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QUEEN OF ASHES: RISE OF THE SCORNFUL EX-WIFE!

QUEEN OF ASHES: RISE OF THE SCORNFUL EX-WIFE!

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last updateLast Updated : 2025-09-17
By:  Bloody goddessOngoing
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First-Person POV

Girl Power

CEO

Heir/Heirness

Brave

Face-Slapping

Betrayal

Contract Marriage

“Let’s get married, Jace.” Lisa said, her eyes up at the handsome man in front of her, whose eyes were clouded with worries. “Are you sure about this?” Jace asked and she nodded, her gaze hardened as she stared into nothingness. “Dominic took everything from me, but with your help, I will get it all back.” “Why do you think I’m the best candidate for this?” Jace was curious as to why she chose him of all people for a fake marriage. “Because you’re Dominic’s step-brother. It makes the revenge worthwhile.” ……… Lisa loved her husband to an extent she was manipulated into giving her company away to him, after which he served her divorce papers. Dominic, Lisa’s Ex-husband, hated to stay in the shadows and with Lisa’s company, it has given him the limelight he needed. Lisa, the scorned, Ex-wife, humiliated in front of the world, had crawled back away from the undead, Risen out of the ashes, deadly, sharper and colder than a winter night. She wants one thing, and that is revenge. But she needed help with her revenge, so she proposed a fake marriage and romance to her best friend, Jace Davenport, Dominic’s step-brother. As they went on with a fake romance in front of everyone to taunt and lure Dominic, secrets begin to unravel. Old memories, buried deep, began to surface and loyalties twist. When the war ends, will love find a way? Or will the two people who met for revenge go their separate ways after it is done? I doubt so. Not when Jace Davenport stares at Lisa like she is his world and he will burn any other world for her!

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41 Chapters
Chapter 1
LISA’S POV I stared at the document, my fingers twitching as if the paper might bite. Three minutes. Maybe more. I’d lost track. The pen hovered above the line that would change everything. “Sign it, baby,” Dominic murmured, his breath warm against my neck, sending an involuntary shiver down my spine. “Just one signature, and you’ll make me the happiest man alive.” He looked perfect this morning, hair brushed back, jaw freshly shaved, smile soft enough to make me forget how dangerous it could be. It’s just another one of his business deals, I told myself. He’s been trying. He deserves this chance. But my hand didn’t move. Not with the memory of every “big idea” that had burned my money to ash. “Dominic…” My voice was quieter than I intended. “I said I wasn’t signing anything else.” He leaned closer, cupping my face like he was cradling something fragile. “You don’t trust me?” His words weren’t sharp. They didn’t need to be. They sank, heavy, into my bones. I wanted to say no.
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Chapter 2
LISA’S POV“Lisa, please, just listen to me.”That voice again.It filtered through the room like the noise from the television screen I’d been staring blankly at. “He’s not a man you can marry, please. This isn’t the man you want to spend the rest of your life with.”Those voices... they haunt me every night. They’ve been haunting me for the past five years relentlessly, echoing louder lately, refusing to be silenced.It was my mother’s voice.She’d warned me, warned me with a trembling voice and weary eyes that marrying Dominic would be the dumbest decision I’d ever make. But I didn’t listen. I never did. I was blind. Stupidly, hopelessly blind.I stared at Dominic’s smile on TV and remembered the first time he smiled at me that way, in the school courtyard, when I thought it meant something real. Back then, I believed red flags were just fireworks. He was handsome, no, he was devastating. I told myself it was a crush. That it would pass. But it didn’t.What started as casually stal
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Chapter 3
LISA’S POV A sharp, piercing sound split through my skull, metal grinding against bone. I tried to open my eyes. Bad idea. Pain slammed me back into darkness, throbbing harder with each attempt, like my brain was punishing me for daring to wake up. Something wasn’t right. I couldn’t name it, but my chest tightened like my body already knew what my mind couldn’t remember. Beep. Beep. Beep. The sound grew clearer, syncing with the biting scent of antiseptic and the scratch of stiff sheets beneath my fingers. Not heaven. Not even close. “Lisa!” The voice cut through the fog—urgent, familiar in a way that sent another jolt of confusion through me. I didn’t move. Couldn’t. My eyelids fluttered, but the light burned. The voice came again, closer this time, softer but no less desperate. “It’s okay. You’re safe.” Safe. Somehow, that word felt wrong. Slowly, I pried my eyes open. Faces swam into view—my mom, my dad, a man in a white coat, and also a guy, tall and handsome, worry et
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Chapter 4
JACE’S POV TWO WEEKS LATER LIGHT, CAMERA, WAR. She’s not the same and neither am I. Her recovery was quick. They said, once a man stands on the path between life and death, when they return, they lose one thing that made them weak. Lisa refused to spend more days in the hospital, no matter how hard we all tried to beg, her mind had been made up. “You should talk to her, she will listen,” her mother said, her eyes gleaming with tears as we watched Lisa explain to the doctors why she needed to be discharged. “I wish I could, but her mind is made up,” I muttered. That wasn’t the only thing on my mind; her words echoed through my nerves like a chord struck on repeat. She was out for blood, ready to ruin the man who had destroyed her. “Jace, take me home,” she pleaded. And like a foot soldier, I nodded, agreeing to anything she said, if this was the only way that I would be with her, I didn’t mind it. I had lost her once, I won’t make the mistake of losing her again. She didn’t
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Chapter 5
Lisa’s POVThe silence of the night pressed in around me, it was heavy and suffocating. My room was dark but the city lights bled into my room through the curtains and then traced faint silver lines across the wooden floor. The clock on the nightstand blinked back at me, it read 2:13 a.m. I had been lying here for hours, sheets tangled around my legs, eyes wide open, and mind spinning like a wheel on fire.Sleep was impossible. How could I close my eyes after what had happened?The images replayed over and over again in my head. The flash of cameras, the shock on Dominic’s face and the electric warmth of Jace’s lips against mine. The kiss had been a weapon, nothing more but yet it lingered, ghosting across my mouth every time I exhaled.Frustrated, I sat up abruptly. I was trying to get some sleep but the thought of his lips against mine was messing with my thoughts.Propping myself up, my hair tumbled forward. The next time I raised my head, I was staring back at my own reflect
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Chapter 6
Dominic’s POVI tried all I could to forget that night but I couldn't. It was as if I had dedicated a large portion of my brain for thinking about Lisa and Jace. Because of this, I decided to stay away from the family house not because I feared Jace. No, never, I wasn't scared of him. I simply refused to give him the satisfaction of seeing me. The memory of his smug face after she kissed him in front of those reporters and stealing the spotlight of my engagement still gnawed at me. But my father thought it wise to call for a family meeting when I was still nursing my wound. That morning, I was going through some documents that I had been trying to sign off when a call came from him. “Family meeting, tonight,” he said without mincing words. I tried to argue, tried to say I had more important matters, but he hung up, cutting me off. “Your brother will be there," Avery said behind me. She was sitting behind the vanity and filing her nails. That was all she knew how to do; look be
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Chapter 7
Lisa’s POVAfter my conversation with Jace last night, I decided to meet up with my father this morning. My meeting with him had left me restless. Since I stepped out of his office, my thoughts had been making rounds in my head. I should have felt triumphant but instead I was restless.He didn't acknowledge me as the foolish daughter who once gambled her inheritance on love, but as a strategist.He saw me as someone who was worthy of trust and didn't hesitate when I asked him for help. He gave me something tangible: power.I was almost drifting further in my thoughts when the front door lock beeped open and close. “You're back," I said, rising from the couch I had been lying on and then proceeded to turn on the lights.“Hey,” he waved, trying to shield his face but I saw it. “You’re hurt,” I said, my gaze on the reddened spot.Shaking his head with a smile at the corner of his lips, he brushed it off. “It’s nothing.”“Nothing?" I huffed, closing the distance between us. “Dominic
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Chapter 8
Lisa's POVThe morning light spilled across my office. It was soft at first but as time went on, it became bright enough to make the glass walls gleam. Today marked my second week of resuming in Lumina Group as the chairwoman. My desk was a mess of files, ranging from reports to contracts and then spreadsheets. Every page I flipped through reminded me just how heavy the title Chairwoman of Lumina Group really was. Biting the inside of my cheek, I flipped open another folder, scanning numbers, projected earnings, and notes from our legal team. Numbers didn’t lie but people did. That was something I had learned quickly in the past week. “I will meet with the directors so I can straighten this." I muttered, setting aside a folder.Grabbing my cup of steaming coffee, I took a sip of it, my eyes scanning the screen of my laptop while I scribbled some notes on my notepad. It wasn't long after when I heard a soft knock on my door. Raising my head briefly, I saw Claire on the other end
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Chapter 9
Lisa's POVFinally, the elevator doors slid open with a soft ding, and I stepped out with my chin high. Behind me, I could hear Dominic’s impatient stride, but I didn’t give him the satisfaction of looking back. If anything, his shock was the appetizer I was anticipating for as the main course was waiting in the boardroom.Since I learnt I was going to go up against him in the boardroom, I swung into preparation. After handling official duties at work, I will spend a greater part of my night crafting out strategies and studying every angle of the building project.Unlike Dominic, I didn’t just come armed with charm and ego. I came armed with facts because I was determined to beat him at his game. The moment I stepped into the boardroom, all eyes were shifted to my direction. A half dozen investors sat around the long polished table, their expressions varying from curiosity to genuine surprise. It was clear that they weren't expecting me. “Good morning,” I greeted, smiling warml
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Chapter 10
Lisa’s POVA few days later, I found myself sitting across Jesse in one of the city’s five star restaurants. It was a place designed for the elites in the society.When I received the address, I had objected at first but Jesse insisted that it would be a good place to talk without half of the city eavesdropping.“Enjoy," the waiter said, setting down two glasses of wine before us only to disappear almost immediately.Jesse leaned back into his chair with his hands folded on his crossed legs. He was studying me with those sharp eyes of his. There was always something deliberate about the way he moved. He wasn't acting like a sloth but it was as if he never wasted energy.“So,” he began, breaking the silence as he swirled the wine in his glass, “are you really ready to square off with Dominic?”Raising my brow, I locked eyes with him for a while before answering, “You sound like you expect me to be hiding under my desk.”“I expect you to know what you’re walking into,” he replied evenl
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