They Called Him Trash, He Became Their King

Ethan Cross was once the undefeated king of underground fighting rings and the founder of Titan Security, a top-tier security conglomerate. Three years ago, a warehouse fire claimed the life of his younger sister Grace. Shortly afterward, his fiancée Serena turned around and married his stepbrother Victor, who seized control of his company in the process. Blaming himself entirely for his sister’s death, Ethan exiled himself, sinking to the lowest rung as a dishwasher in a fight club’s back kitchen—his right hand shakes uncontrollably whenever he grows tense. Everyone calls him a worthless loser, and even his old championship posters are hung up at banquets as a laughingstock. That all changed when Ava, the owner of a corner diner, stepped between him and a humiliating drink meant to be thrown at him, shielding him in front of a crowd. To protect the only woman who ever treated him like a human being, and to uncover the truth behind his sister’s supposed death, Ethan does not transform back into a legend overnight. Instead, he climbs back up one brutal fight at a time. He fights his way from underground arenas back to the company’s boardroom, trading his shattered championship wristband for founding voting rights. At last, under the eyes of every witness, he exposes Victor as the mastermind behind the arson fire and reclaims everything that once belonged to him. But the world has called him a loser for far too long. This time, he will make them watch—watch how a broken nobody