🖤 _MAIN CHARACTERS_ 🖤

IRIS ELEANOR [26]:- Sharp-willed and quietly relentless, Iris is no stranger to masks. Where others see fragility, she hides steel; where they expect silence, she plots. She was 19 when Ethan first caged her seven years ago. Now, at 26, she has returned hardened, scarred, and fueled by revenge-but still chained by the dangerous pull between them. Her scars are her armor, her mind her sharpest weapon. Drawn into Ethan's orbit by fate and vengeance alike, she is a woman caught between survival and surrender, between ruin and redemption.

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ETHAN VALE [33] :- With storm-grey eyes like sharpened steel and the word Inferno branded across his upper back, Ethan is a man who walks in the shadows but burns everything in his path. Coldly strategic yet haunted by a fire inside him, he is both destroyer and savior, the kind of leader whose silence speaks louder than threats. His presence is smoke and ash-calm until he decides to ignite.

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KAEL DRAVEN [32] :- The rival who thrives in contradiction, Kael's shifting hazel-green eyes mirror his unpredictable soul-sometimes warm, often venomous, always dangerous. Suave yet ruthless, he is the storm to Ethan's fire, a man whose charm cloaks daggers and whose smile is never without calculation. His ambition is endless, and betrayal is second nature.

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SOPHIA ACOSTA [29] :- Beautiful in a way that cuts, Sophia thrives on obsession and thrives in rivalry. Her world begins and ends with Ethan Vale-desire wrapped in devotion, envy draped in silk. To her, Iris is not just a woman, but a threat, and Sophia's obsession makes her both a dangerous ally and a merciless rival. Her love is a firestorm: consuming, jealous, unrelenting.

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Lucian Cross (34)

Ethan's right-hand man. Enforcer, shadow, and silent executioner. Reserved, pragmatic, disciplined. He never questions Ethan, but his loyalty is based on power, not affection.

May become a mirror for Ethan-showing Iris how men around Ethan obey not out of love, but fear.

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Robert Vale (72)

Ethan's grandfather. The patriarch who raised Ethan into a weapon.

Old, calculating, and utterly merciless. Age hasn't softened him-it has sharpened his cruelty.

He is the legacy Ethan is chained to. Robert doesn't just want control; he wants Ethan to embody the empire's heartless survival.

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Eric Vale (52)

Ethan's father. Ruthless, monstrous, and a twisted reflection of what Ethan could become. Sadistic, violent, feared even by his own family. To the underworld, he's a legend and a nightmare.

He is a looming threat, the "monster" always lurking behind Ethan's shadow. While Ethan rules with cold obsession, Eric rules with blood and terror.

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ETHAN & IRIS - Their love is a battlefield disguised as a romance, born of obsession and sharpened by revenge. Ethan, with storm-grey eyes that promise fire, sees Iris not as a woman but as destiny, the one flame he cannot extinguish. Iris, carrying scars and fury like a crown, seeks to unmake him even as she is drawn deeper into his shadow. Together, they are both predator and prey-bound by hat

red, chained by desire, and doomed to either burn the world or each other.