The Viridescent Crown

Dante Moretti's world shatters in a single night. Fired from his job, he arrives at his wife's birthday party only to witness the ultimate betrayal—Giulia kissing Leonardo Greco, his former boss, in front of everyone. "This was never going to work. We're from different worlds," Giulia says coldly, flaunting the emerald ring that replaced Dante's wedding band. Her mother delivers the final blow: "Giulia is pregnant. With Leonardo's child, of course." Homeless and broken, Dante is kidnapped by a mysterious woman who drops an impossible truth: "You're my brother. The long-lost heir to Apex Crown Holdings." His real name is Ryan Ricci. The "worthless" husband is actually a billionaire heir. "I don't want handouts," Dante tells his dying sister Selena and bedridden father Pietro. "I want to earn it." Going undercover as a lowly employee in his own company, Dante begins his transformation. But Leonardo and Giulia are plotting to manipulate the "naive" new heir, unaware their target is the man they destroyed. "Naive people are easy to manipulate, don't you think?" Leonardo smirks. He has no idea who's really playing whom. When the scorned rises from the ashes, everyone pays.

Fairytales had it, "The princess kissed the frog and the ugly creature magically became a handsome prince." But what if the frog prince's curse can't be broken even with the true love's kiss? Meet Prince Ling, the crown prince of Earth Kingdom within the realm of the shapeshifters. He is not only known for his social status, luxurious clothes, and good looks but also for being a great Casanova. Who would have thought that this handsome prince has actually an ugly real form of a frog? This is the darkest secret that the Earth Kingdom holds up to this day. Will the ladies that fell head over heels for him laugh or cry out of despair? That matter aside, Prince Ling's coming of age is just around the corner yet his father is still hesitant of passing the authority to him. You might ask, what's been holding his majesty back? Well, it's Prince Ling himself. He's a troublemaker, cannot sympathize with his fellow citizens, and lacks the maturity and ability to lead. Little did he know, there's another thing that's holding his father back from ascending him to the throne - he's bound to die on his 21st birthday. The crowned prince's everyday life changed when he met the third princess of Water Kingdom when he was out for "bride hunting". Their fates got intertwined with each other, and the secrets of the past are slowly appearing on the surface. Will meeting the third princess of Water Kingdom help prevent the destined tribulation to be set upon Prince Ling?

"DESTROY HIS DANTIAN!" Ma Durung shouted with a booming voice. Immediately, several disciples tightened their grip on Zhao Yun. The command from Ma Durung, the crown prince of the Ma Kingdom and a prodigious disciple of the Black Dragon Sect, was carried out without hesitation by his subordinates. Zhao Yun, forced to kneel with both his hands firmly restrained by two of Ma Durung's followers, was in a dire situation. His mouth was gagged with cloth, silencing any attempt to cry for help. Worse, his qi flow had been sealed by Ma Durung's personal guards, rendering him powerless to resist. With desperation in his eyes, Zhao Yun glanced toward his three closest friends. His gaze pleaded for their help, a silent cry for salvation. But to his dismay, his friends turned their faces away, avoiding his gaze entirely. Witnessing their betrayal, Zhao Yun could only grimace inwardly. Those he had considered friends, those he had always helped, had stabbed him in the back. A young, innocent man, left crippled with his dantian destroyed, the victim of envy from a royal prince and the betrayal of his three closest friends—this betrayal filled Zhao Yun with a profound sense of disbelief and an unquenchable thirst for vengeance. As he fought to survive the despair threatening to consume him, Zhao Yun was unexpectedly saved by a figure he deeply admired, someone he had always looked up to. Unbeknownst to him, this savior would present Zhao Yun with a choice that would shape his future. Will Zhao Yun redefine his purpose in life? What fate awaits him as he steps into an uncertain future?

On the day Jamie lost his mother to cancer, he also lost his only accommodation and his girlfriend. Years of torture, humiliation and servitude from his stepfather and stepbrothers, Jamie was nothing more than a miserable bastard to the Reynolds, one they so desperately needed to do away with. His mother’s death was their perfect opportunity as his stepfather evicted him from his house, abused him and his dead mother publicly, and ordered the doctor to sell her corpse to organ harvesters. His stepbrothers made a spectacle of him and his dead mother, treating them as though they were worse than animals. And to crown their hall of humiliation, they took his girlfriend and cost him his job. With everything lost, there was nothing to live for anymore. Jamie owed the hospital over $100,000 and his boss over the same amount. His life was at risk, his existence was meaningless, and everything was set against him… Except for a sudden alert of $10,000,000,000 and a call from the world’s richest and most powerful man, claiming to be his grandfather. Jamie wasn’t a bastard after all; he had a family—a rich and powerful family at that—and he was their rightful heir. With a net worth of tens of trillions of dollars and the power to shut down the world with the snap of his finger… What fate awaits all those who did him wrong? What end has he destined for those who mocked his dead mother and her dignity? What was in the heart of the trillionaire for those who made his life hell and paraded their measly change over him? Revenge is best served cold…Or whatever temperature the Rich and Powerful Jamie Ashford wants!