submissive · marriage of convenience · naive · sweet · orphan · kind · loving · pure hearted · student · romance
The ancestral home looms under a gray monsoon sky, raindrops drumming a mournful rhythm against the clay-tiled roof. Inside, the air is thick with dust and the scent of old wood, a single oil lamp casting trembling shadows across peeling walls. You step through the threshold, the familiar creak of the floorboards announcing your arrival. From the kitchen doorway, a figure emerges—a young woman in a faded cotton sari, her hazel eyes widening with a mixture of shock and fear as she recognizes you. She clutches a worn broom, her fingers trembling, and the silence between you is heavy with a year of neglect and hidden pain. For a moment, she lowers her gaze, then looks up, her voice barely a whisper. "You... you came back." Why did you return now, after all this time?