Deuxième Chance

Humiliated by his cheating girlfriend and beaten like a nobody, he thinks he has hit rock bottom, until one phone call reveals the truth about his birth. Overnight, the broke waiter becomes the hidden heir to an empire powerful enough to make an entire city bow.

Three years ago, Daniel Cooper sacrificed everything for the woman he loved, taking the blame for a crime committed by her brother. But when he finally walked out of prison, all he received was a divorce agreement, humiliation, and betrayal. Everyone thought he was a disgraced ex-convict with nothing left. They never knew that during those three years, Daniel had become a a man powerful enough to shake the world. Now, the family that abandoned him will learn the truth too late: Daniel Cooper is no longer someone they can trample on.

In the shimmering metropolis of Oakhaven, the elite live in glass towers while the "trash" survives in the soot below. Lucian Veyne is the king of that trash. To the world, he is a nameless scavenger, a beggar who collects aluminum cans and fixes broken phones in rain-slicked alleys. But Lucian has a secret: He owns the city’s darkness. Ten years ago, the Vale Family—owners of the city’s largest pharmaceutical empire—let his mother die on the hospital steps because she was "worthless." Since that day, Lucian hasn’t been looking for a job; he’s been building a system. Through the "Debt Web" (micro-loans to the desperate) and the "Whisper Network" (an army of invisible homeless spies), Lucian has quietly tethered every corrupt politician, crooked cop, and greedy CEO to his thumb. When Seraphina Vale, the arrogant heiress of the empire that killed his mother, publicly humiliates him, she triggers the final phase of his plan. She thinks she’s crushing a beggar. She doesn’t realize she’s just declared war on the man who already holds the keys to her father’s vault.

For three years, everyone saw him as nothing more than a useless son-in-law. But when his wife finally chose to believe in him, the man who had been hiding in the shadows decided it was time to show the entire city who they had been mocking all along.

Ethan Moore spent ten years being the perfect husband. He worked sixteen hour shifts so his wife Claire could carry designer bags. He paid off his mother in law's credit card debt four times. He covered his brother in law's DUI lawyers, his daughter's private school tuition, and every vacation, every spa trip, every brunch bill that his family racked up without ever once saying thank you. And when he lay dying in a hospital bed with three cracked ribs and a punctured lung, not one of them held his hand. "I called the insurance company this morning. The payout is $750,000, but with the accidental clause, it bumps to 1.2 million." His wife crossed her legs and scrolled through her phone without looking at him once. "What about the stock options from his company? Those vest on death, don't they?" His mother in law leaned against the doorframe with her arms folded. And then his daughter, the girl he carried on his shoulders at county fairs, the girl he stayed up with during thunderstorms, looked up from her phone and said the words that stopped his heart. "You know he's not even my real dad, right? I just want to know if I still get stuff. I really need a new phone." He woke up three years in the past with every memory of his deathbed burned into his brain and a system that returned every dollar he spent tenfold. The man who once apologized to a waiter for sending back cold soup now buys $400,000 suits without blinking. The man who skipped his own father's funeral because his wife said they couldn't afford the flight now carries $20 million in his back pocket. The pushover is dead. And the people who killed him don't even know he's coming.

Three months before the apocalypse, Sean Miles got a second chance at life. In his previous life, he trusted the woman he loved with everything he had. She repaid him with betrayal. When the apocalypse began, Sean was infected by a mutated wolf while trying to protect the survivors. Desperate for the antiviral serum he had brought back, he returned to his wife—only to find her in bed with another man. “Jessica… where is my serum?” She looked away. “Sean, I gave it to Zach. He was sick.” “A cold?” Sean stared at her, barely able to stand. “You gave the only serum that can save my life to your lover because he had a fever?” “Don't be dramatic. We'll find another one.” But there was no other one. Sean died knowing the woman he had protected for six years had chosen another man over him. Then he opened his eyes. Three months before the apocalypse. Alive. Young. And holding memories of everything that was coming. This time, Sean had no intention of being anyone's fool. He divorced Jessica before the apocalypse began. Then he used his memories of the future to win hundreds of millions in the lottery, hiding his fortune where she could never touch it. While the world laughed at the man who suddenly disappeared from his wife's life, Sean was preparing. Jessica thought she had finally gotten rid of her useless husband. She had no idea that the man she abandoned was preparing to become the most powerful survivor on Earth. When she eventually came begging, Sean would have only one answer. “You chose him when I had nothing.” He looked through the fortress window as the first signs of the apocalypse appeared. “Now that I have everything… why would I choose you?”

Scott was born a slave. For seventeen years, he endured hunger, beatings, and humiliation beneath the rule of the Kingdom of Azra. His only reason to keep going was his sick mother. Then came the Beast Summoning Ceremony. A day meant for nobles. A day that should have had nothing to do with him. But when a God-Tier Beast appeared before the entire kingdom, everything changed. The creature that should have slaughtered everyone instead begged Scott not to contract it. In a single moment, the weakest slave in Azra became the most wanted person in the kingdom. He is now hunted by kings, powerful summoners, and monsters beyond human understanding, Scott discovers a mysterious Dragon Mark hidden within his body. A mark that should not exist. A mark feared even by God-Tier Beasts. As secrets of his origin begin to surface, one question continues to bother him: Who is he really? Scott is set on a journey of self-discovery to learn his origin and seek revenge on everyone who has hurt him.

She killed the man who loved her. Five hundred years later, he came back. Adrian Vale was once the most gifted cultivator of his generation, until the woman he trusted most killed him. Now he wakes up in the body of a sickly, discarded young master of the Vale Clan. Everyone calls him trash. His brothers mock him and the Matriarch treats him like dirt. But Adrian still remembers every second of his death. While the clan laughs at the weak boy in the Outer Courtyard, something far more dangerous is waking up inside him. An unknown Divine Martial Mark, a forbidden scripture from his past life, and a hatred that has burned for five hundred years. Liora now stands at the peak as the Sword Goddess, Sect Master of the Heavenly Sword Sect. She thinks he is gone forever. She is wrong. This time, Adrian will climb from the lowest courtyard to the highest peak. This time, he will make her pay.

Hadrian Von Kaiser is a prince from one of the strongest empires in the Heilig continent. Because the promised time that will change the entire world is approaching, all empires, small kingdoms, and even the mythological creatures that still survive are preparing to welcome the future. Can Hadrian survive amid chaos and stay alive from creatures stronger than him, who can even destroy an empire overnight? Follow Hadrian on his journey to unravel the mystery of the promised time.

Tomas Ferro went to prison for money he never stole. His uncle built the frame. His fiancée fed him the intelligence to make it work. His father died of a heart attack that was murder in every way that mattered and in no way that would ever be prosecuted. Five years in a prison he didn't belong in, one cellmate and forty handwritten pages. He walked out with a map of everything his uncle had built and everywhere it was going to fail. He didn't go back for the building. He went back for the debt and he never raised his voice once while he destroyed everything.