
![[ENG DUB] Living Again: Never a Stepdad This Time](https://acfs3.goodshort.com/dist/src/assets/images/pc/common/f901131c-default-book-cover.png)
In his past life, Harrison Cowan abandoned his own daughter for a widow, raising her two sons instead. In his old age, when he fell ill, his adopted sons refused to even pay a mere hundred thousand for his surgery.Given a second chance at life, Harrison is determined to make amends. No longer willing to play the role of a stepfather, he vows to work hard, make money, and devote his life to raising his biological daughter, living only for her from now on!

Ray, a former FBI ace agent, chose to live incognito as a low-level mechanic just to return to his family. On the eve of the zombie apocalypse, he is brutally betrayed by his manipulative, social-climbing wife and humiliated by a Wall Street elite who strips him of his fortune. With a cold sneer, Ray signs the papers and retreats with his adopted daughter into a subterranean, nuclear-grade fortified bunker—a stronghold that drained his entire life savings.

20-year-old artist Zoey York wakes up in her 27-year-old self. She has been married to her former crush, Timothy Lane, for five years and has a four-year-old son with him. She has no memory of what has transpired, but her unfaithful husband, her lonely son, her unhappy marriage, and her depression reveal the miserable life she has been living. Refusing to stay trapped, she divorces Timothy and uses her talent to start over with her son.

After her mother remarries, Leah moves into her stepfather’s mansion. Heavy rain causes her bedroom to leak, forcing her to share a tiny single bed with her cold, rebellious stepsister Isla. Trapped in a cramped room on a stormy night with their parents just outside the door, Leah’s repressed desires ignite after accidentally catching sight of Isla’s private moment days before. As they lie pressed tightly together, hidden touches and breathless whispers stir forbidden longing between the two unrelated stepsisters.

"My name is Zane. I once stood atop the world of boxing. When the apocalypse broke out, I wandered into a mountain of corpses chasing a sip of clean water. A red-haired SSS-Rank Zombie Queen locked her grip around my throat. At the brink of death, I kissed her first. That reckless kiss activated the **Goddess Conquest System**. And it bound this SSS-Rank Zombie Queen as my conquest target. But I never could have guessed… The SSS-Rank Zombie Queen who rules over tens of thousands of the undead is my stepmother, Scarlett. From the corpse mountain to the Oasis, one familiar beauty after another storms into my world. Mia, my stepsister who crashes straight into this blood-soaked love mess; Vela, the Oasis’s chief scientist, who was once my high school teacher… To stay alive, I have nowhere left to run. I have no choice but to conquer them, one by one."

Bruce Litt, the head of Axio Builders, hides his identity to let his son Sam Litt gain real-world experience, working as a humble melon seller at a construction site. Arrogant Owen Zeller, son of Bruce's subordinate Frank Zeller, steals Sam's girlfriend and bullies him. Bruce reveals his true identity, but Owen still defies him—until his father arrives.

Peter Steele and Claire Upton devote their lives to raising their son, Harvey, grooming him to be a successful property tycoon. Despite the option of retiring, they continue to run their firm, Granite Property Management, in Everich Plaza. Their lives change when Vicky Dunn, a former classmate of Harvey’s, joins the company as a manager.

Chiara is Chicago’s top neurosurgeon and the sharpest weapon in Vincenzo’s rise to power. For ten years, she helped him build a ruthless criminal empire, clearing his path to the throne and saving his life time and time again. She believed that once he became Godfather, he would finally put a ring on her finger. Instead, she watched him propose to her stepsister, Katerina. Ten years of loyalty, sacrifice, and love meant nothing. Chiara finally realized she had never been the woman Vincenzo wanted to marry. She was simply the woman he had grown used to having by his side—the one he never thought he could lose. So she walked away from everything and disappeared without a trace. At first, Vincenzo thought she was just throwing a tantrum. But when the woman who had stood by him through every battle and dragged him back from the brink of death was truly gone, his world began to crumble. The most feared Godfather in Chicago went mad searching for her, unleashing his entire empire to find the woman he had taken for granted. But it was too late. He hadn't just lost his best surgeon or his most trusted ally. He had lost the only woman he had ever truly loved. And now, no matter how far he went or how much blood he spilled, he might never win her back.

Five years have passed since Diana Reid married Ethan Gray, but on her birthday this year, he’s nowhere to be found. As the hours tick by and the diner they reserved for her special day closes, Diana is left alone, forgotten. Ethan, instead of celebrating with his wife, welcomes his mistress—who has just returned from abroad. The moment Diana discovers that he has brought his lover back to their home, something inside her breaks.

Cherry Jepsen is the Jepsen family's biological daughter who was switched at birth. After 18 years, she returns home, and everyone expects her to compete with the daughter raised in her place, Rudy Jepsen. Instead, the first thing Cherry does is cling to Rudy's side as an ally. Through their growing bond, Rudy is moved by Cherry's genuine affection. The two sisters unite to crush their enemies and each finds sweet romance along the way.