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Differences

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Reads 1,612,962
Votes 28,128
Parts 65
Time 7h 54m

Mature

Tropes: Arranged Marriage, Marriage of Convenience, Forced Proximity, He falls first and Harder, Tragic Past, Mafia Romance, Dark Fairytale

𝙎𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝘼𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘 
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𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩 
Gilded Lily - Cults 
Love Story - Indila 
Family Line - Conan Gray 
The other side - Ruelle 
Love in the Dark - Adele 
Diamonds - Rhianna 
My Blood - Ellie Goulding 
Lovely - Billie Eilish and Khalid 
Dynasty - Miia
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane  
Cardigan - Taylor Swift 
Another Love - Tom Odell 

𝑨𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒂 𝑫𝒆 𝑳𝒖𝒄𝒂

Though she was infamous for being the most ruthless assassin in the underworld, she was seen as replaceable, insignificant and an eyesore from her parents. She thought she was unloveable, and undeserving of love. 

Until she met him 

𝑳𝒖𝒌𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒚𝒍𝒐𝒓

He was the next leader of the American Mafia. He had power, authority and tremendous amount of wealth. Being brought up by a loving family, he found great importance in protecting and loving his family but when he is thrown into an arranged marriage for convenience, he imagined it to be loveless. 

But he was so very wrong.All Rights Reserved

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