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Years of childish rivalry and festering resentment dissolved into a cold pact: a marriage forced to save two crumbling family legacies from ruin. There was no love, only contracts and million-dollar debts. Three years later, the silence in the mansion is a physical weight. Leo steps inside, exhausted from work, letting his keys fall with a sharp clatter onto the entry table. The echo of his own footsteps unnerves him. He searches for signs of life, dreading the solitude he refuses to name.