My Ex-Wife's Secret System

Adrian Cole lost everything the day he caught his wife in bed with his best friend. Humiliated and thrown out, he wakes to a cold voice in his head-offering him power, money, and influence... but only if he doesn't fight back. Every time he resists revenge, the system rewards him. But silence has a price. When Adrian learns his ex-wife is pregnant with his child-and her world is crumbling-he faces the ultimate choice: Stay silent and win. Or forgive... and begin again.

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Chapter 3

The alley behind the bar smelled like old beer and gasoline.

Tasha Reid stood beneath the flickering light, arms crossed, her breath fogging in the late-night chill. She hadn't changed much since Eleanor Cole's funeral-still sharp, still unreadable.

Adrian kept his voice low. "You were one of her last contacts. Tell me what you know."

She studied him for a long second. "I thought you were dead."

"Close enough."

Tasha glanced around, then motioned for him to follow. "Not here."

-----

They walked three blocks in silence before stopping at a quiet rooftop café. The city lights stretched out below them like stars trapped in glass.

"I owed your mother everything," Tasha said, sliding her coffee across the table. "But after she died, I cut ties with the Cole family. Or what was left of it."

"She left me a system," Adrian said. "In my head. It speaks."

Tasha didn't flinch. "Then it activated."

"You knew?"

She leaned back. "Project Silence. Eleanor's final work. A neuro-emotional A.I. Designed to trigger only if you were broken beyond recognition."

"I was."

Tasha gave him a long, tired look. "Then it chose the right time."

Adrian tapped a finger against the table. "Why didn't you tell me?"

"She said you'd never believe it unless you lost everything. That grief would teach you what legacy couldn't."

He looked down, jaw clenched.

Tasha's voice softened. "You don't get it, do you? This thing-it doesn't give you revenge. It gives you discipline. Control. It builds power by teaching you to let go of your pain without letting go of your mind."

Adrian blinked. "She built this for me?"

"She built it to save you-from yourself."

System Notification: User Stabilization Reached. New Function Unlocked: Asset Management.

On cue, a digital interface flickered in his vision.

[Asset Vault Accessed]

Holdings Detected: 1 dormant trust | 2 shell companies | 1 sealed tech patent (E. Cole) | Status: Available.

"She's been preparing for war," Adrian muttered.

Tasha nodded. "Not war. Survival. She knew Benson Group was going to collapse. Michael and Jessica were just pawns in a bigger play."

Adrian's eyes darkened.

"So Jessica wasn't the only betrayal coming."

"No." Tasha slid a folder across the table. "Your mother anticipated three threats. Michael Kane. Internal fraud at Cole Tech. And a corporate spy inside the Benson family."

He flipped open the folder.

A name glared back at him.

Jeremy Lin – CFO, Benson Group.

He froze. "I remember him. He tried to push me out of a merger meeting last year."

Tasha's eyes flicked to his. "He's the one who froze your accounts. Michael just gave the order. Jeremy made it happen."

Adrian's hands tightened around the folder.

System Notification: Emotional Elevation Detected. Recommend: Breathe. Choose silence.

Adrian inhaled sharply. Let it out.

"I'm not here for rage," he said. "I'm here to rebuild. Quietly."

Tasha smiled faintly. "Good. Because if we do this right, Jessica won't even know you're the one saving-or sinking-her."

----

The next morning, Adrian sat in a borrowed workspace above a bookstore.

He hadn't slept. The system kept feeding him updates-financial moves, shell companies to activate, and something else he hadn't touched yet:

Unpublished Patent: Neural Stabilization Module v2.

Filed by: Eleanor Cole. Value Estimate: $12.4 million.

It had never been launched.

And now it was his.

The system voice echoed, colder than before:

"Host, you have one mission: Rise without emotion. Win without noise. Protect your future by erasing your past."

---

Across the city, Jessica stared at her father's hospital monitor.

He hadn't woken up.

She hadn't heard from Michael in 36 hours.

Her phone buzzed with emails-all bad news. Stockholders pulling out. Board members resigning. Media waiting to pounce.

She scrolled through her contacts. Hesitated. Then tapped one.

Adrian's backup number.

It rang once. Then voicemail.

Her voice cracked. "Adrian... if you're out there, I didn't know Michael would-God, I don't know why I'm calling. Everything's falling apart. Please-just... I'm sorry."

She ended the call. Her eyes brimmed.

Behind her, a nurse gently tapped her shoulder. "Miss Benson, your company's accountant just arrived. He says there's a problem with the books."

Jessica turned, spine straightening. "What kind of problem?"

But something twisted in her gut.

----

Meanwhile, Adrian leaned back in his chair as the voicemail played.

He didn't blink.

System Alert: Mission Opportunity - Ignore message. Reward: Business Insight Module.

He hit "Delete."

The system chimed.

Module Unlocked: Competitive Market Scan.

Scanning: Benson Group. 8.1% of shares acquired anonymously via shell entities.

Adrian stared at the number. Almost 10%.

It had begun.

At that exact moment, Jessica's phone buzzed with a notification.

Investor Notice: A new shareholder has acquired 8.1% of Benson Group Name: Confidential.

Her eyes widened.

She looked around the hospital corridor like she was being watched.

Because suddenly... she felt like she was.

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Halie woke up to a sharp pain and a terrifying reality. She was in a new body, her face covered in a hideous web of scars, and her spiritual power reduced to a pathetic D-Class. Before she could even process the memories of being framed, her bedroom doors were violently kicked open. Her sister Seraphina sauntered in with a venomous sneer, followed closely by Halie's S-Class fiancé, Jett. "Look at the disgrace of the Avila family. What a waste," Seraphina mocked, throwing a mirror at her bed. "I can't be tied to a cripple. As an S-Class, I have to break our engagement," Jett added, his gaze full of disgust. The nightmare didn't stop there. Her father called, screaming about how she had shamed the family name. He officially stripped her of her inheritance, froze all her accounts, and exiled her to the decaying Southern District to rot. To make matters worse, a cold, mechanical voice suddenly echoed in her skull, warning her of an impending genetic collapse. Without an immediate energy infusion, she would face total organ failure in thirty days. A ruined face, a treacherous family, a world that wanted her dead, and a literal death clock ticking in her brain. The original owner had died in absolute despair, a tragic victim of sheer cruelty. But if they thought she would just sit there and die, they were severely mistaken. Armed with a mysterious system and her brilliant scientist mind from her past life, Halie packed her bags. She chose the craziest survival quest: head to the slums, find the exiled, sterile S-Class "madman" Coleman, and cure him to harvest his life energy. It was time to start her counterattack.

Adventure Horror LitRPG Modern Sci-Fi

9.3

Catching Genesis

9.3

When the future Alpha, a major player rejected her for Queen B, Genesis and her two best friends came up with a plan to give the arrogant future alpha the taste of his own medicine. What happens when your plan works too well? What happens when you attract not only the arrogant alpha but also a powerful creature that won't take no for an answer? "Now my sunshine, we're all alone," he utters with some satisfaction. His hair is mussed up sexily. His skin is a bit flushed from all the running he just did. Oh, goddess, he's still the sexiest man I've ever laid my eyes on. "What are you planning to do to me?" I ask him warily. His eyes rake up and down my body as if he can see through my clothing. "What do you think I would do to you, sunshine?" he sounds amused, almost indulgent. His lips curl up into a feral smile. His silver-gray eyes flashed with anger and hunger and desperation. It sets my pulse racing. He's not really amused. I can tell. "Maybe I'm tired of waiting. Maybe I'm tired of chasing after you. Maybe it's time for me to catch you, Genesis." The last ten chapters of this book are not available here due to copyright reasons.

Fantasy LitRPG Werewolf

8.4

Dumped For Pennies, Returning With Billions

8.4

Cari Butler woke up in a damp, smelly dorm room, realizing she had transmigrated into the body of a disgraced fake daughter who had just been kicked out of a wealthy family. Before she could even process her reality, the real daughter's friends kicked her door open to mock her, flaunting a custom Tiffany necklace that supposedly cost a mere eighty cents. Cari thought they were crazy, until she saw the news: a top Manhattan mansion had just sold for a record-breaking $3,500. The entire world's currency value had shrunk by ten thousand times! This meant the original owner's bank balance of $854,000 gave Cari the purchasing power of eight and a half billion dollars. But a mysterious system froze her funds, forcing her to work demeaning gig jobs to unlock the money bit by bit. While working as a hotel server for twenty cents a day, she caught her ex-boyfriend kissing up to the real daughter, mocking Cari for being a desperate beggar. Even her snobby roommates laughed at her, claiming she couldn't afford a ten-cent iPhone. What truly angered Cari wasn't the humiliation, but receiving a five-cent transfer from her poor biological brother, who was starving himself just to keep her fed. Yet, the system strictly forbade her from giving her unlocked billions directly to her family. Looking at the restrictive system and the arrogant elites who thought they owned the city, Cari's eyes turned icy cold. "If I can't just hand them the cash," Cari sneered, pulling out her phone to outright buy the luxury hotel and fire everyone who wronged her. "Then I will just buy the entire world and place it at their feet."

Billionaire LitRPG Modern

8.3

From Rejected Defect To Supreme Queen

8.3

Angel was slammed onto the freezing stone slabs of the central square, surrounded by the deafening, mocking laughter of her clan. Her own sister, Jasmine, stood over her with a look of pure malice, loudly and falsely accusing Angel of sneaking into the Chief's tent to seduce him. Then, Al Stein, the man who had sworn to be her mate, stepped out of the crowd with a twisted face of disgust. "You're a genetic reject. You can't give me children. You're useless." He threw their bone mate ring hard at her face, cutting her cheek, as the crowd roared for her blood. Without a trial, the High Oracle stripped her of her citizenship and sentenced her to eternal exile in the deadly wasteland. To make her punishment a complete joke, the guards dragged out a comatose, dying outcast named Kain, slicing Angel's finger to force a mate bond between the two defects. They were tossed out into the raging blizzard like discarded corpses, the heavy steel gates slamming shut behind them, cutting off all light and warmth. Angel crawled through the snow, her vision blurring from extreme starvation and the biting wind, suffocating under the weight of their lies. Why did her own blood frame her? Why did her mate throw her away to die in the ice? Just as the freezing shadow of death wrapped around her, a sharp, mechanical voice exploded in her mind. [Genetic Evolution Codex activated. Host Status: Legendary Kitsune Prime.] The despair evaporated from her chest, replaced by a burning vow to survive and make every single one of them pay.

LitRPG Romance Sci-Fi Werewolf

8.2

HIDDEN TRILLIONAIRE

8.2

Blurb: Richard Tucker lost everything long before he died. Orphaned young, forced to work two jobs through college, and later dragged into a scandal with the daughter of a wealthy family, he became the unwanted son-in-law of the powerful Warrens. His mother-in-law despised him, every employer rejected him, and his life fell apart piece by piece. Then one night, Richard was hunted down, beaten, and left to die in a cold alley. But death wasn't the end. Richard woke up with the Trillionaire System, a mysterious power that deposits $500 into his account every hour and rewards him with skills, strength, and unlimited financial advantages. With $360k a month at Level 1, Richard discovers a future he never imagined, one where he can rebuild himself, protect his wife, and rise far beyond everyone who mocked him. Yet power comes with enemies. A vengeful ex-suitor, a ruthless rival family, and a powerful heiress who wants Richard for herself move against him. Old threats return, new alliances crumble, and the truth about the scandal that ruined his life resurfaces with deadly consequences. But as Richard climbs, a new identity emerges in the shadows: Mr. Tusks, the mysterious billionaire quietly becoming the largest shareholder in multiple corporations and preparing to launch the most anticipated company in the nation, RT Enterprise. When the world gathers for the grand unveiling, Richard plans to reveal who he truly is... And when he does, every enemy who called him worthless will finally understand the man they tried to destroy.

Billionaire LitRPG Modern Mystery

7.5

His Dangerous Love On Ice

7.5

"Let's play a game." "What game?" "One that involves you not screaming." ★★★★★ I'd been the perfect girlfriend to my star hockey player for two years. Stood in the rain at his practices. Drove hours just to watch him warm benches. Wore his jersey like it meant something. And he repaid me by fucking his way through half of Chicago-including the sister of the one man he's been obsessed with for years. Zane Mercer. The NHL's most dangerous player. My stepfather's worst enemy. And the man who looked at me like I was something worth destroying the world for. One impossible offer. One desperate bet. One night that changed everything. Zane doesn't do fake. He doesn't do half measures. When he tells me I'm his for two months, he means it. In every way that matters. But Zane has secrets buried so deep they connect to my family's past in ways I never imagined. Dark secrets. Deadly ones. What starts as a transaction turns into obsession. What starts as revenge turns into something I can't walk away from. And what starts as a lie might be the only truth that matters. They say some men are too dangerous to love. They're right. But I was never good at following warnings. ★★★★★ This book contains explicit sexual content, dominant/possessive behavior, morally gray characters, family conflict, and themes that may be triggering. Intended for mature readers 18+. This isn't your normal hockey romance. It's dark, raw, and unrelenting-where obsession, desire, and power collide, and nothing is off-limits.

Action LitRPG Romance

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