overboarding ceiling

Ren believed his world ended at four white walls and a ceiling. Then the ceiling shattered, and his ordinary life was erased. A grotesque Being descended, dragging him into a living hell where pain was routine and mercy nonexistent. He was dissected, broken, and reshaped through endless experiments until whatever he once was… died. What emerged from the agony was something else—something inhuman, yet powerful. Cast into an unfamiliar world of magic, steel, and inhuman races, Ren must learn to survive once more before he can hunt the existence that ruined him. He lives for one purpose only: to grow stronger at any cost, drown in blood, and tear apart the Being that changed his life forever.

Julianna Rossi is an invisible force in the high-stakes world of New York finance. A brilliant but severely overlooked data analyst, she spends her days hidden away in the bullpen of Thorne Enterprises, solving complex mathematical puzzles for a corrupt board of directors that doesn't even know her name. Her quiet, predictable life is shattered when she uncovers a deep-coded "back door" in the company’s offshore accounts—evidence of a massive, multi-billion-dollar embezzlement and blackmail ring operating right under the firm's nose. Before she can blow the whistle, she is summoned to the penthouse by the man who rules the city’s headlines: Elias Thorne. A ruthless billionaire titan with a reputation for cold-blooded strategy, Elias doesn't want Julianna to go to the authorities. He wants to use her findings to execute a controlled demolition of his own empire, purging the rot from the inside out. To catch the true architect of the scheme, Elias forces Julianna into a high-stakes, 30-day contract. He whisks her away to a fortified villa on the Amalfi Coast—but not as an analyst. To infiltrate the inner circle of the corrupt board members without raising suspicion, Julianna must play the part of Elias’s glamorous, devoted fiancée. As the digital war intensifies under the Mediterranean sun, the lines between their calculated performance and reality begin to blur. Navigating a lethal minefield of hidden cameras, satellite intercepts, and high-speed chases, Julianna must rely on her mathematical genius to survive. But as the glass ceiling begins to shatter, she faces her most terrifying realization yet: the most dangerous variable in the entire equation isn't the code—it's the man holding the keys. Key Themes: • Power Dynamics: The evolution of an overlooked employee stepping out of the shadows to claim a seat at the table as an equal partner. • The Illusion of Control: The friction between cold, calculated corporate strategy and raw, unscripted human emotion. • Modern Espionage: Moving away from traditional action tropes to showcase high-tech data forensics and immutable decentralized ledgers as the ultimate weapons.

Han Feng was a corporate slave who died of overwork, only to wake up as the "Trash Young Master" of the Han Clan in the Azure Cloud Continent. In a world where cultivation levels—from Qi Refining to Godhood—determine one's destiny, Han Feng was born with a broken Dantian. However, he didn't come alone. He arrived with the "Apex Parity System." Its logic is simple: "If the enemy is stronger than the host, the host’s cultivation level will automatically adjust to one minor realm higher than the opponent." An arrogant Inner Disciple at the 5th level of Qi Refining? Han Feng is suddenly at the 6th. An Ancient Ancestor at the Peak of the Saint Realm? Han Feng yawned as he broke through to the Great Emperor Realm. "I don't care how much of a genius you are, or how many thousands of years you've cultivated. In front of me, you're just a stepping stone."

Kai Ruen has failed the Hunter Awakening Test six times. Not low-ranked. Not weak. Failed. Every scan returns the same answer: RANK: NULL. ABILITY: NONE. He works as a Gate-town porter the man who hauls corpses out of dungeons that real hunters don't bother finishing. He earns minimum wage. He signs failure forms. He goes home to a twenty-square-meter apartment and does it again. On his seventh test, the machine doesn't say Null. It breaks. Every mana-detection instrument in the building burns out at the same moment. The one display that survives shows four lines: RANK: [MEASUREMENT FAILED SCALE INSUFFICIENT] ABILITY CLASS: [UNKNOW NO EXISTING CLASSIFICATION] WARNING: THIS SUBJECT DOES NOT HAVE A CEILING. DO NOT ATTEMPT CONTAINMENT. Kai Ruen is not a fire mage. Not a lightning-type. Not a healer or a body reinforcer. He is a Void. Every ability he absorbs becomes permanently his stripped of its original limits, integrated into what he is, with no container to cap it. Every law of physics he consumes stops applying to him. Every rank above him is a ceiling he hasn't reached yet. And beneath every dungeon in the world, past the back wall of the deepest level, there is an entire other world ancient, inhabited, powerful that has been waiting ten thousand years for him to arrive. The Fracture Event the catastrophes that have been swallowing cities — are not accidents. Something has been tearing the world open deliberately. Because it knows what Kai is becoming. And it needs to stop him before he becomes it.

In utter dread, I wake to an unfamiliar scene once again, and the cycle repeats. A new room, new world, new reality, I never know where I will go next, but I keep going forwards to find salvation, the light at the end of the tunnel. -----------‐-------------------- Don't expect frequent updates or good story, just started writing on a whim.

In a land where natural powers ground formidable beasts, the balance is critical to maintain. But what happens if her beast is to great to ground. What if the wolf she was made to ground cannot he tamed.

"Logline": A brilliant but impoverished data analyst is forced into a fake engagement with her company's ruthless CEO, a man who values profit over people, only to find out that the contract's stipulations cannot govern the messiness of the heart. **Main Characters:** * **Kang Jihoon:** The young, formidable CEO of "Aethelgard Industries." Orphaned and raised by his demanding grandfather, he believes love is a strategic liability and human connections are a distraction from success. He is brilliant, isolated, and emotionally walled-off. * **Park Sora:** A gifted data analyst working in the bowels of Aethelgard. She is drowning in medical debt from her younger sister's chronic illness. Despite her circumstances, she is fiercely proud, optimistic, and deeply loyal to her small circle of family and friends. **The Plot:** The novel begins with Sora on the brink of a major breakthrough at work, having pinpointed a serious error with a large company project, but was broken by the unrelenting calls from the debt collectors. While Jihoon has a different kind of threat: He has to be married to inherit and take over the company. His grandfather had included it in the will as a last resort from his traditional grandfather. To Jihoon, marriage is a business deal above anything else. When he finds himself in a desperate situation, Jihoon decides he needs a fake fiancée to finally silence his grandfather and fend off the endless gold-digging socialites. He doesn't need a real wife; for him, she would be just an employee - someone he can control with a contract. His instruction to HR is to find him such a girl from a low profile employee pool of the company. Invited to the stunning top-floor office, where she is expecting to be fired due to her recent aloofness, Sora receives, instead, a proposition too extravagant for words: to be CEO Kang's fake fiancée for a year. In return, he will pay off her debts, and the best medical care would be arranged for her sister. It's a cool, clinical transaction. For Sora, quite literally, a devil's bargain: a year of her life in exchange for her sister's future. **The Circumstances (Why Love Should Be Impossible):** 1. **The Power Imbalance:** He is the all-powerful CEO; she is a contract employee. He dictates terms, and she is forced to accept them. Their relationship begins as a master-servant dynamic. 2. **Clashing Worldviews:** Jihoon is cynical and believes everything has a price. Sora, despite her hardships, believes in intrinsic human value. Their arguments are not just romantic spats but fundamental clashes of philosophy. 3. **The "Invisible" Girl:** In public, Sora must play the part of a polished socialite, but in private, Jihoon treats her as invisible, a pawn in his game. He never expects to see *her*. 4. **A Secret Threat:** Sora continues to investigate the flaw in the company's project, a project Jihoon is personally championing. Her professional integrity puts her on a direct collision course with her "fiancé," creating a tense secret of her own. **Falling in Love (No Matter What)** Love comes quietly in unexpected, small moments. Jihoon watches how fiercely Sora loves and sacrifice for her sister, a kind of loyalty he has never had from his money, while Sora gets glimpses then of a back-boy lonely, pressured by the icy facade of the CEO—the boy who will be working late not for profit but for having no home worth going to. Their fake dates and public appearances force a proximity that the contract did not bargain for; he finds himself at a loss because she makes a passing remark that criticizes his business plans; he becomes clumsy in his really nonchalant attempts at helping her sister get back on her feet. As the weight of genuine connection crosses them, the walls they've both constructed break down. The crisis comes one day when a flaw found by Sora threatens the collapse of the company.

L'histoire suit un jeune garçon aillant eu une enfance difficile, désireux d'avoir tout ce qu'il souhaite il sera prêt à tout pour obtenir argent et pouvoir.

On the war-torn continent of Asterra, the name Caelan Veyr Ashbourne is spoken with fear, hatred, and reluctant awe. To the world, he is a tyrant—the man who conquered nations, crushed rebellions, and dragged half the continent beneath the iron rule of the Aurelian Federation. But Caelan was not born a monster. As a child, he suddenly regains the memories of a past life on Earth, along with a strange evolving ability known as the Rational Archive—a scientific, system-like cognition that allows him to analyze patterns, predict collapse, and understand the hidden mechanics of the world better than anyone else. What begins as a gift of intelligence slowly grows into something far more dangerous: the power to reshape civilization itself. As Caelan rises through a world of noble bloodlines, ancient Aether technology, covert political warfare, and collapsing empires, he uncovers a terrifying truth—the world itself is heading toward another catastrophic collapse, one that could erase entire nations if left unchecked. Determined to stop that future at any cost, Caelan chooses control over freedom, order over morality, and survival over innocence. In doing so, he becomes the very villain history will curse. Standing against him is Seraphine Vale, the woman who once knew him before power and sacrifice turned him into the most feared man alive. As war engulfs the continent and long-buried truths come to light, both must confront a devastating question: If the world can only be saved through monstrous means… then who is truly in the wrong? The Ceiling of Ashes is a tragic epic of war, love, power, and sacrifice—a story about a man who tried to hold up a collapsing sky, only to become the villain standing beneath it.

Above Love Victoria Lennox has spent her life proving she is untouchable. At thirty-four, she is the youngest self-made woman ever to break eleven figures, the most feared name on Wall Street, and the undisputed queen of Manhattan. Love, in her experience, is a liability best left to weaker people. She has built an empire on that conviction: marble penthouses, private jets, and a heart sealed behind bullet-proof glass. Then a rainy night, a totaled Bugatti, and forty-seven seconds of clinical death change everything. A stranger drags her from the wreckage. She never sees his face—only the distinctive crescent-moon birthmark on the back of his right hand—before he disappears into the storm. When Victoria wakes in a private hospital suite with titanium in her femur and a debt she cannot quantify, she does what she has always done: she hunts. She finds him living in a Bushwick warehouse, fixing pipes for old ladies and donating half his income to a no-kill shelter. His name is Elias Crowe—former Army Ranger, Purple Heart recipient, and the one man in New York who wants absolutely nothing from her. She offers money. He refuses. She offers gratitude wrapped in couture and orchids. He donates the orchids to the hospital where she recovered. Every gift, every grand gesture, every attempt to buy absolution is met with the same quiet, unshakable rejection. So Victoria does the one thing she swore she would never do again: she shows up. In jeans. In the rain. In kennels that smell like bleach and hope. Slowly, infuriatingly, the ice begins to crack. What starts as obsession becomes something far more dangerous: partnership, laughter, Sunday mornings that taste like coffee and pancakes, and a three-legged pit bull who decides Victoria belongs to them both. Elias never asks her to be less than the ruthless titan she is; he simply refuses to let her be lonely while she’s being it. But Victoria has spent fifteen years learning that love is a loaded gun with someone else’s finger on the trigger. When the past comes roaring back—old betrayals, boardroom coups, and the terrifying vulnerability of needing another person—she will have to decide whether the empire she built is worth more than the man who taught her heart how to beat again. A searing, witty, deeply romantic story about what happens when the woman who has everything discovers the one thing money can’t buy—and the man brave enough to make her earn it. Above Love is a standalone contemporary romance with heat, humor, zero cheating, a hard-won HEA, and a dog who steals every scene she’s in.