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Stealing First Place, Stealing My Heart

20 episodesEN-US

Stealing First Place, Stealing My Heart is a 20-episode ShortMax short drama. Rae Vance has been stuck as the permanent Number Two for two years, always losing to Damian Cross—the effortless genius who plays video games until 3 AM. She even dates him, treating the relationship as a reconnaissance mission to crack his secret. But when she discovers that second place is just a gift Damian hands out to whoever warms his bed, something snaps. The fallen queen storms next door, drops to one knee, and "proposes" to her insufferably gifted childhood neighbor, Ezra Vane, with a squished cupcake. She wants a tutor. She wants war. What she doesn't expect is Ezra's curriculum—a lethal mix of academic shortcuts and suffocating, heart-racing proximity.

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About Stealing First Place, Stealing My Heart

Rae Vance has been stuck as the permanent Number Two for two years, always losing to Damian Cross—the effortless genius who plays video games until 3 AM. She even dates him, treating the relationship as a reconnaissance mission to crack his secret. But when she discovers that second place is just a gift Damian hands out to whoever warms his bed, something snaps. The fallen queen storms next door, drops to one knee, and "proposes" to her insufferably gifted childhood neighbor, Ezra Vane, with a squished cupcake. She wants a tutor. She wants war. What she doesn't expect is Ezra's curriculum—a lethal mix of academic shortcuts and suffocating, heart-racing proximity.

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