They called Magnus Mace trash. They were about to learn what trash could buy.For three years, Magnus lived like a nobody, enduring poverty, humiliation, and rejection while working himself to exhaustion to keep his sick sister alive.Then, on the worst day of his life, his girlfriend dumped him for a billionaire heir—and her new lover publicly humiliated him before having him beaten in the street.Broken and bleeding, Magnus thought he had lost everything.Then his dead grandfather called.Not literally.A mysterious executor revealed the truth: Magnus had been living under a secret Trial of Poverty. His exile was over, and his inheritance was finally unlocked.Unlimited wealth.Political influence.Global corporations.And enough power to destroy everyone who ever looked down on him.His first move? Buy the hospital that abandoned his sister.His second? Buy the club where his enemies are celebrating.But when Magnus walks through those doors, he discovers something that changes everything…His grandfather left him more than money.

For five years, Caleb Conway has lived as a cripple. Once a martial prodigy at the peak of the third Qi Realm, he sacrificed his cultivation to save Grace Harper—the woman he was destined to marry. In return, her family promised their marriage pact would never be broken. They lied. The moment Grace reaches the fourth Qi Realm, her family tears up the engagement and calls Caleb worthless. Worse, his own stepmother betrays him, handing control of the Conway empire to his arrogant younger brother, Bryce—a fifth-level martial genius. Then Bryce challenges Caleb to a duel. Everyone expects the cripple to kneel. But that night, something ancient awakens inside Caleb. His shattered spirit root is restored, his lost cultivation returns, and a mysterious golden power begins transforming his body. By noon, Caleb will face the brother who stole everything from him. They think he is still the weakest Conway. They are about to discover just how wrong they are. Because this time, Caleb Conway isn't fighting for Grace. He's fighting to take everything back.

Rowan Mercer died freezing outside the mansion of the family he had spent his life serving. His foster mother stole his warmth for her biological son. His foster family abandoned him. And the woman he loved chose another man. But death wasn't the end. Rowan awakens twenty days before the world is swallowed by a catastrophic polar collapse—with the memories of everything that happened before. This time, he refuses to beg. He remembers the winning lottery numbers, the coming disasters, the resources that will vanish, and the people who will become monsters when civilization freezes. With millions in his hands and twenty days on the clock, Rowan buys a massive estate and transforms it into an impenetrable fortress. He will stockpile food. He will prepare for the cold. And he will make the people who betrayed him watch him rise. But Rowan doesn't know one thing... **The apocalypse has changed—and something is coming with the ice.**