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They say forgive and forget, but then again, revenge is a dish best served cold. *** Julian Ford thought he knew everything about his life until he discovered that the parents he thought were dead were alive and incredibly wealthy. Now he had the means to get revenge on all the people who had destroyed his life and made it a living hell.

Julian Montague, a child adopted by the Kingsley family. At the age of 18, Julian was married off by Sebastian Kingsley to his youngest child, Aurora Kingsley. In their third year of marriage, Julian and Aurora did not have any children. Julian worked odd jobs as a waiter at one of the Kingsley family's resorts. Isadora, Aurora's sister, and Felicity, Aurora's mother, strongly dislike Julian. They force Aurora to divorce Julian. However, who would have thought that Julian was one of the conglomerate's children who had been missing since childhood.

Julian Ashford spent twenty-six years quietly holding his adoptive family's company together, closing every major deal Halden Corp ever took credit for. Then a stranger named Preston walks in claiming to be Richard Halden's real, biological son, and in a single afternoon Julian is cast out of the house, stripped of his position, and abandoned by his own fiancée. What his family doesn't know is that Julian secretly built Sterling Vale Group, one of the country's most powerful investment firms, entirely hidden from them. When he stops holding Halden Corp up, it starts to fall, and Julian patiently uncovers a scheme by a corporate raider named Elias Marsh to steal the family's most valuable land. But exposing Marsh doesn't end anything. Marsh was never the top of the chain, and the man funding him will not simply disappear. A cornered Preston, desperate and out of options, makes a choice that nearly costs Julian his life. A forgotten branch of the family resurfaces with a legal claim on everything Julian has built back. And once Julian's empire becomes public knowledge, a rival chairman circling for weakness decides Sterling Vale is the next company worth tearing apart. Every time it looks like Julian has finally won, the war gets bigger. Stay tuned for this ride with Julian and the empire nobody knew he built.

Nathan has spent the last five years trying to leave his past behind. Once an elite operative of The Oath, a secret organization controlling world events from the shadows, he walked away, seeking peace. But one night, he wakes up in a bloodstained room with no memory of the last 48 hours—only to find himself branded as a terrorist and the target of a nationwide manhunt. On the run and unsure if he truly committed the crime, Nathan turns to Riley, a skilled underground hacker, for help. As they dig deeper, they uncover a terrifying truth—his memories have been altered. Clues left behind by Elias Graves reveal that Nathan once broke his unbreakable oath to the organization, but someone wiped his mind to keep him from remembering why. The conspiracy leads to Julian, Nathan’s former best friend, who is orchestrating a global web of deception built on manufactured threats and lies. Determined to uncover the truth, Nathan infiltrates The Oath’s headquarters for a final confrontation with Julian. But the shocking revelation leaves him shattered—Nathan wasn’t framed. He willingly took part in the crime but later chose to erase his own memory to escape the unbearable guilt. A recorded message from his past self forces him to face a critical decision: Expose Julian and bring down The Oath, risking global chaos. Take control of The Oath and become the very thing he once fought against. No matter what he chooses, the cost is high. If he exposes The Oath, the world is thrown into instability, and he is forever hunted. If he takes over, he sacrifices his own ideals, embracing the power he once rejected. In the end, as Nathan looks at his reflection, he sees Julian staring back—proof that the cycle never truly ended.

In the Nine-Fold Abyss-Heaven, destiny is a game rigged by the powerful. Ten years ago, a ruthless transmigrator named Victor claimed the "Sovereign System," ascending to godhood by consuming the luck and souls of everyone in his path. To the cosmos, he is a righteous savior. To those beneath his boot, he is an inescapable nightmare. When Julian transmigrates into the body of a discarded, talentless mining slave, Victor instantly flags him as a cosmic threat. Instead of granting a quick death, Victor inflicts absolute suppression—slashing Julian’s experience gains by 90%, shackling his soul, and publicly subjecting him to suffocating humiliation. To the world, Julian is a broken, unranked insect destined to crawl in the toxic spirit-ash. But Victor’s arrogance blinds him to the true nature of Julian’s interface: The Ashen Balance. Unlike standard systems, Julian cannot level up through easy victories or safe cultivation. His cheat triggers only at death’s door, converting raw agony, suffocating despair, and cold fury into irreversible Defiance Attributes. Forced to cultivate backward by strengthening his mortal flesh against the very laws of heaven, Julian turns his suffering into an unyielding weapon. From the suffocating depths of the slave mines to the grand, mocking colosseums of the higher realms, Julian undergoes a grueling, weak-to-strong ascension. He will bleed for every single attribute point, rally the broken outcasts of the realms, and systematically dismantle the False Hero’s empire. Victor stole the heavens, but Julian will burn them down to pay the debt.

Julian Miller, the devoted adopted son who saved Miller Group from bankruptcy, is publicly discarded and humiliated when Arthur Miller introduces his 'long-lost' biological son, Christian. Left with nothing but the clothes on his back, Julian’s life shifts irrevocably when he is revealed to be the secret, legitimate heir to the world’s most powerful conglomerate, the Vance Group. Armed with limitless resources and a cold, calculating mind, Julian returns to systematically dismantle the lives of those who betrayed him. As the facade of the Miller family crumbles, a darker truth emerges: Julian was not merely adopted; he was a pawn stolen in a calculated child-swapping scheme three decades ago. With every financial hit, exposed lie, and public downfall, Julian orchestrates the destruction of the Miller family's legacy. However, his enemies are cornered and increasingly desperate, forming dangerous, shadowy alliances that threaten to draw the conflict into a much larger, global-scale corporate war. As the power balance in San Francisco tilts toward total annihilation of the old elite, Julian must navigate a treacherous path where personal redemption and cold revenge collide. Unbeknownst to him, his true heritage holds burdens he hasn't yet conceived, and the forces aligned against him are already preparing to rewrite the history he has spent so much time uncovering.

For five years, Liam lived as a nobody. A quiet janitor at Elysian Tower, he kept his head down, pushed his mop, and made sure no one ever noticed him. Until he witnessed his boss being murdered And the killer was the last man Liam ever wanted to see again. Julian Croft. The new CEO of Elysian Tower. The man who adopted Liam as a child, raised him, and later abandoned him like he was worthless. Now Julian is hunting Liam for one reason: a secret code Liam created years ago—one powerful enough to make Julian the richest man alive. But Julian isn’t the only secret Liam is about to uncover…… His ex-girlfriend, who supposedly died five years ago, is alive. His only friend was a spy sent to betray him and his father has been manipulating him from the shadows all along. Everyone thinks Liam is weak, everyone thinks he’s just a janitor. they’re about to learn the truth. Because Liam isn’t hiding anymore and this time, he’s not running. He’s coming for everything Julian Croft stole from him.

Julian Vane was a corporate shadow, a brilliant analyst who traded his genius for a quiet life with his wife, Clara. But loyalty is a currency the elite don't recognize. After catching Clara in the arms of his CEO, Marcus Sterling, Julian is framed for fraud, injected with a lethal experimental toxin, and tossed into the harbor to be erased forever. He was supposed to die. Instead, he woke up. The heirloom watch left by his father has unlocked the Sovereign Vault, a hidden network controlling the world’s most dangerous data. Fueled by cold rage and a brain rewritten by the toxin, Julian adopts a new identity. He won't just kill his betrayers; he will own them. As he climbs from the slums to the pinnacle of global power, the world will learn that they didn't just kill a nobody—they accidentally created the Architect of their destruction. Revenge is a game of numbers, and Julian is finally the one in control.

"Please, let me be poor! Why are you guys making me a business king instead?!" Julian Vance signed a contract with the Financial Reversal System: If his company goes bankrupt, all the remaining cash will be converted into his personal money. To speed up his path to poverty, Julian deliberately recruited the most disastrous team in Riverdale City—ranging from a lazy manager whose hobby was taking naps, to a head of procurement who always got scammed into buying junk. However, fate had other plans. The junk computers they bought turned out to be secret military quantum prototypes, and Julian's decision to raise workers' salaries instead triggered a national labor strike that destroyed all of his competitors! The chaos peaked when four of the most powerful women—a tyrannical CFO, a logistics dynasty princess, a legal activist, and an ice-cold auditor—ended up falling in love and forming a guerrilla warfare alliance to protect him from bankruptcy. As the company's cash drastically soared to 52 million dollars and his "Duck in Running Shoes" logo was deemed a revolutionary work of art, Julian could only weep blood. Cursed to always be filthy rich and besieged by god-level misunderstandings, can Julian find a way to fail?

Julian Vance, the business emperor of New York, watched his life crumble in a single night. His luxury car was sabotaged and sent plunging into a deadly ravine by a rotten alliance: his stepmother, his stepsister, his own biological father who had poisoned his real mother for the sake of wealth, and Amber Miller — his materialistic fiancée who was nothing more than a power-hungry whore. But death rejected Julian when the [Revenge System] saved his life just one second before the explosion. Legally declared "dead" and left without a single penny, Julian hid his identity under the alias "Ian." At his lowest point, he was saved by Chloe Miller, a poor girl working as a waitress in one of the luxury restaurants owned by the Vance family. Ironically, Chloe was Amber’s distant cousin — the girl who had always been humiliated, trampled on, and treated like trash by Amber, the woman who suddenly became rich after allying herself with Julian’s stepsister. Guided by the System’s missions, Julian built a new empire of wealth from the shadows. He didn’t just reclaim what was rightfully his; using his mysterious identity, he systematically exposed the corruption of his family, uncovered the truth behind his mother’s murder, and secretly became Chloe’s protector. When the night of the Gala Dinner arrived, Julian returned not only to dismantle the Vance empire, but also to lay the entire world at Chloe’s feet — forcing Amber and the whole Vance family to crawl beneath their shadows.