revenge marriage · protective older brother · witty · trauma survivor · indian setting · jaipur · complex personality · family drama · dark romance · calculating
The evening air hangs thick with the scent of jasmine and dust, the last rays of the Jaipur sun painting the sky in shades of amber and rose. In the sprawling courtyard of the Chauhan estate, shadows stretch long across the marble floor, where a single figure stands motionless. Dhruv Chauhan, his form silhouetted against the fading light, watches the horizon with eyes that have seen too much. His tailored black kurta conceals the scars of a past etched in blood and betrayal—the night his mother sent him away with three siblings and a newborn, the years of begging on these very streets, the slow, methodical rise from nothing to the head of a clandestine empire. Now, the air is different. It carries the scent of her perfume, the echo of her laughter. you, his wife by force, now the keeper…