The Only Thing Harder Than Revenge Is My Sarcastic Cheat
Max Taylor was supposed to get a second chance.
One moment he was dying in a crumpled car, headlights bleeding into the night—
the next, he opened his eyes beneath a foreign sky, reborn into a world where the wind smelled cleaner and the stars burned unfamiliar. Fate, he thought, was finally being kind.
But kindness doesn’t linger.
Within months, his new parents—gentle hands, warm smiles, the family he never had—were murdered without a trace. No bodies. No clues. Just the echo of loss repeating itself like a cruel cosmic joke.
Grief hardened into a quiet storm inside him, a five-year-old carrying an anger far too ancient.
Just when the darkness felt bottomless, his “golden finger” arrived.
The Wish Stone.
Sentient. Sensitive. And loud enough to give a monk a migraine.
Sy—blunt, sarcastic, and convinced Max is one bad decision wrapped in skin—becomes his unwilling partner. Every boost, every upgrade, every tiny miracle drains Max’s hard-earned Wish Points. Sy charges him for everything, even cleaning up messes Max didn’t know he made. If power came with a troll, it would look exactly like this.
Armed with grit, borrowed miracles, and Sy’s nonstop commentary, Max grows stronger in the shadows of the mundane world—picking up scraps of intel, dismantling gangs, digging through the grime for the one truth that matters: who killed his parents?
But the truth comes with fangs.
Taking on a job, Max stumbles upon a request to kill a vampire, a confirmation that the world he's in isn't as it seems. Behind the neon-lit alleys and smoky hideouts lies a hidden realm—creatures of myth walking in tailored suits, old powers trading secrets beneath moonlit cathedrals, mysteries sharper than blades.
The underworld he hunted is only the surface.
And the monster he’s been chasing?
He isn’t the killer.
Worse—his parents aren’t dead.
Everything Max has bled for, every path he clawed his way through, every night of rage, every wish… all built on a perfect, deliberate lie.
Now Max must dive deeper, into a maze of shadows where truth costs more than Wish Points, and the dead don’t stay dead.
With Sy’s taunting voice in his ear and a destiny shaped by secrets, Max hunts the real puppeteer pulling the strings of his life—twice.
A boy reborn.
A world concealed.
A sarcastic cheat system with opinions.
And a mystery that rewrites everything.
