputation would tarnish her own success.

“You cheated on me Olivia and you, don't you know she is my girlfriend?” "Let's see if she'll claim you just as you're claiming her." This is the biography of Robert Edward, a poor student of Campbell University who juggles different jobs and faces societal disrespect just to pay his fees and give his girlfriend the life she desires. But guess what? The girl betrayed him and left for a richer guy! However, Robert stormed the live stream and, like any other boyfriend, confronted them, only to get beaten up nearly to death. Robert wasn't sure if he was going to survive, but in that dire moment, he did something hilarious. He picked up his phone and dialed 112. He said, "There's an emergency at Campbell Campus Room 050." That was the most hilarious call ever, but little did he know it would lead to a grand moment!

Ethan thought his life was over when his mother fell sick, and the costs of her operation were astronomical. Desperate and without any hope, he married Chloe in the hopes that she could help him. Hoping that she would provide the much-needed support and financial relief he sought. However, Ethan soon discovered that his marriage to Chloe was a mere façade, lacking the genuine empathy and concern he yearned for. She appeared disinterested, detached from his personal struggles, her focus solely on her own pursuits. When he couldn't produce the funds for his mother's surgery, Chloe mother urged her to abandoned him. Just when he thought things couldn't get any worse, a mysterious man approached him with a black card and the promise of riches beyond his wildest. "Greetings, young master," the man spoke with a sense of purpose. "I've been searching for you for a long time."

Artis Hardy felt a sharp, searing pain on his cheek as his wife slapped him hard. Sophia, his loving wife, screamed at him in fury. "You beggar! I don't know I had mercy on you and married a scum like you! A man who can't even pay for his daughter's hospital is good for nothing, just like a worm of a gutter." At this moment, their three-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Eva, was lying on the hospital bed, suffering from a rare illness that ravaged her tiny body. They had spent all their savings and gone into debt, investing in her medical care while doctors tried and failed to find a cure for her. Artis walked out of the hospital and smiled bitterly. He had once dreamed of supporting his family and his love, but life had slapped him hard in the face. He lifted his head and took two deep breaths as if he had made up his mind. He took out his phone and scrolled down to a certain contact. After hesitating for a while, he tapped the call button and said, “Lend me some money.” “Sure, no problem. Just sign the papers, and I’ll send you everything you need.”

Brian Patrick, a humble delivery boy, was falsely accused of siphoning $15 billion dollars by his ruthless boss, Morgan Harris, sent to jail for fifteen years and finally released as a poverty-stricken, boy. He re-united with his family only to be informed he had been an adopted son and a bastard all the while. Family despised him to the path he threaded; friends tagged him a total loser, a failure, a poverty-stricken nobody and a nuisance that shouldn’t be associated with. Those he worked for refused him his paycheck for the sake of his history as an ex convict and his ragged looks and he ended up scavenging dustbins for survival. Because of his poverty, his father-in-law, Fanny Luis, the richest tycoon in Rio Hondo, divorced him and betrothed his wife, Melissa in an arranged marriage, with the son of a billionaire, despite saving her with his kidney, when she was down with a kidney failure. “I promise you some day, you and your family will bow before me and hail me the world richest man,” he had told his wife when she divorced him… Later, about taking his life, he was called “Boss” by tycoons, big wigs and billionaires, who knew his true identity. Soon his true identity was revealed to him; the true heir to the Saint Don Group, the richest oil and gas conglomerate in the world. Everyone that saw him bowed at his feet, his wealth and charming looks pulled the most beautiful girls and his net worth commanded more than thirty trillion dollars. He became god of wealth. If only his haters had known he was the world richest man, perhaps they wouldn’t have underrated him. But now he would be taking his revenge on those that treated him like a piece of rag.