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Sea Xaviera Joscelynn memilih kabur dari rumah untuk menghindari sebuah perjodohan. Akibat dari kemauan nya tersebut, semua akses keuangannya fasilitas diblokir Vii terpaksa harus bekerja sebagai karyawan biasa di salah satu perusahaan ternama dikota tersebut untuk menyambung hidup. Karena tak biasa hidup serba kekurangan, muncul sebuah ide gila yang mana dari salah satu temannya bercerita mengenai simpanan untuk merayu CEO perusahaan tempatnya bekerja. Sean Eart Sanders target Vii. Pria dingin,pria yang tak banyak bicara itu menarik perhatiannya sejak pertama kali bertatap muka.Karena tak mau hidup serba pas-pasan, Vii rela menjadi simpanan sang bos demi bertahan hidup."Kamu yang merayuku dan menawarkan tubuh mu Jadi, jangan coba-coba untuk kabur dariku. Semua yang kamu inginkan sudah aku turuti. Jadilah gadis manis yang penurut."Vii benar-benar terjebak dalam hubungan ini. Penawaran Sean terhadap Vii hanya sekedar main main, ternyata Vii beranggapan serius. Sean sebenar nya sudah tau bahwa yang akan di jodohkan dengannya yaitu Vii. Semenjak pertemuan disaat meeting Sean merasakan benih benih cinta. Sean juga belum mengungkapkan kepada Vii bahwa dirinya lah yang akan di jodohkan sama Vii.

Bagaimana rasanya menjadi seorang janda yang dikejar-kejar cintanya oleh brondong yang memiliki kualitas premium? Inilah yang terjadi kepada Sofie, seorang janda dengan satu putra ini dan juga seorang desainer interior yang bekerja di sebuah perusahaan konsultan berskala internasional. Kembalinya Sofie ke dunia kerja, dikejutkan dengan kehadiran seorang pria yang sempat ditemuinya tanpa sengaja. Pria itu bernama Rakha, yang ditugaskan menjadi asisten Sofie dalam proyek-proyeknya. Kehadiran Rakha, ternyata tidak hanya mempermudah pekerjaannya, tetapi juga kehidupan pribadinya. Tetapi siapa sangka, jika sang asisten ternyata memiliki kehidupan ganda yang sangat berbeda. Ketika di siang hari, Rakha adalah seorang desainer interior maka di malam harinya, ia berubah menjadi seseorang yang sangat berbeda. Sementara, perjalanan Rakha untuk meraih cinta Sofie tidak semudah yang ia inginkan. Hingga terjadi suatu insiden yang membuat Rakha tidak sadarkan diri hingga harus mendapatkan perawatan. Di saat itulah, Sofie mendapatkan sebuah informasi akan siapa sebenarnya Rakha dan apa penyakit yang dideritanya. Rasa sesal karena telah bersikap dingin terhadap Rakha membuat hatinya perlahan luluh. Di saat itulah, Sofie menemukan catatan harian dan kumpulan sketsa milik Rakha, yang menjelaskan penyakit yang dideritanya. Betapa terkejutnya Sofie, setelah membacanya. Rakha yang selama ini ia kenal ternyata bukanlah Rakha yang ia ketahui. Di balik keramahan dan kelembutannya, ternyata ada sosok lain yang memiliki perbedaan karakter seratus delapan puluh derajat. Belum selesai dengan keterkejutannya, kedua orang tua Rakha, membawa Rakha ke London untuk mendapatkan perawatan dan memberikan cek bernilai puluhan ribu dollar untuk Sofie dan juga lima orang pengawal pribadi. Apakah sebenarnya yang disembunyikan Rakha dan siapakah Rakha sebenarnya? Mengapa kedua orangtua Rakha memberikan pengawal-pengawalnya untuk Sofie? Apakah cinta Sofie dan Rakha akan bertemu kembali?

A fierce storm erupts on a mountain peak at 25,561 feet, trapping me in the mountain camp under heavy snow. My husband, the leader of the mountain excursion squad, ignores my desperate pleas and hands the last oxygen tank to his beloved true love. "You're a professional climber—you won't die from missing a few breaths," he snaps. "Olivia has always been frail. Without oxygen, she's done for!" I watch as the two of them lean on each other, making their way down the cliffside, and I fall into complete despair. He's already forgotten that my body hasn't been able to survive without oxygen at high altitudes since saving him two years ago.

As my due date approaches, my husband's precious mistress falls into the water at a banquet. After being rescued, she immediately accuses me of pushing her. To "avenge" her, he throws me into a modified stainless steel water tank. I beg him, pleading for the sake of our unborn children. But he only sneers. "Don't try to use the babies to guilt me! You've still got a week before you're due. I know exactly how vicious you are—any child of yours would be just as rotten. Stay in there and reflect on your behavior. I'll let you out when you finally admit you're wrong!" Five days later, my husband returns home from a night out with his mistress, calling for me to come downstairs and serve them, as always. He doesn't know that my babies and I have already rotted beyond recognition.

My sister, Gabriella Rutherfurd, is the richest female CEO in Brightshire. Her male secretary, Freddie Morgan, mentions that he wants to see a real-life version of the Squid Game, so she builds the venue and spends 100 million dollars to make it happen. The lure of a gigantic cash prize draws in countless desperate souls. Even the bodyguards responsible for protecting my brother-in-law, Cyril Harding, abandon their posts to participate. Cyril has no choice but to go to the hospital without the bodyguards for his medical appointment, but he is abducted halfway there. In my previous life, I found Gabriella and asked her to stop the game and send people to rescue Cyril. After hesitating, Gabriella agreed. She stopped the game and managed to save Cyril just in time. But the few players who had made it to the final round were furious that the game was canceled. To vent their rage, they took Freddie and beat him to death. Gabriella acted like it had nothing to do with me. Yet, on the day Freddie was buried, she ordered her men to beat me up. When I open my eyes again, I am back to the day that Cyril was abducted. This time, Gabriella gets what she wants, and the Squid Game is held as planned. By the final round, a masked man is dragged onto the high platform. Freddie announces that whoever slices the man's head off will win the 100-million-dollar prize. When Cyril's head rolls to Gabriella's feet, she finally snaps.

When I was trapped by large columns of fire alongside Reya, my firefighter husband appeared and chose to only rescue her. I got on my knees inside the sea of fire and begged him to save me, too. He jabbed a merciless kick at me. “You are evil through and through, Amaranth. Are you not going to give Reya a chance to live at least? I will never forgive you for starting this fire to kill her!” At this point, his forgiveness no longer mattered. After he rescued his former lover from the scene, I was burned to a crisp alongside the baby inside me.

On the fifth year of our hidden marriage, I died on the operating table of a hospital belonging to Allen Jones. Before I died, I called him ninety-nine times, begging for help. The last time, he finally answered. His voice was heavy with impatience. "Enough already. First, it's pregnancy, now it's liver cancer. Can you stop making a scene? I'm exhausted from work. "Mia, when did you learn to lie? Do you know how disgusting you are right now? "I'm warning you—if you keep this up, I'll divorce you. Don't even think about coming back home until you admit you're wrong." But this time, I could never go back. Just before the call ended, I heard him comforting Sadie with a gentleness he had never shown me. "Don't be afraid. The surgery will be over soon, and you'll be fine. Once you're out, I'll take you to see your favorite movie and eat at your favorite restaurant. I promised you, and I'll make it all come true." After he hung up, I called him for the hundredth time. He didn't answer. Later, when Allen saw my body on the operating table, he broke down completely.

As the youngest daughter of the powerful mafia family, the Blythes, I was spoiled the moment I was born. I had three older brothers who adored me. When I turned eighteen, our father was killed in a turf fight. The shock sent our mother into a rapid decline, and she passed away less than a week later. To avenge our father, my three brothers waged war against our enemies for three days. Though they emerged victorious, all three were critically wounded. My eldest brother, Damon Blythe, suffered a ruptured liver and was on the brink of death. Matt Blythe, my second brother, had severe kidney damage. Chris Blythe had lost too much blood and went into heart failure. I spent a fortune hiring the world’s top surgeons. They transplanted half of my liver to Damon, a kidney to Matt, and even gave my heart to Chris, replacing mine with a mechanical one. Thanks to the doctors’ skill, all three survived and went on to take over the Blythes’ empire. Five years later, they became infatuated with Sophia Foster, a poor but strong-willed intern. They even forced me to give up my last kidney to her. It was only after I had died on the operating table that they regretted what they had done.

When the Irwins were on the brink of bankruptcy, I proposed a marriage of convenience to Ryan and saved them from collapse. Ever the playboy, Ryan was so grateful that he swore eternal loyalty to me, even getting a vasectomy immediately to prove his devotion. He took me across mountains and rivers, saying he wanted to etch our love into every corner of the world. Three years later, he got me drunk, stole my phone, and used it to infiltrate the Knights’ estate. That night, he orchestrated the complete downfall of my family’s legacy. My parents overdosed on sleeping pills. My sister was dragged into an alley by his men, violated, filmed, and the footage was auctioned off to amuse wealthy heirs. I begged him to let my family go. However, he gripped my face and forced me to watch as my parents were cremated. “You think marrying me back then was some noble sacrifice? Sure, the whole city praised your family for helping mine in our darkest hour. But what did they say about me? “They call me your lapdog, Lily!” Ryan destroyed the Knights to prove he was better than us and not anyone’s dog. He tore up the divorce papers and shoved the shreds into my mouth. Ryan wanted me to watch as he rose to power and made the world kneel before him. To humiliate me, he brought home a different woman every night, turning our house into a hotel while I served them. “What’s the Knights’ worth now? With your status, cooking for them and massaging their feet like this is only fitting.” It didn’t matter. When I saved him from that avalanche, a shard of stone slashed my heart. Now, I only have three days left to live.

I lose my memory and wander the streets, surviving on scraps and the kindness of strangers. Then, Miles Blackwood from the Institute of Medical Research finds me and takes me in. He tells me that I'm his long-lost fiancee who ran away years ago, and that he's spent every ounce of energy searching for me ever since. As I'm frail and riddled with illness, he watches over me as I take my medication every day, tracing the scar on my lower back with a strange, tender affection. But everything shatters the day I regain my memory. I accidentally overhear Miles speaking to a friend. "Miles, you forcibly removed Cassidy's kidney for Claudia back then. That was what caused her to lose her memories. And in the end, you let Claudia take all the credit for the research. "Now, after Cassidy's been suffering out there for years, you're bringing her back just to use her for the artificial kidney project? Aren't you worried that she'll regain her memories?" Miles scoffs. "She's incredibly grateful to me now. Besides, she's just a sickly woman. So what if she finds out? As long as we succeed in the research on artificial kidneys, Claudia will become the star of the medical world. As for Cassidy? She'll have made her contribution to the medical field." A cold chill rushes through me in an instant—I am Cassidy.