Synopsis
Soren Valmere has never been good enough for his family. Unawakened. Useless. Trash. They call him every name in the book, and he has learned to stop flinching. So when they announce his arranged marriage to Ethea Morvain, the once legendary Ice Empress now completely paralyzed after a catastrophic Gate incident, he barely bats an eye. This is not a reward. It is an exile.
Both families ship them off to a modest house in a working class neighborhood, washing their hands of two problems they no longer want to deal with. Soren and his broken bride. Forgotten. Abandoned. Left to rot.
Then comes the wedding night.
Soren awakens a hidden power that changes everything. The Investment Authority. Whatever he invests in Ethea, whether time, money, care, or emotion, returns to him amplified by ten thousand times when she achieves a breakthrough.
Buy her medicine with his last few credits? Receive a hundred million in return. Spend sleepless nights helping her move a single finger? Gain decades of martial experience instantly. Risk his life to save hers from a sudden threat? Unlock abilities that shatter the heavens themselves.
As Soren pours everything he has into the wife everyone else abandoned, something miraculous begins to happen. Ethea slowly transforms from a broken doll into a force that surpasses even her legendary past. Her fingers twitch. Her power stirs. The Ice Empress is waking up.
And Soren? The worthless unawakened trash becomes the most dangerous investor the world has ever seen. His returns are measured in power, wealth, and the terrified faces of everyone who once looked down on him.
Their families wanted to forget them. The world dismissed them as failures. They are about to learn a very expensive lesson. The greatest returns come from investing in someone everyone else deemed worthless.
Soren looks at his wife, at the modest house, at the future his family tried to steal from him. He smiles.
You threw us away. Now watch us rise.
Author’s Note Preserved
Hey everyone. This is my first time writing in this genre, so please go easy on me. Furthermore, this is purely a work of imagination. Any similarities to real persons or events are coincidental. I am just here to have fun and hopefully entertain you along the way.
If you enjoy the story, please add it to your library and throw some power stones my way. Comments and feedback are always welcome, the good kind and the constructive kind.
I will try to update regularly, but life happens, so bear with me.
Now sit back, relax, and watch Soren make the worst investment of his life.
Spoiler. It turns out to be the best one.
