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A realist novel is a type of literature trying to present life as it actually is and it is also known as urban novels, which was popular at Victorian age to reflect urban life at that period. Just as the saying goes, literature originates from what happened in life but beyond that. It’s an appropriate description of realistic novels. Main characters in urban novels are often shaped by writers based on someone’s characteristics in real life. You will experience another life and learn about something from the main characters’ experience in stories.
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The Heir’s Deception
At eighteen, Marco Velez lost everything.
A single accusation turned his family name into a curse. His father’s business collapsed overnight, his mother died in despair, and his ex-girlfriend married the one person he trusted least, his half-brother, Damian Cruz.
Years later, the city he was cast out from thrives under Damian’s empire of luxury and deceit. But fate has a cruel sense of timing: Marco inherits a vast fortune from a mysterious benefactor, and with it, a second chance.
Under a new identity, Marco returns to the glittering streets that destroyed him. Armed with wealth, intellect, and vengeance, he begins dismantling Damian’s world, one secret, one betrayal, one empire at a time.
But when his most loyal ally turns out to be working for Damian, Marco must decide what matters more: vengeance, justice, or his own humanity.
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RISE OF THE LOST HEIR: ASHES TO EMPIRE
Levi has always fought for everything — his grandmother’s love, his survival in a harsh neighborhood, and the girl he thought he could call his own. But Clarie’s betrayal, his best friend’s lies, and the crushing weight of debt leave him homeless, heartbroken, and desperate.
Elsa has loved Levi quietly for years, watching over him while hiding her own feelings. When his grandmother falls gravely ill, she becomes the only one who can keep him grounded — and the one he might finally lean on.
From the streets of Northwood Crest to the heights of a corporate empire, Levi’s life takes an unexpected turn when he discovers a truth that changes everything: he is the heir to a powerful conglomerate. But wealth and power cannot heal the wounds of betrayal, nor erase the past he tried to forget.
Now, with enemies circling and old scars threatening to unravel everything, Levi must navigate love, loyalty, and danger — while facing the woman who has always held his heart.
Will he find a way to forgive, to protect what matters, and finally claim the life and love he’s always deserved?
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The underestimated heir
Gabriel Carter has been the Morrison family's punching bag for three years. As their live-in son-in-law, he cooks their meals, scrubs their floors, and swallows their insults daily. His wife Seraphina won't even let him sleep in their bedroom. The only person who ever showed him kindness was Grandmother Abigail who loved him like a son.
Everything explodes at Seraphina's birthday party when billionaire Marcus Reeves slaps Gabriel across the face. Her father slaps him harder. Seraphina just watches. That night, a cryptic message summons Gabriel to Abigail's mansion, where he discovers the grandmother left him an $80 million fortune.
The Morrison family goes ballistic. Seraphina files for divorce immediately, convinced she's outsmarting Gabriel by taking the "valuable" real estate and leaving him with a "worthless" bank account.
Big mistake.
That account holds $50 million and it's multiplying daily through a secret AI trading system. But before Gabriel can celebrate, his sister Maya is kidnapped by ruthless enemies who want revenge. Now Gabriel must use his hidden billions and powerful new allies to save her.
The family that treated him like garbage is about to learn a brutal lesson: Never underestimate the man you pushed too far.
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Rise Of The Unprecitrable Man
Everyone looked down on Frank because of his status. His wife Alexa even handed him a divorce just to stay away from him. But regardless it did not stop Frank from becoming the most powerful individual in the world after he found out that he was the hair to Watford incorporation.
With this new sense of power all that Frank desired was to have his revenge on those that have harmed him and hurt him those that have pleased him in emotional turmoil in the past and he will stop at not to achieve this.
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The Silent Benefactor
For seven years, Derick Sekwiga lived like an ordinary, overlooked husband while quietly turning his wife's small company into a powerful empire behind the scenes. But when her charming ex-boyfriend suddenly reappeared with sweet words and hidden motives, she threw her trust at him and pushed Derick aside without a second thought.
Tired of being doubted, used, and disrespected, Derick signed the divorce papers and walked away without a fight. What his ex-wife never imagined was that the man she ran back to only wanted her wealth—and the “nobody” she divorced was actually the quiet force controlling half the city’s economy.
Now, with his identity revealed and his patience gone, everyone who ever underestimated Derick Sekwiga is about to face the consequences.
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THE TRILLIONAIRE BUTLER
Eric Pason is a poor, tired butler at the White House, silently enduring constant mockery from his superiors and the upper echelon of Washington society. His humiliation reaches a peak when his fiancée, Clara Raynor, publicly rejects his proposal, deeming him beneath her status as the Chief Advisor’s daughter. Unbeknownst to his tormentors, Eric is a genius lockpicker and has just inherited a vast financial empire from a mysterious jail cell mentor, Big 5. Framed for a crime he didn't commit, Eric is recruited for one impossible job: steal the President’s 'blood gold,' acquired through mass murder in Peru, and expose the White House’s secrets. As Eric works to uncover presidential infidelity, hidden paternity, and deadly traps set by DSS Malcolm Frees, he must ultimately race against time to save Clara’s life from a notorious group of killers, forcing him to choose between the revenge he deserves and the woman who scorned him.
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The Return Of The Young Marshal's
For ten years, the world knew him only as a myth
The Young Marshal.
The government’s most classified weapon.
The commander of 200,000 troops.
A man whose face was forbidden from appearing in public.
But Lorenzo Romano has finally come home.
After a decade of bloodshed on distant battlefields, Lorenzo returns to Marina Azzurra with nothing but a duffel bag and a promise carved into his heart:
Find Carolina Pescatori… the girl who once saved his life.
She moved on.
She became famous.
She doesn’t even know the war hero the world worships was once the street boy she helped all those years ago.
Haunted by war, burdened by secrets, and followed by a shadow of power he can’t escape, Lorenzo wants only one thing—
to repay the kindness that kept him alive when nothing else could.
But in a city of politics, wealth, hidden enemies, and old betrayals, the return of the Young Marshal is not a blessing…
It’s a spark.
One that could ignite a war far deadlier than the one he left behind.
And when Carolina finally meets him a gain, she must decide—
Is he the hero the nation calls a legend…
or the broken weapon he believes himself to be?
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THE SECRET SON-IN-LAW: Heir of War
For three long years, Leon Hale has lived as the disgrace of the Carson family—an unwanted son-in-law mocked for his poverty, treated like a servant, and blamed for every misfortune under their luxurious roof.
They think he is useless.
They think he is weak.
They think he has nowhere else to go.
They have no idea who he really is.
When a mysterious man appears one night, calling Leon “War God’s Heir,” the truth begins to unravel. Leon is the only surviving descendant of an ancient, feared military clan—one whose power, wealth, and influence could crush the entire city with a single command.
But Leon didn’t forget the Carson family’s cruelty.
He didn’t forget how they humiliated him.
And most importantly… he didn’t forget how his wife, Sophia Carson, was the only one who ever stood by him, even when her entire family turned against him.
Now, the man they treated like trash is about to become the most dangerous man they’ve ever crossed.
The world will soon kneel before him.
The Carson family will learn exactly who they’ve been insulting.
And those who try to hurt Sophia will meet the War God’s wrath.
But as enemies from his hidden past return—ruthless generals, underground syndicates, and a mysterious rival claiming his inheritance—Leon must protect the woman he loves while taking back the throne that rightfully belongs to him.
He came as a son-in-law.
He rises as a legend.
And this time… everyone will bow.
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Ludwig Harold - the Almighty God of War
The war that had raged for years had now ended under Ludwig Harold's short leadership.
After five years on the battlefield, he prepared for his return. He remembered his engagement to Lyra Winter.
Anger immediately overwhelmed him when he learned they were trying to arrange Lyra's marriage to another man.
"Give me back my 10 million dollars, and then you can marry Lyra Winter!" A man's shout completely shook him.
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Reborn To Squander As A Prodigal
After being in a coma for more than a year, Zavier Rockwell, finally felt like he had gotten his release.
As he floated as a ghost, he regretted his actions. Being ungrateful to the family that wanted nothing more than seeing him succeed.
Clouded by his illegitimate status, Zavier Rockwell wanted nothing more than soar higher, take his oldest birthright and stand tall among others. But how could he succeed when his fate was already written before his very birth?
Zavier Rockwell lack of business acumen made him fail miserably which resulted in him getting a sentence of life, destined to spend the rest of his life behind the four corners of a prison. But that wasn’t what the book of destiny decreed.
All it took was one vengeful spirit and he was comatose for life. With his pathetic life ending, never in a million years did he thought that he would get a second chance. But as they say, man proposes and god disposes.
Zavier Rockwell found himself reborn a few months before he officially blackened. This time, he wasn’t just a useless second rich generation kid but he was equipped with a prodigal system.
[Ding! Spend 100 million at the targeted location. Reward – an immortal pill. Failure – deduction of 60 hours’ worth of lifespan.]
Equipped with such a system, what could Zavier Rockwell who swore that if he ever gets a second chance at life would become a prodigal son and never mess with the family business do?
He could only grit his teeth and squander the money that his family was earnestly making and, in the process, found himself capable and prosperous.
Why was the script looking so wrong the more money he squanders?
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The Heir's Revenge
Lawrence Stiff, a once prosperous businessman, watch his whole life crumble before him after he married his extremely beautiful wife and got introduced into her rich family.
Everything finally fell to the ground when he realized that his in-laws were going to use his name to collect a huge loan, which would leave him in an unpayable debt.
When he found out his beloved wife was secretly cheating on him with her wealthy ex, he decided that he had had enough and walked away devastated.
Not until he got a call that he was the true heir of LanceCorp, the biggest, most powerful group in the whole of Europe.
Now extremely wealthier than anyone could ever imagine, he filed a divorce against his now ex-wife and planned to make everyone regret what they ever did to him.
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I Was the Joke: Now I'm the Punchline They Fear
He was the joke of the century. The nobody who somehow tricked a Bradford daughter into marriage. The pathetic man who couldn't even keep his wife faithful.
For five years, Marcus Chen endured hell as the despised son-in-law of the powerful Bradford family. They mocked him, abused him, and treated him like worthless trash. .
On the night of his divorce party, a celebration thrown specifically to humiliate him, Marcus finally signed the papers and walked away with nothing.
What the Bradfords didn't know was that Marcus isn't some nobody from nowhere. He's Marcus Chen-Laurent, the hidden heir of one of the most powerful empires in the city. Now that the game is over, Marcus is done playing the victim.
The forsaken heir has returned and he's bringing with him, HELL.
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The Son-in-Law Who Was the God of War
Zane was the weakest link—the worthless, live-in Son-in-Law who cleaned floors for his wife's powerful, arrogant family on campus. Every day was a cycle of humiliation, designed to keep him weak and subservient. They called him "Zero."
But Zane was a lie. He was the exiled incarnation of an ancient God of War, sealed in a mortal shell by a cosmic vow. His daily agony wasn't a punishment; it was a desperate containment protocol.
When a powerful Mythic System awakens inside him, forcing him to fight back to survive, Zane realizes the terrible truth: his wife, the ruthless Student Council President, is the unwitting key to his prison. If she dies, his power unleashes and destroys the city. If he fails to protect her, the Scions of Chaos will capture her and turn his divine spark into a weapon against the world.
Now, the Son-in-Law must rise as the Commander, using his hidden power to seize billions, crush his rivals, and fight a secret war to protect the one woman who is both his jailer and the only reason he remains a man.
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The Conglomerate Heir Awakens
Murdered by his cheating wife and ruthless boss, he rises again as the awakened heir of the world’s most feared conglomerate — a trillion-dollar empire!
Now unstoppable, he’s returning to reclaim everything they stole… and every traitor on his list is going to pay.
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I Went Back In Time With A Money Multiplier System
On his eighteenth birthday, Adrian Wolfe regresses back in time with nothing but fifty dollars in his pocket…
And a system.
[Money Multiplier System Activated]
At midnight, all money spent in the last 24 hours will be doubled.
Broke, betrayed by his greedy step-family, and on the edge of losing his future, Adrian begins a new life where every dollar becomes a weapon.
From renting luxury cars to buying collectibles, from bribing corrupt officials to flipping investments—Adrian races toward wealth at impossible speed.
And when he unlocks the System Shop, a new world opens:
Martial arts mastery with a single purchase
Items that detect lies
Stat-increasing tools
Weapons and abilities no normal person can obtain
The world remains mundane—but Adrian is no longer ordinary.
With money, power, and secrets in his hands, he rises from a forgotten nobody to a feared and admired billionaire.
Enemies fall. Opportunities open. His past life regrets are rewritten.
This time, Adrian won’t just survive.
He will dominate.
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The Mysterious Chairman Keith
On the day his girlfriend decides to dump him, Manuel Reeves awakens his family heirloom. A Ring of Power that gives him incomparable strength.
He discovers he is the heir of the biggest Conglomerate, the Nightingale Group of Companies. Now, he must alternate between his identity as Manuel Keith as the new Chairman of Nightingale Group and as Manuel Reeves, the miserable forsaken boy that got dumped by his girlfriend after donating Bone Marrows to her!
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FROM ASHES TO EMPIRE
Ethan Valor was once humiliated, mocked, and discarded by those closest to him—his wife, Victoria, and her powerful family, the Lornes. Branded weak and incompetent, he was fired from the family conglomerate and replaced by Victoria’s ex-boyfriend, billionaire Damian Cross. Everyone thought they had stripped him of his potential… but they had only awakened a relentless fire within him.
Retreating into obscurity, Ethan quietly rebuilt his empire, investing in technologies, acquiring strategic assets, and amassing wealth at a pace no one could anticipate. While Victoria and her family celebrated his absence, their empire slowly became unknowingly dependent on the very man they had scorned.
When Ethan returns, he is no longer the meek man they knew—he is a trillionaire, untouchable, and commanding power that stretches across industries and nations. The Lornes and Victoria come begging, but Ethan’s revenge is precise: he buys out their companies, ruins his enemies, and demonstrates that humiliation is the catalyst for unstoppable greatness.
From Ashes to Empire is a story of patience, vengeance, and ultimate triumph—a testament to intelligence, strategy, and unyielding ambition.
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The Campus Guard is a Retired God of War
They call him the "Watchdog of the West Gate." To the wealthy students, Alistair Cain is a joke—a dropout husband living off his brilliant professor wife, tasked with nothing more than checking IDs and chasing stray dogs off campus. To his wife’s powerful family, he is a stain on their reputation, a useless son-in-law who should have been discarded years ago.
But they don’t know why the West Gate is the only place on campus where the shadows never move. They don’t know that the "stray dogs" he chases are actually Hellhounds trying to breach the mortal realm. And they certainly don’t know that Alistair is actually the Calamity Star—the exiled God of War serving a 1,000-year penance to suppress the ancient evil beneath the university library.
When the seal begins to crack and the elite families of the city become pawns in a demonic war, the useless security guard finally stands up. "You can insult me all you want," Alistair says, adjusting his uniform cap. "But step one foot past this gate, and not even the Heavens can save you."
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THE UNDERESTIMATED BILLIONAIRE TYCOON
What do you do when the person you sacrificed everything for throws you away like garbage???
Blake Sterling spent three years as an invisible househusband—mocked, belittled, and humiliated. What his wife didn't know: he was the billionaire secretly engineering her success.
Every victory she celebrated? He built it.
Every door that opened? He opened it.
Every moment she looked through him like he was nothing? He swallowed the pain and kept building her success.
Until the night he discovered her engagement to another man.
The divorce papers she'd hidden in her drawer? He signed them first.
The company she thought she'd built alone? He'd orchestrated everything.
The life she thought she'd won? It was always his gift to give—and his to take away.
Now she'll discover the most terrifying truth of all:
The man who had nothing was the one who had everything. And she just let him walk away.
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A Cure for Innocence
When a young street medic is framed for a crime he didn’t commit, he must prove his innocence the only way he knows how, by saving the very woman who could expose him.
But in a city built on secrets, saving her means unearthing a past that could destroy them both.
The Healer of Hollow Street is a heart-stopping urban thriller about mercy, truth, and the pulse that keeps hope alive.
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