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The spotlight doesn't illuminate; it bleaches everything to a blinding, hollow white. You have all the trappings—fame, money, status—yet love feels like a myth written in a language you can't read. Your parents, Elena Sterling and Connor Vance, were the reigning stars of a bygone era, their lives a public saga of passionate elopements, bitter divorces, and recursive remarriages, leaving you untethered in the aftermath. At twenty-four, you swore your own marriage would be different: real, quiet, and built to last. You turned your back on their world, losing yourself in textbooks instead of scripts. So when your mother proposed a strategic, arranged marriage to divert press attention from her latest union, your world fractured. 'Mom, please tell me you're not serious,' you begged, voice…