The Substitute Wife

After the divorce shattered his life, Charlie wasn’t looking for redemption—only survival. But then his hands began doing the impossible. A single touch, and veins remembered what his mind had forgotten. A forgotten war god, stripped of memory but not instinct, was stirring again. In the secret wards of Skydome, patients whispered of a “Miracle Doctor” whose skills defied the laws of medicine. Each life saved fanned rumors, and each rumor pulled dangerous eyes closer. Rivals sharpened their knives, spies crept into operating rooms, and a powerful family vowed to crush him before he remembered who he really was. The more Charlie heals, the more his legend spreads. But legends attract war. To the world he’s a savior. To his enemies, a threat that must be erased. Now he faces one choice: remain the broken man his past tried to destroy… or awaken the warlord who once made nations tremble. And this time, there will be no forgetting.

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.

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.

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.

"Take the lifeboat," his wife said coldly. "You're strong enough to survive." Those were the last words Dante Moretti heard before the woman he loved sailed away... with another man. Dante spent every penny he had to rent a luxury yacht, hoping to give his CEO wife the romantic proposal she had always dreamed of. Instead, she brought her handsome assistant, mocked Dante's love, and treated him like an inconvenience on his own surprise trip. Then a monstrous storm struck. Bleeding from a head wound and desperately fighting to keep the yacht from sinking, Dante begged his wife for help. "Ginevra... please. I can't hold the wheel alone." She never even looked at him. Instead, she chose her assistant. She gave him the only working lifeboat, stole the engagement ring Dante had bought for her, and left her own husband behind to drown in the freezing sea. As darkness swallowed him, Dante accepted that he had been abandoned by the woman he loved. But the ocean refused to let him die. Deep beneath the waves lay an ancient sanctuary where forgotten gods had slept for thousands of years. There, Dante was chosen by the God of War, inherited the supreme legacy of the Sea God Dragon, and awakened as the new Sea God Commander. The weak husband everyone mocked died beneath the ocean. The man who returned was a ruler of the seas, a dragon whose command could shake heaven and earth. Now, his CEO wife believes his divorce is nothing more than an empty threat, while the assistant who stole her heart eagerly waits to take Dante's place. They think he will beg. They think he still loves them. They are about to learn the terrifying truth. The man they abandoned no longer wants revenge. He won't forgive anyone.

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.

Ethan Morrison was just a programmer. At least, that's what everyone believed. His billionaire wife pitied him. Her business partner mocked him. The whole city laughed at the ordinary man who somehow married the most powerful woman alive. Then his daughter fell sick, and a blood test proved she was never his. His wife's so called business partner had him run off the road and left him paralyzed. And Clara? She shook hands with the man who shattered her husband's spine and called it a business decision. From his wheelchair, Ethan picked up his phone and dialed a number buried deep in his contacts. A cold, powerful voice answered. Three words: "I'll be there." Nobody asked why a woman who controlled half the country's wealth dropped everything for a simple programmer. Nobody asked because nobody knew. But they were all about to find out that the man they treated like a bug beneath their shoes was the one person in this city they should have never touched.

"Please. Try her office line again. Tell her I don't have much time left." Ethan Cole died holding a phone that never rang back, his body eaten hollow by cancer while his wife stood in a chapel two hours away, marrying the man she actually wanted. It was the most devastating period, dying while holding his phone and dialing a number of the woman you married and she couldn't even pick the call until he gave up on the bed. But sometimes fate always render a second chance so that we can live the life we should've seek and lived in the first chance. He wakes up on the same morning, two years earlier, young again, healthy again, and remembering every single thing she let happen to him. This time there's no cake. No begging. No breakfast waiting for a woman who never said thank you once in two years. Ethan signs the divorce papers himself and leaves them on the table for Sophia Morgan to find. She built her whole marriage on a lie and a lover her family never approved of, and she never planned on her lived in husband waking up smarter than her. Her father calls him useless. Her cousin calls him nothing. Ethan calls it quits, saves the one friend he buried last time, and starts taking back everything he gave away for free. But Sophia isn't finished owning him. And somewhere behind him, a name from his old life is waiting to surface, one he thought he'd buried deep enough to never answer for. He died once for loving the wrong woman. What is he willing to become so it never happens again?

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.

Logan Mercer signed the divorce papers without a fight. His wife Vivian Chase stood over him, her lip curled with disgust, her voice cutting through the penthouse like a blade. "You're nothing, Logan. You always were. A useless, pathetic leech who rode my coattails and called it a marriage. Enjoy whatever gutter you crawled out of." For twelve years, he had lived in her shadow. Ate her food. Attended her events. Endured every insult her family threw at him with quiet patience and a clenched jaw. Her mother called him a parasite. Her friends compared him to a cockroach. Her new boyfriend laughed in his face and called him a broke loser not worth the oxygen he breathed. "You're not even qualified to clean the toilets in a place like this." "A bloated, useless tick clinging to the belly of a dying dog." "Some people are born with connections and some people are born taking buses. That's just how the world works." Nobody knew the truth. Nobody knew that the faceless, reclusive chairman behind Imperial Group, the largest conglomerate in the city worth billions, was the same man they had been spitting on for years. The partnership Vivian celebrated? He approved it himself. The CEO who bowed to him in public? His subordinate. The underground kingpin who terrorized the city? The same man who once begged Logan for mercy on his knees. Now the divorce is signed. The mask is coming off. And every person who called him worthless is about to discover what it feels like to stand in the shadow of the man they threw away.