Family Meat, Bitter Tears

After Second Uncle kills a mysterious white rat and sells its spirit-laced meat to the village, a chain of supernatural revenge is unleashed. Chidinma, trapped between family greed and ancestral wrath, must survive as her world unravels—where every betrayal has a deadly price.

Liu Liang, the overlooked twin with a limp, faces rejection, shame, and betrayal in his family’s famous Ibadan bukka, where the secret recipe for Drunken Pig Head draws both fortune and envy. As family and outsiders plot to steal the secret for money, Liu must survive his mother’s scorn, his uncle’s violence, and the haunting arrival of a mysterious pig. If he fails, everything his family built—and his own fragile heart—could be destroyed.

Midnight rain pounds the zinc as my wife guards her bride price like gold, refusing to save her own mother in the hospital. One IOU, one broken phone, and curses fly as family turns enemy, and tradition becomes a weapon. Tonight, I must choose: betray my marriage vows or let blood spill—because in this house, money is thicker than love.

No one in Olanrewaju Palace remembers Sade—except when hunger pushes her to beg for scraps. When war threatens, she’s traded to a brutal northern warlord in exchange for peace, her only dowry a box of meat pies and a name nobody ever gave her. Now, in a strange land where kindness is rare as dry season rain, Sade must fight for her life and her place as a queen, even as the man she secretly loves is forced to marry her rival.

Pregnant and desperate for peace, Morayo faces her husband’s tyrant grandmother—a woman feared even by grown men. When her beloved dog vanishes and ends up as pepper soup, Morayo must swallow her pain and play along, knowing that in Naija, respect is a battlefield. But beneath her calm, she plots her own revenge, because in this house, only the sharpest woman survives.

After her only child is murdered and the law refuses to punish the boy behind it, Aunty Hanatu’s pain twists into a desperate thirst for revenge. With the whole neighborhood watching, she and her friend take justice into their own hands—hiding a dark secret behind the smell of fresh bread. In a country where the law protects monsters, how far will a grieving mother go to find peace for her child?

Nnenna thought marriage would bring peace, but her mother-in-law’s love comes with public shame and silent battles. When a single act of rebellion turns into a family war, secrets, insults, and old wounds spill out—until one shocking moment leaves the whole house stunned and no one innocent. In this home, respect is a weapon and pride is deadly; who will survive the next round?

After years of suffering and humiliation, I emptied my cruel boss’s company account, leaving his proud family in ruins. They forced me to kneel and swallow pain—never knowing I held the real power to destroy everything they owned. Let them taste the bitterness of poverty, because today, the goat has bitten back.

When her father-in-law storms the bathroom at midnight, my sister’s scream tears through my heart and the darkness. In a house where evil hides behind tradition, betrayal and shame are weapons, and even her own husband turns cold. Tonight, blood will answer for blood—because I will fight until my sister is free, or I die trying.

When Okoli Zainab’s gentle brother is killed in a brutal village beating, she faces betrayal, greed, and heartbreak from every side. With only her courage and a box of ashes, Zainab battles the whole village for justice and dignity. One woman’s strength will shake old secrets and put a price on love, loyalty, and blood.

Every night, a grieving girl brings food to a grave, begging a spirit she believes is her lost mother. Bound by pain and powerless to help, the spirit watches her struggle—until the girl's desperate plea shatters the boundary between the living and the dead. When the truth of her mother's fate is revealed, a sacrifice is made that will shake the ancestors and rewrite destinies.

Surrounded by three childhood friends she calls brothers, Musa’s only daughter is pushed into a humiliating arranged marriage that exposes painful family secrets. When her trust is shattered by fake love and betrayal, she must fight to reclaim her pride and survive a trauma that will change everything. Will she ever trust those she once called family again?