The Substitute Wife

"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?

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

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.

"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.

“Do you even know what you’re worth?” Alex Morgan lowered his head as his CEO wife, Vivian, threw a contract onto the table. “You’re just an employee. A useless husband who has achieved nothing.” Alex had spent years standing behind Vivian, supporting her career, sacrificing his own dreams, and helping her build her company. Yet when he finally closed a $10 million deal, she gave all the credit—and a $100,000 bonus—to another man. “Lucas deserves it. You? You should be grateful I even married you.” Those words broke something inside Alex. He quietly placed his resignation letter on the table. “Then congratulations, Vivian. You’re finally free of your worthless husband.” She laughed. She had no idea that Alex had just inherited his grandfather’s fortune. No idea that the “broke employee” she looked down on secretly controlled billions in Bitcoin. And she certainly had no idea that the man she had humiliated was about to become a trillionaire. For years, Alex had swallowed every insult. Now, he would make them pay. “I begged you for love once.” Alex looked at Vivian coldly. “Now you’ll beg me for mercy.” When the man she called worthless returns as a billionaire—and her biggest business rival—Vivian finally realizes the husband she threw away was the most valuable man she ever had. But by then, Alex has already made his decision. He doesn't want his wife back. He wants revenge.

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!

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.

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.

In a world where people discover their power through life energy, social classes control everything—either you are at the top in the light, or you are thrown into the bottom. Eric spent years of his life at the bottom, enduring cruelty and injustice without any luck. When the big screening day finally arrived, the system shocked him and branded him as a "The Outcast"—his energy was faint and weak compared to others, while his old friend easily rose to the boss-class and the very peak. Instead of honoring him, they threw him into the worst and dirtiest district in the academy: the Nameless Section. But what they don't know is that Eric is not someone who breaks easily. Behind his calm and cold exterior lies a smoldering fire and a terrifying, relentless determination to take revenge on this entire world. While the academy is busy preparing the elites to be heroes, they didn't realize they brought a real wolf among the sheep. And very soon, amidst the hell of the front lines and merciless battles, Eric will prove to everyone that a broken blade is the sharpest weapon to cut deep.

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.