Once Bitten Twice Shy

In his first life, Desmond Kane gave everything to the wrong people and died for it. In his second life, he has no intention of making the same mistake. With the apocalypse approaching, Desmond uses his memories of the future to make millions, build a fortress, and crush the arrogant people who once looked down on him. When the world falls apart, only the prepared will live—and Desmond plans to stand at the top.

For three years, Diego Herrera was mocked as nothing more than a “substitute husband.” His wife sneered, “Diego, you were never my man—you were Alejandro’s replacement.” Humiliated, treated like a parasite, Diego endured in silence. Until the night he walked away. What no one knew? The man they despised was the God of Martial Arts, a healer feared in every hospital, and a hidden CEO whose empire made generals and billionaires kneel. “Diego, you’re worthless!” Isabella spat. He looked at her once, cold and final. “Worthless men don’t make CEOs tremble.” From boardrooms to battlefields, his name will shake nations. Doctors, generals, tycoons—every one bows before him. And every woman who once laughed at him now fights to catch his eye. Heiresses, celebrities, even daughters of the most powerful families… all whisper the same thing—they want him. But Diego has no need to chase. He is the storm. The boss. The man untouchable. “You’ll crawl back to me!” Isabella mocked. He smiled faintly. “No. You’ll kneel.”

Nathaniel "Nate" Aldric was once the rightful heir to the Aldric empire, a business conglomerate worth billions. But he was too naïve, too trusting. His so-called friends drained his accounts, his business partners plotted against him, and worst of all, his beloved wife, Serena, conspired with her lover, his cousin, to kill him. As he took his last breath, drowning in his own blood, rage consumed him. But fate was not done with him yet. When Nate wakes up, he finds himself twelve months in the past, just before his downfall. The weak, clueless fool he once was is gone. This time, he's ready. He won’t let them deceive him again. He won’t be pushed aside. And he sure as hell won’t let Serena and her lover get away with their betrayal. Now filled with knowledge of the future, he plays his enemies like chess pieces. Those who stole from him will fall. Those who laughed at him will kneel. And those who took his life? He will make them suffer.

They destroyed his kingdom. They slaughtered his people. They stole his throne. And then they left him to die. Li Kaien was once the Crown Prince of Yuehua Palace, the strongest force in the Godly Realm. But when the Chiyaan Empire launched a brutal invasion, everything he loved was ripped away overnight. They caged his parents, shattered his cultivation, and erased his bloodline from existence. His enemies celebrated while he lay broken at death’s door. In a final act of loyalty, the ancient wolf spirit bound to his soul sacrificed itself and sent him to a forgotten lower realm. Now powerless, hunted, and stripped of everything, Li Kaien discovers that the wolf spirit’s shattered fragments are scattered across the realms. Each fragment holds power that could shake the heavens — and whoever gathers them all becomes unstoppable. While his enemies believe he is dead, Li Kaien begins climbing from the bottom once again. This time, he won’t stop at reclaiming his throne. He will make the entire Godly Realm kneel. And when the empire that betrayed him finally sees him again… It will already be too late.

Robert Cruise, a poor bricklayer, is divorced by his cheating wife and fired by his rich boss. But the world doesn’t know he’s the heir of the elite House of York and majority owner of York Corporation. Once underestimated as a useless son-in-law, Robert rises from poverty to power. With enemies on all sides and a vow for revenge, he begins to crush those who betrayed him and protect the family they tried to destroy.

Callum Bowman was the poorest student at Solbury College, mocked as a trash picker and abandoned by his girlfriend for a rich heir. But on the very day he is humiliated, he unexpectedly inherits a hidden trillion-dollar empire from a mysterious tycoon he once saved. With a limitless black card in his hand and a secret marriage condition waiting ahead, Callum begins to make everyone who looked down on him regret it.

The mysteries of Reed Ryder, known to be the trash son in law of the wealthy rymeria family. Belittled for being poor, his heart wretched in agony after his beloved wife cheated on him without any remorse. The once belittled son in law shall rise, revealing the secret that he has always kept hidden! The truth that remained buried for over the entirety of his time as he existed in seclusion!!

What if a mysterious system gave you one more chance? Rafe Miller, the worthless, poor, good for nothing son-in-law, got dumped, mocked, and humiliated by his wife and her families, only to receive €3,000,000 and a mysterious system that promised power beyond imagination. He was once the family's disgrace. Now he is their worst nightmare. This time, he'd make everyone who mocked him regret it.

Once the spotlight of every home and the pride of every city, the betrayal of the Sinclair family threw Mazzle into the heart of war, where he was supposed to die. But day after day, he trained and fought for the ones that he loved, earning the title of the God of War. Now he is back, to make everyone who looked down on him and betrayed him pay for their crimes and heal the hearts of those he holds dearly to himself.

A man with a dark past will be forced to go back to his old ways in order to rescue his daughter from the clutches of a terrible disease. He believed that his life was different as he had managed to escape from the jaws of the underworld, but when his wife betrays him, and his daughter is on the verge of death, he can only return to one place, the place that saw him arise once more.