My Wife Betrayed Me. The System Chose Me
Caelan Ashborne was once destined for greatness until his mother’s mysterious death erased his name, his future, and his place among the elites. Forced to live under a false identity, he endured humiliation in silence, believing love and family were his final refuge.
Then his daughter was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Before Caelan could fight for her life, his wife betrayed him.
She demanded a divorce, publicly abandoned him, and returned to the powerful man she had always loved , declaring Caelan and his dying child a burden no longer worth carrying.
Cut off from medical access, mocked by society, and crushed by a world ruled by power and privilege, Caelan reaches the edge of despair.
That is when the system awakens.
Cold , Ruthless and deadly.
It does not save the innocent, it rewards the decisive.
To protect his daughter, Caelan must rise through blood, judgment, and sacrifice…
and become something the world never intended him to be.
The system chose him.
Now the world will pay.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 100The monitors glowed faintly in the quiet room, their projections flickering like stars in a collapsing constellation. Every calculation, every predictive model, every scenario the system had conjured was failing faster than it could generate it. Caelan watched silently as Lyra moved across the room, steps precise, eyes sharp, mind racing.She had already outpaced every expectation, every framework, every boundary the system had set.“Dad,” she said, voice steady, deliberate, almost regal in its calm, “I think… I’ve understood how to make it work for us. Instead of me following its plan, I can guide it.”Caelan’s chest tightened. He had suspected this was possible, but seeing her say it, knowing she had grasped it fully, left him breathless. “Then do it,” he said.Lyra placed her fingers on the console. Not pressing, not commanding, just touching. And the streams of numbers and probability patterns shifted, subtle at first, then cascading like ripples across water. The system was still
Last Updated: 2026-02-10
Chapter: CHAPTER 99The city below pulsed with life, oblivious to the quiet storm forming in a single hospital room. For Caelan, the world had always moved too fast to accommodate the powerless. For Lyra, it was just beginning to move too slow to contain her.She stood at the center of the room, amber eyes steady, arms folded, scanning the monitors like a strategist reading battle maps. Every line, every pulse, every calculated projection was a challenge now. The system had predicted obedience. Compliance. Predictable behavior. What it faced instead was a child unshackled, a mind uncontainable, a legacy refusing erasure.Caelan watched her, a mixture of pride and caution heavy in his chest. “You understand the stakes,” he said. “Every choice you make from here on… they’ll try to predict it. They’ll try to stop it.”Lyra’s lips curved faintly. “Let them try.”The monitors pulsed, the system escalating in intensity. Probabilities surged like electricity, converging and collapsing in seconds. It was trying
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Chapter: CHAPTER 98Lyra sat on the edge of the bed, legs swinging, eyes fixed on the pale ceiling. The room was quiet, but the hum of the system pulsing faintly through the walls reminded Caelan that nothing here was truly still. Not her. Not him. Not the world beyond the hospital tower.“Dad,” she said softly. Her voice carried a weight beyond her years. “I need to know about her.”Caelan froze for the briefest moment. Not because he hadn’t prepared for this question, he had–but because no answer could convey the depth of what had been taken from him, from her, from their family.“Your mother,” he began carefully, “was… remarkable. Stronger than anyone the world knew. And clever enough that they feared her even in her absence.”Lyra’s eyes narrowed. “Then why… why isn’t she here?”Caelan swallowed, his throat tight. “Because she was taken from us. Not by chance. Not by fate. By people who wanted everything she stood for, and everything she protected removed from the world.”She absorbed that quietly, h
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Chapter: CHAPTER 97The monitors were still alive, but the glow had shifted. Instead of patterns folding neatly under its control, the system now flickered like a puzzle missing a piece. One piece it could never retrieve.Caelan stood by Lyra’s bedside, arms crossed, watching the way her fingers tapped a rhythm on the mattress. She had done this since she was little, a simple nervous habit that now carried the weight of calculation. She didn’t notice him watching, not really but the system did. Every micro-movement, every pulse, every blink was mapped in real time.SYSTEM ALERT:SUBJECT LYRA ASHBORNE EXCEEDS OPTIMAL PROGRESSION RATE.VARIABLE: UNSTABLE.RECOMMENDATION: ADJUST INTERVENTION.Lyra tilted her head, listening to the silent hum of the monitors. “It’s trying again,” she said softly. “To see if it can predict me.”“And?” Caelan asked.She shrugged, still calm. “It won’t work.”It wasn’t arrogance. Not yet. It was observation. She had already seen how it faltered, how it failed, how it could neve
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Chapter: CHAPTER 96The room hummed with an almost imperceptible vibration, the kind of low-frequency pressure that Caelan had learned to notice long before it became audible. The monitors by Lyra’s bed flickered, not malfunctioning, but alive, scanning, mapping every pulse, every breath, every micro-movement with a precision that was almost invasive.Caelan stood beside her, arms crossed, sensing the pattern before it manifested: the system was running the comparison.Not of her vitals. Not of her strength. Not of her survival probability. It was measuring her against everything it had ever processed—every child in its database, every variable, every deviation. And Lyra, as always, did not fit.SYSTEM NOTICE:SUBJECT LYRA ASHBORNE: COMPARISON INITIATED.REFERENCE DATA: INCOMPLETE.DEVIATION RATE: UNPRECEDENTED.Lyra’s eyes were open, serene. Calm. But the way her gaze followed the invisible threads weaving through the system’s calculation made Caelan’s chest tighten. She understood the stakes. Not abstr
Last Updated: 2026-02-09
Chapter: CHAPTER 95Morning arrived without a system prompt. No objective. No metric. No faint mechanical pressure behind his eyes nudging him toward efficiency. The world felt heavier for it, like gravity had returned after a long suspension.Lyra slept on.Her vitals were steady, but that wasn’t what held his attention. It was the way her dreams moved, subtle shifts beneath her eyelids, micro-expressions passing across her face as if she were sorting through things she had no words for yet.Caelan had grown used to translations. The system framed everything loss as deficit, survival as optimization, love as leverage. Without it narrating the moment, he was left with something rawer.Uninterpreted reality.He reached for the chair beside her bed and sat, folding his hands together to keep them from shaking. This was the price of what he had chosen last night. Not punishment. Responsibility.The door opened quietly.No announcement. No clearance request.Just fabric brushing air.Jux stepped inside and c
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