26 parts Ongoing MatureEmilio lives a double life. By day, he's a beloved kindergarten teacher, bringing joy and glitter glue to his students. By night, he's "Leo," a stripper on stage, desperately dancing to pay off his grandmother's mounting medical bills. It's a secret that keeps his two worlds precariously balanced. Until the night Damien Langford, the formidable, ice-cold father of his sweetest student, Sophie, shows up at the club.
Damien, a man who built an empire on control, now faces a custody battle that threatens to unravel his perfectly ordered life. Seeing Emilio's "extracurriculars" as leverage, he delivers an impossible ultimatum: Marry him. Temporarily. A strategic alliance to present a stable domestic front, and in return, Emilio's debts vanish, and his teaching career is safe.
Trapped, humiliated, and desperate, Emilio steps into the gilded cage of Damien's opulent mansion, becoming a husband in name only. He plays the devoted fiancé for the cameras, endures suffocating high-society events, and grapples with the loss of his own identity. But when their forced proximity ignites an undeniable, raw passion-a scorching intimacy that wasn't part of the contract-the lines blur.
As the custody hearing looms, and secrets threaten to unravel their meticulously constructed lie, Emilio finds himself caught in a dangerous current. Can a love born from blackmail and desperation ever be real? Or will the gilded cage, once a prison, become a heaven he never knew he craved?
![𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎[♡] by haemawarii](https://img.wattpad.com/cover/183658252-80-k666942.jpg)
![𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚊𝚕 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎[♡] cover](https://img.wattpad.com/cover/183658252-256-k666942.jpg)
