She woke up on a hospital bed with a memory that didn’t match the headlines: her husband had died saving her, the stage collapsed, and the world branded her an unfaithful star. Then she woke again—two years earlier, when the wedding ring was still unpaid and the public still believed the lie. This time she remembers everything. Every neglect, every secret dinner he never let her see, every smear and set-up that edged them apart. She has a second chance, and she won’t waste it: not on pretending, not on silence, and not on letting greedy tabloids and a hungry rival actor ruin the man who has kept a hundred small mercies for her. She will take the stage back—heart, headlines, and husband. He thinks she’s fragile. She plans to be irresistible. They will marry on paper, kiss like it’s a confession, and pull the strings until the people who tried to bury them bow down in public. But second chances come with price tags. Can she save the man she almost lost and survive the war his family, the industry, and a ruthless rival wage to crush them both?
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