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An elderly woman sat in the mansion's massive dining room with a grumpy teenage girl.
She smiled and shook her head at the adolescent girl who was tapping on her phone while ignoring her.
"How is school going, Naina?" Nani, the former matriarch of the Raizada family, questioned her great granddaughter Naina Kapoor.
"Alright, I guess." Naina shrugged as she continued to use her phone.
It has been eleven years since Anjali's sentence, and the family has changed in terms of wealth and family size.
ARD has grown exponentially over the years and is now Asia's leading fashion house, with hundreds of branches across and beyond the continent, making Arnav an unstoppable force in the fashion industry, and his marriage to Khushi seven years ago has transformed them into an unrivaled power couple.
Their wedding was extremely private, attended only by family and friends, as well as a few business partners, celebrities, influencers, and investors.
The exclusive photos of their wedding alone outperformed the most paid-for photos in the world, gracing the most famous, popular, and well-known blogs and magazines worldwide.
This not only benefited the blogs and magazines, but the millions of dollars paid for the images alone funded numerous non-profit organizations, shelters, and orphanages in both India and Italy, and Arnav and Khushi received high praise for their approach.
Arshi was blessed with their one-year-old son, Advay, two years ago.
The pregnancy came as a surprise because complications from Lucrezia's pregnancy had weakened Khushi's womb, so his birth was a much-anticipated occasion, with Lulu and Kiki taking charge of the celebration, which was perfect.
Payash, on the other hand, worked on their marriage and are surprisingly more compatible than they were before.
Akash was now a no nonsense business man heading Manohar's car dealership company which had exponentially increased in profits and location since Akash took over ten years ago and had won numerous awards for his contributions to the car industry just like Arnav and Khushi with their own industry.
Payal and Shashi's sweet shop had grown into a high-end confectionery that sold millions of packages of various sweets and chocolates both inside and outside the country, and it had received numerous awards.
Shashi and Garima has been divorced for the past ten years and both have been single since.
It was heartbreaking for both of them, but Shashi's resentment toward Garima after discovering the truth would not allow him to live happily, so he filed for divorce, and Garima knew better than to challenge it, so she agreed, much to Buaji's disappointment, because she wanted them to work things out.
Fortunately for them, Shashi did not abandon them and hired them in his and Payal's shop, but they had no relationship with the grandchildren because their parents did not trust them, and despite being hurt by the decision, they accepted it as their punishment.
Aman, who is now a shareholder and CFO at ARD, married Sheetal seven years ago after dating for two years.
Sheetal's hard work had earned her a position as one of ARD's head designers, which was one of the many reasons Aman fell for her.
Their courtship and marriage were difficult because Shruti found numerous ways to sabotage them, but they persevered much to her dismay, and Siddharth had to threaten to disown her before she stopped.
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