Gu Yichen had everything-wealth, status, and power-until his world was torn apart. After his mother's sudden death, his father wasted no time bringing home a stepmother and a cunning stepbrother, throwing his once-stable life into chaos. But Gu Yichen wasn't weak-he fought, schemed, and crushed their ambitions underfoot.
Yet just as he secured his place at the top, the apocalypse arrived. Humanity fell to monsters, betrayal ran deeper than any blade, and the world burned. Even with his rare Shadow and Devouring abilities, Gu Yichen was outnumbered, outmatched, and ultimately abandoned. His girlfriend and best friends-the people he trusted most-left him to die in a warehouse, bleeding and alone.
But fate wasn't so cruel. In his final moments, he met two orphaned twins-one who wielded ice that froze even the strongest beasts, and another who controlled flames capable of burning the unkillable. Alongside them was a mysterious ex-military man with no memories, yet an unnatural charm that made people obsess over him. They had nothing, yet when Gu Yichen offered them his last piece of bread, they gave their lives to protect him.
And in the end, they all died.
But when Gu Yichen opened his eyes again, he was back five years before the apocalypse, with only three weeks left until the world fell apart.
This time, he would rise before the apocalypse began. He would hunt down his betrayers before they had a chance to strike. He would find the twins and the ex-military man before fate turned them into sacrifices. Most of all, he would embrace his devouring ability-the power he once feared-because in this new world, the strong lived and the weak were swallowed whole.
If the world was destined to be ruled by chaos, then he would be its King.
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Henley agrees to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for a fee, falling in love as she wonders - how is he involved in her brother's false conviction?
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Henley Linden's brother is in jail for a crime he didn't commit, and she'll take any job to raise the money needed to free him. Soon, she's agreed to pretend to date millionaire Bennett Calloway for ten thousand dollars, so his mother will ease up the pressure on him to find a wife. But once Henley is enmeshed in Bennett's world, he falls for her, and she starts to have feelings for him as well. Despite her romance with Bennett, as she grows closer to the Calloways, Henley realizes they are somehow involved in her brother's conviction. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything.
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