Yashika The uncanny puzzle of KING[ 18+]

Bonus Chapter✨🌶️

Yashika was alone standing in the middle of a jungle. While living in this jungle in last one year she got attached to it.

It's been so many days since she returned so this morning she decided to come alone.

But, she wasn't really happy, a cold feeling of emptiness and pain had settled in her heart. She found the love of her life but at what cost? Were they all actually, genuinely happy?

She've seen Digvijay fighting his pain everyday, since he found out it was his mother who decieved everyone.

He lost his mother and Yashika, she doesn't even know anything about them.

On her way to jungle she saw a mother with her two kids in their front porch. And from the look of it you could clearly tell that they were very poor but, there was a genuine happiness and pure love for each other.

Yashika wished to have it, to go back in time and start ever again. Where she was born as a princess, lived with her parents and met Digvijay under different circumstances.

Tears rolled down her cheeks and she kept walking absent minded.

She reached near the lake that she used to come to every morning .

Lost in her thoughts and wishing for a miracle she kept looking at lake as if something or someone will miraculously come up and change her life.
"I wish I could go back in time and change things. I wish things would've ended differently.", a single tear rolled down her left cheeks and she as she was looking down, into the lake. A lone tear rolls down her cheek and fell in lake.

Then she saw it.

A flickering fire in the heart of the jungle around the lake, surrounded by a ring, which was as white as snow but she could feel the warmth of the fire. At the center of the flames stood a figure—tall, draped in shadow and moonlight, its eyes glowing like embers. Yashika froze, her instincts screaming at her to turn back. But she had come too far.

"You seek to turn the wheels of time," the figure spoke, its voice like the rustling of ancient leaves. "To erase the past. To begin again.", she couldn't believe her eyes what she was seeing.

Yashika swallowed hard. "Yes. I need to change everything. If I could just go back, I would do things differently."

The spirit stepped forward, its presence sending a shiver down her spine. "Time is not a river, child. It is a web. To pull one thread is to unravel many. Are you prepared for the cost?"

You return, it said, its voice like rustling leaves. "But do you come to beg for your past, or to bargain for your future?"

Yashika's voice trembled, but she stood tall. "I want to go back. I want to start again. Where my parents lived. Where I met Digvijay under different circumstances. Where we could be happy."

The spirit regarded her for a long moment before speaking again.

"The wheels of fate do not turn so easily. Time is a stubborn river—it resists those who wish to change its course. But I can give you what you seek."

Yashika's heart pounded. "What's the price?"

The spirit stepped closer, and the fire dimmed, revealing its ancient, hollowed face.

"You will carry a mark—the mark of the wild lion the one you got in this life. A scar, no one will look at you the same again. You will return to your past, but your beauty will be stolen. Your father, your people, and even Digvijay—none will remember the reason. It will become your birthmark."

Yashika's breath caught.

"But if you make the king fall in love with your mark, truly and without regret, your wish will be complete. Your life will reset, and your scar will vanish as if it never was."

She swallowed. "And if I fail?"

The spirit's ember eyes burned brighter.

"Then your soul will be lost—forever wandering in the world of forgotten spirits. A fate worse than death."

Yashika hesitated.

The jungle held its breath.

She had already lost so much. But she could still fix it. If Digvijay could love her again—not for beauty, not for fate, but for who she truly was—then maybe, just maybe, everything would be right.

Slowly, she nodded.

"I accept the bargain.". She was ready to risk her soul to bring happiness to her family and the man she loved the most.

The spirit smiled.

The fire surged forward, engulfing her. A searing pain ripped through her face as invisible claws tore through her skin, branding her with a wound that burned hotter than fire. She screamed, the sound swallowed by the jungle, by time itself.

And then—

Silence.

Yashika's scream was swallowed by the fire. The spirit's ancient power twisted through her soul, dragging her through the abyss of time. She could feel herself unraveling, her body splitting from existence, only to be stitched back together in the past.

Then—darkness.

And then—light.

A baby's cry echoed through the palace walls.

The queen, weak from childbirth, reached out for her newborn daughter. The midwives gasped as they saw the infant's face, their whispers filling the chamber.

A deep, jagged claw mark stretched from the child's cheek—a mark that looked years old but still could tell a story, too unnatural for a newborn. It was not an ordinary birthmark. It was something else.

The royal priest hesitated before whispering, "This child carries the mark of the lion."

The queen, despite her exhaustion, pulled the baby close. "She is my daughter. No mark will change that."

But the king—Yashika's father—stood silent. His gaze lingered on the scar, his thoughts hidden beneath a mask of unreadable emotions.

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