REBORN, Taking Back What Was Mine
He gave up everything for love.
Once a rising professional with a brilliant future, Ethan Hale abandoned his high-paying career to support his wife’s ambition. While he became a full-time father and the silent backbone of their household, she built a powerful company—using his sacrifices as stepping stones.
On the night her company goes public, Ethan prepares a candlelit celebration. Instead, he discovers the truth: his wife is having an affair with a younger subordinate. Before he can confront her, he is betrayed, cornered, and killed—his death erased as an unfortunate accident.
But fate is not finished with him.
Ethan opens his eyes to find himself reborn on the very day her company goes public, with full memory of his past life. This time, the cold dinner, the incriminating video, and the betrayal no longer break him—they awaken something far more dangerous.
Calm, calculated, and merciless, Ethan exposes the affair, demands a divorce, and reclaims everything he once gave up. Using his future knowledge, he re-enters the ruthless business world, dismantling empires, manipulating markets, and turning former allies into enemies.
As his power grows, so do the stakes.
Hidden enemies emerge. Another reborn manipulator lurks in the shadows. The cost of changing fate begins to exact a brutal price. And when his revenge threatens the very people he wants to protect, Ethan must confront the truth he never faced in his first life:
Is winning worth losing his humanity?
Caught between love and vengeance, power and responsibility, Ethan must decide whether his second life will be ruled by hatred or forged into something greater.
This is not just a story of revenge.
It is a story about second chances, the price of power, and choosing the future you deserve.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 47: THE RULESVanessa arrived at Marcus's facility at 8:58 AM carrying a legal pad filled with questions she'd written the night before.Marcus noticed immediately. "You prepared.""I'm a lawyer. Or was. We prepare questions." She set the pad on his desk. "Twenty-three questions about the rebirth community. Organized by category. I need answers before we continue."Marcus picked up the pad, scanned the questions, smiled slightly. "You think systematically. That's good. Most people approach this emotionally. They want to know what it means for them personally. You want to understand the structure first.""Understanding the system tells me how to operate within it. Personal feelings are secondary.""Spoken like someone who's already stopped performing sentiment." Marcus set down the pad. "I'll answer all of these eventually. But first, I need to explain the rules. Because most of your questions assume rules exist and are enforced consistently. That's not how this works."He pulled up a document on hi
Last Updated: 2026-02-20
Chapter: CHAPTER 46: THE HISTORYMarcus was already at his desk when Vanessa arrived at 9:03 AM.He noticed things about her that hadn't been there three weeks ago. The way she moved through the door without hesitating. The way she scanned the room automatically before sitting. The way she'd stopped performing casualness and just existed in the space.Progress."You're different today," he said."I slept well. First time in weeks." Vanessa sat down, crossed her legs, set her coffee on the desk without asking permission. "I stopped feeling guilty about Tom Chen at approximately 2 AM. Woke up feeling clear.""What changed?""I realized guilt is just internalized social judgment. Other people's opinions about my choices lodged in my own head. And I stopped caring about other people's opinions somewhere around the third glass of wine." She met his eyes. "So. What are we doing today?"Marcus studied her for a moment. Then closed his laptop."Today we stop training tactics and start training context. Before you can operate
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Chapter: CHAPTER 45: THE MOTHEREthan's phone rang at 6:47 AM. His mother. He'd called her twice yesterday after she mentioned the church situation, but she hadn't answered. "Mom? Are you okay?" Silence. Then breathing. Shaky. Wrong. "Mom?" "Ethan." Her voice was barely a whisper. "There's someone in my house." His blood went cold. "What? Mom, get out—" "I can't. They're downstairs. I'm in my bedroom. Door locked. But Ethan, they left something. Slid it under the door. A photo." "What photo?" "It's me. At the grocery store yesterday. And another one of me at church on Sunday. And one of me sleeping. In my bed. Ethan, someone's been in my house. Multiple times. Watching me. And there's a note." Ethan was already moving, grabbing keys, heading for his car. "What does it say?" His mother's voice cracked. "It says 'Your son destroyed someone's life. Made her lose everything. Made her feel hunted. Vulnerable. Unsafe in her own home. Now you know how that feels. This is just a taste. Next time, we won't leave a
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Chapter: CHAPTER 44: THE BROKEREthan received the message at 11:43 PM. Not on his burner phone. On a phone he didn't own. That appeared on his doorstep in an unmarked box with no return address. The phone contained one contact. One message. You need services you can't acquire through normal channels. I provide those services. The Broker. Ethan stared at the phone. Considered throwing it away. Considered ignoring it. Then Tom called—on Ethan's regular burner—voice shaking. "They fired me. The SEC thing was fake but the firm didn't care. They said association with me was a liability. Ethan, my career is over. Twenty years, gone." Then Sharon called. "Someone leaked information about my firm to my biggest client. They're claiming I was part of your exposure campaign. Ethan, they terminated our contract. That was sixty percent of my revenue." Then his mother called. Crying. "The church asked me to step down from the women's committee. Someone sent them articles about you. About the leaked documents. They said ha
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Chapter: CHAPTER 43: FIRST BLOODVanessa sat in Marcus's Brooklyn facility, watching multiple screens display the same scene from different angles. Tom Chen's apartment. Camera feeds from across the street, from the building lobby, from a delivery drone that had "malfunctioned" near his window. "He's home," Marcus said, checking his tablet. "I should be opening his email right about... now." On screen, they saw lights shift in Tom's apartment. Movement. Then stillness. Vanessa imagined the moment. Tom opened his personal email. Seeing the anonymous message. Reading the subject line: Singapore Transaction - Final Warning. Marcus's phone buzzed. He checked it, smiled. "He just called his attorney. Panicking. Asking what to do about the SEC inquiry that was just opened into the Singapore deal." "There's no actual SEC inquiry," Vanessa said. "No. But there's a very convincing fake notice sent from a spoofed government email address. And a real attorney who received an anonymous tip about Tom's involvement in finan
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Chapter: CHAPTER 42: CALCULATIONSNoah sat in his room at the Swiss facility, notebook open, pencil moving rapidly across the page. Numbers. Equations. Probability trees branching into infinite possibilities. All of them centered on one question: Would his father survive the next six months? The answer kept changing. Getting worse. When Noah had first arrived three weeks ago, the probability had been 67%. Not great, but manageable. His father was resourceful, had Wei's support, had learned to navigate the rebirth world. Now it was 42%. And dropping. Noah wrote out the variables: Government Investigation: 89% chance of systematic surveillance within 60 days. 73% chance of attempted detention within 90 days. If detained, 34% survival probability. Rebirth Community Retaliation: 76% chance of assassination attempt within 45 days. 62% chance of success if attempted. Multiple actors, difficult to predict coordination. Vanessa's Revenge: Unknown probability. Too many variables. She was changing, transforming into s
Last Updated: 2026-02-12
THE WAR THAT FOLLOWED ME
Kade Reyes thought he’d left war behind. Once a soldier in humanity’s brutal fight against the alien Vaelith, he now survives in the neon-lit streets of New Ardent, hiding from both his past and the world. But when the sky cracks open and the Vaelith return, the city becomes a battlefield—and Kade is their target.
Inside him lies Ish’Rael, a sentient relic capable of predicting and shaping war itself. As alien forces descend and human factions betray, Kade must navigate a city in chaos, protect those he cares about, and confront the very part of himself that could save or destroy—humanity.
In a war that refuses to stay in the past, Kade faces a choice: cling to his humanity or embrace the weapon he was always meant to be. Neon Ashes is a fast-paced, heart-pounding urban sci-fi saga of survival, power, and the cost of destiny.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 60: JONAH'S RETURNThe drones did not fire.They just scanned. Observed. Measured.They hovered above Sector Twelve like patient surgeons studying a specimen that had just shown unexpected signs of change—something new, something they needed to understand before deciding how to proceed.Kade stood in the center of the lab, the aftershock of the relic's whisper still settling through his body like ripples across water. The pressure gradients he'd described earlier felt sharper now like invisible lines threading through the entire city, each one pulling at him gently but insistently.Mila worked frantically at her console, shutting down external transmissions and rerouting power to their shielding systems."They're mapping your resonance signature," she said quietly, her fingers never stopping. "Comparing it against every previous relic spike they've recorded."Elira paced back and forth like a caged animal. "Can they pinpoint his exact location?""Not precisely," Mila replied, still working. "But they kn
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Chapter: CHAPTER 59: THE RELIC WHISPERSThe silence had weight.Not the artificial silence of calm streets under Concord's modulation grid, where emotions were filtered out like impurities.Not the ordinary quiet of an empty lab at midnight.This silence lived inside Kade. It had substance. Mass.For weeks now, the relic had been nothing but absence—no sudden flashes of warning, no branching glimpses of possible futures, no gentle pull guiding him toward choices. Only constant pressure. A steady, almost gravitational compression behind his thoughts, like something heavy pressing against the inside of his skull.Mila said the brain scans showed heightened neural readiness, whatever that meant.Elira said he was becoming dangerously unpredictable.Rovan said unpredictability was leverage they could use.Kade said nothing to any of them.He stood completely alone on the observation deck high above Sector Twelve, looking down at New Ardent's broken skyline. In the distance, Sector Eight glowed just slightly brighter than the re
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Chapter: CHAPTER 58: THE COST OF PEACEThe scans didn't lie. Mila ran them three times anyway, hoping she'd made a mistake. The lab beneath Sector Twelve hummed with old, tired machinery that barely worked anymore. Above them, the city was restless—new graffiti appearing overnight, small protests breaking out, whispers spreading through the streets. But down here in the buried lab, the only sounds were the cycling of air recyclers and the faint static from Concord signals leaking through their shielded walls. She projected the neural scan maps again, hoping they'd look different this time. They didn't. Rows of data unfolded in pale blue lines across the hologram: hippocampal suppression, amygdala dampening, serotonin levels stabilized way beyond what occurred naturally in humans. The patterns were too clean, too precise to be accidental. "It's emotional regulation," she said quietly, though the words felt wrong even as she spoke them. Kade stood behind her with his arms folded, eyes fixed on the holographic brain fl
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Chapter: CHAPTER 57: TOO QUIETDistrict Eleven didn't look conquered. It looked cured. Kade entered just after sunrise, when the light was still soft and gray. No barricades blocking the streets. No smoke drifting from burned buildings. No shouting or sounds of struggle. The streets were clean in a way New Ardent had completely forgotten how to be. Debris that had sat for weeks was now stacked neatly at street corners. Market tables were arranged in perfectly straight rows. Broken windows had been repaired with uniform sheets of reflective material, all exactly the same size. It looked like someone had organized everything while the city slept. The observer stood at the center of the main plaza, completely still. People moved around it without fear. Without hurry. Without much of anything, really. Kade walked slowly through the district, paying attention to everything. He expected to feel pressure in his chest—that familiar warning of danger. Something tightening inside him. Nothing came. Just a strange
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Chapter: CHAPTER 56: CONCORD'S SHADOWThe first observer arrived without any warning.No drop ships screaming through the atmosphere. No explosions or dramatic displays of force. No broadcasts announcing its presence.It simply walked into District Nine at dawn.Civilians froze when they saw it.The thing looked almost human at first glance, tall, with proportions that matched a normal person. But its limbs were smooth and silver-gray, like polished metal. Its face was just a reflective surface with no eyes, no mouth, nothing to read or understand. It wore no armor. Carried no visible weapon.It walked to the center of the market square, where people gathered every morning to trade what little they had.And then it just... waited.At the resistance outpost, surveillance screens suddenly flickered to life with the feed.Mila leaned forward, squinting at the display. "That's something new."Jonah frowned, running a quick scan. "No weapon signatures showing up. Nothing.""No power surges either," Mila confirmed, checking her
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Chapter: CHAPTER 55: MILA'S FEARMila noticed the change before anyone else did. It wasn't what Kade said—his words remained careful, measured, distinctly him. It was when he reacted. He would turn his head a full second too early, before footsteps reached the corridor. His eyes would narrow in warning before sound actually reached the room. Sometimes he stepped casually aside just before something fell from an unstable shelf, or reached out to steady a door before anyone had touched the handle. No visible visions. No physical warnings like the ones that used to make him stagger. Just knowing. And it scared her more than the relic's voices ever had. Kade sat on the edge of his cot in their shared quarters, hands clasped loosely between his knees, staring at absolutely nothing. The shelter hummed softly around them—the constant drone of aging generators, distant voices echoing through ventilation shafts, the whole wounded city breathing through cracks in concrete and steel. "You didn't sleep," Mila sai
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Harborview's Shadow
Kai Gibson has always been ordinary—too ordinary for a city like Harborview, where power, influence, and fear rule every street corner. After losing his father under mysterious circumstances and struggling under crushing debt, Kai is pushed to the edge of survival. But everything changes the night he’s ambushed behind an abandoned mall and a strange surge of energy awakens inside him.
With the rare ability known as Tactical Insight, Kai begins to see the world differently—patterns, threats, weaknesses, pathways to victory even when the odds are against him. Suddenly, the once-weak young man becomes a rising force in Harborview’s underworld.
But Kai’s evolution comes with a price.
Every step forward drags him deeper into a web of enemies: street gangs, corrupt elites, hidden organizations, and people he once trusted. Betrayals strike from unexpected places, and Kai learns that the attack that awakened his power wasn’t random at all—it was planned.
Now trapped between shadowy forces that want to control him and others who want him dead, Kai must level up faster than his enemies expect. Each chapter pushes him through higher stakes:
• deadly ambushes
• shocking betrayals
• growing supernatural abilities
• strategic face-slapping comebacks
• climbing from the lowest rung of society to a position of unstoppable strength
As Kai climbs, he uncovers the truth behind his father’s death, the origins of his new power, and a hidden war brewing beneath the city’s neon lights.
To survive, he must rise.
To win, he must become more than human.
And to uncover the truth, he must be willing to face the darkness inside—and the monsters hiding in plain sight.
Harborview will remember the name Kai Gibson… whether it wants to or not.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 35: LINES CROSSEDThe city didn't sleep.It watched.The med bay smelled like disinfectant and something metallic underneath—blood, despite how much they'd cleaned. Machines hummed steadily. Monitors beeped. Fluorescent lights buzzed too loud in the quiet.Mila lay on the table, chest rising and falling in shallow, uneven breaths. Alive. Barely.Kade stood against the far wall, hands pressed flat against the cold concrete. They were shaking—not from fear, but from something deeper. From restraint held so long it had become physical pain.He'd been holding back for months. Years, maybe. And holding back had almost killed the person he—He couldn't finish the thought."She'll live." The medic didn't look up from his work, hands steady as he adjusted IVs. "Lost a lot of blood. Shoulder's a mess. But she'll live."Kade exhaled a breath he hadn't realized he was holding."But not if this keeps happening," the medic added quietly. Now he looked up. "You understand? Next time she might not be so lucky."Kade
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Chapter: PART TWO TEASER: THE WORLD AFTER PARADOXThe world survived the Paradox. That does not mean it healed. In the aftermath of Blackreach’s stabilization, reality continues forward but no longer blindly. The rules still function, yet they hesitate, as if unsure whether they will be obeyed. Physics behaves… most of the time. History remains intact… except where it doesn’t. Across cities and continents, subtle anomalies surface: places where causality slips, memories that don’t align with records, people who feel as though they narrowly avoided being erased without ever knowing why. At the center of it all is Kai Gibson—alive, contained, and more dangerous now than when he held the Paradox Core at full autonomy. The Core did not vanish. It chose silence. Dormant does not mean harmless. It means waiting. As Kai attempts to live without reshaping the world around him, forces far older and far more patient than the Null Collective begin to move. Some watched the Paradox Event as observers. Others felt it as a warning. A few rec
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Chapter: CHAPTER 200: WHEN THE RULES STOP ANSWERINGThe sky over Blackreach did not collapse.It didn’t split open, didn’t burn, didn’t rain fire or void or judgment.It simply… steadied.That alone terrified the people watching.Because the sky had not been steady since the Paradox Core anchored itself to the city. It had shimmered with probability halos, rippled with recalibration auroras, hummed faintly like a machine holding its breath. Calm was unnatural now. Calm meant something had finished deciding.Kai Gibson stood at the center of that stillness.Not elevated.Not glowing.Not crowned by power.Just standing.The Paradox Core no longer pulsed visibly beneath his ribs. No radiant glyphs spiraled through his veins. No spatial distortions bent the air around his silhouette. For the first time since Blackreach fractured, Kai looked almost… ordinary.Almost.Veil watched him from the edge of the stabilization perimeter, every instinct screaming at once.Her instruments were silent.Not damaged.Not jammed.Not overridden.Silent b
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Chapter: CHAPTER 199: THE THINGS THAT REFUSE TO STAY ERASEDBlackreach did not heal.It adapted.The fires were gone. The distortions stabilized. The skyline held its familiar shape beneath a sky no longer fractured by paradox storms. To an outside observer, the city appeared whole—functional, resilient, optimized.But the people felt it.Something had been taken.Not stolen. Not destroyed.Removed.Kai Gibson walked through Sector Twelve at dawn, hands in the pockets of a jacket that no longer registered as anomalous. The Core had reduced its outward signatures. His Paradox eye lay dormant, glyphs muted beneath his eyelid. To scanners, he was human again.To the city, he was not.He passed a man standing in the middle of the sidewalk, staring at a stretch of empty pavement bordered by two intact buildings. The man looked confused, unsettled, as if trying to remember a word on the tip of his tongue.“There was a bakery here,” the man muttered to no one.Kai slowed.The man shook his head. “No. That’s not right. I don’t even like bread.”He lau
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Chapter: CHAPTER 198: THE QUESTION REALITY WAS AFRAID TO ASKBlackreach did not freeze.That was the first sign something was wrong.When time stopped before, it had been loud—reality tearing, probability snapping like overstretched wire, the Paradox Core screaming through Kai’s nervous system as it forced alignment. This was different.No distortion. No alarms. No resistance.The city simply… paused.A bird hung motionless mid-flight above Sector Twelve, wings extended, eyes unblinking. Rain halted inches from the pavement, droplets suspended like a constellation of glass beads. Neon signage flickered once, then held, colors burning without movement.People remained exactly where they were mid-step, mid-breath, mid-thought.Only Kai could move.He stood in the middle of an intersection that should have been screaming with traffic, the silence pressing against his ears so hard it felt physical. His Paradox eye spun wildly, glyphs cascading faster than he could consciously parse.“This isn’t you,” he whispered.The Core did not respond.That alo
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Chapter: CHAPTER 197: FRACTURES AND ASCENDANTSBlackreach shivered under a sky stitched with neon fractures. The air hummed with residual paradox energy—subtle, but enough to set the city on edge. Buildings leaned slightly where they should not, streets hummed with displaced vibrations, and shadows warped independently of light sources. Kai Gibson floated above Sector Fifteen, his Paradox eye flickering in sync with the city’s uneven heartbeat.The Core inside him pulsed with an urgency that was no longer Kai’s alone. Every micro-decision it made threaded through reality, reshaping probabilities faster than human thought could follow.Then came the Null Collective.They arrived not as single probes or isolated units, but as a coordinated wave—a lattice of light, shadow, and resonant code. Each unit shimmered briefly into form, scanning, calibrating, predicting. They moved in patterns that Kai could only describe as choreography: a dance of entropy designed to lock him into a kill zone.Host awareness heightened. Threat vector iden
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