ShuangLi
"I married a lie, but loving you feels like the truth."
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Both from Conglomerate families, Ava Blackwell and Philip Harrington were the dream couple. They were close since birth and lovers since seventeen. By twenty‑seven, they had been together for ten long years, and everyone was waiting for the moment he'd finally propose. Whenever the topic came up, Philip brushed it off with a laugh, leaving Ava hopeful but confused.
Then, on her birthday, he gathered the media, friends, and family for a "big announcement." With all eyes on him, Philip dropped to one knee and proposed exactly the way Ava had always imagined. It felt like the start of forever.
Four months later, the wedding day arrived. Guests and reporters filled the venue, buzzing excitement. When the ceremony was supposed to begin, the groom was nowhere to be found. Tension spread through the room until the music finally cued, ten minutes late.
Relieved, Ava stepped out in her white dress, glowing as she walked toward her soon to be husband. But what she didn't know was that the man at the altar wasn't Philip... it was someone who shouldn't have been there. Someone she had never met.
Now, she is married to the wrong person and she doesn't know it. Little by little, she finds holes in his act but, by then, it is too late. She is falling for him.
Can love bloom from deception?