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Ethan Cole wakes in a hospital bed to the ultimate betrayal, his fiancée Emma and his best friend Daniel standing over him, smirking as they announce their engagement. The car accident that nearly killed him wasn't an accident at all. They orchestrated it, stole his company, and left him for dead. But as Ethan signs the divorce papers with trembling hands, a glowing screen materializes before his eyes. SYSTEM ACTIVATED. VENGEANCE PROTOCOL INITIATED. He has one hundred days to reclaim everything they stole, or his comatose mother dies and he loses his inheritance forever. Each completed mission grants him money, skills, and deadly secrets about the people who destroyed him. Ethan must navigate a world of corporate warfare, hidden allies, and brutal enemies while racing against a clock that could cost him everything. They wanted him dead. They should have made sure he stayed that way.

He spent three years being their servant. He spent ten years becoming the most feared man in the world. They never knew both were the same person. Ethan Cole is the Supreme King of the underworld — a man powerful enough to make governments move at his command. Yet for three years, he lived as an invisible nobody in the Lane family, cooking their meals and sleeping on their couch. He endured it for one reason—to find a girl from fourteen years ago who gave up her entire inheritance to save two strangers — Ethan and his mother — then vanished before he could even learn her name. What he didn't expect was to find her already at war with the same enemy who destruction them both. Now the patience is over. The tea trays and the borrowed genius — all of it was the calm before something they were never prepared for. They stepped on the wrong man. And he's been waiting.

He was raised to have nothing but was born to have everything. Now he's working as a security inside the empire that was stolen from him and falling for the one woman he's not allowed to want. Adrian Cole just learned he's the real Langford heir, switched at birth and erased from his own inheritance. Instead of exposing the truth, he infiltrates the family as their new head of security, patient enough to wait for the right moment to take back what's his. He doesn't expect Mira Langford, overlooked, underestimated, engaged to the brother who took Adrian's place to be the one person who sees him clearly. When his ex-wife resurfaces with the son he never knew existed, fleeing danger Adrian unknowingly works for, his careful plants starts collapsing in every direction at once. Now he's a father, a fraud, and dangerously in love with a woman he's forbidden to touch and the truth, once it comes out, will cost him everything he's fighting to protect.

Ethan Cole has spent his entire life being treated like dirt—an orphan, a nobody, the kind of person people look right through. But the ultimate betrayal comes from Vanessa, the girl he gave everything to, only for her to use and discard him like he was nothing. Just when he thinks life can’t get any worse, a shocking truth is revealed: he was never meant to live in poverty because he is the rightful heir to the Aurelius fortune, the son of the powerful Magnus Aurelius. Now, armed with his true identity and the resources of the Aurelius Group at his fingertips, Ethan is ready to make everyone who looked down on him pay. But as he steps into the world that was stolen from him, he realizes that his enemies who separated him from his father never left and are ready to strike again. With betrayals at every turn and secrets more dangerous than he imagined, Ethan must fight to claim what is his. But power comes at a price. Will he survive long enough to take revenge? Or will the past swallow him whole before he gets the chance?

The world is a machine built on a lie. Ethan is the bug that will break it. In the vertical city of The Hollows, your rank determines your right to breathe. While the elite live in eternal sunlight, Ethan Cole survives on the "scraps" of the lightless slums, a low-level clerk who just wants to stay invisible. Then the sky cracks. As the "System" initializes, the world turns into a lethal game. While everyone around him is granted the power of heroes and gods, Ethan is branded with a glitch: [Class: ERROR - CIVILIAN]. He’s supposed to be the first to die. But Ethan sees what the "Heroes" can't. He doesn't see monsters; he sees flickering code. He doesn't see magic; he sees unoptimized hitboxes. To the world, he is a nobody. To the System, he is a virus with Administrator access. Now, Ethan must climb the layers of the city he once feared, "deleting" the digital gods that treat humanity like fuel. He isn't here to play the game. He’s here to rewrite the rules. He’s not a hero. He’s the patch the world didn't see coming

For six years, Ethan Cole has been the joke of every room his wife walks into — the kept husband with no job, no past, and no use beyond the patience to be looked down on. What none of them know is that the three-hundred-million-dollar miracle that saved Sophia's company came from a single account hidden four shells deep, under a name even billionaires lower their voices to say: Atlas. The most feared fortune in the country has a face, and for six years it has been sleeping in her bed. When her returning ex-lover, Damien Hale, moves to take Sophia, her company, and everything Ethan quietly built to protect her, Ethan is left with a choice, keep playing the man they all wrote off, or let the world finally meet the one he buried. But power has a cost, and the moment his name surfaces, something older and colder comes looking: the dynasty he walked away from the night three people died, and the mother who has hunted him for eleven years. To keep the woman who once stopped seeing him, Ethan must decide what he is willing to become and whether his past will ever let him stay hidden at all.

For years, Adrian Cole lived in the shadows of a marriage that was never truly his. Though married to the woman he adored, his love was met with ice, disdain, and cruel silence. Her family treated him like a servant, mocking him as useless, poor, and beneath them. Yet Adrian gave everything, his heart, his time, his resources, even sacrificing career opportunities, just to see her smile. Until the night he caught her in another man’s arms. Heart shattered, Adrian finally walked away. What no one knew was that the man they scorned was not a nobody, but the long-lost heir of a dynasty that commanded empires. Overnight, the forgotten husband became the most sought-after man in the city, powerful, untouchable, a force beyond reach. His career soared, allies gathered at his side, and new love, pure and true, began to bloom. But as Adrian rose higher, the woman who once mocked him fell into ruin. Betrayed by her lover, stripped of her family’s protection, and rejected by the very society she once ruled, she realized too late that the man she despised was the one she should have cherished. Now, she kneels before him. But will the Forsaken Heir ever look back?

After losing his job, his apartment, and the last bit of hope he had left, Ethan Cole finds a single dollar lying on the ground—his final piece of pocket change. But the moment he picks it up, a strange message appears before his eyes: [System Activated: The God of Ruin’s Pocket Change.] The system tells him the coin in his hand doesn’t belong to an ordinary person. It belongs to the God of Ruin, a being so powerful that even thousands of dollars mean nothing more than spare change. With the system’s power, Ethan can buy things worth tens of thousands using just one dollar, acquire companies with a few coins, and manipulate fortunes across the world. But every purchase follows one terrifying rule—for every gain Ethan receives, ruin must fall somewhere else. A billionaire might lose everything overnight, corporations could collapse, and entire markets may crash just to balance the price of his fortune. As Ethan rises from a broke nobody to a man who can shake the global economy with pocket change, he slowly realizes a horrifying possibility: he may not be the one controlling the system. Instead, the God of Ruin might be using him, and every coin he spends could be buying the world’s destruction.

On the day of his graduation, Ethan Cole dropped to one knee before the woman he thought he would spend forever with. But instead of a "yes," her laughter cut through the air, sharp and humiliating. She told him he was unworthy, a nobody scraping by on part-time jobs, unfit to even breathe the same air as her. In front of the entire school, she walked away, straight into the arms of a wealthy heir who showered her with luxuries beyond imagination. What she never knew was that Ethan wasn’t poor at all. His family secretly controlled 70% of the world’s wealth, and by ancient family rule, he had been forced to live humbly until graduation. Now, on the eve of inheriting a global empire, Ethan will rise, not just to claim what is his, but to show the world, and the woman who scorned him, exactly who he is. But as Ethan steps into power, enemies circle. Greedy corporations, shadowy organizations, and even members of his own bloodline want him destroyed. In love and in war, he must navigate betrayal, vengeance, and temptation, while uncovering a darker truth: that power comes with a cost even money can’t pay. His ex thought she rejected a poor man. She had no idea she awakened a king.

"How dare you to raise your voice? You are nothing but a leftover food person," Cole spat the wine on his face violently. Stella relished the taunts of her husband. Aside from that, to make it more enjoyable for her. She add the fuel in it, and asked everyone attention in the party. She asked the audience with a mocking chuckle, "My darling husband, has told me to behave like a wife. Do you all think I should follow my poor husband?" The audience laughed with her, underestimated him. The insults was unbearable for him. But the concealed truth was more essential to him than continual humiliation. Aiden was pushed out of the house to beg and eat meals from trash by his parents at age 10. He was taken to the jail to murder his uncle. Fortunately, he was adopted by a mysterious old man, who taught him all types of wisdom. At the age of 16, he became the best killer on Dark Web. At 17 he received his PhD degree in the greatest university. At the age of 20, he rose to become the rich men' most renowned physician and covert Mafia boss. But he yearned for solutions to all of his existential queries.And the only person knows about it, Lord Osric. To know his childhood hidden truth, he became son in law of Osric's family.