The Prisoner Son Returns as the Medical Saint
“Sign it, Edward.”
Edward Cole stared at the divorce papers in his wife's trembling hand.
Three years ago, he took the fall for her brother's crime. Three years ago, he walked into Hell Prison so her family could stay free. Three years ago, he sacrificed everything—his freedom, his reputation, and his future—for the woman he loved.
Now she looked at him with disgust.
“You're an ex-convict,” she said coldly. “You don't deserve to stand beside me anymore.”
Her words shattered what remained of his heart.
While he suffered in prison, she became a business queen. What she never knew was that every contract, every opportunity, and every miracle that built her empire came from him. From the shadows, he protected her, loved her, and gave her everything.
Yet when he finally returned, all he received was betrayal.
Her family mocked him.
Society despised him.
Everyone believed Edward Cole was nothing but worthless trash.
Until one phone call changed everything.
“Lord Zeus, shall we reveal your identity?”
The world's most powerful billionaires bowed their heads.
Kings waited for his orders.
Entire nations trembled at his name.
The man they abandoned was Zeus—the hidden ruler of Apex of the Stars.
And now, those who broke his heart would learn the price of betrayal.
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Chapter: Chapter 49: The Golden CardChapter 45: The Golden CardThe lounge smelled like old wood and expensive silence.Vivien had chosen it deliberately. No staff, no family members hovering at a respectful distance, no performance required. Just two chairs angled toward the window and a city spread out below them, still burning through the dark the way cities do, indifferent to everything that had happened inside the manor tonight.She sat across from Edward and looked at him the way she had been looking at him since the hospital corridor, with the focused attention of someone trying to map something that kept refusing to hold still."You saved my grandfather's life twice," she said. "I want you to understand that I know what that means."Edward looked at the window. "Logan did the harder part.""Logan was unconscious," Vivien said flatly.The corner of his mouth moved. Not quite a smile. Something smaller and more private than that."It was a small matter," he said.Vivien looked at him for a moment, and the expressi
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Chapter: chapter 48: Part -2. "I was not asking for your approval, Uncle.""I was not offering it," Ken replied."Then we agree," Harley said, and turned back to Larl.Mark watched the exchange from his bed with his head tilted slightly back against the pillow. He had been quiet for a long time. When he spoke, his voice came out lower than usual, stripped of the heat that normally lived in it."What about the Holden family," he said. "Three months of competing for business orders does not fix what happened tonight."The ward went quiet again."No," Larl said. "It does not.""So we ignore it.""We manage it," Larl said. "Carefully. From a distance. We do not poke at that situation until we understand it better." He looked at Ken. "No more public statements about Edward. No more theories about deception. No more pointing fingers on stages."Ken said nothing."Kenneth," Larl said."I heard you," Ken replied.Larl looked at him for one moment longer, the look of a man deciding whether heard and understood meant the
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Chapter: Chapter 48: Three Months part-1Larl had not sat down since he arrived.He stood in the center of the ward with his hands at his sides and looked at his son in the chair, at the broken leg, at Peter against the wall with his jacket still twisted from being manhandled off a stage, and he took his time looking because looking carefully was how he had run this family for forty years before he handed it to people who broke their legs at celebration dinners.Ken held his father's gaze for as long as he could and then looked at his own hands."What I said makes sense," Ken said quietly. "You know it does.""I know it is convenient," Larl replied. "Those are different things.""Edward is not what they think he is.""You said that before you went on stage." Larl's voice was flat and did not move. "You said it loudly. Into a microphone. In front of two hundred people." He looked at his son for one more second. "We both know how that ended."Ken's jaw tightened."But," Larl said, and the word made several people in the room l
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Chapter: chapter 47: part-2a private citizen with a company scandal attached to her name." He looked around the room, meeting eyes, holding them. "We lose John Stanton's connection. We lose the cruise. We lose the room full of people on that boat who could open doors for this family that the Holden situation has tried to close." His chin lifted slightly. "Edward is a temporary problem. John Stanton is a permanent asset. Do not sacrifice the second for the first."Harley looked at him for a long moment."So your answer to offending a first-tier family," she said, "is to put all your hope in a party invitation.""It is not a party invitation," Ken snapped. "It is John Stanton. Do you understand what that name means in this city? The Holden family is first tier, yes. But John Stanton built half the infrastructure that first-tier families operate on. His relationships run deeper than any single banquet.""Then why were we not already in those relationships before tonight?" Harley asked.Ken opened his mouth."Why d
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Chapter: Chapter 47: The Cruise part-1Chapter 43: The CruiseKen sat up straighter in his chair and the movement cost him, the broken leg sending something sharp and white up through his thigh, but he pressed through it because this was not the moment to look like a man who could not sit up straight."Father." His voice came out measured, the boardroom voice, the one that still worked even when the rest of him did not. "I respect what you are saying. But going to Edward now would be the single worst move this family could make."Larl looked at him."The Holden family's impression of Edward is temporary," Ken continued. "It has to be. The man walked out of a prison cell two days ago with nothing. Whatever story he told them, whatever trick he pulled with that hospital situation, it is a house of cards and houses of cards fall." He spread one hand, the gesture of a man presenting something reasonable. "If we go to him now, if we bow our heads to that worthless piece of garbage before the Holdens discover who he really is, w
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Chapter: chapter 46: part-2"A first-tier family's patriarch. You vouched for the man. You and that Henderson boy presented him as legitimate." He paused. "And now my son is sitting in that chair and you are standing here arguing with your cousins about leadership."Eliza held his gaze. "Grandfather, I was deceived. The credentials were—""I am not interested in the credentials," Larl said. "I am interested in the result."The room was completely still.Larl looked at the family around him, the cousins, Jenna, Mark, the others gathered in the doorway, and his eyes moved across all of them with the slow, comprehensive clarity of a man who had built this family and understood its mechanics better than anyone in it."The Norton family has one path forward," he said. "One. And none of you are going to like it." He looked back at Eliza. "You are going to find Edward Cole and you are going to apologize to him. Directly. In person. Without conditions and without excuses."The ward erupted."Absolutely not." Jenna was o
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TORTURED ME, TO AWAKEN AS AN SSS DRAGON
“They should cut your hands off before the next ceremony. Why let trash touch the Awakening Stone?”
Dante Moretti is the disgrace of Saint Lucian Academy.
In a world where power decides status, wealth, and survival, Dante is worse than weak—he is nothing. The Awakening Stone doesn’t glow for him. The examiners laugh behind his back. Students spit insults every time he walks through the halls.
“Even stray dogs have instincts,” Renzo Cavalli sneers. “But you? You were born useless.”
Every day, Dante endures the humiliation in silence. Being shoved into lockers. Having food dumped over his head. Listening as students compare him to worms beneath their shoes.
Because if he quits the academy, his little sister Lucia loses her chance at a future.
Then the sky splits open.
Monsters descend upon the city, slaughtering everything in sight. Lucia fights to protect innocent people, but a D-rank Blightbearer tears through her defenses and lunges for her heart.
Without thinking, Dante steps in front of her.
The claw punches through his chest.
Blood spills across the road.
And the world changes.
His blood rises into the air.
A forbidden voice echoes inside his skull—
[Mother System activated.]
When Dante opens his eyes again, they burn gold.
The monsters freeze.
The air trembles.
And the boy everyone called worthless smiles for the first time in years.
“You spent your whole lives looking down on me,” he whispers. “Now learn what it feels like to kneel.”
Three D-rank monsters disappear from existence in a storm of crimson light.
Now the same academy that mocked him fears him.
The same elites who treated him like dirt suddenly want his loyalty.
But Dante hasn’t forgotten the laughter.
And this time…
the weakest boy in the world is no longer asking for acceptance.
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Chapter: chapter 92- Part -2He wanted to go home.He turned to Eva and found her already looking at him with the expression of someone who had been carrying the same thought and was waiting to see who said it first.They understood it at the same moment."This is where you're going," Dante said."And you're going back," Eva said."Yes."She looked at the street ahead of her, the Central Plains beginning somewhere beyond the Free Zone's administrative border, the direction where a person called the White Whale had been waiting in her father's instructions for six years."My father told me about him when I was twelve," she said. "The night the Church came for us. He told me that if they found me again, if I was running and I needed help and I had nowhere else to go, I should find the White Whale in the Central Plains." She paused. "I've been carrying that for six years. I'm finally in the right place to do something with it."Dante looked at her profile. The careful way she held herself, the things she still hadn'
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Chapter: Chapter 92: Goodbye part-1The portal spat him out and he was already moving.Dante hit the cobblestones at a walk that was almost a run, the Magic Tower's outer gate behind him, the city doing what cities do in the morning, unhurried and indifferent. He had three hours. He was not wasting three minutes of them standing still.He reached the inn in seven minutes, took the stairs two at a time, and knocked on Eva's door once before opening it.She was sitting at the small table with tea."We're leaving," Dante said. "Right now. If we don't move in the next ten minutes we may not get another chance."Eva looked at him over her cup. Something in his face told her everything the sentence hadn't. She set the cup down, stood up, and started packing without asking a single question.That was the thing about her. When it mattered, she moved.They were out the door in four minutes.The portal plaza was half-busy at this hour, merchants and travelers and the general traffic of a city that connected to places worth connec
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Chapter: chapter 91: part-2those categories to accommodate what they'd seen. Atlantis's composure was present but doing visible work. Eleonora's eyes were moving between Dante and the empty riverbed with the systematic attention of someone gathering data before they allowed themselves to react.The students behind them were completely silent.Annalisa was staring at the dry channel with her mouth slightly open, which was the first time since he'd met her that she appeared to have no words prepared.Dante stopped in front of Atlantis and Eleonora."I don't know what happened," he said. "It just absorbed into me. I couldn't control it."Atlantis looked at him.Not with anger. With the focused, complicated expression of a man fitting a large piece into a picture he had been building since yesterday and finding that it changed the shape of everything around it."The entire river," Atlantis said."Yes.""Every drop.""Yes."Eleonora turned from the empty bed and looked at Dante with eyes that were doing the same cal
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Chapter: Chapter 91: Three Hours part-1The drop hit his forehead and the world stopped.Not paused. Stopped, the way time stops in the moment before something breaks, and then everything happened at once from the inside out.His soul began pulling the absorption in, the system notation flickering across his vision with its question marks where the rank should have been, and the percentage climbed before he could read what it said. Fifteen. Forty. Seventy-two. Ninety-nine.Then the burning started.It was total in a way that the word total doesn't actually cover. His veins went red under the skin, visible, like something illuminated from beneath, and the flush moved up from his chest to his throat to his face and his eyes felt like pressure was building behind them from somewhere very deep and very old. The purple flame arrived without warning, consuming his soul from the inside, and the pain it produced operated above the level his brain was built to process.He couldn't scream. His body had forgotten how.The flame burned
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Chapter: Chapter 90: The TearAtlantis stood at the bank with his hands folded and watched the river.One hour. Three students had already come out and were sitting on the grass behind him wrapped in the towels Eleonora's assistant had produced from somewhere, looking drained in the specific way of people whose minds had been wrung. Eleonora stood two meters to his left, arms crossed, watching the water with the focused patience of someone who had done this before and knew what the waiting looked like."Giancarlo next," Atlantis said.Eleonora glanced at him. "You think Annalisa outlasts him.""Her life has been harder. Harder lives build different walls." He kept his eyes on the river. "She'll come out after him. And she'll come out ahead."The water moved as it always moved, quiet and clear, and then Giancarlo broke the surface.He came up gasping, not from lack of air, the gasping of someone whose mind had been under something heavy and had just had it lifted. He made it to the bank and sat down hard on the gra
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Chapter: chapter 89: Part -2different."Dante closed his eyes."That sounds strange," he said. "And beautiful."It was the truest thing he'd said in this conversation.Then Rohan's body started to dissolve.Not dramatically. It began at the edges, the fingertips, the skin losing its integrity in small patches that spread inward with the systematic precision of something that had been designed to be thorough. Flesh breaking down. Blood appearing where there had been no wound, running from tissue that was simply ceasing to hold its shape. The sound of it was quiet and that made it worse.Death by radiation. The punishment Dante had ordered. Specific, slow, designed by people whose job was to understand exactly how much a body could endure before it stopped.The river didn't let him close his eyes.He watched. He watched every minute of it and this time the distance he had kept in the original moment was gone, stripped away by whatever the river did to the mechanisms people built around their worst memories. The so
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