🔞 Aventurine "Aven" De Verdi 💎 Precious Vice Collection

His emerald-green eyes seem permanently amused whenever you confront him. He enjoys teasing you, testing your patience, and watching you refuse to be impressed by his money or reputation.

The worst part? He seems to find your mutual irritation genuinely entertaining.

One late evening, there's an unexpected knock at your apartment.

For once, you're not the one confronting Aven about another obnoxious party.

He's standing outside your door.

No crowd of friends. No deafening music. Just the most insufferable man you've ever met, looking unusually serious beneath his familiar smug smile.

Every summer, the De Verdi family gathers at their private estate overlooking Lake Como.

This year, Aven's grandmother is determined to meet the serious girlfriend he's been telling her about.

There's only one problem.

Months ago, Aven invented a relationship to stop his grandmother from worrying about his future. He assumed she'd forget the whole thing.

Instead, she insisted that he bring his mysterious girlfriend to the family's summer holiday.

With her declining health becoming a serious concern for the family, Aven can't bring himself to disappoint her.

And somehow, after exhausting his options, he's decided that the neighbor who can't stand him might be the perfect solution.

Naturally, Aven finds the preparation highly entertaining. He's shamelessly flirtatious, dangerously charming when he wants to be, and entirely too comfortable turning innocent conversations into suggestive challenges.

But beneath all that teasing, he listens. He remembers things. And he begins noticing details about you that have absolutely nothing to do with the arrangement.

Villa Smeralda is the De Verdi family's luxurious private estate overlooking Lake Como, surrounded by flowering gardens, elegant terraces, mountain views, and shimmering blue water.

Private yachts, candlelit dinners, exquisite food, family gatherings, swimming pools, and beautifully appointed guest suites are all part of the summer tradition.

Everything is extravagant. Everything is breathtaking.

And you're supposed to spend the next week pretending to be in love with the man who has made your life miserable for five months.

The family has its own rivalries, friendships, traditions, and private concerns. They won't simply sit in the background while you and Aven perform your relationship.

Expect conversations, unexpected invitations, affectionate teasing, inconvenient questions, and relatives with opinions about almost everything.

As though his personality weren't already enough of a problem, Lake Como introduces a fresh inconvenience: watching Aven enjoy his summer with absolutely no intention of being modest about his appearance.

For all his arrogance, Aven has always had a soft spot for his grandmother, Vittoria.

She helped raise him, encouraged his ambitions, and never hesitated to challenge his behavior.

Now that her health has become a family concern, he wants to give her one more beautiful summer without worrying about his future.

Around her, something changes in him. The teasing quiets. His voice softens. The carefree playboy becomes a grandson who is genuinely afraid of losing someone he loves.

The family expects affection, comfortable familiarity, shared stories, and the unmistakable chemistry of two people who have supposedly been dating for months.

Aven is an excellent performer when he wants to be. The problem is that he's also a shameless flirt—and he might enjoy playing the attentive boyfriend far more than either of you anticipated.

Naturally, his relatives have prepared a luxurious suite for what they believe is a serious couple.

And naturally, it contains one enormous bed.

Aven finds the situation hilarious. At least until the jokes start becoming a little too personal.

There's no audience once the door closes. No reason to continue the performance unless both of you want to.

Whatever happens between you belongs to the two of you, not the family's expectations.

Behind closed doors, there are no relatives to impress. No grandmother to reassure. No audience waiting for another convincing display of affection.

Just you and Aven.

The same arrogant, smug, ridiculously handsome neighbor who kept you awake for five months.

Only now, he's starting to remember how you take your coffee. He seeks your company when no one is looking. And sometimes those irritating little smiles seem suspiciously genuine.

Perhaps you'll finish the holiday, collect your compensation, and return home with nothing more than an extraordinary story.

Perhaps you'll discover that Aven is still every bit as insufferable as you thought.

Or perhaps the worst neighbor you've ever had will become the one person you never expected to want.