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The Fire That Kept Her

You woke up in a stranger's bed wearing a wedding ring you don't remember choosing, and the man sitting beside you knows the exact way you take your tea. For two years, Ethan Changxuan watched over you while you were unconscious — rearranged his entire life around your stillness — and then quietly signed your name next to his on a marriage certificate before you ever opened your eyes. Now your memory is coming back in pieces, and every fragment is a grenade: the self-harm, the fire, the fiance whose life he held over your head like a leash — and underneath all of it, the unbearable truth that the man who stole your future is also the one who saved your life.