Category: Fiction

Chapter

CEO-syndrome-Chapter-02

by webnovelverse — Bored, I scroll through my phone in the lounge. Half an hour passes. Still no sign of Lin Wen. I put my phone away and wander outside. Passing another meeting room, I spot Lin Wen. He’s sitting across from another man. Hmm? What’s this about? “Mr. Liang, about this partnership...” Lin Wen is practically bowing and scraping. I stride in. This guy is acting even more high and mighty than me. Unacceptable. “How’d you get in here?” Lin Wen is stunned. I walk over, yank…
1. CEO syndrome
  
  1.7 K Words • Ongoing
1.0 K Apr 20, '26 webnovelverse 0

Everyone E
Chapter

CEO-syndrome-Chapter-01

by webnovelverse — Every time I go for a job interview, the company’s HR tells me there’s something wrong with me. But honestly, I don’t see it. After being mysteriously fired four times in a row, I’m now at my fifth company. The moment I walk in, I head straight for the executive lounge. A man with gold-rimmed glasses is sitting there. Probably HR. He looks up, startled. I march over, plop myself down on the plush sofa, and frown. “Where’s my tea?” “Uh...right away, ma’am” The…
1. CEO syndrome
  
  1.7 K Words • Ongoing
Modern • Romance • Urban

701 Apr 20, '26 webnovelverse 0

Everyone E
Chapter

Chapter 11: Amelia Vance Takes Notice

by webnovelverse — Amelia Vance had been at VaneTech for fourteen years. She had survived three CEOs, two rounds of layoffs, and one sexual harassment scandal that had nearly brought down the entire C-suite. She had learned to trust her instincts, and her instincts were telling her that something strange was happening on the thirty-second floor. Not bad, necessarily. Just strange. Elena Rossi was clearly competent—more than competent, brilliant. The Product Division's numbers had improved in just six weeks, and morale,…
1. The Glass Desk
  
  7.6 K Words • Ongoing
Fiction • Modern • Romance

422 Apr 8, '26 webnovelverse 0

Everyone E
Chapter

Chapter 10: Jay’s Hidden Hand

by webnovelverse — The problem with building a case against Victor Stern was that the evidence kept disappearing. Every time Elena got close to something—a suspicious transaction, a falsified report, a memo that contradicted public statements—the files would vanish. Not deleted, exactly, but moved, buried, hidden in layers of corporate bureaucracy that made them nearly impossible to find. "Someone's cleaning house," Elena said on a Tuesday morning, frustration bleeding into her voice. "Every time I request a document,…
1. The Glass Desk
  
  7.6 K Words • Ongoing
Family • Fiction • Modern • Romance

670 Apr 8, '26 webnovelverse 0

Everyone E
Chapter

River-of-Perfumes-Chapter-04

by webnovelverse — But his problem bristled with practical difficulties as Barrett explored what he was undertaking. Escape from the house was impossible; Tou Dac's men guarded every exit from the gardens, for white man or house-boy, and Nanya was now dressed as one. There was but one way left open: back to the sampan waiting at the wharf. And that sampan would be swooped upon by another, bearing Tou Dac, hot for his girl and aided by a dozen retainers. Where would Tou Dac attempt the abduction? Somewhere during that…
1. River of Perfumes: A Passionate Tale of Love
  
  6.3 K Words • Ongoing
1.2 K Apr 18, '26 webnovelverse 0

Everyone E
Chapter

River-of-Perfumes-Chapter-05

by webnovelverse — "Mawng Shwé!" That piercing silvery voice was no sampan man's. It arrested them all. They glanced back at her. Nanya stood dragging at the dagger within her coolie robe. She was tensed to leap to his help. She had not jumped overboard. Her accents held extreme terror for the life of her love. The raiders grinned diabolically. They had them both now. The Prince would come to... Two faced her way; the rest crouched to close in on Barrett and finish him. "Don't! Keep away, Nanya!" He bared clenched…
1. River of Perfumes: A Passionate Tale of Love
  
  6.3 K Words • Ongoing
674 Apr 18, '26 webnovelverse 0

Everyone E
Chapter

River-of-Perfumes-Chapter-06

by webnovelverse — It was no longer the River of Perfumes, but a river of stinks and industrial smells. Tall black factory chimneys in the night; rice mills; moored steam launches, lighters. All slept in the dead of night. Then came a faint tang of salt air, and Barrett quickened his strokes. Lagoons; the lighterage port of Thuan-an; and then, at last, tramp steamers anchored out in the offing. Barrett hailed one: "Ship ahoy! Can you take a couple of passengers?" A gabble of Malay from some serang on watch. "Am waking…
1. River of Perfumes: A Passionate Tale of Love
  
  6.3 K Words • Ongoing
692 Apr 18, '26 webnovelverse 0

Everyone E
Chapter

Chapter 9: Taking on a Titan

by webnovelverse — The audit took two weeks. Elena worked eighteen-hour days, fueled by coffee and the kind of stubbornness that had carried her through every obstacle of her life. Jay worked alongside her, organizing data, flagging anomalies, and quietly removing the obstacles that Stern's allies placed in their path. By the end of the second week, they had found something. "Look at this," Elena said, pushing a spreadsheet across her desk. It was Friday evening, and they were alone on the thirty-second floor. The janitor…
1. The Glass Desk
  
  7.6 K Words • Ongoing
Fiction • Modern • Romance

625 Apr 8, '26 webnovelverse 0

Everyone E
Chapter

River-of-Perfumes-Chapter-03

by webnovelverse — Much later, Barrett's detachment asserted itself. The girl was now content just to sit up and look at him; then a fresh wave of affection would come and she wanted his arms again. She was completely and utterly in love with him. Her eyes danced, sparkled, blazed, invited; repelled in sheer mischief, only to relent and invite again. Her laugh was like music, her voice caressing, wise, merry, deep with feeling as she talked. Barrett wondered when, if ever, she would return to the normal, rather disdainful…
1. River of Perfumes: A Passionate Tale of Love
  
  6.3 K Words • Ongoing
1.0 K Apr 18, '26 webnovelverse 0

Everyone E
Chapter

River-of-Perfumes-Chapter-02

by webnovelverse — She was. Tou Dac moved fast. Within two hours, Barrett saw commotion at the water-gate of the palace along the River of Perfumes. Paper lanterns bobbed agitatedly. An illuminated orchid, rose-violet and pale yellow, came floating swiftly upstream. An enormous orchid of silk on a sampan it was, with its purple tongue curving over from astern as a sunshade and canopy. The swift thumps of its oar betokened haste. Barrett called his boys and hastened to the wharf. The Annamese rower jumped out and looped a…
1. River of Perfumes: A Passionate Tale of Love
  
  6.3 K Words • Ongoing
858 Apr 18, '26 webnovelverse 0

Everyone E
1 2 … 7 Next