My ex-wife’s bestie slept with me

Three years ago, elite mercenary Ethan Cross retired and married Vicky, craving an ordinary life. But Vicky found him dull and cheated on him for two whole years. Her best friend Sophia saw from day one that Ethan was anything but ordinary—she waited quietly for two years, then laid the truth bare before him. Ethan signed the divorce papers calmly, then told his rival: "You destroyed three years of my life. Now you pay." From crushing a local tyrant's hunting ground, to storming an underground auction alone, to fighting his way through a hunter-infested private island, he uprooted a criminal empire that had held the port city for sixty years. When he reached the kidnapped Sophia, covered in blood, he found her clutching a shard of glass—she'd already stabbed their enemy with her own hands. Everyone wants Ethan dead or under their thumb. Only Sophia dared to embrace all of his darkness from the start. She went from bystander to comrade-in-arms, and finally became his only anchor. In her eyes, he doesn't need to be normal—he just needs to be fully himself.