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The city calls him “nobody.” On paper, he’s just a broke young man with nothing but scars and a bad attitude. But in the shadows, Caden Pierce is the Septamillionaire Heir—the ruthless King of the Underworld. His enemies fear him. The elite don’t even know he exists… yet. After ten years of brutal training, Caden’s ready to tear his enemies apart and claim everything that’s his. When the spoiled heiress Vivian Montgomery is thrown into his arms—literally—he gets a taste of power, privilege, and the poison of high society. She calls him a “nobody.” Her circle mocks him. They have no idea he owns the ground they walk on. “You think money makes you untouchable?” Caden smirks, stepping over his latest rival. “Sweetheart, I buy men like you for sport and toss them out with yesterday’s trash.” But when the old-money dynasties scheme to bury him, and gunmen storm the club with Vivian in their sights, Caden doesn’t blink. “Let’s get something straight,” he growls, shoving a pistol under the lead thug’s chin. “You came for a princess. You found the king.” Enemies want his head. Socialites want his wallet. And Vivian—she wants him gone. But Caden Pierce didn’t survive hell to bow to anyone. He’s got seven million reasons to settle old scores. And one savage promise: this city will remember his name. Buckle up. The king is back—and he’s done playing nice.

Maverick Douglas A poor student who was always oppressed and humiliated, he received a blessing from the System. Maverick started to get up and organize his life with the Cashback System. He also began to show the people who had insulted him that he could be like them. The people who insulted Maverick were starting to get intimidated. Because in just a short time he became one of the billionaires in his city.

Ethan Morrison spent eighteen years believing that if he loved harder, sacrificed more, and endured in silence, his family would finally accept him. Instead, the day he awakened his legendary bloodline, his parents forced him to his knees. "You don't deserve that power," his father spat. When Ethan refused to surrender his future to his favored brother, twenty brutal lashes tore his back open until he collapsed in a pool of his own blood. Locked inside a cold basement and abandoned to die, he clung to the only person he thought would save him. His fiancée. Instead, she drugged him, stole his bloodline for another man, and watched without remorse as his brother claimed everything that should have been his. "You'll understand one day," she whispered. No. She would be the one forced to understand. Cast aside as a powerless nobody, Ethan is offered a marriage no one wants—a union with Serena Clarke, the beautiful Virgin Priestess cursed to remain in an endless coma. To everyone else, she is nothing more than a burden. But fate had other plans. The moment Ethan touched his new bride, an ancient True Dragon awakened within him, while Serena's legendary True Phoenix Body answered his call. Together, they unlocked a power that could shake the world. The discarded son became the heir of legends. The broken man became the strongest Dragon. And the woman who betrayed him? She can only watch in regret as Ethan marries into her own family... becoming her aunt's husband, the very man she once abandoned. He is now her uncle. "They whipped me because they thought I was weak," Ethan said, his dragon aura shaking the heavens. "Now they'll kneel because they finally know who I am."

“You're not a nobody,” Victor Moon said, his silver eyes unreadable. “You're the man gods once feared.” Banished from divine memory and stripped of celestial might, Marcus Steele walks among mortals in plain clothes and quiet patience. Bound by an ancient marriage contract, he arrives in Manhattan—a city of supernatural elites—to claim his betrothed. But Diana Sterling, the ice-cold CEO of Sterling Industries, publicly humiliates him, mocking his appearance, status, and power. She doesn’t know who she’s mocking. None of them do. “Take your money,” Diana sneers, hurling a check worth millions. “We're not equals. You don’t belong in my world.” She’s wrong. When shadow demons strike, Marcus reveals a glimpse of the war god he once was—effortlessly annihilating threats, catching the attention of Sarah Moon, heiress to the most feared family in the supernatural underworld. “Marcus,” Sarah whispers, fierce and elegant, “I want you to be my partner.” As Manhattan’s elites scramble to earn his favor, old enemies emerge from the shadows, desperate to keep Marcus from reclaiming his throne. But with each battle, his power returns—and so do his memories. “Tell your master,” Marcus says, standing over broken assassins, “that some wars aren’t worth starting.” They wanted a pawn. They mocked a drifter. They awoke a god. Now, Marcus Steele is done pretending.

She buried her husband three years ago. She's been visiting his grave every year since, telling herself the same lie: that grief fades, that closure is real, that Adrian is gone. Then a photo lands in her phone. A billionaire at a gala, laughing at something off camera. Adrian's face, on a stranger's body, wearing a stranger's name. Elena tells herself it's coincidence, until she's sitting across from Damian Voss in his own office and he says her name, a name that was never on her business card. Damian doesn't remember her. He doesn't remember much of anything before the coma that rebuilt him from nothing, a new identity, a new life, built on top of a silence nobody in his life has ever questioned out loud. But somebody built that silence on purpose. And somebody is still protecting it. The closer Elena gets to the truth, the more it costs her, and the more it costs the people around her. Because the man who buried her husband's identity didn't do it to save him. He did it because a dead man can't testify. Some graves don't hold what you buried in them. Some marriages don't end the way you think they did. And some men come back not because they escaped, but because someone finally let them go.

One moment, Alex Lopez was a brilliant 28-year-old urban planner and infrastructure specialist in Berlin, Germany a city renowned for its cutting-edge engineering, sustainable urban development, and layers of complex history spanning from the Holy Roman Empire to the modern European powerhouse. Buried under relentless projects blending historical preservation with futuristic city planning, he pushed himself to exhaustion. The next, he awakens in the frail body of Prince Alexander Valthor a forgotten son of the king, framed by his ruthless step-siblings and exiled to the barren wasteland of Valthoria. Sentenced to a slow death under the mocking order to “rule the state,” Alexander should have perished like so many before him. Dragged along with him is Annalise, his betrothed wife, who was completely abandoned by her own father after her mother died giving birth to her. But Alex came prepared with something this regressive Bronze Age world has never seen: a powerful World Saviour System, deep expertise in advanced infrastructure, resource optimization, historical regeneration, and large-scale project management, plus an unbreakable determination to build something extraordinary. Every victory earns points. Every failure raises the stakes. With milestones measured in hundreds of billions and trillions, Alex will ascend through multiple worlds, uncover the ancient truth behind the world’s long stagnation, and climb toward godhood itself. In a land where hope has long been forgotten, one exiled prince will rewrite destiny one irrigation canal, one loyal heart, one innovative breakthrough, and one hard-won discovery at a time.

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!

Benjamin was the trash husband, invisible to the world and treated worse by his wife, Hannah, CEO of Ashford Entertainment. Three years marriage was hell. When Aria, their daughter was dying, she didn't show up, passing time with another man in a hotel she lavish millions in the name of business collaboration. Confronted by Benjamin, Hannah's retaliation was shocking— she called him a regret, said her daughter was dragging her down and Benjamin knew her career was more important than family and so he walked away from her life. And when the man she called trash was announced as a trillionaire, she came back asking for second chance.

In a world where Ascension Levels dictate your worth, Eka Pradana is the bottom-tier trash—a permanent Level 1 warehouse worker. But hidden deep within his data is a glitch that turns every ounce of pain received into infinite kinetic potential. When the Ascension Authority realizes their carefully curated hierarchy is being threatened by a man who refuse to die, they send their best to erase him. Little do they know, the harder they hit, the harder he hits back.

Picture this. You go on vacation. Meet this chill, beautiful woman. She loves you, you love her — everything feels perfect. You get married. Two years in, you’re madly in love — the kind where you’re telling her things you haven’t told your shadow. Then one night… You hear sounds in the house. Turns out, your wife brought another man home. Slept with him. In your bed. And when you get offended, she tells you to be mature. That was Charles' life. But Charles has a beef with second chances. He asked for a divorce right away. His wife thought she finally won. Finally figured out how to make Charles realize he’s been nothing but a cockroach in her coffee all these years. Unfortunately, she didn’t know — The company she built, the connections she bragged about, the deals she “secured”… Every single win in her life for the past two years had his fingerprints on it. And once he walked out, it all started to fall apart. But this story doesn’t start with heartbreak. It starts the night Charles left… and the most feared woman in New York asked him to marry her. Will he pay his ex-wife back? Nah. That would be too easy. Charles leaving her life is like pulling the one stack holding the whole building upright. Will she regret it? Only if she survives the collapse long enough to remember what regret even feels like. But Charles will be here, sipping his coffee. Watching his ex-wife’s world burn— one arrogant family member at a time. So grab your popcorn. This ride’s about to get long — and very, very personal.