Once Bitten Twice Shy

After being humiliated as a useless son-in-law, Matthew Thomas, a low-level accountant who was in fact a financial genius, was treated as trash, a parasite, by his wife Viviane Lane’s powerful family and the entire board of directors simply because he worked at Lane Corp. Then, without warning, he received the Absolute Resource Control System, ARC, granting him god-tier predictive financial control. With it, he began rebuilding his vast fortune while unraveling an ancient conspiracy that governed the global markets, drawing him toward his destiny as the ultimate Architect of Wealth. Before him, liquidity worth trillions of dollars was nothing more than a medium of exchange. Matthew Thomas, once dismissed as a discarded former son-in-law, had now become the consortium itself.

When Noah, now in his late twenties, returns to his small coastal hometown to clean out his childhood home after his father's passing, he finds a forgotten box labeled "Summer ‘07.” Inside are old photos, letters, and a map leading to places he and his childhood best friend, Elia, once explored right before Elia mysteriously disappeared that same summer. Everyone believed Elia ran away. But as Noah follows the trail of memories now with adult eyes he begins to uncover the truth of what actually happened, and the silent grief the town has buried. Each stop on the map evokes a different loss: innocence, love, freedom, and ultimately, the friend who never came back.

Dr. Adrian Kane lives quietly, hiding behind the fluorescent lights of St. Dawn Hospital. Once a prodigy of a forbidden surgical art, he was exiled after being accused of killing a patient. When a series of mysterious “miracle deaths” sweep through the city’s elite, Adrian’s gift, The Pulse Sight, forces him into the shadows of medicine’s black market. As corporate titans, corrupt officials, and underground doctors wage silent war, Adrian becomes both hunter and healer. Each operation uncovers another secret about the experiment that ruined his life, and the truth behind the power inside him. But to expose the conspiracy, he must perform one final procedure: cut open his own past.

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.

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.

Clarke Wiseheart wears a gentle mask, but beneath it lies a brutal will. A man who plays the fool until the time comes to strike. After twenty years of obscurity, Clarke’s hunger for dominance never faded. When his father gave the order, Clarke unleashed his brilliance, stepping back into a ruthless world where only the cunning survive. But this time, he’s not just the heir of a shadowed empire; he’s an outsider turned family man, married into a household that underestimates him at every turn. As he climbs to the top with unrelenting strategies and calculated ferocity, the people who once dismissed him as a failure are left stunned. Is Clarke Wiseheart, the accidental son-in-law? How is it that he now rules us all?

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

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.

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.

Daniel Ashworth is the useless live-in son-in-law everyone loves to humiliate—a freeloader, a nobody, a stain on the family's reputation. What they don't know is that he once led the Verity Order, the world's most secretive medical guild. When presidents, billionaires, and crime lords need miracles no hospital can perform, they call the Verity Order—and Daniel was its greatest physician. He abandoned that life after a mission that shattered him, choosing a quiet marriage over power. But when old enemies resurface, buried secrets unravel, and his wife becomes the next target, Daniel is forced to reveal the man he swore never to be again. The family that mocked him is about to discover one terrifying truth: they never sheltered a worthless son-in-law... they humiliated the most dangerous doctor in the world.