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436 short dramas in Return of the King — synopsis, ratings and where to watch.
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Worthless? I'm a Mighty Warlord!Finn Yate quietly supplies the success that his wife Sara Lamb's family attributes to themselves. They dismiss him while Sara allies with a prominent city figure, never realizing that Finn is the hidden force behind her rise.
KING: Idol Who Refused to BowFive women he helped years ago are rich now, one of them running her own company and another born into a Korean conglomerate family, and when he comes back it is their money and their names standing between him and the people who buried him.
He had been the top act in Korean music without holding Korean citizenship, and audiences called him the King. The men who ran the industry wanted him on a contract that meant changing his nationality. He told them he was born a son of his own country and would be one when he died. They blacklisted him and he was off the stage for twelve years.
Then a system activates in him and gives the voice back. He goes on stage with his face covered. The same interests move to shut him down a second time, he keeps performing through it, and he books a free concert that tens of thousands of people come to. What he does from the stage brings the arrangement that ended his career into the open, and the men who built it are still running things.
My Father's Gift Made Me a Martial God!His inner power is destroyed. He becomes a slave. His lover betrays him, making everything worse. A martial artist falls to rock bottom. But then, a mysterious book left by his father awakens... What will this bring him? Can it help him fight back and take back everything?
Backstab While I Train? You'll Regret It!To break through the ceiling that has held him for ten thousand years, Chu Changge seals his own cultivation and takes work as a sweeper inside the Taixuan Sword Sect, where nobody knows the founding patriarch is scrubbing their floors. His disciple Xiao Jue is courting the young lady Ye Qingcheng and wants the sect's protective key to impress her. Xiao Jue takes the key, breaks the spirit roots of Xiao An, Chu Changge's adopted boy, brands the child as demon-blooded and has him dragged to the immortal execution platform. Chu Changge unseals himself and reveals who he is. Xiao Jue is beaten and set to the filthiest labour in the sect, and he goes over to the Demon Lord rather than accept it, coming back with an army at his shoulder to besiege the mountain. Chu Changge lays out in front of everyone how the frame-up was built, and settles the siege with a single stroke. When the way to ascension opens for him afterwards he turns it down and stays below, taking Xiao An as his own disciple.
(Dubbed)Return of the Drift KingRacing champion Chase Walker has spent five years hidden as a rural mechanic when the Raptor Riders challenge his town to a race with its future at stake. Saving his neighbors means returning to the wheel and exposing the legend he abandoned.
Ms. CEO's Invincible GuardSecurity guard Calvin just wants to save his sister. But after saving a poisoned CEO, he's dragged into her world of corporate wars, assassins, and a mysterious family hunting him for a secret in his blood. Now he must choose: keep hiding, or unleash the dragon within to protect both his sister and the woman who changed everything.
My Warlord Fiancé & His Mission to Save MeMy Warlord Fiancé & His Mission to Save Me
Julian Garner, an experienced veteran, finds himself bound by duty and desire as he shields Stella Lynn, COO of Serenity Group, from assassins and corporate coups. Faced with multiple threats, Stella finds the real enemy shares her lipstick… When a veteran is bound by a dangerous love pact, will he be the savior to all — or the destroyer?
My Beggar Groom Is A BillionaireWhen Mr. CEO Charles disguised as a beggar finds true love, his ex exposes his "poverty" to the bride's family. Now his wedding procession is blocked by an angry mob while his bride is being told he abandoned her and forced to marry another! Can he reveal his true identity before she says "I do" to the wrong man?
Mr. Dragon in a Mop BucketFor twenty years, the most powerful man on Earth has mopped floors and cleaned toilets, all to raise his son in peace. When his future daughter-in-law humiliates his family on the wedding day, his phone rings. And the man holding a mop reveals he owns everything she ever wanted. The wedding is off. The Dragon returns. And hell comes with him.
(Dubbed) Mr. Dragon in a Mop BucketFor twenty years, the most powerful man on Earth has mopped floors and cleaned toilets, all to raise his son in peace. When his future daughter-in-law humiliates his family on the wedding day, his phone rings. And the man holding a mop reveals he owns everything she ever wanted. The wedding is off. The Dragon returns. And hell comes with him.
Beast Power: My Epic Comeback!Betrayed and abandoned by his ex-girlfriend, Eric Grant returned home to search for his missing parents. On the way, he saved a widow named Rebecca Ford, and stumbled upon the Beastmaster's Codex… What would happen next? And what power would he awaken?
THE JANITOR: Rise of The PrimeThe Augmented run an empire that mass-produces synthetic warriors, and the warriors are directed by an artificial intelligence that predicts what an opponent will do. Cole is the strongest soldier alive, and he has spent three years with his powers sealed, working as a janitor that people look down on, because his mother was murdered and he is in mourning for her. The seal breaks when his sister's life is at stake. He turns everything he has kept shut away on the Augmented, a human will against a thing grown in a laboratory on data.
Bro Betrayed, Wife Kills Me? NOT TODAY!The wedding Han Su comes home to is his own wife marrying his younger brother. Han Su was a general who had fought bloody campaigns at the front, and during the war Han Mo shot him in the back and accused him of colluding with the enemy and betraying the country. Han Mo then spread word that he had died, and used it to take his wife, his children and his rank, with the village believing every part of it.
Han Su survived and made his way back. His relatives and the villagers he had protected turn on him, and he is condemned to death. The order for the execution is given by the woman he loves. As the blade comes down, a secret is about to come out.
Lie InheritedIan was the perfect heir, until someone faked a DNA test, schemed an accident, and framed him for the crime. His family disowned him, his lover betrayed him. After five years in prison, he emerges to find his life in ruins… Now, when the final reckoning comes, who will truly pay the price?
I Married My Lady Boss as a MechanicDumped at the altar and mocked as a broke mechanic, he marries his powerful boss, leading everyone to believe he's a loser. His true identity as the lost Rockefeller heir and legendary "Prometheus" is revealed, along with the truth that his parents' murder was no accident, marking this marriage as the start of his revenge.
Jail Didn't Break HimJay was convicted of the rape and murder of a woman he did not kill and served three years as someone else's scapegoat. His parents were killed while trying to prove his innocence. In prison the strongest fighter in the city took him on and taught him how to kill.
He came out and worked back through the people responsible one at a time, and established that the real killer was from the Khanna family, the most powerful family in the city. He went after them on his own, using force against them and trying to clear his name.
Game Over, DadEthan Stone, a hardworking tech employee making half million a year, quietly buys a cheap game to relive his youth. When his daughter finds out, she launches a brutal online attack that leads to his heart attack. Now, with a shocking new power to multiply his spending, Ethan plans to take back what’s rightfully his. But will his family regret pushing him too far?
This Marshal Is Not One to Mess WithXiao Changfeng commanded the armies of Da Chang and put down the rebellion in the Northern Territory. The empress gave him the title of Grand Marshal of Heavenly Might when he returned, and one of the princes took his rise badly. He went home for his father's birthday without announcing the rank. Murong Yunyan, the woman he was engaged to, broke off the engagement there because he held no title, and set up a martial contest to choose a husband instead. Fighters from Nan Mang came to the contest to challenge Da Chang, and Xiao Changfeng beat them on the platform and let his identity be known. He then found that the Lü family had been dealing with Nan Mang, and that they had taken the compensation money owed to dead soldiers and tried to pull down the hall raised in those soldiers' memory. The prince moved for the throne while this was going on. Xiao Changfeng rode back to the capital and broke the revolt, then dealt with Nan Mang in the south. He married Murong Yunyan and stayed on guarding the country.
Bumpkin? No, He's a Warlord!Qin Huang was the young master of the Tianyi Sect and once dominated the martial world. He dropped the name, called himself Chen A Liu, and settled in a village as a farmer. He married Lin Wanqing there and they had a daughter. Six years passed, and the Tianyi Sect spread its reach into the north. Lin Wanqing disclosed that she was the missing eldest daughter of the Sword Manor, and she left the village with the daughter and went to her former lover, who was fighting enemies of his own. Chen A Liu tracked the two of them to the martial tournament in Jiangcheng. His wife's family and the fighters gathered there took him for a villager and mocked and pushed him around. A master from the sect then came into the arena and beat everyone who stood against him. Chen A Liu came out of the crowd when his daughter was in the man's path and fought him himself, and the people around the arena learned then that the villager was a master of the top rank.
Delivery Guy? The Racing GOD!Haunted by his father's fatal crash, a racing god quits to become a lowly delivery guy. When a vicious rival pushes his sister's racing team to the brink, he is forced out of retirement. Unleashing his god-tier driving skills, he crushes his enemies and storms the world finals. Can he conquer his trauma to defeat the global champion?
My Ex, My Girl, My WrathXiao Yang led the Tiandao Alliance, the body that stood over the eight major martial arts families. One of his old followers was dying, and knelt to ask him for a favour: look after his granddaughter and keep the family from going under. Xiao Yang agreed, put his name and rank away, married into the family, and helped it from the inside without telling anyone what he had been.
The granddaughter, Jiang Ruoyao, knew none of this. To her he was a husband who stayed at home and could do nothing useful, and she treated him that way. When her grandfather died she divorced him.
They had a daughter. The girl had been born with what the martial world calls the body of the God of War, and Xiao Yang kept it quiet. He gave up the chance to take the alliance back and instead opened a steamed bun shop in the old neighbourhood so he could stay with the girl, and lived off it.
Eight years passed. Word of the daughter's body got out. People came after her for it, and one group meant to take her and use her to bear children with the same body. Jiang Ruoyao, who still took her ex-husband for a nobody, told him he could not even keep his own daughter safe. When the girl was in real danger he stopped holding back and used the strength he had hidden since he left the alliance.
Don't Tell Him He Can't FightHe's dying. The cure? Never fight. So his father fights for him, in bloody tournaments, trading bones for medicine. The son sees rejection. The enemy sees weakness. But when betrayal burns the family down, the boy with black blood will finally raise his fist. And the world will learn: the forbidden punch is the deadliest of all.
What? My Dad's A Legend?He faked his death, broke his family's heart, and went underground to take down a criminal empire. 15 years later, he's back. Not as a kingpin, but as a dad crashing his daughter's scam wedding and fighting off thugs. Turns out, saving the world was easier than winning her back...
This Hidden Reaper Awakes for His Family!David Fox was the Dragon Division's number one agent and went by the name Grim Reaper. When his wife became pregnant he left that world. For the next five years he lived as an ordinary man, and people took him for a weak househusband and he let them.
Then Black Draco went after June Hart, his wife's younger sister, and humiliated her. David Fox revealed his real identity.
Father! I Rise after You Crushed MeRaised in seclusion, a martial prodigy returns to his family, only to be framed by his jealous sibling. Abandoned and forced to cripple himself by his cold father, he severs all ties. Taken in by a grand master and reborn with supreme skills, will his brutal revenge bring the arrogant family to its knees?
Holy! The Underdog's Got Bite!Ethan, long regarded as a useless waste, actually possesses the rare Hidden God Physique. As their ten-year promise expires, his childhood sweetheart Cecilia is driven to the brink of death in an arranged martial marriage duel. Faced with the torment of his beloved, how will Ethan respond? Will the dormant divine power within him finally erupt?
The Grandmaster... A Peasant?He was a farm boy hidden in the mountains by his father, yet also a blade sharp enough to shake the empire. One duel stuns the world, one past romance stirs the storm. As long-buried secrets rise to the surface, the clash of steel ignites a journey where blood, fate, and vengeance collide.
Flash Marriage to My Lady BossAidan is dumped by his girlfriend on their wedding day and quickly marries Flora, the CEO of the Vale Group. What seemed like a peaceful life turns chaotic when Flora suspects Aidan might be the lost heir, Wyatt. As their fates intertwine, Aidan gets caught in family power struggles... What secrets lie beneath this sudden marriage?
My Sword's Rusty. Or Is It?The realm's greatest swordsman spends eighteen years as an obscure hunter after betrayal destroys his family, hiding his weapon to keep his last daughter safe. His enemies take and torture her anyway, leaving her to die in his arms. Digging up the rusted blade marks the end of his silence.
Sweet Sister? BEAST MASTER!In a world where everyone bonds with beasts, the former Lord Apex now delivers takeout, hiding a reborn Inferno Phoenix on his shoulder as a ""pet chicken."" When the beast-training vault his sister worked for faces ruin, he steps back into the light.Now, with his identity exposed, Ryan and his sister charge into the state championships, only to uncover a conspiracy: the powerful Watt family is trafficking forbidden calamity beasts with a shadowy foreign syndicate. As ancient evils stir, Ryan awakens a Shadowpard and an Abyssal Tortoise, while his mysterious ""Eye of Providence"" pushes his allies beyond their limits.
(Dubbed)The Legend of A Bastard SonEzra, the bastard son of House Shaw's patriarch, Zanthos and his maid Lotus, has long been scorned by his family. Despite this, he possesses extraordinary talent and has been trained by three reclusive masters. Believing himself weak due to a lack of praise, Ezra kept a low profile. However, during a sect evaluation, his incredible strength was revealed. His power attracted enemies who uncovered his lineage, endangering his loved ones. How will Ezra overcome this crisis?
(Dubbed)The Little Pool GodBilliards legend Cameron Bell dies in a crash and awakens inside Sadie Morris, a child who is herself close to death. Given an entirely new body and life, the former champion must build his mastery from the beginning and reclaim his place at the table.
(Dubbed)Rise of the OutcastMartial prodigy Ryan Carter is treated as worthless because of his low place in the family. When he sees a young woman who resembles his supposedly dead mother about to marry his foolish cousin, he enters the patriarch election to save her. Rivals sever his meridians and leave him crippled, but a reclusive Taoist master rescues the fallen fighter.
Weak? I Tamed the Real Dragon!Andy Sanford wants to be a Dragon Tamer, which was the strongest class anyone could take until the dragons of Blue Star died out and left it worth nothing. Everyone else awakens into classes that are good for fighting the beasts and the evil god that has come down on Blue Star to enslave or kill everything alive. Andy gets into the military university in the capital on his own marks and takes the Dragon Tamer class anyway, to general mockery.
Then the Divine Dragon System opens to him and he can summon ancient true dragons, the eastern kind. What this world calls dragons are western lizards said to carry a trace of true dragon blood. Andy is pulled into a fight between larger powers and goes into the Land of the Fallen Gods, where the things he meets come from outside this world.
Dare A God? You Perish!Ean Chevy gave up his divine life for love, only to be his adopted brother's identical copy! The brat committed a crime, framed him, and his cruel family threw him to the wolves! An innocent immortal sank into darkness, until his power roared back! What goes around comes around. Who'll regret crossing the immortal they used and crushed?
(Dubbed) Broken BondsAs the wealthiest man in Silverbrook, John Grant hid his identity for years to care for his wife, Monica Lane. When he planned to promote her as the next factory director, he discovered she had been cheating for years. Their children also rejected him as their father. On New Year's Eve, Monica and her lover kicked him out. Heartbroken, John decided to reclaim his fortune and take back everything he gave them.
Regret? It's the Apocalypse!Seth Stroud, the embodiment of Earth's will, possesses extraordinary talent, breaking through to the Martial God Realm at age ten, though no one believed it. Driven by duty, he helps Sancta Union guard the Demonbane for thirty years, slaughtering demons until they fear to attack. After three decades of peace,the federation leadership and citizens firmly believe peace comes from the demons' kindness and genuine desire for harmony with humanity. Meanwhile, the upper echelons have always viewed Seth as a threat to their power and now plot to eliminate this thorn in their side.
(Dubbed)The Janitor's Mighty FistOnce the Martial Lord, now a mere errand boy. When his sister is bullied in the ring, he steps in but is humiliated. In a moment of crisis, he breaks his seal and shocks the crowd. Yet the true enemy hides in the shadows of the Luminary Society. The truth is about to surface, and the fight has begun!
No memory? Still Martial GOAT!Liam Gale, an immortal, sealed himself for a hundred years to escape a great calamity. When he awoke, the seal remained. He went out for a walk, only to lose his memory in a car accident...Then the Demon Lord arose, threatening the world. How will Liam respond? Will he ever regain his memories?
Goodbye, My Tempting WifeJohn can’t resist the sexy lingerie… until he catches his wife getting F*****! Betrayed and disowned by his own family, the last piece of John Morgan died that Christmas Eve. What’s left of him is cold, ruthless, and ready to rise as CEO—taking back every damn thing he gave them!
(Dubbed) What? Racing Ace Is a TRUCK Guy!Truck driver Noah rescues a kidnapped boy, only to find he’s his own son with ex-lover Ella. To seize the Speedster Racing Team, their rival Zelda sets a deadly trap that pushes Ella into a corner. In response, Noah reignites his innate racing talent to confront him...
Reborn Assassin: I Kill for My WifeThe world's greatest assassin, Lu Chen, awakens ten years earlier as a despised live-in son-in-law. When factions target the Qilin elixir developed by his wife Su Qingran, he applies the skills and knowledge of his former life from the shadows, eliminating each threat until she can protect both her discovery and their future.
The Missing Master ChefReduced to one dish he can still cook after betrayal damages his hands, Skylar fights to recover the mastery he once abandoned. The celebrated chef left fame to seek meaning and found refuge as a restaurant prep cook. A cooking contest exposes his identity and draws him into the struggle against those threatening his benefactors.
Every Betrayal Gets PaidMoney has been going out of the Scarlet Order's accounts, and the man moving it, Jeff Carter, has been dealing with a rival group on the side. Jeff came into the house as a foster son and the old man trusts him with everything.
Luther comes home after ten years away, with a limp in his left leg. Jeff and Lin Fang are there to meet him and both are pleasant about it. The two of them have had an arrangement running for a while. Within days Jeff has him ambushed on a country road and the assault put down as Luther's doing, and the wolf tooth his mother left him is smashed in it. Luther keeps quiet and starts collecting proof of the missing money and the contacts with the rival group.
A banquet is put on for his return. Jeff goes at him again in front of the room, and Luther lays the whole of it out on the table. His father looks at the scars on his son and then at the papers.
Once a God, Now a CookFormer war god Ye Feng seals his cultivation and works as a menial in a small martial hall to escape a demon sovereign's obsession. Everyone, including his daughter, mistakes his restraint for cowardice. When a rival master's son gravely wounds her and his mother arrives with experts to seize the hall, Ye Feng finally reveals the power he has hidden for years.
All-In for Justice: Cards of VengeanceHis fiancée frames Tyler Holt and sends him to prison, where three masters teach him the secrets of gambling and deception. On release, Tyler passes their trials only to learn that the brother he never met is dead and the family empire is collapsing because of the same woman. Forced into his brother's place, he becomes the Gambling King and wagers his new skills on revenge—and on ending the games that destroy lives.
Wait, My Parents Are Loaded?John Foster has been told his whole life that the family has no money. His parents have kept that going for the twenty-five years he has been alive, on the idea that being rich would spoil him, and he has eaten out of a Ming bowl in a plain house without ever asking what it was.
He goes out to work and never seems embarrassed about being poor, and that is the thing Cora Bradley notices. She runs a technology company, her family is pushing her into a marriage she wants out of, and she offers him money to stand in as her fiance while the two families are introduced. He takes the offer because he thinks his mother is sick and the money would go to her. Once the engagement is public, people who wanted Cora or wanted her company start setting things up to catch him out. He gets through most of it on his own quickness, and his parents clear away the rest from behind him without letting him see it.
The Hidden Tyrant 2After years of hiding his power, Adrian Shaw vanishes after clearing his mother's name. He arrives in Northviet seeking answers, only to become an unwitting national icon. Forced to hide his identity at Deere Academy, he ignites immediate chaos. Facing mysteries about the All-Knower, Pagoda, and his own origins, will he find the truth he seeks?
Blind? He's one of a kind!Hades trained Tracy Swift into one of the Spectre's best killers, and now he is hunting her. She has been running long enough that there is not much room left.
Tracy is pregnant and living in a poor district with her husband, Brian Wilson, at the massage parlour the two of them keep. Brian is blind and works as the masseur. Neither has told the other what they used to be. Brian was ranked first among agents worldwide, born with four pupils, known by the codename the Lamplighter, and he left the work years ago for this street and this shop. The hunt for Tracy reaches the house, and he takes the work up again to keep his household standing. The organisations that had written him off have to account for him a second time.
Bye, Jerk! I'm the Boss Lady!A hidden billionaire father returns in secret. His daughter prepares to announce her engagement. But her fiancé is cheating and humiliates the quiet old man, unaware he is the true power behind the company. An heirloom shattered. A lie exposed. When she sees everything… who will pay the price?
The Hidden Tyrant 2Adrian Shaw is known as the biggest wastrel in his home city, a reputation he kept up on purpose for years while hiding what he can actually do. Once his mother's name is cleared he disappears. He goes alone to Northviet looking for answers and beats the princes of three kingdoms, which makes him a national idol there. The court of Northviet turns against him, so he hides his identity and enrolls at Deere Academy, where he causes an uproar on his first day.
He learns that the game around him is being run by Nora, a princess who rules from the shadows. The nine-story Pagoda is where living puppets are made and the worst secrets are kept. The All-Knower, the hidden history of Northviet and the question of where Adrian came from all come up together.
The Burning Staff Conquers AllSu Wanqing sends her husband away with a divorce letter. Xiao Lingfeng has just walked back into the house after five years, and he has found her living with his enemy Chen Lei and been told that their daughter is dead. What he does not know is that Wanqing hid the girl and has been taking the pressure of the Su family martial school on herself so that nobody would come after a man they all write off as a cripple.
Five years earlier Lingfeng's dantian was destroyed and he went over a cliff. Everyone took him for dead. In the mountains a master taught him the thirty-six Dragon-Subduing staff techniques, a set that works without a dantian, and he came down with strength nobody around him can measure.
The Su and Zhang families are heading for a fight to the death. On the day it comes, Wanqing ends up facing the attackers alone. Lingfeng steps in when she is close to being killed and uses the staff techniques in front of both families.
(Dubbed) OMG! The "butcher" Son Is the Family Savior!Aiden Storm comes down from the mountain to find his birth parents. He saves Zara from an attack, drawn into a feud. In Mira, he finds a connection, but his father Damon calls him worthless. When his new family is threatened, he must unleash his power. How far will he go to protect them?
The Missing Kitchen KingA year after vanishing at the height of fame, culinary king Anthony resurfaces as lowly apprentice Tony and saves a Michelin restaurant from ruin. Revealing himself restores his glory, only for a plot to leave him disabled and penniless. Reduced to the simplest techniques, he must prove whether mastery lies in reputation or in the essence of cooking.
Before the Wedding, Comes the ReckoningOn the night before the wedding Scott Brawley was at the venue setting up. A fire alarm went off at the new house and the call came to him. He drove over and found Alison Ritchie in bed with her stepbrother. Alison told him it was affection between siblings and that it made no difference to the wedding the next day. There were kiss marks on her.
Scott had proposed to Alison ninety-nine times over eight years. In that period Alison had acted against Scott's interest in her stepbrother's favor on several occasions, and Scott had expected the marriage to put an end to that.
That night Scott called his grandfather and accepted the match the family had arranged for him. The ceremony was to go ahead as scheduled, with the other woman standing in as the bride.
(Dubbed) Flash Marriage to My Lady BossAidan is dumped by his girlfriend on their wedding day and quickly marries Flora, the CEO of the Vale Group. What seemed like a peaceful life turns chaotic when Flora suspects Aidan might be the lost heir, Wyatt. As their fates intertwine, Aidan gets caught in family power struggles... What secrets lie beneath this sudden marriage?
(Dubbed) The Hidden TyrantTo survive, Adrian plays Crownspire’s Golden Rogue, hiding steel beneath swagger. When a contest for Princess Grace’s hand disgraces Auren, he finally reveals a sliver of his true skill, shaking the court and alarming the very family he intends to ruin. As power shifts and masks crack, Adrian tightens the trap he has set for years… who will be the first to step into it?
Crippled Me? I Won Anyway!Once a football prodigy, Marcus Reed is framed and crippled for refusing match-fixing, reduced to a stadium cleaner. Years later, heiress Vivian Lane recruits him to coach a misfit team. Training them with kung fu principles, he fights corruption, defeats his enemies, and reclaims his crown.
Hello, Mr. Chapman!In a marriage where the husband moves into his wife's family home, he ranks below everyone else under that roof, and the relatives keep count of what he costs them.
Lucas comes into the York house on those terms. The Chapmans had been set up and lost the business, and he took the charge on himself so that no one else in the family would, which is how he ended up in prison. He ran a company out of there, Venus Group, under a name that the people dealing with it only know as Mr. Chap. On release he went looking for Helen, who had been engaged to him before the collapse, and he said nothing to her family about the company.
Helen's grandfather wants him gone and says it in front of everyone. Most of the relatives are of the same mind. Helen and her parents take his side anyway, and they do it without knowing what he came out of prison owning.
Step Aside, the Real Heir is BackTwenty years ago his stepmother made threats against his grandmother, and his father put the Lyons heir out of the house over it. He went overseas and stayed alive in places run by criminals, and in time he built an underground organization of his own, Night Court, feared well beyond where it started.
His father dies and his grandmother sends for him, so he comes home. His stepmother and his younger brother take turns humiliating him at the door, and the household staff join in, all of them still treating him as the boy who was driven out. He answers without waiting, going after the family holdings, the truth about what happened to his father, and the people in that house who had a hand in it.