Chapter: Chapter 854Tyler hit him. The cracked glasses flew off and bounced across the carpet.Tyler hit him again, and the old man fell against the gold sofa with both hands over his face."Please," he said. "I'm only looking for my daughter."The room laughed. Chloe had her phone up again."Twice in one night!" she said. "Tyler, you're a legend."Tyler pulled back his fist a third time.A hand closed round his wrist.Nobody had seen Alex get up. He held Tyler's fist in the air as easily as if it were a cup of tea."Enough," said Alex.Tyler pulled. The hand did not move. He pulled harder, until his face went red, and still it did not move."Let go of me, kennel boy.""He's an old man. He's said sorry to you twice. That's enough."For one second, nobody in the room laughed. Then Alex opened his hand.Tyler stumbled backwards into the table, and a bottle of twenty-thousand-dollar cognac went over and glugged out onto the carpet."Somebody else is paying for that too," said Alex.He knelt, found the glass
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Chapter: Chapter 853Tyler unclipped his seatbelt and got out of the car.He walked straight to the grey car and pulled its driver's door open so hard the hinge screamed.The driver was a thin old man in a cardigan, his glasses knocked crooked. His wife sat beside him, holding her neck."I'm sorry," the man said. "I'm so sorry, I was looking for my daughter's place, I didn't see behind me—""You didn't see me?" Tyler took him by the cardigan and dragged him out onto the road. "You crawl out in front of me like a snail, and you didn't see?""Please, young man, it was an accident—"Tyler hit him in the face. The man's glasses went skidding across the tarmac.He fell against his own car, and Tyler hit him again, and again, until he sat down in the broken glass with blood running out of his nose."Stop it!" the woman screamed through the window. "He's sick! Stop it!"All along the road, the party had got out of their cars to watch. Nobody moved to help."Tyler!" Chloe called, with her own phone held up. "Peop
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Chapter: Chapter 852The next evening, at six o'clock, Alex was in the east room of the Tiffany house when Serena rang from Halcyon."I'm stuck here until midnight," Serena said. Behind her voice, glass clinked and somebody was shouting about labels."The new bottles came in wrong. Every single one. Alex, I need you to do something for me.""Anything.""It's Patricia's birthday tonight. She's taken Nora with her." Serena dropped her voice."Patricia has been hanging on Nora's arm since the day she landed. A Hale from the capital looks very good in a photograph. And Patricia's friends are sharks. Go with Nora. Look after her.""Does Patricia know I'm coming?""She will when you get there." A pause. "Be nice.""I'm always nice.""That's what worries me," said Serena, and hung up.Then the phone buzzed again."Alex? One more thing." Her voice was softer. "Thank you. I've never had anybody I could just ask before.""You have now," said Alex.The coffee house on the harbour front was the expensive one, with li
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Chapter: Chapter 851"Marissa," Gideon called. “Our safety…”"I'm warning you, Gideon." She marched across the room and pointed one finger at his nose."If you make that boy give this house back, I will divorce you. I mean it. I'll pack my bags tonight. And you can go and live under the stairs with your box of books."Gideon opened his mouth.He looked at his wife's finger. He looked at the little reading room, and then at the holes in the floor, and he could not tell which one frightened him more.He closed his mouth again, and went and sat down on the nearest sheeted chair, very slowly, like a man whose legs had stopped working.Marissa turned to Alex.The sour look melted off her face like butter off hot toast. She came across the room with both hands held out, took Alex's hands, and squeezed."You're a good son-in-law," she said warmly. "Didn't I always say so? A good son-in-law after all.""You said I was good for nothing," said Alex. "About an hour ago.""Did I? I don't remember that." She patted hi
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Chapter: Chapter 850On the gravel in front of the glass house, every Tiffany leaned in to listen."My young friend!" Mr. Wolfe's voice came out of the phone, and it was a different voice from the one at the Hunt house. Stronger. Warmer. Almost laughing. "Did Nina open it up for you? Do you like it?""I like it very much, sir. Thank you.""No, no. Thank you. I walked to the pond this morning. To the pond! My doctor nearly fell over."Patricia's lips moved without a sound. Mr. Wolfe. The real Mr. Wolfe, the man the whole coast stood up for when he came into a room, was laughing on the phone with the boy from the kennels like an old uncle.She pushed forward and leaned right down over Alex's phone."Mr. Wolfe," she said, loud and sweet. "Mr. Wolfe, it's Patricia Tiffany. You know my grandmother, the Baroness. I'm sorry, but everybody is wondering. Why would you give a house like this to him? For no reason?"There was a short silence on the line."And who are you," said Mr. Wolfe, and his voice had gone as c
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Chapter: Chapter 849"If it isn't Tyler's," asked Preston, "then who's the owner?"Alex put down his butter knife."Mine."Nobody at the Tiffany breakfast table said a word. Somewhere in the kitchen the kettle began to sing, and nobody got up to take it off.Then Aunt Marissa laughed. It was a short, sour little laugh, and she shook the newspaper flat again."Listen to him. Did you hear that, Gideon? Some young man gets the best house on the whole hill, thirty million dollars, handed to him like a birthday cake." She looked at her stepdaughter over the top of the page."And what did my daughter get? A husband who is good for nothing. He has eaten at this table since the wedding, and he can't even pay for his own toast."Preston was laughing so hard he had to put his coffee down."Yours? The glass house at the top of the hill? Yours?" He pointed his good hand across the table. "Are you laughing at us, you id..."He stopped. Since the night Serena stood up to the Baroness, nobody in this house called Alex a
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Supreme Authority
They framed him, stripped him bare, and laughed as they cast him out.
They have no idea he’s already lived this hell once—and this time, he holds all the cards.
Two years of devotion ended in a calculated trap: drugged in a luxury hotel room alongside Sophia, his wife’s innocent cousin, and framed for a scandal he never committed. Alexander Sinclair was meant to lose everything.
His treacherous wife, Victoria, orchestrated his downfall to strip away his family legacy, his fortune, and his dignity under the guise of an ironclad prenuptial agreement.
To seal his humiliation, the haughty Cavendish matriarch forced him into an immediate marriage with the disgraced Sophia—casting both out into the cold with nothing. The elite thought Alexander was finished. They saw an empty-handed beggar sleeping above a laundromat, a disgraced son whose family accounts were frozen by ruthless high-society lawyers. They were dead wrong.
Alexander has reincarnated with four hundred years of memory.
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Chapter: Chapter 50The next evening, Brenda bought a cake with cream and a paper crown on top, and set it on the fold-out table like a new car."My daughter," she said. "Director. Now listen. From your first month, seventy percent of your pay goes to your mother. Young people waste money."Danny looked up from his slice. "Seventy?" he said. "Can I have the other thirty?""You can lick the plate."Sophia laughed. "All right, Mom. Seventy. But no more 'fruit boy.' Not here. Not at Elm Ridge. Not ever."Brenda looked at Alexander, washing the knife at the sink, and pressed her lips together. "For you," she said, "I'll try."The next night, Elm Ridge was lit up like a ship.Cars lined the drive all the way to the gate. In the long dining room, extra tables had been carried in round the long one, under the crystal chandelier. Among them stood every big name in the city: bankers, builders, the woman who owned the biggest hotel in town.They had all come for the same thing. Every few seconds, someone glanced a
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Chapter: Chapter 49Sophia stood on the narrow stairs with the wooden box in her arms and waited for an answer.Below them, the first washing machine of the morning began to turn. The box smelled of earth and roots. Alexander looked at it, and then at his wife.The truth was right there. One sentence, and it would be out on these stairs, between the soap smell and the peeling paint."If I told you Vincent Hale is afraid of me," he said, "would you believe me?"Sophia looked at him for a long moment. At his wrinkled shirt. At his old shoes. At the hands he kept tucked under his arms, as if he were still cold from somewhere."Afraid of you." She shifted the box. "Alexander, I think all those old newspapers you never read have finally driven you mad.""Maybe.""He knelt at the Silver Crown because of Grandpa. Everybody knows that." But she said it slowly, like someone reading a sign she was not sure of any more. "Why would a man like that be afraid of you?""Ask me again when you're the director.""You said
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Chapter: Chapter 48On the third floor of the Heron House, Hunter's foot stopped in the air."Who said that?"Every head turned to the window. Alexander was still standing there with his back to the room. He was looking out at the river, as if the lights on the water were the only interesting thing in the building.Hunter put his foot down slowly.He had seen this young man when he came up the stairs. He had not looked twice. But a man who could watch all of this and then open his mouth was either a fool, or something else. Hunter had not lived through ten years abroad by guessing wrong about that."Well, Mr. Hale?" Alexander said, still to the window. "Do we have a deal?"Vincent stared at the young man's back from his knees. Master Joseph had failed. Two men with guns had failed. Twelve men before them had failed. And now a young man in a wrinkled shirt wanted a box of weeds to save him. It was madness.But a drowning man does not choose what he grabs."Deal!" he cried. "Yes! Anything! Every herb in th
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Chapter: Chapter 47On the third floor of the Heron House, Vincent's two gunmen pulled their guns out of their pockets.They never got to point them.Hunter did not even turn round. He picked two chopsticks off the broken tea table and flicked his wrist, once. There were two wet sounds, and two screams. Both men stood staring at their own hands. A chopstick stuck right through each one. Their guns dropped onto the carpet.Ten minutes. That was all it had taken. Ten minutes since Hunter had walked up those stairs, and every man Vincent had paid for was on the floor, or bleeding, or both.Only two people in the room were still untouched.One was the big man in the sling, pressed into the corner. The other was Alexander, standing at the window with a cup of tea in his hand.He poured himself another cup. Somebody had to enjoy the tea Vincent had paid for.But his eyes never left Hunter's fists. Twelve men, a student and a master, and the scarred man had not once had to guard himself. Alexander's weak body h
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Chapter: Chapter 46Late that afternoon, Sophia sat at the fold-out table with her drawings of the tower's lobby. Her pencil had not moved for ten minutes."I'm going out tonight," Alexander told her. "Late. A man owes me something. He can get me some old herbs I need, and nobody else can."She looked up at him. "Is that the truth?""Yes," he said."Is this part of soon?""It's part of why there can be a soon."Sophia looked at him for a long time, as if she were trying to see through his face. "Then go," she said at last. "And come back."At dusk, seven of them took a motorboat from a little pier below the old warehouses. Vincent, his big man in the sling, two men with heavy pockets, Master Joseph, Nicholas. And Alexander, at the back. As the boat pushed out into the black river, Nicholas sat down beside him and grinned."I've got news for you, kid.""Good news?""Better," said Nicholas. "Master Joseph has a special job for you tonight.""Pouring the tea?""Think bigger."Alexander nodded slowly. "Oh. I
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Chapter: Chapter 45The morning after the rooftop, Alexander's cheap phone rang on the fold-out table. Brenda was still asleep. Danny was frying bread and singing to it."Alexander." The voice was smooth, a little too polished. "Vincent Hale."Alexander remembered the Silver Crown. The rings. The cigar. The night Vincent Hale stayed on his knees on his own carpet, begging."How did you get this number?""I remember names," said Vincent. "Numbers are easier. Come to lunch today, at the Silver Crown. I'd like to say sorry properly.""You already said sorry.""Then come for the food." A small pause. "Please."It was the please that made Alexander say yes. Men like Vincent Hale did not say please on the telephone.At noon the Silver Crown was dark and shut, the chairs upside down on the tables downstairs. Upstairs, Vincent's room still smelled of leather and cigar smoke. By the door stood a big man with his arm in a sling: Vincent's biggest man, the one who had cracked his knuckles in the bank."What happene
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Return of Overthinker
When the demon finally harnessed human sins and negative emotions to harvest negative energy, it opened a spatial gate to the planets that were already ravaged by monsters and teeming with dark creatures. The beasts and monsters passed through the gate, unleashing havoc upon Earth. These monstrous creatures caused destruction on a massive scale, pushing the earth toward an apocalyptic catastrophe.
In this dark time, The Creator granted certain humans the ability, marked by symbols on their right hands, to wield the power of gods and angels to combat these dark creatures.
My ability was 'Overthinking,' the weakest, but with hard work, I persisted for 60 years to become the most powerful and the savior of the world. However, in my final moments, I was betrayed by a friend who was born rich and noble, who forced me to die to obtain everything I had worked so hard for. Nevertheless, before my demise, I sent my memories back to my younger years.
This time, I will obtain everything: the best items, the finest women, and the most potent abilities. All will be mine!
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Chapter: Chapter 204I was a bit surprised. "Isn't down there a place where the dead rest, and there is nothing but cold and barren land?" "At first, it was a place full of beauty, but those who did not like it destroyed everything in it, making it cold and barren. I hope you can help those suffering down there find kindness and peace. In truth, you can build a place far more beautiful than the palace of the gods because hell was initially a very beautiful place for those in need." "I accept it wherever You send me." *** In a temple where knowledge was usually shared, several humans who were teachers of various schools gathered to discuss important matters about knowledge. "Hey," said one human to another, "Why did the gods stop sharing their knowledge with us?" "Haven't you heard that the King of the gods, or God Indra, has been replaced?" "Really?" "God Indra is now angry after finding out that knowledge was given to humans by the previous Indra," said another human. "He stopped all knowledge fro
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Chapter: Chapter 203After 1,000 years had passed, the three worlds experienced their golden age. There was no poverty or hunger throughout the three worlds. Everything was going very well. All dimensions entered a golden age because kindness became the most important thing in the three realms. Humans, gods, ashuras, and all beings were directed to continue giving kindness to all creatures. During my reign, everyone competed to do good so that there was no poverty, hunger, or lack. During that time, those who came to me, whether gods, ashuras, or humans, would get what they asked for. I did this as my way of doing good to all beings.One day, a dwarf-bodied brahmin came to my palace. The brahmin, called Vamana, had a body that was only waist-high to an ordinary human. He wore white clothes that wrapped loosely around his small body. However, considering that he was a human and came from the third dimension, being able to ascend to the twelfth dimension where the gods' palace was located was alr
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Chapter: Chapter 202"I don't remember that part," I said. "Because each life makes you forget. I just want to say, if you give the gods' knowledge to humans, won't the gods lose their power? Haven't you humiliated them all? Your strength has made you not understand the feelings of the weaker gods." "Guru, if what you say is true, is my current strength because I was a strong spirit in the past?" He looked at me and weakly shook his head. "No, all spirits start from the same place." "Then why did I become strong?" "You had no fear, and your enjoyment of playing made you keep striving for something greater without caring for your own life." Brihaspati continued, "However, what placed you as King Indra is something else." "What is that?" "A sense of responsibility to protect the weak and make life better for all beings." Brihaspati sighed. "Those who have that sincerity will always be carried by karma and the will of God to re
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Chapter: Chapter 201"Boss, you've become weak," said Raindo, one of the Ashura generals, approaching me. He looked enormous compared to my now smaller form. "You keep spending time in that school and library. You never fight anymore. You're going to become weak, and the previous Indra will soon return to reclaim his throne." "You just don't understand, my brother," I said, still reading a book. "Right now, I am ten times stronger than I was before." "I don't believe it," said Raindo, one of the strongest generals. "Let's test it." "Of course," I said, seemingly unconcerned. "Get ready." "I'm always ready," he replied. As soon as he said that, a bolt of lightning shot down from the sky, striking his body. He was thrown far, crashing into the palace walls and severely injured. "What happened?" he asked, looking confused and trying to stand up. He didn't know what had hit him. "I just attacked you. I gained the power
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Chapter: Chapter 200“Oh,” I shouted. “That's easy.” Suddenly, I felt very smart. “I have plenty of wealth in the treasury.” Quickly, I ordered several Ashura to bring as much treasure as possible from Indra's vault and distribute it to all the Ashura. All the Ashura were happy. “Look, Guru, haven't I done a good deed? I shared my wealth with them.” I felt pleased. “Fool!” he shouted. “You haven't done a good deed at all. You should have given the wealth to those in need.” I fell silent. Quickly, I ordered all the Ashura to return the treasures they had received. The Ashura didn't need wealth; if there was one thing they needed, it was weapons. They all grumbled, and I quickly asked, “Do you want food and drink or wealth?” “Food!!!!” “Drink!!” None wanted wealth. Suddenly, it dawned on me. Who needs wealth? The Ashura don't need wealth, the gods already have plenty of wealth. The only poor creatures needing wealth are humans
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Chapter: Chapter 199“Prepare all the food and drinks. All the gods must order their servants to bring all the food from their palaces. Call the apsaras, the heavenly maidens, and beautiful dancers. Call the singers and musicians. We will have a party.” So, a grand feast was held for days in the courtyard of Indra's palace. Music, dancing, and food never stopped. After that, the Ashura were left drunk in the palace courtyard. The gods had returned to their respective duties. I moved around to see the entire palace, and suddenly, an old man appeared before me. “What have you done to this place?” the old man asked, looking at the palace's new weapon-laden decor. “Who are you?” I asked, confused. This old man wore the simple clothes of a Brahmana, a single piece of cloth. The Brahmana do not fight, so we never touch them. If they get angry, we could get the worst curses of our lives. But if they are pleased, they could grant us many new and exciting powers. We prefer to appease them and wait for the
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