Chandrakanta refuses to accept Tej's feelings and her uncle gave advice to Tej that Chandrakanta is in desperate need for love and he needs to be sincere with her.
Chandrakanta and her aunt were talking on the other hand and Chandrakanta shows her how she made traps by using mechanisms. Sulakshana says that she should marry into a military family and she can follow her husband.
Chandrakanta however refuses the offer and she says that she will leave a fearful life instead of a peaceful life. Also, she adds that she can't be an obedient wife and her husband needs to obey her.
Sulakshana also adds that the military people also don't marry ANYBODY and the wives need to be knowledgeable in 4 fields.
Chandrakanta asks her aunt to teach her flute and before they can talk about anything else, they hear a beautiful melody of the flute. They reach the area and meet Chanda, a female soldier and a small group of soldiers.
They saw a hawk flying in the sky and they took an en route to Veergadh jilla. Timmarasu wanted to visit his old friend but they noticed that the county was so isolated that they could clearly see a bird flying from a distance.
Timmarasu thought something might have happened and he doesn't want his wife and others to be injured, so he took a male servant along with him and asked the both ladies to go to Sundergadh county and he will return soon. He left giving responsibility to Tej to keep them safe.
Tej who was following them informs the ladies not to worry as Emperor Dhananjay is about to travel in that way and Virendra singh and his soldiers are accompanying his majesty and no one will harm them.
Their carriage was stopped and Chanda noticed that there were military horses footprints.
Chandrakanta came out to see what happened. Chanda informs that military horses shouldn't be in a demoted area like that and Chandrakanta hears sounds of falling leaves and some people run towards them. So she says that they need to leave and take a different route.
They were about to leave but got attacked by a few men. Chanda being in the military saves them, killing all the men. But a man left an arrow that just missed the horse and being afraid the horse used force and freed themselves from carriage and it fell aside injuring Sulakshana.
Chandrakanta asks for a map from Tej and asks him to call for reinforcement from a nearby magistrate. Tej said that he can't leave as he promised her uncle that he will save them even if he needs to give his life.
Chandrakanta says that he is a good horse rider and if reinforcement comes she will not act rashly. Tej leaves while Chandrakanta says to Hari that they can go to a hunting lodge nearby. Chandrakanta then sits on a horse and she is afraid for a moment but then she remembers what Virendra told her.
'Goda (horse) ek vyakti (person) ka parak (sense) kar sakta hai.. Yadi aap usse bhay beet (scared) hue tho vo aapko tang karega.. Aur yadi aap balvan (strong) ho tho vo aapse bhaybeet (fear) hoga.. Aur is prakar aap gudsavari (horse riding) kar sakte hai..'
Chandrakanta then rides the horse and she guides the people towards the hunting lodge. They left all their belongings in the mid way as Chandrakanta thought they were attacked by bandits.
Even though, they followed them and luckily Chandrakanta set a trap to stop the people attacking them but the men took away Chanda with the help of a rope and Chandrakanta felt guilty as she couldn't save Chanda.
Sulakshana came and sat beside Chandrakanta and asked her to stop blaming herself for not being able to save Chanda. She praises saying that Chandrakanta did a good job and even Timmarasu couldn't do such a thing.
Chandrakanta then learns about how her parents often risked their lives on the border and why they left her to save the country due to war. Chandrakanta then informs her aunt that they were soldiers who attacked them as they left all their belongings but still they were attacked. Sulakshana asks why the soldiers were after their lives ?
Chandrakanta replies that the ordnance (yudh ki samagri) case which her granduncle Achyuta was involved in were sold to Vijaynagar and they prepared arnaments to rebel and assasinate his majesty. But they accidentally found the rebels whereabouts, so the soldiers wanted to kill them.
On the other hand, soldiers who wanted to assassinate Emperor Dhananjay were standing outside the Sundergadh county and they had few hostages with them. The magistrate of the Sundergadh County was watching through the door hole what was happening outside the door and saw 2 people were killed mercilessly.
Not able to take more kills, he decided to open the gate. But before opening the gate, he gave a token to his granddaughter and asked her to give it to the next magistrate of Sundergadh county. She obeyed and they left opening the gates. The magistrate and others fought till last and died.
The soldiers were merciless and kicked the magistrate's granddaughter on the chest and she fell down. Before anything else happens, Virendra singh along with his soldiers came to their rescue and saved them. Virendra saves the small girl and the soldiers kill the enemies and restore the Sundergadh county.
The granddaughter gives Virendra the token and informs him to give it to the new magistrate. Nakush came and Virendra asks who the new magistrate is. Nakush replies that the new magistrate is Timmarasu, Chandrakanta's uncle.
He also adds that they should have come by now but there are no signs of them and he also adds that Chandrakanta is also accompanying her uncle and aunt. While rescuing the small girl, Virendra was attacked from behind and an arrow pierced into his chest, a bit above.
He stood up and hands the girl to Nakush and asks who is accompanying Timmarasu. Nakush replies CHANDRAKANTA WADIYAR.. He cuts the arrow with his sword in a hurry and rides the horse and orders his soldiers to follow him.
Nakush and Das wanted Virendra to treat himself first as he is not in a condition to fight at present as he is wounded himself but they followed his instructions.
On the other hand, the soldiers again attacked Chandrakanta and she pretended to be brave but the soldier made her fall and was about to attack her and kill her. She took a knife to protect herself but before she can do anything, something happened.......
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Shaandaar Sitare
Historical FictionThis is originally a Chinese drama named "Love like the galaxy". All the credits go to the respective creators, I just changed the charcter names.