The Substitute Wife

Taken for granted by his wife and her male friend, the hidden God of War endures their betrayal in silence. Watch what happens when the truth finally comes to light.

Ten millennia of boredom was supposed to be the end of Aetherion's retirement plan, but an accidental marriage proposal to a terrifying Sword-Saint turned his quiet life into a chaotic comedy of errors. Now, the immortal squatter must navigate imperial politics, jealous ex-wives, and an encroaching ancient evil, all while trying to maintain his cover as a humble, oatmeal-loving peasant. Can he save the world without ruining his chances of a quiet nap?

"Honey... Where have you been? Can you help me?" Glenn asked his wife; his body was completely paralyzed. "Don't 'honey' me, Glenn. I'm fed up with all this pretense. Why are you so stubborn? It would have been easier if you died in yesterday's accident..." Amber snapped, glaring at him, visibly frustrated. Glenn was surprised by his wife's words, and then Jason, his business partner, suddenly appeared and warmly embraced his wife. Glenn's world immediately crumbled. What betrayal cuts deeper than discovering those closest and dearest are the perpetrators? Glenn Smith knows it all too well. The revelation of his wife, Amber, deceiving him, fostering a secret love with Jason—his colleague—and Ethan not being his biological son but a product of their affair, shattered Glenn's world. The very individuals he lifted from poverty and elevated status stabbed him in the back. Yet, a life-threatening accident thrusts Glenn back in time to when he first encountered this deceitful duo; he seizes a second chance. Once a naive, unsuspecting man, Glenn now vows to metamorphose into someone unrecognisable, someone ready to retaliate against them!

Vincent Finn was convicted for a misdemeanor committed by his wife, Amber Reed who was also a rookie lawyer at Peak Law Firm like himself. He kept her secret and took the fall because she was carrying their child and his mother-in-law begged him to save her daughter. He lost everything! His dignity and name soiled forever! He was doomed and they all abandoned him totally. He returned a year later and walked in on his wife in bed with the law firm’s superior lawyer, Bernard Harris. Both his mother-in-law and wife shunned him, rubbing in his face his own gullible choice and served him a divorce. Amber had even aborted the pregnancy she had for him back then. What no one saw coming was his discovery while in prison. Peak Law firm was actually his inheritance. He returned to the law firm as a mere desk staff hiding his identity to destroy them from within, exposing all their illegal dealings and reforming the company using his newly acquired power. Will he be able to exert his revenge on them without blowing his cover? Will he conquer the destructiveness that lies around the secrets of Peak Law Firm?

Marcus West was about to swallow a handful of pills when someone started pounding on his door. Three years ago, he had everything. A restaurant he built from nothing. A wife who believed in him. A future. Now he's got $186,000 in medical debt, a dead wife, and a condemned hotel room in the Tenderloin. Then Jerome shows up bleeding, holding a USB drive and gasping: "They did it to you too. Here's proof." Turns out Marcus's life didn't fall apart by accident. His restaurant was sabotaged. His wife was a federal agent murdered for protecting him. His father was killed for knowing too much. The same people destroyed all of them. Now Marcus has something they didn't expect: the Karmic Debt System. A power that turns suffering into currency. Every nightmare, every loss, every moment of pain—it all has value now. And Marcus has been suffering for a very long time. They took everything from him. He is about to take it back and with interest. Can Marcus tear down the empire that destroyed everything he loved before the debt consumes him? Or will his quest for vengeance cost him what little humanity he has left?

Blake glanced at everyone in the room. Despite how they just treated him, he went down on his knees to beg them, throwing the shame and the hurtful feeling he was having at that moment through the window. “Please help me, my sister is dying. Even if you don't pay me for being a substitute husband on the wedding day like you promised, I will pay back every single penny” he pleaded. Maria kicked him hard on his stomach, making him stumble on the ground. “Were you assuming that I would give you a ten million you didn't work for? Are you stupid or pretending to be stupid?” she fired. Maria used Blake to save her face that day, a year ago. He was just the perfect person she needed, he was a cleaner, and it also felt like he needed money. Promising him money was the only thing that got him married to her. He is just a wretched pauper, she would never give her money to someone like Blake. “How do you intend to pay back if we lend you the money? From your part-time jobs?” she taunted. “Is leeching off us not enough? Now, you want more?” Mrs Jones added, bursting into a cynical laughter. “What have you done for us? You couldn't afford your tuition fees and dropped out because of that, what should I expect from someone of your caliber?” At that moment, Blake knew that they would not help him no matter what. Standing up with a shallow sigh, he peeked at them and shook his head. What was he thinking? **** Just when he thought life has ended, Blake found out that he was the owner of a company worth trillions of dollars. Will he seek revenge or hide his identity from his In-Laws?

Ethan Banks, a poor business analyst is cheated on and despised by his wife and her family simply because he was broke but his life suddenly takes a surprising twist…

"Three jobs. Endless sacrifices. A dying father. Yet my wife emptied our savings for her secret lover. When the hospital demanded another $800,000, she looked me in the eyes and said coldly: 'Sell your kidney. You only need one.' Desperate, I went to the underground broker. During the examination, an old professor saw the jade pendant around my neck... and suddenly knelt before me. Now everything has changed. The same hospital that wanted to throw my father out... now belongs to someone they never expected. And tomorrow, my cheating wife will walk in with her lover — ready to mock the 'worthless husband.' She has no idea what she's about to face."

Synopsis Killian Holland was a live-in son-in-law of the Pratt family. Unknown to them, he was secretly assigned to help his wife's family from bankruptcy. Killian had treated the Head of the Pratt family, and unable to rescue him completely, he made a vow to marry his daughter and help the company from collapsing. In the union, Killian was seen as nothing but a worthless fellow. They treated him like garbage. They turned him into their errand boy. On the last day at the Pratt mansion, there came a divorce. His wife filed for a divorce and not all, she tried to kill him. Killian Holland decided to get revenge for the humiliations, sufferings, and pains the Pratt family had made him pass through.

Betrayed and exiled from his family, brutally attacked and left to die, Ethan forged a new path for himself by the help of a stranger who saved his life. Now in a new city and trying to put his past behind him, he is betrayed by his wife and kicked out of the family. Left with no choice, Ethan agrees to a contract marriage with his female boss who found interest in him because of his martial arts skills. Ethan faces a battle of disdain from his new in-laws and his bossy wife but unknown to everyone, he is the most powerful man in the world and the supreme leader of an ancient Order which controlled all the major families and corporations.