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A viral kiss.
A fake relationship.
And one very real problem: falling for the girl you're supposed to be pretending with.
When influencer Samaira Sharma impulsively kisses a stranger at a party to get rid of her drunk ex, the last thing she expects is for someone to catch it on camera. Within hours, the internet has turned her split-second decision into a love story, and her manager is convinced it's the PR opportunity of a lifetime.
Now, with the story spreading faster than she can delete her notifications, Samaira has two options: deny everything and risk her image, or play along and turn chaos into charm.
But the more she leans into the lie, the less it feels like one.
Because somewhere between staged smiles, shared coffee, and stolen glances, the lines between pretend and something real start to blur-
and Samaira can't quite remember where acting ends and feeling begins.
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