After Death

kneeling before the tomb that houses the remains of nanny Naomi, Redmond Red knew clearly without doubt that he has only one responsibility and that's to crush every soul that brought about the premature death of the purest soul. twenty years ago, eight years old Redmond Red's family was assassinated, fifteen of them while he was only able to escape by a whisker following the sacrifice of his nanny. "Dear boy, protect my baby girl" Nanny Naomi had cried out in sorrow before their cruel sword penetrated into her. For years he has been tormented by her last moments. He could remember her heavy pants, the hot sweat that soaked her cloth and the uncertainty in her eyes. Twenty years later, he is back to reward everyone according to their deeds. They said on his right hand was the sword of vengeance while on the other was a list, the "death list". Cursed is one whose name were scribed in his list for they shall meet a fate so excruciating that the devil will weep.

After breaking up with his girlfriend, Eric Johnson married a beautiful female CEO to cover his father's $15,000 surgical bill.

Caelan Voss spent four years behind bars to protect the woman he loved, and when he came back, what he got wasn't a warm embrace but divorce papers. Abandoned by his wife, humiliated by her family, driven out of the hospital where he once thrived, everyone in Velmont was convinced Caelan was finished. What they didn't know, those four years in prison didn't destroy him, but turned him into something far more dangerous than they ever knew. Now Caelan Voss is back, not to apologize or beg for sympathy, but to force everyone who ever stepped on him to kneel at his feet.

Married into the rich Griffin family through a binding contract, Bruce lived three years as a useless son-in-law and a worthless husband. While his CEO wife ruled boardrooms, he cooked, cleaned, and endured endless insults from her family. When financial ruin threatened the Griffins, Caro didn’t hesitate to sell her marriage to millionaire executive Willis Stone. Betrayed and humiliated on his wedding anniversary, Bruce was pressured into a divorce. Moments after the ink dried, Bruce inherited the Shepherd Conglomerate, a global empire worth $100 trillion. Stripped of love, and filled with revenge, Bruce began his ascension to power while face slapping and crushing everyone who wronged him under his feet.

To the world, Elijah Crawford is nothing but Rhonda’s useless husband. To her family, he’s a burden to be despised. But beneath the disguise lies the heir to a fallen empire, a man whose enemies murdered his father and stole everything that was his. Now, in Quantum City, Elijah is done hiding. The son-in-law they mocked is about to rise and the world will never forget his name.

Gibson Ridge had it all, the looks, the love, the loyalty. At least, he thought he did… Until his wife, Deborah Greenwood, the heiress of a powerful dynasty, betrayed him with their own business partner. Cast aside, humiliated, beaten, and left for dead, Gibson vanished from the world. Everyone believed he was gone, everyone except his daughter Clara, the only one who knew her father’s heart. But Gibson was no ordinary man. In secret, he was the hidden trillionaire behind the most powerful empires in the nation. And now, he is back. Not just for revenge. Not just for justice. He is back to reclaim his daughter, dismantle the Greenwood dynasty, and show the world who truly holds the crown. The Greenwood family thought they destroyed him. They never imagined they had created their greatest enemy.

Derek Cross spent five years in a cage like an animal for a crime he never committed — because the woman he loved begged him to take the fall. He believed it was an accident. He believed she was worth it. He was wrong on both counts. The moment he walks free, Vanessa is waiting — not to welcome him home, but to destroy him in front of a stranger's kiss. Nolan Frost, heir to the Iron Talon Gang, wraps his arm around her waist and delivers the final blow: "Baby." He grinned around the word. "So this is the idiot who went to jail for me." Nolan was driving that night. Vanessa set Derek up from the beginning, orchestrating every tear, every promise, every year stolen from him — all to bury him while she climbed toward everything she'd taken. They think they've broken him. They have no idea what actually walked out of that prison. Two old men had quietly watched Derek from the inside — a martial master who rebuilt his body into something lethal, and a gentleman who handed him the one thing no fortune could buy: the chairmanship of Olympus, the empire sitting above every throne in Crown City. Even Darius Carter — the phantom underground emperor the city fears, the man two-thirds of its syndicates kneel to — is nothing more than Derek's errand boy. Derek doesn't want blood. Not yet. He wants Vanessa and Nolan to watch, in real time, as everything they stole is returned tenfold — while they kneel in the wreckage of what they threw away. Beside him stands Monica Hayden, the woman his godfathers chose — cold, brilliant, and the only one who ever saw what Derek Cross truly was. Not a loser. A storm nobody saw coming.

For three years, Adrian Cole lived as the despised son-in-law of the wealthy Hale family, enduring humiliation for the sake of his wife, Vanessa Hale. Her parents sneered at him, her brother ordered him around like a servant, and society labeled him a nobody. Still, Adrian loved her—pouring his savings into her business ventures, helping her behind the scenes, even letting go of his own career so she could shine. But Vanessa never once saw his worth. Until the night he caught her in a Ravencrest luxury hotel suite—with Marcus Trent, her arrogant business partner. That night, Adrian’s world shattered.

A conspiracy begins in the sky in Los Angeles - the land of lost angels. It created a terrible tornado that swept the life of Daniel Lopes and those around him. Daniel suddenly becomes an essential target in the terrible battle between humans and the 'blood-sucking zombies' New Zombie. The CIA, the FBI, the LAPD, and the North Star Lighting Company all suddenly turned into satellites revolving around Daniel. His relationships with beautiful, talented, and dangerous girls quickly make his life more complicated than ever. Daniel and the others kept thinking that the New Zompire 'biological disaster' was manufactured. That's why they try to trace it to where it all started - Flight LBNY013. But the more he investigates and learns, Daniel realizes that everything is not as simple as it seems. And then, he also had the opportunity to encounter a supernatural force behind the 'New Zompire'. Between family, love, and the quest to save the world… Daniel will only be able to choose one. How will he decide?

He was forced to marry a pregnant woman, and it was because of that marriage that he became a rich man.