Marriage First, Love Second

What if the man they call worthless could buy and sell them all with a single phone call? For three gruelling years, Romeo Martinez has endured every humiliation the wealthy Chen family could dish out—scrubbing their floors, serving their guests, and sleeping in the servants' quarters while his ice-cold wife Emma treats him like he's invisible. They call him worthless, a charity case who married above his station, a man who contributes nothing but shame to their declining empire. They have no idea that the quiet janitor cleaning their mansion is about to inherit a trillion-dollar business empire that could crush them without a second thought. When a mysterious phone call on his 28th birthday reveals that Romeo is the hidden heir to Phoenix Empire, everything changes. His suppressed memories return, his combat training awakens, and suddenly the man who couldn't fight back has unlimited resources, deadly allies, and a burning need for justice. The same criminal organization that murdered his parents is now targeting the Chen family—and only Romeo can save them. But saving Emma means protecting the woman who's spent three years breaking his heart, while destroying his enemies means embracing a power that could corrupt the gentle soul she fell in love with but never knew she had. As Romeo navigates boardrooms and battlefields with equal skill, one question haunts every calculated move: Can a man reclaim his throne without losing the woman whose love he's never truly won?

Kaelan Voss spent his life as a beta tester for Elysian Rift, the VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game). He was unremarkable, forgettable, and stuck in the tutorial zones. When the game's servers shut down for good, he felt a strange pang of loss as if a part of him died with the final boss, Morvath the Silent Crown. Then the sky cracked open. The Akashic Interface initialized. The fantasy world of Elysian Rift bled into reality. Subways became monster nests. Office buildings transformed into death traps. 90% of the population was wiped out in the first 72 hours. Kaelan should have been a statistic. But the moment the System scanned his soul, something broke. It recognized him not as Kaelan Voss, the F-Rank human, but as Legacy Entity #0001 the echo of the Fallen King. Kaelan awakens with two memories: his own mundane life, and the eternity of a God who ruled before being deleted. Now, armed with the [Echoes of the Fallen] passive skill, he can hear the attack patterns of monsters before they move. He knows the location of every hidden treasure, every secret passage, and every boss's fatal weakness because he created them. But there's a catch: his human body is pathetically weak. If anyone discovers his true identity, the System will flag him as a "Glitched Entity" and send every Hero-Class Awakened on Earth to eliminate him. To survive, Kaelan must do the unthinkable: play the role of the weakest man alive while secretly conquering the apocalypse from the shadows. He will reclaim his royal class. He will find out why the System brought his world to Earth. And when the "Heroes" who killed him in the game finally arrive in reality, he will show them what happens when a Final Boss gets a second life.

Orion Kane had everything: endless wealth, unmatched power, and the world at his feet. To him, life was a game, and he was always the winner—cold, calculating, and untouchable. But one mistake, one moment of overconfidence, sent his world crashing down. When Orion wakes up, he’s no longer the man he once was. His name, his riches, his empire—gone. Instead, he finds himself in the body of Leo Torres, a poor factory worker struggling to survive. A life Orion would’ve dismissed as worthless is now his only reality. As he navigates Leo’s harsh world, he begins to uncover the consequences of his old life—the pain he caused, the lives he shattered, and the humanity he lost along the way. But there’s something else, something deeper: a strange feeling that this isn’t just a punishment. It’s a chance. But a chance for what? Redemption? Revenge? Or something more mysterious lurking beneath the surface of his second life? In a world where the powerful fall and the forgotten rise, Orion must uncover the truth—not just about his new life, but about himself. Some doors, once opened, can never be closed.

He was once the Void Emperor. A name that made the world tremble. Until the night he was betrayed. Poisoned. Broken. Left for dead, his power sealed, his past erased. For five years, Leon lived as nothing. A useless son-in-law, trampled and discarded. But when fate drags him back from the edge of death, everything changes. His memories return. His power begins to awaken. And the man they buried rises again. Now bound in a contract marriage with a mysterious heiress, and with his enemies still lurking in the shadows, Leon begins his rise once more. Leon will hunt down every enemy who dared to touch his family. They wanted him gone. Now they’ll wish he stayed dead.

In the midst of pouring rain, Leon Carter sits alone, drowning in despair over his crumbling life. Once madly in love with Sophia Winters, the girl who vowed to marry him or no one else, he now faces her icy indifference, her parents' disdain, and a marriage reduced to ashes. When a strange message flashes on his phone—"Do you want to change your fate? Y/N"—Leon hesitates, dismissing it as a hallucination. But something compels him to press “Y,” unlocking a mysterious “Life Advancement System.” His first task seems trivial—run two miles—but the reward, a flood of financial knowledge, feels too real to ignore. Returning to the mansion he shares with Sophia’s family, he’s confronted with divorce papers and an offer to leave with a settlement. To their shock, Leon rejects it all, walking away with nothing but quiet defiance. As he steps into the rain, his phone buzzes again: “Congratulations. Task complete. Reward: A mansion unlocked".

The year 2094. All was chaos. The apocalypse. The Fall. The end of the world. That was what the history books called it. On the first day of "The End", they said the sky and it's firmament 'fell' first, bridging the boundary between the day and night. The second day, the ground withered. The third day, the oceans boiled and drained. The fourth, the earth shook. By the fifth, half of humanity was wiped out. . . . July 23rd of the year 2043, humanity faced their 'first' invasion from the Elder Gods.

Aella “whirlwind” Harlow was looking at the screen of her phone with earbuds on, the live speech of Aniya Rossi in the United Nations. She sighed and mumbled when it ended, “Dumbass… Werewolves accepted by society, protectors, helping Humanity achieve greatness. Yeah, greatness my butt! A good Werewolf is a dead Werewolf! Spoiled brat… Stupid bitch…” She checked her quiver, counting the darts still there. A quick glance at the pistol crossbow on the left side of her belt, and at the Ruger gun inside the holster under her left armpit. Grabbing her faithful Labrys, a double edge axe, was the last thing she did before hearing a howl nearby. Aella frowned and mumbled, “Showtime…” (It is the sequel of "The Flesh-Eating Werewolf", set 20 years in the future, but can be read as a stand alone, but with minor mentions to events in the first story, and some previous characters that will appear in this story.)

"Just sign the divorce paper and get out of my life for good, you worthless man!" Rose yelled at her husband, Michael with disgust. Michael had always been badly treated like rags by both his wife and in-laws just because he was poor. Rose, his wife, kicked him out of her life for good, but just as things were becoming tough for Michael. Just an encounter automatically changed his entire life for good. Now, he's back to take revenge on everyone who humiliated him. Read how he'll make them pay....

He was just an ordinary person before being sentenced to prison. However, upon his release, presidents, war heroes, and even the head of the prison guards knelt before him, addressing him as Master. He had transformed from a nobody into a figure of mysterious and immeasurable abilities and strength. He had become a kingmaker, capable of accessing the world's resources with ease. Despite this, his only wish was to live a low-key life, marry his fiancée, and provide the best for her and their parents. However, things did not go according to his plan. His fiancée was no longer the person he once knew; she had become a cheater and materialistic. Now, he was seen as a common ex-convict with no future, and due to a one-night stand out of tipsiness, he found himself getting into a contract marriage with a pitiful but beautiful CEO.

Axelion's life was miserable. He was despised as poor, abandoned forever by his mother, expelled from school, known as a thief. But the wealthy system came to his aid and silenced their mouths. Young Axelion became a boss. His cafes were everywhere. But his attitude never changed. The wealth system came to watch because Axelion was a good and sincere person.