CHARACTERISATIONRISANA HAZEM: She is the female lead of the story. Her parents divorced when she was hardly five, and she was sent to live with a Dad who despised her since she was an illegitimate daughter of his. Treating her as little more than a servant and physically abusing her. She neglected herself, her dreams quietly withering in the shadows.Yet, beneath the exhaustion and loneliness, Risana’s heart still yearned—for love, for a real family, for the warmth of true friendship she had never known. At just eighteen, she was forced to make a choice—one that would change her life forever… for better or for worse.Finnian Hayden ( ML1) : Standing at 6’2" with a chiselled jawline, thick midnight-black hair, and piercing green eyes, he is larger than most men, his body carved with raw, powerful muscle. Every step he takes radiates dominance—confidence and authority rolling off him in waves that command obedience and inspire unwavering loyalty, He is Nevan’s elder brother. Nevan Hayden( ML2):  Devastatingly handsome, dangerously charming, and as magnetic as a fallen god, Nevan is the man woman would kill to touch—the sexiest man alive, and he knows it. The world knows him as Nevan, the infamous tycoon; the only person he’s ever bowed to is his father.Izora Lugas : She’s Risana’s best frien who is ruled by her jealousy towards risana’s loveless marriage success. But she has used every underhanded trick in the book to keep Risana’s husband close. She's also an undergrad at the college. She worked as a cleaner, all to get into Nevan’s pants.  Joandra Hayden—Ninnian’s Stepmother :(Nevan’s Mother) : Not only does she have no problem with him grooming little girls. In fact, she's often the one who acts as a middleman between him and his future victims, encouraging his behaviourAria Martin : She's warm, bubbly, and kind. She used to be friends with Izora and Risana, but started to keep her distance from Izora after a while because of their differences in morals on the account that her former friend had none. She works as Nevan’s Ssecretaryand eventually helps Risana take him down.Other minor characters will be introduced as the story progresses.PLOTEXPOSITIONAll Risana ever dreamed of was a home filled with warmth and laughter. Instead, at sixteen, one foolish choice sealed her fate. Groomed into marriage with a powerful millionaire, she expected security and affection but found herself shackled to a man who never even showed up. Nights pass in an empty bed, vows echo like chains, and the question haunts her —why cage her in a marriage with no love? It wasn’t her fault but that of her greedy father— Hazem Lewin.Her heart craves freedom. Her soul longs for someone to see her. But in this cold, loveless prison, survival may be the only dream she has left.All she ever wanted was a simple life and a simple home filled with love and laughter, not sadness and sorrow.INCITING INCIDENTAfter the death of her stepsiblings, she was forced into a marriage with Nevan,who happens to be her father's most closest friend’s son. Risana was happy that her dreams were finally going to come to pass since Nevan looked like an individual who wwoulshow  her massive love and attention. The mamarriage,accordingo her fatfather,wasp proofshow that she is wwasthy of becoming his sole heiress before his death. But everything changed when she came home after a regular visit to the hospital as she was diagnosed with gastistics cancer, only to find her husband discussing over the phone on how he was going to use the insurance he had taken because of her illness for his own favour, to marry another woman after she dies.When she confronts him, he openly accuses her of sleeping with different men, throwing forged images on her face as evidence he had against her. He rejects her child that was growing inside her and blames himself for not being careful with the pillpills, whichhappens to be serving her secretly for the past ten years of their marriage. He shamelessly blames her for focusing too much on her father’s Company, and eglecting roleas his wife, and openly telli her that he was picking the child of her bestfriend—Izora. It was then she discovered that all his latenights returns wasn’t because he was busy with office duties but due to the fact that he was spending time with her bestfbest frien.en, Risana learnt her father was dead and his will was going to be read tonight by the family lawyer, it w. ItThenly hope she held in her life right now. The properties left behind by her father would be more than enough to cater for herself and her growing child child,whomusband heard rejected.RISINGACTIONHer father will w wasn a meeting that was attended by her bestfribest friendrled in her husband’s arms as though she was indirectly tetelliitelling that she was seeing her husband. The tiny hope she held unto slipped away from her when the lawyer announced that her father’s property now belongs to