The Overlord Returns: World Beneath His Shadow

Skylar Langdon commands Sanctum, which almost nobody knows, and he has buried that entirely to work on the one thing that matters, which is who killed his mother. He drives a taxi. On a wet night he picks up Ava Chapman, a company chief who has been drugged, gets her away from the people who did it, and stays with her until morning. They part without names. Four years on Ava comes back with a small girl, Xinxin, and a paternity result, and tells him they are getting married. He agrees and keeps the disguise, taking work at a butcher's counter so the marriage looks like what everyone assumes it is. Ava's relatives treat him as the mistake she made, the rival Jiang family leans on the household from outside, and he absorbs all of it while quietly clearing away anything that gets near his wife and daughter. The inquiry into his mother's death continues underneath, and the two threads start to touch.