Substitute

“YOU DISGUST ME! I no longer want to see your face again! EVER.” Elena declared, her voice firm, loud and clear. __________ For five years, Alexander Thorne gave up his medical career, his dreams, and nearly his life for Elena Max. Then he learned the truth: his CEO wife had never loved him. She had only kept him as a substitute for the man she truly wanted. So Alex did the one thing she never believed he could do. He signed the divorce papers, walked away from her empire, and returned to the life he had abandoned. This time, he’s going to make every single one who looked down on him bend their knees before him. No matter what.

Having a mother and brother who were always extorting his money, making him a cash cow, was something no one wanted. However, it was much worse when his wife's wealthy family did not accept him. He was being made the family driver, being insulted with words that should not be received by a son-in-law, seeing firsthand the affair committed by his wife, and being reported to the police for violence just for injuring the man who was his wife's affair. When all that happened, not once did Ethan blame them. He could only curse and fantasize about his fate of not having an influential family. However, who would have thought that when he was at the lowest point in his life, an older man suddenly came and introduced himself as his Grandfather. From then on, he became determined to avenge all the humiliation and pain he had felt on them, one by one. He would not let anyone escape his clutches. The Ethan of today is no longer Ethan, the driver in his wife's family, but Ethan Kinsey Aldebaron, the only grandson of the Kinsey family, the biggest business owner and most feared gangster.

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.”

He ended a war that lasted ten years. But the deadliest battles are the ones fought in silence. Aiden Kael returns home as the youngest four-star general in the history of the Republic of Beramon—a living legend, celebrated across nations as one of the World Strategic Alliance’s “Ten War Gods.” After a decade of bloodshed defending his homeland from unseen enemies, peace finally seems within reach. But peace is a fragile illusion. When Aiden’s closest friend is found dead just days before his wedding—his eyes savagely removed and all evidence leading disturbingly close to Aiden’s own family—the war hero realizes that the real war never ended. It simply changed its battlefield. Now, trapped in a web of secrets, politics, and betrayal, Aiden must face an enemy that can’t be fought with bullets or blades—an enemy that wears familiar faces. And as he digs deeper, he learns that some wars are not won on the frontlines... but in the shadows of the soul.

Dante Moretti, the tactical genius of Italy’s most powerful mafia family, is betrayed and blinded by his own brother, Lorenzo. Cast aside into the dark corners of his own estate, he is forced to marry Elena Rossi, the daughter of an enemy sent solely to humiliate what remains of his dignity. To the world, Dante is nothing more than a living corpse, waiting for death to claim him. Yet within the eternal darkness, Dante discovers a way to “see” that ordinary men never could. Using Elena as both a pawn and his public face, Dante begins to crawl through the shadows. He hacks financial systems, sabotages smuggling routes, and eliminates traitors one by one with cold, deliberate hands. As entire mafia organizations begin to collapse without explanation, they finally realize one truth, the King was never truly blind, and he is coming to reclaim his throne in blood.

For years, Mikael Winston let the world believe he was nothing. He played the fool so his family would have one less person to fight over the inheritance. He buried his name, his pride, and everything he was capable of becoming just to keep the peace. Then, when fire tore through a burning building, he risked his life to save a woman— and paid for it with his face. The woman he saved married him anyway. At least, that was what he believed. One week was all it took for her to reveal the truth. She had gotten what she wanted: a fifty-million-dollar contract signed by his hands, her fortune secured, and no intention of staying married to the scarred man she'd once pretended to love. There had never been a real marriage. No vows that counted. No future together. Just humiliation. And somehow, through a cruel twist of fate, Mikael was legally bound to another woman instead—a young maid with nothing but a scholarship, a kind heart, and nowhere else to go. Like him, she had been discarded by the people who were supposed to value her. They laughed at them both. They should have been more careful about who they were laughing at. Because Mikael Winston was never the useless man they thought he was. The heir they buried had finally come home. He built Vivienne's fortune with his own two hands. Now, he'll tear it down the same way. Piece by piece. Deal by deal. Until her empire is nothing but ruins—and the only name anyone remembers is Mikael Winston.

The first thing Shen Rui sees after opening his eyes is a corpse hanging from the city gate. The second is his own name carved beneath it. Transmigrated into the body of a disgraced young lord, Shen Rui inherits a starving city, an empty treasury, a broken army, and a family condemned to die. Outside Blackstone's walls, war rages. Inside, nobles hoard grain while desperate citizens eat tree bark. Worse, the Northern Kingdom is marching toward them. Shen Rui should have died like his predecessor. Instead, armed with knowledge from a far more advanced world, he begins rebuilding everything: agriculture, medicine, industry, military strategy, and trade. But every improvement attracts enemies. Soon he discovers the famine was deliberate, the war was engineered, and someone within the empire has been waiting for Blackstone to fall. Now Shen Rui must choose. Submit to a dying empire... or build a kingdom strong enough to bury it.

Joseph Guezz is the only son-in-law of the Smith family who doesn't have a wealthy fortune. Everyone always calls him a useless son-in-law, and he is always humiliated by all of his wife's family. One day, Joseph returns to his family home and becomes his father's substitute as a billionaire. Then he announces to everyone who has ever insulted him, "I AM NOT A POOR SON-IN-LAW!"

Jack Hardy, a legendary ex-mercenary runs into the beautiful heiress Juliet Forbes on a blind date. Unaware of Jack's background, she offers him a marriage contract for a substitute husband. The Forbes family and their enemies think the son-in-law is a loser who can be bullied or beaten down. They have no idea Jack Hardy is the apex predator of the world... Do read my other novels: -The Peerless Man With A Thousand Gifts -The Gilded Man With A Thousand Lives -The Lawless Man With A Thousand Chains -Reborn As A Beggar Lord -Eve Of A Thousand Wakes

A modern soul Caelum wakes up inside the body of a lazy scholar named Chen Yi in a fantasy martial arts world. Everyone looks down on him as a useless son-in-law including his wife the powerful female general Celeste and her high martial Xiao family. Little do they know the modern soul Caelum has a hidden System called the Dao Realm System which rewards him with unmatched power for simple tasks like writing or reading. Caelum is determined to maintain his carefree lifestyle and act like a lazy husband to hide his true identity and massive strength. But the dynastic world is dynamic and dangerous and Celeste is a strong and ambitious leader who keeps testing him. Can Caelum succeed in his quest for laziness and freedom while privately mastering the Dao.