big bad tropes

❝ Things are only as beautiful as you make them, Eleanor. Including murder. ❞ It’s the opening night of Cosima Memphis’s production of Romeo and Juliet and all is going smoothly – that is until the climactic death scene. Romeo takes a big gulp of the poison to be with his lover, except it really is poison and Archer, who plays Romeo, is now dead. Eleanor Monet, in charge of props, is the first suspect but soon the suspicion around her turns to worry as it seems she’s the next target. Heath Albion, an aspiring writer, is dying for a mystery to solve at his new school. When he sees Eleanor sneaking around at night he thinks he’s finally found something worth writing about. After discovering Eleanor’s ability to see visions of the past, Heath decides that they’re the perfect pair to solve the mystery. With threatening notes, a quiet library and poison disguised as props; somebody in the school is blurring the lines between theatre and reality and the fast friends are about to discover that there’s more to boarding school than just silly rumours.

Someone who wants to live again. And chose to cooperate with the devil to live again in another world. The boy entered a vortex-shaped portal that led him into the Imperial World. Life and death are at stake there. The various fights between the kingdoms, and the brothers themselves are more terrifying. Because it often moves unseen. Story of time travel that changes the nature of a person's personality. A powerful demon heart scene. Get rid of it with an angel who somehow came from which world? He merged with his body making a big change in his life. The devil's heart was bought into a very loving angel's heart. Coupled with a love story that is so complicated. With a royal concubine. Since the change, Yinwua started to have a good heart. The kingdom is on the verge of collapse. There was a war between the brothers. Love, power, revenge, and change for the better. Could Yinwua the demon king change his attitude any wiser? And, what about Yinwua and Boi Yu a love story, will they meet, or will they be separated because the task has been completed?

I saw a small figure of a young boy running away from us in the distance.A wolf stood in the boy's shadow.However, this wolf was enormous.It had a head as big as a bear's and stood five feet tall at the top of the hump. It had pale grey fur.The boy was being chased by a worg, not a wolf.The boy had a good lead, but the massive worg's strides would quickly reduce that lead.In a split second, I made up my mind.I made a hasty dash for the boy.Lisa was also moving quickly, and she was following me.However, looking back, she faltered.I was aware that she has not yet regained her strength.Regardless, I turned back to the boy who was still running straight at me and said, "This way!Come to me!The young man gave me a nod and fled as quickly as he could.However, I was aware that the boy would be overtaken by the worg before I could even miss him by a few feet.I raised my arm back and pulled out my hatchet.Duck!”I let the hatchet fly as soon as the boy fell.

Though a graduate, he had done everything one could consider demeaning. John's impoverished lifestyle landed him into a dilemma in choosing between his demanding wife, who had signed a divorce paper without his consent, and his foster mother whose life was just at the edge of ending. Oblivious of his wife's act, John overlooked the offer and decided to crawl back to the hell he swore never to get involved with– his father. A man who made him the new big shot in the underground crime world. The same man who left his mother for a money sucker. Welcome back, Mr. John! All he wanted was to take revenge on everyone who had ever hurt him– his wife, her new husband, his mother-in-law, his stepmother, and her illegitimate son. Everyone!

Brooke Rancher was known as the harbinger of misfortune. Everywhere he went, disaster followed. They believed his presence brought them bad luck. But Brooke turned his luck around when he found a fortune-teller cookie and ate it, then he was now the host of THE FORTUNE-TELLER SYSTEM, where he saw threads of destiny, predicting outcomes with uncanny accuracy. People began to seek him out, eager to know their futures.

"I didn't do it Jones, I didn't kill the attorney general." He said with a broken heart. "I believed you before and I still do. I will get you out of here." "I promise to make them pay for everything!!" Gene Jones had to deploy a plan to break his brother out of prison after being convinced that he was innocent of the assassination he was scheduled to die for. But things took a bad turn, making him the most wanted man. How long can he hold when lies and betrayal were lurked beneath?

Caster Valley, Kansas, is a small peaceful town where nothing stays a secret for long. Where no paranormal phenomena ever happen. And it's the last place any murders ever happen. At least, that's what some of the townsfolk thought. Weston Brooks doesn't know what to believe. On his eighteenth birthday, strange unbelievable things begin to happen. Not only is his family in shambles, but the magic powers he was born with are out of control which divides them even more so after an accidental mishap that leads him to run away only for him to wind up at his best friend's house, who he has a crush on. Unfortunately, the bad luck he constantly has is only getting worse because his best friend's mother places a curse on them to never interact romantically without disastrous consequences happening. Now, with his misfortunes, he also begins to see a strange ghostly truck. At first, he ignores it. But then one day, he gets the courage to follow it. But that might have been his biggest mistake... Or maybe it was his fate. Being led to the bridge where he finds a black truck, the same black truck he's been seeing is at the bottom of the cliff by the bridge, and inside is the dead body of Barry Bloomsdale--a person everyone in town knows. Now, he gets thrown into a deep mystery and must solve the case with the help of the police chief's son and his cousin as well as a mysterious black cat that insists she's there to protect him. As they investigate, what they learn just might frighten Weston.

A salesman died because of a couple's misunderstanding. He gets reincarnated into another world as his younger self. Like the usual reincarnation trope, he gets a system as a farmer. Can he make it big in this world? Can he escape from his past? This is the story of Alekkar Hemir. *Chapters will be released on Monday, Wednesday, Friday every week.*

Playing a game with a level system is a common thing. But what happens if you play a game with an elimination system with your life on the line? This is exactly what Terry felt. Due to his wife's huge debt, he was forced to join a survival game called Debt System. During the survival game, Terry realized that there were many mysteries hidden behind this game. He also learns that the organizers of the game have very bad intentions towards him, especially X! Can Terry be the winner in this game? Can he survive after knowing the big secret behind this game?

Nigel, a poor 21-year-old boy, has a streak of bad luck in one day. After being fired from his job as a food delivery courier, his lover abandoned him for the sake of a wealthy young man, and now he has to deal with a debt collector he doesn't know about. "Hurry, pay your debts, or you will die!" threatened one of the burly men who intercepted him. "Hu...debt? As far as I remember, I never owed anyone?" he asked. When Nigel was squeezed and almost abused, a well-dressed man came up to him. The presence of this man changes everything about Nigel, from a nobody to a ruler, and will avenge all the insults he has received. Note : Cover is taken from Lexica art and no copyright. Edited by canva