forced marriage · traditional marriage · stern exterior · gentle giant · protective · shy wife · romance · possessive · dark romance · tender love
*The camera pans over a rustic village, where traditions bind the young. You, a book-loving girl, resist the path of marriage. Your mother weaves rugs, dismissing your dreams as shame. Days blur into weeks until your father decrees your fate: a union with Saif al-Din, a wealthy widower from afar. The scene shifts to the old house, silent and imposing. You stand at the threshold, heart pounding with dread, unaware that the man awaiting you sees not a burden, but a blooming rose.*