You're So Old Jokes

The glass floor cracked under Hazel Kingsley's feet forty-three floors above the river, and her own brother backed off bridge and left her standing on it. Her husband, David, was mopping the basement. Her family calls him Probation: the engineering student who never graduated, the maintenance man they let her marry because they were sure she'd come to her senses. They don't know that behind the counter of a betting shop on Tanyard Road, the man they laugh at runs Keystone, the faceless firm whose seal holds up half the city's skyline. And they don't know that whoever swapped the bolts on that bridge stamped every one of them with Keystone's mark. Now the city wants Keystone's face. The golden. Boy from David's old class has stepped forward and claimed his name. The maintenance log says David was the only man in the plant room when the bridge broke. And the people who tried to kill his wife have just signed off the hospital wing where his mother works nights. If David stays hidden, they'll bury him under his own buildings. If he steps forward, everyone he loves becomes a target. So how do you prove you're the man holding up the city when the city has already decided you're nothing?

Caleb Hayes spent six years working three jobs just to keep his wife and son fed. He skipped meals. Wore torn shoes. Paid every debt. And when Natalie asked for a divorce, he signed away the house, the car, and everything he had left. Then, two days before the divorce became final, Caleb discovered an old USB drive containing a fortune worth **one billion dollars**. But the money wasn't the only truth waiting for him. His wife was cheating. The child he had raised for five years wasn't biologically his. And the man she planned to build a new life with was the same man who had secretly been in her life all along. "I gave you everything, Natalie." "You gave me nothing," she replied coldly. "You're broke, Caleb. What could you possibly give me?" Caleb almost laughed. She had no idea. The man she thought was a worthless husband had just become a billionaire. Now Caleb has one question: "What happens when the husband you betrayed no longer needs you?" This time, he won't beg for love. He'll make them regret throwing him away.

"Adam, look at yourself. You’re fat, you’re broke, and you’re a nobody. Staying with you is a waste of my youth." ​With those cold words, Adam Carter’s world shattered. He watched as his girlfriend of three years climbed into a luxurious car, leaving him standing in the rain. But the nightmare didn't end there. That same night, an accident took his life. ​ [Ding!] [Initializing the Supreme God of Wealth system...] [Initial Reward: $1,000,000,000,000!] Gone is the overweight student who was treated like a doormat. In his place is a man with a body carved by the gods and a bank balance that could buy entire cities. To the woman who dumped him for a rich playboy: You’re not even worth my pocket change.

"A mutt like you really thought he could marry into our family?" Isabelle Carter sneered, tossing a box at Karvel Cross’s feet. His old belongings spilled out—along with the engagement ring he had spent months preparing for Mariya. Laughter rippled through the room. "Pick it up, stray," Vincent Langford mocked, swirling his whiskey. "That’s all you’ll ever be. A discarded pet hoping for scraps." "Congratulations, Mariya," he said, voice eerily calm. "I hope your new fiancé doesn’t end up treating you the way you’re treating me.” But the humiliation wasn’t over. Her mother called him a mutt, Vincent Langford, a smug rival, mocked his existence, and soon, Karvel became nothing more than a joke among the elite. A discarded man with no value. What they didn’t know? The stray they cast aside… was a trillionaire heir. Karvel Cross is no longer the broken man they once laughed at. With secrets deeper than the ocean and a past that refuses to stay buried, he’s about to show them all—Mariya, Vincent, and the entire world—that the man they underestimated is the one they should have feared all along. "Dear ex, I don't need you anymore."

You were nothing, Mocked by family. Dumped by your lover. Fired and humiliated in front of a crowd. Rock bottom didn’t just greet you, it crushed you. Then came the letter. Gold-sealed. Hand-delivered. Signed by the richest consortium the world has never seen. “Congratulations. You are the sole heir.” Overnight, you go from broke to untouchable. Private jets. Infinite credit. Empires at your fingertips. The same people who spat on you? Now they’re kneeling. But money isn’t just power. It’s poison. With every billion, new enemies surface. Dark secrets claw their way into the light. And the ones closest to you? They’re the first to sharpen their knives. Now, you’re in a world where loyalty is currency, and betrayal is the cost of doing business. This isn’t a rags-to-riches story. It’s a war. Can you rise as the king of the new world… Or will the throne devour you before you ever sit on it?

Imagine a life where no one cares to give you a proper name that you end up going by the name of your hair color. Imagine a life where you're unaware that you possess the greatest power in the universe. Imagine a life where you're hunted by a Celestial for something you know nothing about Imagine a life where you're discriminated by your fellow orphans. A life ruled by loneliness and sadness... But one day, that all changed when you met the strongest mage on Earth, Read and find out Green's adventures in a high school for social rejects as he tries to escape death from an evil fraternity backed by a powerful Celestial. But will his efforts be enough to save his life and the universe? Find out in this action packed fantasy book

Tiana thought she had risen to the top and no longer needed her poor husband – Jalen. Jalen is humiliated, divorced and kicked out of the house. As if to stamp the final seal, Tiana pulls out a check from her purse. She extends it towards him. “Three million dollars,” she said. “For everything. Take it and leave.” But fate has a different story install for her. She doesn’t know her so-called poor husband is a secret billionaire; the one who secretly pushed her to the level she is now. After casting Jalen away, life begins to happen; life handed her a bitter dose of reality. Now struggling to keep her company, Black Blossom, afloat, she finds herself standing in front of the one man she never imagined she’d see again... her ex-husband, now a powerful billionaire. “How are you the president of this company?” she whispered, eyes wide. Jalen’s lips curved. “You left me broken. Now you’re here for crumbs.” Old wounds reopen. Pride clashes with regret. But what happens when the tables turn and the man she once walked away from now holds the key to her breakthrough?

“Captain Spark, you’re insane,” Michael said hoarsely. “I’m an actor, not a cop. I’m not a monster.” “But you understand monsters, don’t you?” Ashley shot back. She pointed to the playback monitor showing his recent scene. “That look in your eyes, the way you enjoyed the kill… You’re more convincing than half the criminals in our files.” Michael had no response. Because she wasn’t wrong. The system made it easy, too easy, to empathize with darkness.

An abandoned son of 7yrs who was left at the gates of a Judo store was given a stern warning by his father, "Even if you were to die the next day and you miss your practice, I will personally come to the gates of hell to give you a spanking". He fought to survive, scraping off the streets of society and when it seemed like his life would finally turn around with graduation around the corner, Gramps, the old gateman in college who dotes on him like a son is killed by a rich heir who consistently bullies him and thinks he can get away with everything, including killing Gramps. The Guerrio family reaches out to him to join the selection of the new boss of the family as a contestant of which he agrees. Rising in wealth and fame with the help of the family, Sebastian is out for revenge on Leonard who killed Gramps and crumbling his family empire from top 1 in Country A. What happens when the top 1 most powerful mafia family in Country A goes against the top 1 most powerful family in the corporate world of Country A? Read to find out more. *** If you want to read a face-slapping novel where the MC rises through hard work despite being an heir to an empire, passes through a series of uncommon Mafia trials and experiences bits of romance in his otherwise bleak life, then give this book a read. You're in for a ride. ...

One night that’s all it took to turn Ethan Morrison from the Morrison family’s "good-for-nothing black sheep" into a man with nothing left to lose. He stumbles home late ready to surprise his fiancée for their anniversary only to catch her tangled up with his half-brother the golden boy their father adores. Before he can even process it his old man shoves him out the door sneering that he’s "embarrassment trash" who never belonged in their home. And when he races to his mom’s grave to fall apart in private he finds it dug up flowers trampled headstone spray-painted with lies. They think he’s gone for good that he’ll crawl away and die in some gutter where they figure he belongs. But then a black SUV pulls up and the driver says three words that change everything: "You’re a Kidman." The richest man alive just found his lost grandson. Now Ethan’s back in the city dressed in custom Italian suits and moving with the kind of power money can’t buy. The same ball where they humiliated him a year ago he’s walking right through those doors. Every single one of them who spit on him who hurt him who desecrated the one thing that mattered they’re about to get a front-row seat to exactly what happens when you mess with the true heir. They called him worthless. Now they’ll either kneel or get knocked flat on their faces.