Bloody Vow, Reborn From Ruins

Six years ago, Aurora Di Salvo turned down her acceptance letter from the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris and sold her mother’s only surviving masterpiece. For six long years, she painted on the streets, scraping together every penny to cover the exorbitant surgery fees for her paralyzed boyfriend, Damian Black. Yet after Damian made a full recovery, he betrayed her by conspiring with his former lover — the A-list actress Serena. During a warehouse kidnapping, he chose to save Serena instead of Aurora, and drove a knife into her. Aurora caught them cheating red-handed, and overheard him sneer, “She’s nothing but my fiancée in name; she has nothing else going for her.” Something inside her shattered that day. She ripped up their engagement and resolved to leave everything behind for a new marriage in Europe. She accepted an arranged marriage with the Castiglione family, only to discover her husband Lorenzo was the very “Snowy Night Gentleman” she had rescued six years prior. Lorenzo had been quietly watching over her for six whole years, and now he threw his full support behind her as she reclaimed her dream of painting. Aurora found a new lease on life in Florence, blooming from a discarded fiancée into a luminous, celebrated artist. When the full truth came out, Damian chased her all the way to Italy, desperate to win her back. But Lorenzo completely crushed and ruined him, leaving Damian disowned by the Black family. His downfall ended in a high-speed drunk-driving crash: Serena was left permanently disfigured, Damian was paralyzed for life, and he ended up utterly alone with no one by his side. A year later, Aurora held her solo exhibition *Rebirth* in New York. Damian sat in his wheelchair, staring at her silently from a distant corner. Aurora wrote “Never again” across a canvas, then turned and walked into the light hand in hand with Lorenzo. She never looked back.