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He knelt for no one. Not the jock who ordered him to tie his shoes, not the girl who called him worthless in front of a packed restaurant. He smiled, poured the water, and made one call that ended three lives before sunrise. Leanor Prime spent two years disguised as a broke waiter to prove he didn't need his family's empire, secretly funding the girl he loved while she fell for another man's lie. The night she humiliates him publicly is the same night his brother calls him home to lose everything, instead he walks into his own boardroom unrecognized and burns his brother's power grab to ash in ten minutes. Then he learns his father wasn't just dead, he was murdered, to bury a fraud tracing back to a man Leanor watched get buried twenty years ago. A man who's alive, and has spent two decades turning his own brother into a weapon and his most trusted analyst into a spy. Now it's total war, inside betrayal, the woman he loves forced to choose between him and evidence framing him for murder, a ghost three moves ahead his whole life. Leanor never loses. This time it might cost him everything he just clawed back.

I’m no longer the useless husband. Every single one of you will pay with blood, with sweat, and with tears. And even when you kneel before me and beg for mercy, I will show you none!

Why is the world cruel to good guys? Nathan Walter spent years as the laughingstock of Braxton College, ridiculed for his poverty and mocked for his dreams. He thought his girlfriend was the one person on his side, until she stole his life's work and handed it to his bully on a silver platter. Left in the dirt and humiliated before the world, Nathan is forced to make a choice. It’s time to stop hiding. It’s time to show them who he really is. He isn't just a student; he’s the son of the world’s most powerful man. Now, Nathan has a billion-dollar question for those who crushed him: How does it feel to realize you just declared war on your new boss?

Lucas was the first son of the influential Harrington family. But quite ironically, he wasn't their first choice. His younger sister had been crowned as their heir while Lucas was traded for marriage to secure a connection with the powerful Whitmore family. Then the apocalypse happened. Dungeons appeared, and unique people awakened abilities. When they realized Lucas was still useless and didn't awaken any ability, his family and in-laws abandoned him. His name was stripped off and given to another man, and he lost his fiance, including all he owned. He lived on the streets, eating from garbages. Lucas was attacked by a dungeon monster and dies. Then he woke up on the first day of the apocalypse. Not only did he awaken a powerful system, but he also became the boss of the strongest guide in the whole world!

Leo Vance has nothing. No money. No respect. His wife’s family treats him like trash and wants him to divorce her. Even his little daughter is being pushed out of every school. Just when Leo thinks his life is over, a secret from the past comes back. He is not poor at all. He is the only heir of a trillion-dollar family. Now Leo has power. But he does not use it right away. He stays in the shadows and watches the people who hurt him. One by one, he will make them pay… while trying to win back the only two people who still matter to him.

Aren Greyson had spent three years as Jasmine Richards’ useless, wheelchair-bound husband, enduring her family’s contempt while secretly helping her company succeed. When Jasmine fell for wealthy businessman Nikolai Wynn, she decided to divorce Aren, believing he had nothing to offer her. She had no idea that her “useless” husband was actually the hidden heir to the powerful Greyson Empire. After the divorce, Aren stopped hiding his identity and began building his own empire, while Jasmine slowly realized the man she discarded was the one she should never have lost.

I left everything behind, when my father had wanted me to become the head of the dynasty. Every man would have wanted such power given to him to control the world. But, I wanted something different, something peaceful. Away from all noise, distractions and the place where I called home. I didn't just leave, I left with the woman after my heart. I really loved her and would marry her. None of this wealth, power, control matters to me, the reason I kept my family profile hidden from her. But, what happens when there was a zombie apocalypse and I had returned home, to take her with me to another city, but then…I caught her cheating, not with anyone else, if the case should be, but with my boss? That's the height of it. Even when I tried to confront her, she was not remorseful over her shameful actions, and my boss? He simply doesn't care about me, he threatened to fire me if I dared him. They mocked, ridiculed me and even left me with a zombie to kill me off. But, they don't know who I am!

Carter Van Alen was dumped in the rain for being poor. His best friend stole his designs. His rival stole his future. His ex married the man who ruined him. They thought he was finished. They were wrong. Carter wasn't broke. He was the sole heir to the empire that owned the city. He crashed their wedding. Bought the church. Owned the guests. And began erasing everyone who ever laughed at him. But Julian Pane had been waiting. He knew who Carter was before Carter made his move. And a man with nothing left to lose is the most dangerous thing in any room. The Council of Five had the city in a chokehold for forty years. They didn't survive Carter's patience. Now Kingston belongs to him. He doesn't forgive. He doesn't negotiate. He builds...and then he buries. And when the dust settles, only two people are left standing at the top. The King. And the woman who made him one.

Henry Rowland buried his mother with a wilting rose and his last dollar. An hour later, his girlfriend smashed his anniversary cake into his face, laughed while her new man threw him into the hallway, and her mother changed the locks on the only door he had left. He had nothing. He was nothing. Then the black SUVs came. His grandfather was a German tycoon's only heir. His father found the vault and died protecting it. And Henry — broke, grieving, invisible Henry — is the only man alive whose blood can open it. He went into the estate a failure. He came out the CEO of the Rowland Dynasty. Zillionaire. The most dangerous name in two cities. But the men who built their empires in his dynasty's shadow have been waiting twenty years for the heir to show up. And they are not stepping aside. Senator Cross has the Senate. The Shadow board has the institutions. William Blackwood has the inside track on Henry's own company. Henry has something better. He has nothing left to lose. And a woman who already knows exactly how this ends. The dynasty doesn't negotiate. It reclaims.

"Even if I die a thousand times, I will rise again just to take revenge on those who stole my family’s wealth." Jay, the leader of this metropolitan bandit group, was actually the heir to two of the most powerful conglomerate families in Permata City. A conflict with his stepmother had led to an “accident” that sent Jay and his brother plunging off a cliff. Jay was declared dead. But fate had other plans. He had climbed back from the jaws of death, alive, furious, and ready to reclaim everything that was taken from him.