Business Proposal

She thought she was using him. He'd been searching for her for twelve years. "Listen carefully," Diana Morrison's voice cuts through the study like ice. "These are the terms of our marriage arrangement, and they are non-negotiable." Marcus Hayes sits across from her in his worn suit, agreeing to every humiliating condition without protest. Separate bedrooms. No physical contact. Divorce after one year. "Do you have any backbone at all?" Diana demands, frustrated by his compliance. What she doesn't know: Marcus is the Supreme God of War of West America, commander of armies, controller of trillion-dollar empires. Twelve years ago, a starving orphan boy received kindness from a young girl who shared her meager lunch. He never forgot her. Now that girl stands before him—cold, calculating, believing she's trapped a desperate nobody in a fake marriage to escape her family's control. "Perhaps I am desperate," Marcus admits softly. "But not in the way you think." When the Romano and Bennett families attack, when her business crumbles, when assassins lurk in shadows—Marcus moves like the warrior he is, leaving enemies broken and allies in awe. "Who are you?" Diana whispers, watching him dismantle threats with surgical precision. Marcus's slight smile holds secrets that could reshape nations. "I'm your husband." She thought their contract marriage had an expiration date. She has no idea the Supreme God of War never lets go of what's his. He spent twelve years building an empire to be worthy of protecting her. Now he'll spend a lifetime proving she was always meant to be his.

To the Dawson family, Ethan Cole is the ultimate disgrace—a broke, useless son-in-law whose only value is doing chores and staying out of sight. For three years, they humiliated him publicly and privately, never imagining he could fight back. But the night a mysterious stranger addresses Ethan as “Young Master”, everything changes. Because the man they mocked is no ordinary nobody. He is the missing heir of a hidden global empire. And now his enemies know he’s alive. Ethan Cole once belonged to the powerful Cole Dominion, a dynasty feared in business, politics, and the underground world. But after a brutal betrayal that nearly cost him his life, Ethan vanished. He walked away from unimaginable power, choosing instead to live a quiet life with Mia Dawson—the one woman who loved him without knowing who he truly was. To protect her, Ethan hid everything: his training, his wealth, his past, and the enemies hunting him. But after being exposed during the Dawson corporate gala, Ethan’s peaceful life collapses. Trained operatives raid their home. Mia watches, horrified, as Ethan defeats them with lethal skill she never knew he possessed. The attack forces her to confront the truth: her “ordinary” husband is someone extraordinary—and dangerously so. As reinforcements close in, Ethan is thrust back into a world he abandoned. Old rivals seek revenge. Loyal protectors return. And Mia struggles to reconcile the man she married with the legacy he carries. With the Dawson family panicking and enemies closing in, Ethan must reclaim the identity he hid—before those coming for him destroy everything he loves. This is the rise of the man they underestimated. The son-in-law they humiliated. The heir they should’ve feared. And Ethan Cole is done running.

THE DEVIL'S LEDGER Rafael Duro was once a billionaire entrepreneur with everything: wealth, influence, and a company he built from nothing. Then a carefully orchestrated betrayal destroyed it all. Framed by falsified records and abandoned by those he trusted most, Rafael loses his business, fortune, and reputation. Standing on a rooftop with nothing left to live for, he encounters a mysterious supernatural system that claims he owes a debt. Choosing survival over surrender, he begins completing dangerous tasks that slowly rebuild his life. Lara Quinn, Rafael’s former assistant, accepts a job at Harrington Group, the company led by Cole Harrington, the man responsible for Rafael’s downfall. Secretly investigating the conspiracy that ruined him, she is drawn back into Rafael’s orbit when both become unwilling participants in the same strange system. Bound together by forces they do not understand, they must work side by side despite old wounds and unresolved feelings. As Rafael rises again, a ruthless player named Dominic Farrell begins murdering others to gain power. After Rafael’s closest friend is killed, the battle becomes personal. While Lara risks everything gathering evidence from inside Harrington’s company, their partnership evolves into a second chance at love. The truth proves even darker than expected. Harrington engineered Rafael’s collapse to make him a candidate for the ancient system controlling their lives. When Lara discovers she may have a deeper connection to it than anyone imagined, both must confront questions of free will, trust, and destiny. Faced with an impossible choice between power and love, Rafael refuses both options and forges a third path. Justice is served, empires are rebuilt, and together they create a future that finally belongs to them.

For twenty-eight years, Ethan Cole has known only one thing, survival. Working three backbreaking jobs to keep his bedridden mother alive, Ethan endures every humiliation life throws at him. His wages are stolen, his boss beats him, and his girlfriend leaves him for a billionaire bully who forces him to his knees for a laugh. Ethan swallows his pride because his mother's hospital bills matter more than his dignity. But when a desperate attempt to make extra cash lands him in the wrong room at the wrong time, his wealthy enemies frame him for corporate theft. Beaten by security, publicly ruined on national television, and forced to watch from a jail cell as the shock sends his mother into a coma, Ethan loses the very last thing he has left. Then, the richest man in the country walks into his freezing cell and shatters his reality. Overnight, the worthless nobody becomes Ethan Sterling, the missing heir to the world’s largest business empire. The people who once spat on him are suddenly fighting for his favor. Backed by billions, Ethan refuses their apologies. One by one, he methodically strips his abusers of their wealth, their power, and everything they stole from others. But just as absolute victory is within his grasp, a deathbed confession tears his new life apart. The car crash that killed his biological parents twenty-five years ago was never an accident. It was a cold-blooded murder. And the killer hasn't just been hiding, he has been standing right beside Ethan this entire time, and he has already sprung the trap to finish what he started twenty-five years ago...

He gave up everything for love. Once a rising professional with a brilliant future, Ethan Hale abandoned his high-paying career to support his wife’s ambition. While he became a full-time father and the silent backbone of their household, she built a powerful company—using his sacrifices as stepping stones. On the night her company goes public, Ethan prepares a candlelit celebration. Instead, he discovers the truth: his wife is having an affair with a younger subordinate. Before he can confront her, he is betrayed, cornered, and killed—his death erased as an unfortunate accident. But fate is not finished with him. Ethan opens his eyes to find himself reborn on the very day her company goes public, with full memory of his past life. This time, the cold dinner, the incriminating video, and the betrayal no longer break him—they awaken something far more dangerous. Calm, calculated, and merciless, Ethan exposes the affair, demands a divorce, and reclaims everything he once gave up. Using his future knowledge, he re-enters the ruthless business world, dismantling empires, manipulating markets, and turning former allies into enemies. As his power grows, so do the stakes. Hidden enemies emerge. Another reborn manipulator lurks in the shadows. The cost of changing fate begins to exact a brutal price. And when his revenge threatens the very people he wants to protect, Ethan must confront the truth he never faced in his first life: Is winning worth losing his humanity? Caught between love and vengeance, power and responsibility, Ethan must decide whether his second life will be ruled by hatred or forged into something greater. This is not just a story of revenge. It is a story about second chances, the price of power, and choosing the future you deserve.

"Who is Mr. Maximilanno in Avrilla city?" This was the question every business owner and affluent person in Avrilla city asked. Mr. Maximilanno seemed to be the sole owner of the entire city and everyone wanted to curry favour with him as much as everyone despised Ric, a lowlife ex- convict. ******** Ric is the live-in Son in-law of the Steffanina family, he answers Ric Mariano but his documents carry Ric Maximilanno after his mother and him are kicked out of the Mariano Mansion in Westmoreland county fifteen years ago. Ric serves a jail term for his wife's father's sake in a bid to make her love him better but she leaves him in Jail, when he's released he discovers his wife is remarried. Hurt and broken he attacks the groom, he is beaten up and left to die but someone saves him. He wakes up to a new knowledge.  He is the Dragon heir. Ric continues to hide his identity under his mother's last name Mariano while everyone in the city searches to find and please Mr. Maximilanno. His disguise would enable him to take revenge on all those who looked down on him and know those who are true to him. He marries again but this time not for love but for more power and dominance. His signature is needed to approve the next Mayor of the city; the same position his ex-father in-law is campaigning for. If his ex-wife checks her divorce certificate she would know the truth, if his jailers check the conviction details they would know and if his new wife checks her marriage contract she would know. Find out if anyone would be that detailed to check and discover who the only man with the Maximilanno last name in Avrilla city is.

He was buried alive on a Tuesday. Not with soil and a coffin but with debt, betrayal, and the quiet, practiced cruelty of a woman who had spent six years perfecting the art of destroying a man while making him feel grateful for the privilege. Daren Cole woke in the ruins of a collapsed building, the only survivor of a disaster his own company had been contracted to prevent. He had no money. No name. No proof he had ever built anything. His wife had already signed the divorce papers dated three days before the disaster, as though she had known. His business partner had already moved his assets offshore. His in-laws had already changed the locks on the penthouse apartment he had paid for. He had forty-eight hours before the arrest warrant was issued in his name. He used forty-seven of them to become someone they would never recognize. Armed with a recovered hard drive containing evidence that could bring down an entire industry, a dead man's identity that opened doors money alone couldn't, and the muscle memory of a man who had once built empires from nothing Daren doesn't come back for revenge. He comes back for reckoning. His wife is already chasing a richer man. His partner is already spending his money. His city is already celebrating his death. Let them. The question is not whether Daren Cole will reclaim everything they stole. The question is what he will do when the woman who buried him alive comes to him on her knees and he realizes he still knows the exact sound of her laugh.

For three years, Ethan Blackwell lived as the most humiliated son-in-law in the city. Married into the prestigious Hart Family through a contractual marriage, he was treated as nothing more than a servant. While his wife, Sophia Hart, ruled boardrooms as a celebrated CEO, Ethan cooked, cleaned, and endured endless ridicule from her family. On their third wedding anniversary, everything changed. Facing financial collapse, Sophia chose wealth over loyalty and divorced Ethan to marry billionaire executive Damien Sterling. Betrayed, humiliated, and cast aside, Ethan walked out of the Hart Family with nothing but a suitcase. Moments later, he inherited Blackwell Global Holdings-a financial empire worth over one hundred trillion dollars. Overnight, the useless son-in-law became the richest man alive. But wealth was only the beginning. As Ethan rises to the top of the business world, crushing enemies, humiliating those who once looked down on him, and building an empire of his own, he uncovers a terrifying secret hidden for fifteen years. His inheritance was never an accident. His parents were murdered. A mysterious organization known only as the Hunters has been hunting his bloodline for decades. At the center of everything lies the Phoenix Archive-a secret so valuable that powerful families are willing to start wars to possess it. Now Ethan must navigate a world of ruthless billionaires, hidden conspiracies, deadly assassins, and ancient family secrets. As former enemies beg for forgiveness and old allies reveal hidden agendas, Ethan discovers a frightening truth: The greatest threat isn't outside his empire. It's already inside it. In a battle of wealth, power, and survival, Ethan Blackwell will either become the ruler of a new era... Or the last Blackwell to ever exist.

In the modern world, everything has value. Bodies. Time. Love. Shame. Trauma. Information. Even human morality itself. Gavin Valerio finally realizes that truth after his life is destroyed in public. As the poorest student at Riverton University, Gavin loses everything in a single night. His girlfriend sleeps with another man, the video spreads across the university’s social platform, and his humiliation becomes entertainment for thousands of people. In a city where money defines status and status defines reality, someone like Gavin was never supposed to matter. Then, at the absolute lowest point of his life, something awakens inside him. Devil Capital System. A mysterious system that grants him access to unlimited capital assets. Money. Liquidity. Institutional networks. Influence. For the first time in his life, the world’s doors begin opening for him. But the System comes with rules far more terrifying than simply spending money. Because to the Devil Capital System, everything must generate value. Wasteful spending is punished. Emotional decisions are considered weakness. Even love itself can become a threat to system stability. As Gavin descends deeper into Riverton’s hidden world of business mafias, elite banking circles, luxury prostitution, viral media manipulation, and institutional power games, he begins to understand something horrifying: Capitalism was never just about money. It is the mechanism humanity uses to assign value to one another. The richer he becomes, the more Gavin is dragged into a brutal ecosystem built on influence, desire, social manipulation, transactional relationships, information control, and people willing to sell pieces of themselves just to survive. And as Gavin rises higher through a world where everything has a price, he begins to face a far more dangerous question: If value is what controls civilization itself... then who truly has the right to decide what something is worth?

Elias Pratama loses everything in a single day. Framed for a crime he never committed, stripped of his inheritance, and abandoned by the woman he loves, he reaches the lowest point of his life. When all hope is gone, he encounters The Keeper, a mysterious celestial guardian who entrusts him with The Book of Debts—a divine ledger that records every moral debt humanity has accumulated. Chosen as the world's first Divine Auditor, Elias gains the ability to perceive the hidden "debt stains" carried by corrupt individuals. His mission is not to punish, but to restore what was unjustly taken. Every successful audit returns stolen rights to their rightful owners while rewarding Elias with Commission Fees, allowing him to unlock powerful talents such as business intuition, negotiation mastery, and strategic insight. With the Book as his guide, Elias builds a venture capital empire fueled by justice rather than greed. One by one, powerful billionaires, corrupt executives, and influential figures fall as the truth behind their stolen fortunes is exposed. Yet the Book enforces one absolute law: it can restore wealth, reputation, and opportunity—but it can never force love. When Clara, the woman who left him, reappears, Elias discovers she sacrificed their relationship to save her mother from crushing medical debt. He realizes that winning her back depends entirely on the man he becomes, not the power he possesses. As Elias rises, the Book reveals its greatest secret: his own father once committed a devastating moral crime to protect the family, and the suffering Elias endures is part of that unpaid debt. Faced with the truth, Elias must choose between revenge and redemption. To break the cycle of injustice forever, he must repay the sins of the past, proving that true justice is not about destroying enemies, but restoring balance.