When Celine Davis throws away her umbrella in a storm and hands a ruined boy a single condition—one billion dollars to buy him a second chance—she believes she’s making a simple gamble: help the stubborn Chase Nelson rise, then walk away. Five years later, Chase returns like a thunderclap with three public companies and a polished smile—but at a press conference he coolly announces, “Our engagement was dissolved five years ago.” The woman who bankrolled his comeback becomes the woman of ridicule: dumped, smeared online, and painted as unstable. Celine answers with a war she knows how to fight—auctions, hostile bids, social-media takedowns—and every move is a knife aimed at settling scores. But the truth under all the headlines is messier than revenge and pride. Old bargains, family betrayals, a secret child, and a fake fiancée used as camouflage twist loyalties into weapons. Who used whom? Who fell in love first—and who paid the cruelest price? They both gambled everything to win different wars. Now the pot has tripled and only one thing is certain: when both of them are playing to win, hearts get crushed and fortunes change hands. Can either of them risk losing everything for the one person who has already cost them the most? Whose debt will finally be settled—and at what cost?

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