Crimson Overlord - Chapter 148

Fate, a gatekeeper who had been working for the castle, is beset by a few burdens.

After living in a desolate land, where there wasn’t even a single blade of grass and hunger was an everyday reality, Min Sung finally returns to Earth: his home.

Pei Shu'er finds herself transported into a novel, embodying the notorious role of the Heir's wife. Her husband, the Young Master, is destined to become a charming, powerful, tragic, and disabled villain. Currently, he lies gravely injured and unconscious, and Pei Shu'er is the very catalyst for his dark transformation.From the outset, her husband attempts to strangle her!Surrounded by a family of the elderly, the young, and the injured, Pei Shu'er reluctantly takes on the responsibility of providing for them all. In her left hand, she wields life-saving materials worth billions from her spatial realm; in her right, she brandishes silver needles with the skill to heal the dying.She opens shops, promotes trade, advances technology, and builds cities, transforming the desolate land into the first city defending the border. Single-handedly, she fortifies the frontier and earns the reverence of all as Miss Pei.After curing the villain's leg ailment, he rises through military achievements to become a Great General, and later expands his territory to become the supreme emperor. Having repaid the debts of her original self, Pei Shu'er believes their obligations are settled and presents the divorce papers as per their agreement.The villain, who once sought to strangle her, now stubbornly pulls her into his embrace. “My heart belongs to you. Where else do you think you're going?”

Ten years ago, Joseph Cassian was thrown into a maximum-security prison for crimes he didn’t commit framed by the very family whose blood runs through his veins.Now, at twenty-eight, he walks free into a world where the city’s mafia empires have mysteriously crumbled. Their leaders, slaughtered. Their empires, burned.All while Joseph sat in silence behind bars... no one can prove he did anything and yet it all happened as if he planned it.Was he just a wrongfully imprisoned scapegoat, a man who survived injustice?Or is he a mastermind a Don who orchestrated revenge so flawlessly that not even he had to lift a finger?Now that he’s free, Joseph stands at a crossroads.He can leave the blood behind, walk away from the ashes of an empire that once owned the city.Or he can claim what’s left of his legacy and become the very Don the world has feared all along.