The Substitute Wife

"Give your mask to Mike. He's important. You're just a firefighter." Derek removed his mask. Carried them both down three floors. A beam crushed his leg. His wife walked away without looking back. He limped home. Found Mike in his pajamas. Erin cooking steaks she never once made for him. "Do you love me?" "You gave me credibility. I gave you a life you couldn't afford. A fair exchange." She slapped him when he asked for divorce. Not because she loved him. Because his timing ruined her keynote speech. A wildfire swallowed an entire county. Derek walked into the deadliest sector. Nobody expected him to survive. Erin ordered sushi with Mike. But Derek didn't die. He pulled a stranger from a burning house and shielded him with his own body. That stranger was Jerry Black. The DNA test confirmed the impossible. The firefighter she left to die was the missing heir to a quadrillion-dollar empire.

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

They dragged his dying mother out of her hospital bed like she was garbage. Joshua Hart had endured three years of humiliation as the powerless live-in son-in-law of the wealthy Cavesh family. He swallowed every insult. Every sneer. Every reminder that he was “nothing.” All for one reason—his mother’s life depended on their money. Then, on the day she needed emergency surgery, they cut him off. “Admit your mistake. Apologize,” his wife said coldly. “Maybe then I’ll consider helping.” At the hospital, nurses laughed in his face. “Swipe your card, beggar.” “You can’t even afford oxygen in here.” They called security. They called him worthless. They didn’t know that twenty minutes earlier, a forgotten investment had turned him into the majority shareholder of Galaxy Tech. They didn’t know his account now held billions. They didn’t know the “pathetic son-in-law” had just wired one hundred million dollars to the very hospital trying to throw his mother into the street. When the director whispered, “Joshua Hart… the transfer came from you?” He simply picked up his black card and looked at them one by one. “You were right about one thing,” he said calmly. “I won’t beg.” Now the people who mocked him will learn a brutal truth: Never humiliate a man who has nothing left to lose—especially when he becomes everything.

He died a failure. He woke up a weapon. Ethan Cross had nothing: betrayed by the wife who took his fortune, disowned by his billionaire family, and publicly humiliated after a failed suicide attempt. At his absolute lowest, a cold, alien intelligence the Wealth Ascension System activates within him. Its offer is ruthless: complete impossible financial tasks for vast rewards, or suffer brutal neurological punishments for failure. With the System as his relentless engine, Ethan transforms from a broken man into "Mr. AK," a ghost of the financial world. He builds an empire in the shadows, amassing billions while systematically dismantling the lives of those who destroyed him. His ex-wife, Claire, watches in furious denial as the mysterious tycoon "Mr. AK" outmaneuvers her at every turn, never suspecting the rival ruining her ascent is the husband she left for dead. From a viral "Hobo Billionaire" stunt to a hostile takeover of his own family's empire, Ethan's revenge is calculated, cold, and spectacular. The final blow lands at Claire's own wedding, where a shocking public reveal exposes Mr. AK's true identity, destroying her new life and legacy in a single, devastating moment. But as one war ends, a greater one begins. The System's final message is clear: "Phase One Complete. Phase Two: Global Domination Initiated." Ethan must now decide if he is the master of this power, or merely its most valuable pawn. This is a story of bone-deep betrayal, astronomical wealth as a weapon, and a revenge so perfect it changes the world.

Five years ago, when demons attacked, and Alex lost his parents, in the process he disappeared and everyone assumed he was dead including his wife Rose and their daughter. Now he's back, determined to reclaim everything he lost. But everyone still sees him as the same worthless man who abandoned his family. Rose's family looks down on him. Elite commanders mock him. Even his own in-laws call him useless and demand Rose choose a "real man." What they don't know is that Alex has become the Lord Supreme—the most powerful being alive. When demons breach the city's safest district and trap his daughter, while other "heroes" rush to help, Alex must reveal his true identity. How do you prove your worth to people who've already written you off? How do you win back a family that thinks you're dead inside? Sometimes the greatest power is letting them underestimate you... until it's time to show them exactly who you've become.

Kyle Cole choked on a burger and woke up inside an apocalyptic romance novel as the most hated man alive. Five gorgeous beast wives. Every single one of them wants him in the ground. "Sign the divorce papers, Kyle." "Can't do that. If I die, you all get buried with me. So technically, keeping me alive is in your best interest." "I could make it painless. That's more than you deserve." A bloodthirsty serpent he sold to the black market. A panther who serves him skinned rabbit heads for dinner. A cat eared healer who would rather let him bleed. A sparrow powerful enough to level buildings. And a gentle sheep who still scoots her chair away every time he sits down. The zombies outside are the least of his problems.

"Being insulted by my wife's family doesn't make me desperate, wait for my wife to rise, I will turn things around!" Su Juan tries hard to be accepted in his wife's family until one day, an artifact recognizes him as its master.

"You're nothing but a dog chasing after women who would rather spit on you than look at you." That was the last thing Maxver Cole heard before his five beast wives walked out the door, laughing, rushing into the arms of another man without a single glance back. They expected him to crawl. To beg. To break. Instead, he signed the divorce papers with a smile. Because the Maxver they married was dead. The man who woke up in his body came from another world, and he had zero interest in keeping women who treated him like garbage under their shoes. But freedom came with a price. A system counting down his final hours. A contamination level eating him alive from the inside. And a single brutal truth: without beast wives willing to purify him, he would be dead before the week was over. Then the Matching Center notification hit. Five new wives. All of them powerful. All of them stunning. All matched at one hundred percent compatibility, a number the staff had never seen in nineteen years. The women who threw him away stopped laughing real quick. "You divorced a monster," the world told his new wives. They walked through his door anyway.

For love, Isaac Garten was willing to take his wife’s last name and be a live-in son-in-law. However, he ended up as a death row inmate due to someone’s scheming. Seven years later, he comes home with the title of Drakon only to find his wife and daughter living in squalor and eating scraps. He swears to make all those who hurt his wife Allegra and daughter Bella pay for it! No one would upset his wife and daughter, Isaac vowed. If his daughter found the stars in the sky beautiful, then he would bring her on a space ship and pluck one out of the sky for her!

Evan Winston, a hardworking man, took on the responsibility of being the provider for his wife's family, working hard to earn their respect and meet their expectations. But everything changed in an instant when he was unfairly fired by his Boss, leaving him jobless. As if that wasn't enough, a tragic accident left him impotent for months. To make matters worse, his in-laws underestimated him and manipulated his wife into divorcing him. But the most painful thing was when he discovered his wife's betrayal with his best friend. They kicked Evan out of his own home. Leo made it clear that his wife and house would be the price he had to pay for his million dollar debt to him. But fate had other plans for him when his Grandfather found him. His return left everyone in shock.