Crime

Once, Matteo Rossi was the right hand of Rome’s most feared crime lord.
Then betrayal turned him into a ghost. Left for dead in a warehouse fire, Matteo crawled out of the ashes with nothing but rage, a new name, and a plan. From the gutters of Naples to the marble towers of Milan, he rebuilds himself smarter, richer, colder. The underworld that buried him will learn that you can’t kill a man who’s already burned. But vengeance isn’t simple. To take back the empire, Matteo must play politician, businessman, and devil at once, outsmarting the Wolves who betrayed him while keeping the crown from turning him into the monster he once served. In a country built on bloodlines and secrets, power is never inherited—it’s taken.

Sam's depressing life took a turn when an enigmatic old man pulled him to his blinding death. He is reborn in a new body and a system that will guide him to become a great sorcerer. Then things become more exciting for him when he makes a pact with a funny teenage demon. With a wise wizard system on one side and a damned demon whispering on the other, Sam is packed with three souls inside his body. Now, Sam must reclaim legendary wizard spells as well as gather demon essences to become the first and greatest demon sorcerer ever lived. Even with such a grandiose goal, Sam lives his new life in this fantastic world of magic and monsters mischievously and as he pleases. The first crime he committed was kidnapping a fire princess.

This story is more of a hobby and this is my first time writing so don't expect too much also English isn't my first language. Jason is a 16-year-old boy trying to get through life with a father who expects him to be perfect and a school where everyone kind of hates him and bullies him with the exception of his two friends Jessica and Isaac. When he is falsely accused of beating up a student with the only witness to the crime Jessica his friend testifies against him and is expelled from school. On his way, home feeling betrayed and thinking about how to explain this to his father he is summoned to a dark cave where a being offers for him to become the champion of the Dark One

🏆[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….

Elias Cross wanted nothing more than to disappear. Once the city’s most brilliant forensic architect, he vanished after a scandal that destroyed his career. But when an old friend turns up dead — and the body is staged inside one of Elias’s abandoned designs — he’s pulled back into a world he swore he’d left behind. Each crime scene is a building. Each building is a clue. Each clue points to an impossible blueprint for the city’s destruction. With only a reckless journalist and a washed-up detective by his side, Elias must outwit a ghostly mastermind known only as The Mason. But as the city becomes a maze of deadly puzzles, Elias discovers the final design isn’t about buildings. It’s about him.

In the corrupt heart of New Avalon City, a slum rat named Lucien Kane is born into a world that despises him. Orphaned, beaten, and forgotten, he grows up scavenging scraps in the gutters, dreaming of power. When his only friend is murdered by street thugs working for a powerful crime family, Lucien vows revenge. But vengeance is only the spark. Through manipulation, alliances, and sheer will, he transforms from a street urchin into a calculating criminal mastermind. His rise cuts through bloodlines, corporations, and governments — until he controls everything: drugs, politics, law enforcement, and the hearts of men. But the higher he climbs, the more enemies he creates — and the shadows he commands begin to whisper his downfall. From the gutter to the godfather… from man to myth… this is the empire of shadows.

Once, Fredricks Mayford was a boy who watched his family die. Now he’s a man the city whispers about in fear. After years in the shadows, he returns to Valemont City, no longer a victim, but a storm in human form. The men who destroyed his life have built empires on his family’s blood, and they still think he’s the same frightened child who vanished years ago. They’re wrong. Fredricks has learned the rules of power, and how to break them. Behind his calm eyes lies a mind sharper than any blade. As he infiltrates their world of wealth, crime, and corruption, he’ll pit his enemies against each other, turn allies into weapons, and bring the city to its knees. But vengeance has a price, and the ghosts of the past don’t stay silent forever.

Jace Parker was a live-in son-in-law whom everyone despised. A pauper who dared to love a millionaire’s daughter. For years, he endured the Whitman family’s cruelty, his wife Stella’s icy disdain, and even the betrayal of his best friend, Ethan who had not only slept with stella, but fathered two children Jace believed were his own. Then, the truth shattered his world and he was reunited with his biological family thereby reclaiming his rightful duties as the secret heir to the Parkinson’s Group, a empire dwarfing the Withman’s wealth. Now, with his identity hidden and vengeance burning in his veins, Jace vows to make them all kneel…especially Stella, who had laughed as he signed the divorce papers. His only crime was falling helplessly in love with an heiress. And hers? Underestimating him.

Betrayed by his girlfriend, framed for a crime he didn’t commit, and stripped of his career, Dr. Joaquin Lopez hits rock bottom—until a mysterious family heirloom unlocks hidden powers within him. With newfound skills and enhanced medical abilities, Joaquin fights to rebuild his life while uncovering a web of corruption threatening the hospital he once called home. As rivals conspire to destroy him, Joaquin gains unlikely allies, but as secrets from his family’s past resurface, Joaquin must confront not only his enemies but also the legacy he’s inherited. Can he clear his name, expose the truth, and reclaim his place as a healer for those in need? One betrayal sparked his fall. One chance will define his rise.

Zarek Voss was executed for a crime he didn’t commit—framed by the elites, erased like trash. But death didn’t end him. He awakens inside the System Nexus, a god-level terminal only legends speak of. A voice welcomes him: “Welcome, Glitch Protocol Activated. All limits removed.” Now reborn in a brutal world ruled by System-born tyrants, Zarek isn't a player in the game. He’s the God rewriting it. With the Godroot Core, he can steal skills, reroute power, erase bloodlines, and even crash the entire system’s rules. He’s hunted by factions, feared by immortals, and followed by rebels who whisper: “He’s not chosen. He’s the error that will end it all.” Zarek will not just level up— He will ascend. Or destroy the System trying.