After My Family Cast Me Out, I Married My Sister's Ghost Fiancé

Born a Soul Seer — gifted with the ability to glimpse the dead — Elara was locked away as insane by the Thornwoods, a decaying house of new money, and brutalized for years, while her adopted sister Seraphina basked in every privilege. Then a bizarre helicopter crash left Lucian, heir to New York's most formidable fortune, comatose. When Seraphina publicly refused the arranged marriage, Elara seized her chance: she stepped forward as the substitute bride, trading her hand for a $100 million trust and absolute freedom. Across 120 days in the VIP ward, Elara unveiled a razor-sharp business mind — and through a relentless battle of wits with Lucian's volatile "ghost," forged a soul-deep bond. When Lucian miraculously awakened, Seraphina swept in with a PR team to steal the credit, only for Lucian to publicly tear her lies apart. Elara tasted her first savage triumph of class reversal. But the corporate war masked a far darker supernatural design. Magnus, the architect of Lucian's crash, emerged from the shadows — fusing black magic with modern finance to drain the souls of Wall Street's elite. Elara discovered she was utterly immune to dark sorcery: a living "Soul Shield." Fighting on both physical and arcane fronts, the couple shattered Magnus's plot atop the Freedom Tower. Yet the true demon had only just stirred. Leviathan, a cult of the ruling class, surfaced — and its hidden master, "the Prophet," was none other than the Thornwood patriarch who had faked his death years ago: Elara's own grandfather. He kept Seraphina as a spare blood bag and coveted Elara as the ultimate vessel for eternal life. Stripped of her soul and pushed to the edge, Elara's powers evolved. She and Lucian led a submarine strike on a yacht in international waters, destroyed the immortality ritual, and made the wicked pay in blood. In the end, granted the Federation's highest authority, they built a "Sanctuary" for the gifted in the heart of Manhattan — and became the uncrowned sovereigns of the city, ruling both its daylight and its dark.