Painful Love

Love or Stockholm Syndrome? What do you do when you find yourself longing for someone completely inappropriate? Libia Musso, a hopeless romantic, has always dreamed of the family she never had. Hoping one day to find her perfect man, her prince charming, she struggles with the irresistible attraction she feels for men who are bad for her. One day, she travels to Brazil to close a deal with Tiodor Lison, a CEO with a fierce temper—a cruel, cynical, and manipulative man who despises incompetence. He is an utterly unpleasant person whose sole goal is to take revenge on Elena Musso. Libia knows that Lison is not a good man; he isn't the hero who will save her. Instead, he is the villain with a twisted and sadistic mind who has trapped her. An irrational attraction and a settling of scores. Can beasts truly fall in love, or is it just a myth?

No dia em que Mavi deu à luz suas filhas gêmeas, perdeu tudo. O companheiro de anos revelou sua verdadeira face no momento mais vulnerável: ele nunca quis as crianças, nunca quis ficar — e deixou Mavi sozinha, devastada e sangrando entre os escombros de um amor mentiroso. Mas o pior ainda estava por vir. As recém-nascidas desapareceram. Meses depois, tentando se reconstruir, Mavi é novamente arrastada para o abismo. Um mal-entendido, um sequestro e, de repente, ela é vendida como mercadoria — jogada dentro de um sistema onde mulheres são reduzidas a propriedade. É assim que ela cai nas mãos de Vittorio, o viúvo cruel, temido chefão do Círculo Nero, a máfia mais temida do submundo europeu. Com seus 48 anos, ele não tem espaço para sentimentos, não tem tempo para dramas — mas por algum motivo, não consegue soltá-la. Prisioneira na mansão do mafioso, Mavi tenta sobreviver. Mas há algo naquele lugar que inquieta sua alma. Entre os corredores frios, os olhares de servos silenciosos… e duas pequenas meninas que caminham pela casa com passos trêmulos e olhos assustadoramente familiares. Coincidência? Ou apenas mais uma ferida que o destino se diverte em cutucar?

"I have sold myself to my boss to pay off a debt. I must be his wife and follow his rules under contract. A secret love since I met him, my husband has a cold and hard heart. Could there be a good heart hidden behind that façade?

"Aslin Ventura, do you take Mr. Alexander Líbano as your husband?" — "I do!" She replied delightedly, unaware that those words would seal her fate. What she believed would be the beginning of a beautiful fairy tale turned out to be the opposite—a terrible hell in which she would slowly burn. Aslin Ventura is a beautiful 21-year-old young woman who, since childhood, has been raised to become the wife of the cruel, cold, and calculating Alexander Líbano, a billionaire magnate. Aslin has always been in love with Alexander, but what will happen once she finds out that another woman lives in Alexander's heart—and that, to her misfortune, it's her own sister? This discovery will turn Aslin’s life into a complete nightmare. Will she be able to find a ray of light in this ruthless world?