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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.

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.

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.

They mocked him as a useless husband. They all laughed as he walked away with nothing. What they never knew was that Julian Crowe owned the world they stood on. After catching his wife’s betrayal and signing the divorce without resistance, Julian disappears from their lives...only to quietly return as the invisible hand controlling billion-dollar industries. Along the way, he shelters Iris Nolan, a disgraced woman destroyed by corporate conspiracies linked to his empire. As secrets unravel, identities explode, and enemies rise, Julian finally stops hiding. This time, he won’t explain. He’ll let regret do the talking.

[My second story; ”Michael Scofield Has Returned!”, has been on hot cake! Do check it out and get completely hooked] Julian, a penniless nobody from England— for over five years lived in a certain part of the world that believes being poor is an absolute sin. Living with his family in-laws for over four years and losing his job as a part-time waiter of five years, Julian was stunned by an instant divorce from his wife, which changed the course of events. Julian turned the stumbling blocks thrown at him into stepping stones to become victorious and make his oppressors bow to him and swallow their words at his feet when they realized he had always had their fates in his hands. The story of Julian explicitly unleashed the journey of a weak underestimated son-in-law who clinged back to his roots when all wrongly presumed that life was done with him... Unknown to all, fate hasn't begun with him yet…

Julian lost everything in one night. Strapped to a steel chair beneath a single flickering bulb, he watched the woman he loved sell his body to pay her family’s debt. His right eye was carved out and shipped to a client in Geneva. His marriage? A lie. His loyalty? A joke whispered over champagne. They thought the stray dog would die quietly. They were wrong. When Julian wakes in a charity ward, something ancient burns inside his empty socket. With a single glance, he can see the hidden value of anything—stocks, secrets, lies. Fortunes glow. Fraud screams in gold. And the future whispers its price. The same night his ex-wife announces her engagement, Julian turns five thousand dollars into two hundred million—and buys the debt that once enslaved him. Now he owns the Sterlings. In a city ruled by billionaires and butchers, Julian is no longer prey. He is the market. And he is coming to collect.

Julian was an unwanted illegitimate son. He was thrown out of the house and married to a woman from the Murphy family. As a person with nothing, he was mistreated and humiliated. Until his wife threw him away in disgrace. Someone met Julian and asked him to return as the heir, and he would take the opportunity, despite being an unwanted son, to get his revenge.

Julian Blackwood was constantly mocked as the broke architect surviving on his wife's allowance, while her family spat on him like trash. What they didn't know was that Julian was the secret owner of Blackwood Consortium, a $340 billion empire controlling global infrastructure, defense contracts, and international finance. During a vicious boardroom ambush, Eleanor's brother Raymond slapped him, framed him for fraud with fake evidence, and forced him to sign divorce papers while shareholders watched in disgust. Eleanor stood there, ice-cold, calling him a stain on her bloodline. Julian signed the papers, smiled and walked out. They've had their pound of flesh. Now, it's time to collect his.

The Maid is a gripping tale of power, revenge, and an attraction that defies all reason. Julian and Margret ’s first encounter was anything but ordinary. A single misstep—Julian colliding into Margret on her way to a high-stakes contract meeting—triggered a chain of events neither of them could have foreseen. Her drink spilled all over him. His ego refused to bend. In a moment of unfiltered rage, Margret lashed out, unaware that the man she had just insulted held her career in his hands. When Julian retaliated by ensuring her contract was destroyed, Margret ’s world crumbled. Then came an unexpected offer—a new job, courtesy of his assistant. Desperate, she accepted, only to realize too late that she had walked straight into the lion’s den. She was now Julian’s personal cook, trapped in his house with no way out. What began as months of relentless torment soon spiraled into something far more dangerous. Beneath the surface of their battles, an undeniable tension simmered, blurring the lines between hatred and desire. Julian, the man who once sought to break her, found himself ensnared in a feeling he couldn’t control. She was supposed to be nothing more than a mere employee. Instead, she became an obsession he could no longer escape. But in a house built on secrets and hidden agendas, love might not be enough to save them from what lurks in the shadows.