I Became The Hero's Mom

Derek Cross spent five years in a cage like an animal for a crime he never committed — because the woman he loved begged him to take the fall. He believed it was an accident. He believed she was worth it. He was wrong on both counts. The moment he walks free, Vanessa is waiting — not to welcome him home, but to destroy him in front of a stranger's kiss. Nolan Frost, heir to the Iron Talon Gang, wraps his arm around her waist and delivers the final blow: "Baby." He grinned around the word. "So this is the idiot who went to jail for me." Nolan was driving that night. Vanessa set Derek up from the beginning, orchestrating every tear, every promise, every year stolen from him — all to bury him while she climbed toward everything she'd taken. They think they've broken him. They have no idea what actually walked out of that prison. Two old men had quietly watched Derek from the inside — a martial master who rebuilt his body into something lethal, and a gentleman who handed him the one thing no fortune could buy: the chairmanship of Olympus, the empire sitting above every throne in Crown City. Even Darius Carter — the phantom underground emperor the city fears, the man two-thirds of its syndicates kneel to — is nothing more than Derek's errand boy. Derek doesn't want blood. Not yet. He wants Vanessa and Nolan to watch, in real time, as everything they stole is returned tenfold — while they kneel in the wreckage of what they threw away. Beside him stands Monica Hayden, the woman his godfathers chose — cold, brilliant, and the only one who ever saw what Derek Cross truly was. Not a loser. A storm nobody saw coming.

His father was murdered. The woman he loved betrayed him for money. His mother is enslaved in a cold cellar, and his twin sisters are trapped in a secret fortress with only forty-eight hours before their bone marrow is harvested by his worst enemy. The whole city thinks Gideon Knox is just a penniless beggar with nowhere to run. Little do they know, he returned as the supreme God of War, an untouchable commander leading global armies. They provoked a god. Now, they will drown in his wrath.

Three years behind bars. Three years taking the blame for a crime he never committed, all to protect the woman he loved and her family. Now, Eddard is finally free. But the moment he walks out of Hell Prison, his wife, Arya, hands him divorce papers. Her reason? He is no longer useful. With her company's IPO approaching, Arya refuses to let a disgraced ex-convict ruin her future. Her family humiliates Eddard, calls him a worthless parasite, and throws him out like trash. Then they come for his late parents' villa. They think Eddard has nothing left. They couldn't be more wrong. Because those three years in prison weren't the end of Eddard's story. They were the beginning. While the world believed he was rotting behind bars, Eddard inherited an unimaginable legacy. He is Zeus, the supreme ruler of the Apex of the Stars, a hidden empire whose wealth and influence stretches across six continents. He is also the legendary Medical Saint, possessing healing techniques powerful enough to make the world's richest tycoons beg for an audience. The man Arya abandoned? The man her family called a worthless nobody? He's the man the entire world will soon kneel before. As billionaires, magnates, and the city's most powerful figures line up for his favor, Arya's family is still celebrating their little corporate empire. Until Eddard reveals who he really is. Their arrogance will crumble. Their fortunes will collapse. And the people who once kicked him into the dirt will come crawling back, begging for mercy. But they made one fatal mistake. They betrayed the man who now stands at the apex. And the Apex of the Stars... doesn't forgive.

Humanity's final winter arrived without warning. The sun faded. Civilization collapsed. Food vanished. Hope died. As survivors fought over scraps and murdered each other for a mouthful of stale bread, Jack Harper—a man mocked his entire life as a useless loser—awakened a mysterious power. The 100x Rebate System.

Everyone in The Vigil is racing to level up. Wren does the exact opposite. While millions of players fight over monsters, quests, and rankings, the broke young gamer stays at Level 1 and spends days attacking training dummies with a wooden spear. His coworkers laugh at him. Other players call him a noob. Even his boss thinks he is useless and plans to fire him. But Wren has discovered something they haven't. In this full-dive Lit-RPG world, true strength isn't just about levels. By pushing his spear skills far beyond what any beginner should achieve, Wren unlocks a hidden trial, rare rewards, secret attributes, and a path of evolution no ordinary player can see. From the weakest player on the leaderboard to a warrior capable of crushing bosses alone, Wren begins an explosive weak-to-strong journey filled with hidden quests, powerful talents, legendary equipment, guild wars, and brutal battles. They mocked him for staying Level 1. Soon, the entire server will know his name.

Nick Pugh gave his wife everything, only to discover she'd been cheating on him, drained his savings, and sold their home behind his back. With nowhere left to go, Nick takes refuge in his family's ancestral shrine, where an unexpected encounter awakens a mysterious power passed down through generations. Now he can command deadly serpents, heal the sick, and wield abilities beyond anything he once believed possible. The people who used to humiliate him are about to learn just how badly they've underestimated him. They took everything from Nick when he was powerless. Now that he's become the Serpent Lord, it's his turn to make them pay.

Francis Cole walked out of prison with nothing but a thin jacket and fifty dollars his wife sent so she wouldn't have to leave her dinner. While he rotted behind bars for a crime that stole three years of his life, his wife moved on. His best friend moved in. And the woman who swore she'd wait for him? She was already planning her wedding to someone else, but there was one thing nobody bothered to check before throwing him away. A forgotten $50 investment. A company everyone called a scam. And a fortune that just crossed $87 billion — with his name on every share. Now the wife who abandoned him wants him back, the best friend who betrayed him is finding out exactly who he stole from, and the family that mocked him for having nothing is about to learn what happens when the man they underestimated finally stops staying quiet. They threw away a husband; they just handed a billionaire his motive!

Heartbreak? Surmounting Medical Bills? & An Unexpected Proposal? Reynold is at his wits end. Working a 9-5 job for a measly pay was not how he envisioned his future to be, and worse still there’s no salary raise despite how hardworking he is. He decides to confront the wicked employer who’d been exploiting him all this while, but he is met with another shock as he finds his long term girlfriend cheating on him with the same man. Frustrated and angry, he erupts into a violent confrontation with his boss, and this results into a brutal eviction leading him to be casted out in the streets. With nowhere to go, and a battered body moping the streets, fate soon deals him a lucky card and he receives a shocking proposition. “Hello Mr, would you like to marry me?”

Ethan Vance was a betrayed genius who awakened a black-hole solar system with one purpose: protect his family and destroy everyone who wronged him. For five years, Ethan gave his soul energy to his fiancée, Cynthia, only to be framed and abandoned in the freezing Outer Wastes. But when he returns from the brink of death, a mysterious system awakens within him, transforming the cold malice of his enemies into limitless power. While the world still sees him as a broken man, Ethan is already becoming something no one can afford to provoke. As his strength grows and the people who betrayed him begin to fall one by one, he uncovers the true power hidden within his black-hole solar system, and shows the entire world what happens when they push the wrong man too far.

Kaito Miyahara is almost done with university. Only one final project remains, one that he has been putting off for three years. If he doesn't start now, he will be stuck in university for one more year, something that will further tarnish his resume. In a future where a simple failure is enough to destroy your career, he can't let that happen, but he can't think of anything. Miraculously, he runs into Sanae and Risa, two girls whose sole goal is to become idols. For Kaito, the only way of making it work in the current world is to think outside the box. To think big. To think galactically. And so he becomes the manager of the first, galactical idol group: Blostars. — Edited by RedPandaChick Cover art by @retrosensei on Instagram Follow me @VidalSosin on Twitter for updates New chapter every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 15:00 UTC