Delayed for Four Lifetimes: I Awaken by Investing in My Crippled Wife

Riven Hale lived four miserable lives, each ending in failure, betrayal, and despair. He could never change his fate. At the end of his fourth life, he suddenly returns to the beginning of the first — the day he was forced into an arranged marriage with Elisa Frostbane, the once-legendary Frost Queen. Once an SSS-Rank genius, she now lies paralyzed from the neck down, crippled by her jealous sister’s scheme. Both of them have been discarded by their powerful families like broken tools, left to rot in a quiet house on the edge of the city. This time, everything changes. [Temporal Delay Complete.] [Four-Lifetime Lock Released.] Four demonic authorities that had been sealed across his previous lives finally awaken. The Authority of Gluttony turns him into a Predator who can devour monsters to steal their power. The Authority of Greed multiplies every reward by 10,000. The Authority of Lust lets him invest in his wife — every act of care, every moment of devotion accelerates her recovery while granting him overwhelming returns. The Authority of Pride marks him as a Lord, granting the right to claim territory and ascend. The “worthless” unawakened dud and the broken Ice Empress are no longer powerless. With only three years left before the Cosmic Monarch, the Abyssal Gaze, arrives to prune Earth from existence, Riven must grow at a terrifying speed. He will heal the woman the world discarded, avenge every humiliation, and tear down the greedy families that hoarded humanity’s only hope of survival. Their families threw them away. The world called them failures. Now they will rise together — and the returns will be absolute. “You discarded us. Now watch us take everything.”