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"A mutt like you really thought he could marry into our family?" Isabelle Carter sneered, tossing a box at Karvel Cross’s feet. His old belongings spilled out—along with the engagement ring he had spent months preparing for Mariya. Laughter rippled through the room. "Pick it up, stray," Vincent Langford mocked, swirling his whiskey. "That’s all you’ll ever be. A discarded pet hoping for scraps." "Congratulations, Mariya," he said, voice eerily calm. "I hope your new fiancé doesn’t end up treating you the way you’re treating me.” But the humiliation wasn’t over. Her mother called him a mutt, Vincent Langford, a smug rival, mocked his existence, and soon, Karvel became nothing more than a joke among the elite. A discarded man with no value. What they didn’t know? The stray they cast aside… was a trillionaire heir. Karvel Cross is no longer the broken man they once laughed at. With secrets deeper than the ocean and a past that refuses to stay buried, he’s about to show them all—Mariya, Vincent, and the entire world—that the man they underestimated is the one they should have feared all along. "Dear ex, I don't need you anymore."

You were nothing, Mocked by family. Dumped by your lover. Fired and humiliated in front of a crowd. Rock bottom didn’t just greet you, it crushed you. Then came the letter. Gold-sealed. Hand-delivered. Signed by the richest consortium the world has never seen. “Congratulations. You are the sole heir.” Overnight, you go from broke to untouchable. Private jets. Infinite credit. Empires at your fingertips. The same people who spat on you? Now they’re kneeling. But money isn’t just power. It’s poison. With every billion, new enemies surface. Dark secrets claw their way into the light. And the ones closest to you? They’re the first to sharpen their knives. Now, you’re in a world where loyalty is currency, and betrayal is the cost of doing business. This isn’t a rags-to-riches story. It’s a war. Can you rise as the king of the new world… Or will the throne devour you before you ever sit on it?

In 3015, a virtual world game called "ActivatedLand" was officially released in New York City by the Cyberpunk Technology Corporation, a giant virtual game development company that was well-known and was a pioneer of other virtual games. The virtual game in question wasn't just played using a tool like an X-box but took players to a virtual world where the game was played. It didn't take long; within a week of its release, the game became viral and extremely famous throughout the world. The head of the Cyberpunk Technology Corporation is Dmitry Sergey, a Russian national who has settled and become a citizen of the United States. Most people who don't know Dmitry think he's just a billionaire who owns a giant company. In truth, Dmitry has a dark and terrible past due to his arrogance in America. And now, he begins his mission for revenge!

Noah Hunter was the son-in-law of the wealthy Noble family. He lived a life as a servant. Parents-in-law despised him. His wife didn’t care. The Other family members took pleasure in torturing him. For five years, Noah lived in hell. Noah had an enormous debt and a poor old mother. He couldn’t escape the Noble family. Noah had no right to die. A strange encounter with a homeless man changed his life. Now, Noah will start revenge.

I never thought betrayal would hit me this hard. I caught my girlfriend cheating on me with the most popular guy on campus. I stood there, frozen, watching as she laughed in his arms—like I never even existed. And when I confronted them, I was the one who got blamed. Me. Because I was poor. Because I had no influence. She didn’t even try to defend me. And when I was at my lowest, when I thought I was about to die, something impossible happened. A screen appeared in front of me, glowing with strange letters. [Spend one million dollars within three days to unlock a greater prize.] It was a system—one that could give me unlimited wealth, but only if I played by its rules. With this, I could have anything. I could crush the ones who humiliated me. I could make them pay. But I quickly realized that money alone wouldn’t be enough. The man I was up against wasn’t just some rich playboy—he was dangerous, and he wasn’t going down easily. If I wanted to win, I had to be smarter. I had to use every trick, every advantage, and push the system to its limits. The question is—do I have what it takes?

I was born a genius numbers, logic, strategy… all of it came easy. Everything around me felt painfully plain, predictable, and boring. Even the web novels I read were the same heroes driven by emotion, not reason. Pathetic. But that all changed the night my family was slaughtered by people who weren’t even from Earth. I watched my mother’s body hit the ground. I heard my sister cry my name one last time before she was beheaded And then they said it .. “Your bloodline has to be erased.” Then came the darkness. When I opened my eyes, a glowing figure stood before me a being that called itself a remnant. It offered me a deal: a system unlike any other. The Architect System. In exchange for freeing it one day, I would gain knowledge and the power to rebuild, reshape, and destroy. I don’t know what this new world is. I don’t care about fate, destiny, or prophecies .I sure as hell don't plan to be anyone's pawn. All I know is this I will find the ones who killed my family . Hell I would even rewrite destiny if I have to . And when I’m done with them, they’ll wish they were never born.

After five years fighting undefeated battlefields, the WarGod finally returned home a hero. But home wasn't what he expected. His son was being beaten at school, his wife was left to suffer alone, and his own father-in-law had the nerve to spit insults in his face. They all thought he was dead. Now the WarGod is back, and he didn't come for peace. Every hand raised against my family will be repaid in blood.

Roman Kael was a broken man — drunk, bankrupt, abandoned by the woman he loved while she carried his daughter in her womb. Four years later, he is the leader of the Night Clan, a mafia empire built with blood and money. The Shadow System made him powerful, but it couldn't heal the wound Lara left behind. When Roman buys the debt of Lara's husband's company, he makes a deal: three dinners a week, cooked by her, in his penthouse. In exchange, Rafael won't be destroyed. But Lara is no longer the same woman who ran away. And Roman will discover that power isn't the only thing he wants to conquer. Between blackmail, desire, and the secret of the daughter he never knew he had, Roman must choose: destroy those who betrayed him, or win back the one he never forgot.

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.

“Just because I couldn’t afford to buy a gold ring for my wife she cheated on me with her boss. Today I am the heir to the company where they work,” Jamole intoned… Jamole was a poor janitor who adored his wife, Stella so much. When his wife wanted a gold ring for her birthday gift, he told her he was a pauper and couldn’t afford one but for her sake he was going to buy her the gold ring. He worked harder and painstakingly spent his life savings as a janitor to buy her one. When he visited home to give her the gold ring, he met a flamboyant man banging her in their matrimonial bed. Worst still, Stella yelled at Jamole and ordered him to go on his knees and apologize for distracting them. As though that wasn’t enough, she tossed divorce papers at him and demanded for a divorce since he wouldn’t apologize. Jamole left the marriage heartbroken and pained. He bumped into a disable girl in a wheel chair who begged on the street and proposed marriage to her with the same ring. From that moment his financial life changed and he became the richest tycoon in Antipolo. How did it happen? Who is the disable girl in a wheel chair? And what would his revenge look like?