Once Bitten Twice Shy

Elias Cross wanted nothing more than to disappear. Once the city’s most brilliant forensic architect, he vanished after a scandal that destroyed his career. But when an old friend turns up dead — and the body is staged inside one of Elias’s abandoned designs — he’s pulled back into a world he swore he’d left behind. Each crime scene is a building. Each building is a clue. Each clue points to an impossible blueprint for the city’s destruction. With only a reckless journalist and a washed-up detective by his side, Elias must outwit a ghostly mastermind known only as The Mason. But as the city becomes a maze of deadly puzzles, Elias discovers the final design isn’t about buildings. It’s about him.

Kellan Draik never truly died, only the world believed he did. After a bloody mission that wiped out his entire unit, Kellan was forced to stage his own death and live in the shadows. Behind his new identity as Sebastian Crowe, a powerful military investor, he watches from afar, over the family he left behind: a wife who now belongs to another man, and a child growing up without knowing his real father. But when his wife’s company is targeted by a shadowy corporate network, Kellan realizes one thing: the old enemies he buried on the battlefield are now wearing suits. And the war he once fought hasn’t ended, it’s merely changed its form.

In a world where gods walk among mortals and forgotten wars still echo in the shadows, one man carries a legacy he never asked for. Betrayed, underestimated, and bound by a mysterious destiny, he must navigate treacherous alliances, deadly secrets, and the thin line between loyalty and vengeance. As the son-in-law of a powerful divine family, his every move is watched, every decision scrutinized. But when a threat from the past resurfaces, he realizes that survival isn’t just about strength it’s about cunning, courage, and the power to reclaim what was once lost. In a tale of blood, power, and forbidden bonds, one man’s rise could change the fate of gods and mortals alike. Will he embrace his destiny… or be consumed by it?

Ding!* "Dear Esteemed Customer, You have just received the sum of 10 billion. Credit alert: $10,000,000,000..." From cast-out husband to billionaire with the power to rewrite the rules... Once upon a time, Davis was blindsided—betrayed and tossed out by a wife who showed no remorse. But years later, he’s back, and the tables have turned. Now, his ex-wife begs, “Please, I was wrong, let’s start over.” Her mother offers, “I’ll cook, clean, serve you…anything to have you back.” But Davis, with a fortune of $10 billion and a fleet of helicopters at his command, doesn’t look back. “Too late for regrets,” he says as he soars above, leaving behind the past for a life they never saw coming!

Li Jie was just an ordinary young man with no martial arts skills whatsoever. His tragic fate after the death of his parents did not make him weak. He endured insults and beatings from those who despised him without a single complaint. Despite his limitations, a great blessing suddenly came to him. Martial arts—something he had only ever dreamed of—became his to wield, thanks to the help of a deity disguised as an old man. However, this blessing came with a heavy price. He was tasked with finding a divine relic and using it to reclaim the realm of the gods, which had fallen into the hands of demons. Guided by his pure soul, Lie Jie was determined to aid the gods in restoring balance to the universe as it once was.

He was called Weaveless, the boy without magic… Kael Merren is a walking mistake at Ardentum Academy: a scholarship fluke with no relic, no lineage, and no spark. Bullied and mocked by nobles, he’s the powerless orphan no one expects to last—until a cruel prank leads him to the Forbidden Ruins, where an ancient relic binds to him and awakens a magic not granted by birth, but earned. As a forgotten prophecy stirs and a rising cult seeks to free the Hollow King, a dark sorcerer sealed centuries ago, Kael becomes their target. Feared by those who once scorned him, he must embrace the power he was never meant to have and become what the realm never expected: a warrior forged by will, not blood. Magic didn’t choose him. He claimed it, and with it, he’ll challenge everything.

Ethan Cole spent three years as the Harrington family's punching bag! He was Spat on! Slapped! And Forced to kneel! Called trash at his own dinner table and he endured every humiliation in silence because of a promise to his dying mother, But when his daughter falls gravely ill and the family he sacrificed everything for tries to throw him away like garbage, a single phone call changes everything... Because Ethan Cole is not a useless son-in-law! He is Asura, the most feared war general in the nations history, and his wrath has no expiry date! Every slap will be returned! Every insult repaid with interest! Every enemy crushed until they choke on the words they once spat at him! This is not a redemption story! This is a reckoning! The Generals Missile.

Ethan Carter was a poor scholarship student in Westbridge University trying to survive with menial jobs. He was bullied by some of the rich students. But the worst betrayal comes from the person he trusted most. ‎When Ethan discovers his girlfriend in the arms of the campus playboy. He was expelled after a humiliating fight with the play boy, but fate had other plans. Ethan is not who he thought he was. He is the long-lost heir to one of the most powerful billionaire empires in the country. The poor scholarship student everyone mocked is about to return with unimaginable power, determined to uncover the truth about his mother’s mysterious death and claim his rightful place in the Wilson empire. And the people who once laughed at him? They’re about to learn that the boy they humiliated… was a king in disguise.

Arthur Atroce, a renowned general of the 1980s, met a tragic end when he was betrayed by a trusted aide during his final battle against his nation's foes. Stripped of honor, he unexpectedly awakens in the body of Arthur Dwight, a feeble man tormented by his wife's family. This son-in-law was constantly picked on by his wife’s family, and his wife even mocked him for being just a lowly delivery guy while cheating on him with the richest guy in town! General Arthur isn’t the type to just sit back and take it. In this unfamiliar yet combative world, he vows to rise up and exact revenge on those who once trampled the weak son-in-law, proving that strength can emerge from the most unexpected places.

He died as the Emperor of the Underworld. He rose as the disgrace of his enemies. Don Vittorio Valdieri, a mafia legend feared for half a century, was betrayed and died at the height of his power. But death was not the end. His soul awakens in the body of Leo Ravelli, the grandson of his sworn enemy, a failure scorned by all and nearly destroyed by debt. In a modern mafia world that has evolved into a shadow corporation, Leo Ravelli slowly reveals fangs he was never meant to possess. Armed with the memories, strategies, and cruelty of a true Godfather, he rebuilds an empire from within the body of his own enemy. When old traitors resurface and a bloody war erupts once more, one truth becomes clear. A Godfather can die, but his power never truly leaves