The Abandoned Empress

To save his family, he had to stop being human. Twenty-four-year-old Jid has spent his life in the dirt, breathing the rust of the Bulwark slums. As the sole guardian of his younger sister, Sommy, his world is measured in scraps of bread and the hours of backbreaking labor he sells to the powerful guilds. He doesn’t dream of glory; he dreams of a roof that doesn't leak and a meal that doesn't taste like ash. But the world outside the walls is changing. The "Infected" are evolving, and the shadows are growing teeth. When a high-stakes raid into the forbidden zones turns into a bloody execution, Jid is the one left behind. Betrayed and gutted by the monsters in the dark, he should have died in the mud. Instead, something ancient and hungry found him first. Jid wakes up to a world he no longer recognizes. The pain is gone, replaced by a cold, mechanical pulse in his mind and a shimmering gold light in his eyes. A strange, haunting interface now dictates his every move, granting him powers that defy the laws of time and biology—powers that the ruling corporations would kill to own. But the "System" isn't a gift. It’s a tether to an outer-world threat that views humanity as nothing more than ink on a page, ready to be erased. Now, Jid must return to the city that abandoned him, hiding the monster he is becoming while using his new abilities to protect the only person he has left. He survived the death of his old life, but as the hunger grows and the "System" begins to rewrite his soul, Jid realizes the hardest part isn't surviving the dead—it’s surviving the thing he’s turning into. And whatever is coming for him.

For eighteen years, Ethan Morrison was his family's favorite punching bag. His parents called him a parasite. His brother stole his achievements. His fiancée treated him like a worthless beggar. When Ethan awakened a legendary Bloodline Core, his father didn't congratulate him. He ordered twenty lashes until Ethan's back was covered in blood. "You're nothing but a spare! Give your Core to Derek, or I'll beat you until you obey!" Ethan refused. His reward? A blood-soaked body, a basement prison, and betrayal from the woman he loved. His fiancée drugged him and helped steal his Bloodline Core for his brother. Then she abandoned him. But fate had a cruel joke waiting for her. Ethan married Serena Clarke, the beautiful Virgin Priestess—and became his ex-fiancée's UNCLE by marrying into her own family! Everyone mocked him as a worthless husband. Even Serena refused to let him touch her, believing he was too low-class to deserve her. "Know your place, Ethan. A man like you could never be worthy of me!" She had no idea the man she despised was secretly protecting her from every danger. Because the stolen Core had awakened something far more terrifying: the True Dragon! Now, the family that whipped him begs for mercy. His betrayers tremble before his power. And his cold wife? She still doesn't know that her life, her power, and her very destiny depend on the man she rejects. A Priestess may possess a legendary body, but without her Dragon Commander, even heaven will fall!

Lucas, a modern strategic genius, dies and wakes up in the body of Lancelot Peterson—the mute, magically crippled bastard son of a powerful noble house. Betrayed by his family, discarded by his fiancée Jessica, and publicly humiliated by his half-brother Damon, Lancelot was bound by a multi-layered geometric seal designed to strip his mana, silence his voice, and ensure his death in obscurity. They believed he was a broken cripple. They were wrong. Inheriting the ancient, fragmented memories of a legendary Archmage, Lucas views magic not as mystical incantations, but as raw, alterable geometric code. Where others see unbreakable curses, he sees broken lines waiting to be rewritten. Beginning at the absolute bottom in the dark, abandoned Cursed Wing of the estate, Lucas begins systematically dismantling his seal strand by strand. With every rewritten spell, a faint heat-shimmer distorts the air around his fingers, and a forgotten sovereign sigil flashes across his palm. While Damon scrambles to keep control through private assassination squads, poisoned gifts, and rigged duels, Lucas turns every trap back on his executioners without ever speaking a single word. From solving "unsolvable" ancient puzzles in front of the high court to turning high-tier spell formations against their casters, his silent face-slaps shatter his family's hold and force the high nobility into paranoia. When a royal decree banishes him to the perilous borderlands under imperial supervision, Lucas uses the exile to uncover buried ancient ruins, break through High Mage thresholds, and unlock the true origin of his curse: it was never just a seal to rob him of his inheritance—it was an ancient key designed to hide the true sovereign bloodline from the usurpers sitting on the First Throne.

He gave up everything for love. Once a rising professional with a brilliant future, Ethan Hale abandoned his high-paying career to support his wife’s ambition. While he became a full-time father and the silent backbone of their household, she built a powerful company—using his sacrifices as stepping stones. On the night her company goes public, Ethan prepares a candlelit celebration. Instead, he discovers the truth: his wife is having an affair with a younger subordinate. Before he can confront her, he is betrayed, cornered, and killed—his death erased as an unfortunate accident. But fate is not finished with him. Ethan opens his eyes to find himself reborn on the very day her company goes public, with full memory of his past life. This time, the cold dinner, the incriminating video, and the betrayal no longer break him—they awaken something far more dangerous. Calm, calculated, and merciless, Ethan exposes the affair, demands a divorce, and reclaims everything he once gave up. Using his future knowledge, he re-enters the ruthless business world, dismantling empires, manipulating markets, and turning former allies into enemies. As his power grows, so do the stakes. Hidden enemies emerge. Another reborn manipulator lurks in the shadows. The cost of changing fate begins to exact a brutal price. And when his revenge threatens the very people he wants to protect, Ethan must confront the truth he never faced in his first life: Is winning worth losing his humanity? Caught between love and vengeance, power and responsibility, Ethan must decide whether his second life will be ruled by hatred or forged into something greater. This is not just a story of revenge. It is a story about second chances, the price of power, and choosing the future you deserve.

The world buried Jayden Jian the night House Jian fell. It should have prayed he stayed dead. Years later, Jayden returns from a place no ordinary man could survive, carrying a power he never asked for and one promise he refused to break—to return to Mira Voss, the woman who saved his life when everyone else abandoned him. But Skyreach is no longer the home he remembers. His family name has been disgraced, his inheritance rests in the hands of traitors, and Mira has been reduced from a proud heiress to a chained servant, punished for refusing to betray him. Then a bruised little girl runs into his arms, clutches his robe and calls him Father. Jayden came home expecting a reunion. Instead, he finds a stolen legacy, a shattered family and enemies who still believe he is the helpless heir they once hunted. “You should have remained dead,” they warn him but Jayden only smiles. “You should have treated my family better.” The truth behind the destruction of House Jian reaches far beyond one traitor, and the power awakening within Jayden may decide the fate of Midgard itself. Yet before he can protect a realm, he must reclaim everything stolen from him—and remind Skyreach why some men are better left unprovoked. “You took my name, my home and the years I should have spent with my family.” His enemies laugh, believing one man cannot challenge the powers ruling Skyreach but Jayden’s answer is simple. “I did not return to challenge you.” “I returned to bury you.”

"I'll divorce Conan when Daven gets back. We only got together because he went abroad. I never expected it to drag on for three years." Conan's fingers tightened around the paper bag. Drag on for three years? For three years, he had sacrificed his identity, wealth, and position as heir to Ashworth Diamond Group to live as the Voss family's unwanted son-in-law, all for the woman he loved. But to Rhea, their marriage was nothing more than an inconvenience. Now that her beloved Daven was back, she wanted Conan gone. Fine. He would give her exactly what she wanted. After signing the divorce papers, Conan reclaimed his identity and returned to the helm of his multitrillion empire. But Rhea had no idea who she had just discarded. As her company spiralled towards collapse, only then did she realise that the husband she had taken for granted was a man far beyond her wildest imagination…and the very man she desperately needed. Desperate to win him back, Rhea eventually abandoned her pride and dropped to her knees before thousands of spectators. "Please, Conan! Let's get back together. I made a terrible mistake. I promise I won't do it again!" Conan smiled faintly. "You wish." His expression turned cold. "Go back to your lover, Rhea. You made your choice. Now live with it." And he walked away, leaving behind the woman who once thought he was worthless. She threw away an invincible husband. Now, she's begging for the one man who no longer wants her.

At eighteen, every human receives an Awakening—a chance to gain a powerful combat class and climb the ranks from F to the legendary SSR. Leo has spent his entire life dreaming of becoming a great hunter. But on the day of his Awakening, his dreams are crushed. F-Rank. Scavenger. Trash-tier potential. Humiliated by his peers and abandoned by the guild that once promised to protect him, Leo is thrown into a low-level dungeon as nothing more than expendable bait. Surrounded by monsters with no chance of survival, he prepares to die. Then something impossible happens. His worthless Scavenger class glitches. A forbidden system awakens within him—the Infinite Trial System. But it isn't a gift. The system rewards Leo only when he survives pain that should have killed him. Every broken bone, every wound, every agonizing battle can become strength. To grow, he must endure what others cannot. The stronger the enemy, the greater the pain. The closer he comes to death, the faster he evolves. While the world continues to see Leo as a pathetic F-Rank failure, he begins a secret journey of unimaginable growth. He hunts monsters, challenges powerful guilds, survives impossible trials, and slowly uncovers the terrifying truth behind his system. But becoming powerful comes at a price. When Leo finally challenges the corrupt forces controlling the world, he becomes humanity's most wanted enemy—and the Infinite Trial gives him a quest with a 99% mortality rate. Leo has spent his entire life being treated like trash. Now, he's going to show the world what happens when trash awakens as a sovereign.

Three years behind bars. Three years taking the blame for a crime he never committed, all to protect the woman he loved and her family. Now, Eddard is finally free. But the moment he walks out of Hell Prison, his wife, Arya, hands him divorce papers. Her reason? He is no longer useful. With her company's IPO approaching, Arya refuses to let a disgraced ex-convict ruin her future. Her family humiliates Eddard, calls him a worthless parasite, and throws him out like trash. Then they come for his late parents' villa. They think Eddard has nothing left. They couldn't be more wrong. Because those three years in prison weren't the end of Eddard's story. They were the beginning. While the world believed he was rotting behind bars, Eddard inherited an unimaginable legacy. He is Zeus, the supreme ruler of the Apex of the Stars, a hidden empire whose wealth and influence stretches across six continents. He is also the legendary Medical Saint, possessing healing techniques powerful enough to make the world's richest tycoons beg for an audience. The man Arya abandoned? The man her family called a worthless nobody? He's the man the entire world will soon kneel before. As billionaires, magnates, and the city's most powerful figures line up for his favor, Arya's family is still celebrating their little corporate empire. Until Eddard reveals who he really is. Their arrogance will crumble. Their fortunes will collapse. And the people who once kicked him into the dirt will come crawling back, begging for mercy. But they made one fatal mistake. They betrayed the man who now stands at the apex. And the Apex of the Stars... doesn't forgive.

Ashes of the Forsaken Bride Amara Cole spent her life navigating the shadows of a family that viewed her as an invisible asset. When she is traded into a marriage with Damien Hartwell—the notoriously cold, brilliant heir to a multi-billion-dollar empire—she foolishly believes she is escaping a nightmare. Instead, she merely steps into a more glamorous cage. Behind the grand gates of the Hartwell estate, Amara finds a world defined by old-money malice. Her mother-in-law maps her flaws with clinical precision, her sister-in-law treats her presence as a joke, and Damien remains entirely untouchable, running their marriage like a bloodless corporate transaction. Yet, Amara clings to the fragile hope that if she just proves her worth, she can earn a place at their table. But in a world built on power, hope is a liability. When a calculated betrayal frames her for a corporate disaster, Amara is abandoned by the husband she tried to trust. Left with nothing, she vanishes into the night, leaving the elite social circle to believe she is gone forever. Years later, the ashes finally clear. The timid girl they dismantled never returned. In her place stands a woman the Hartwells could never have anticipated—stronger, wealthier, and armed with an international backing that rivals their own. Amara has forged her heartbreak into a weapon, uncovering the dark secrets that can bring down dynasties. As she steps back into the high-society spotlight, she isn't looking for a reconciliation. She is here to watch them fall. Damien is forced to confront the absolute worst mistake of his life, but when a ghost returns to claim what's hers, late-night regret won't be enough to alter the contract. This time, the price of his betrayal is everything.

Additional Tags: #Romance, #Evolution, #Antihero Power in Aethelgard does not come from prayer. It comes from Divine Marks, fragments of Authority carved into existence itself. A single Mark can lift a mortal beyond the limits of flesh. With enough Marks, a being may evolve into a Saint, a Demigod, an Angel, or even a True God. But every Divine Mark has a sequence, a stage, and a burden. Ilyan Morveth was killed for one. His heart was pierced in an abandoned ruin. His killer left him there, waiting for the Divine Mark inside his body to appear. It never did. Before the Mark could manifest, an ancient soul drifted into the corpse. Then the dead man opened his eyes. Now Ilyan wakes with a closed wound over his heart, broken memories that do not belong to him, and a power he does not understand. His first day alive only gets worse. A Beast attacks him in the ruin. A mysterious Divine Mark rises from its corpse. And when Ilyan reaches Blackstone, the city gate already has his name written in the death ledger. According to the records, Ilyan Morveth died before dawn. To survive, he must play the role of a dead man whose life he barely remembers while hiding the impossible power awakening inside him. Because Miracle is not luck. It is not fate. It is the quiet violation of reality itself. A falling stone at the right moment. A wound that should not heal. A question asked one breath too late. A coincidence too perfect to be coincidence. But miracles attract attention. Ilyan is not a chosen hero. He is a survivor wearing a stolen life. And if the world insists that Ilyan Morveth should have stayed dead, then his first miracle will be proving it wrong.