The Placeholder Wife: A Billionaire's Secret

ing alone at a Michelin-star restaurant, waiting

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through me, as the bitter tast

eeting; it was a public decla

d grew cold as countless minutes ticked by, each

e years I had been a placeholder for the woman

mented my despair: "Rainche

be no next

finally gave way to

rading the lavish, uneaten

n rain, a clear decision formi

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