"One day you'll discover what I've done to protect you, and you'll never forgive me for it." Rehman Dakait says it like a warning. Like distance will save them. Like cruelty will make her stop looking at him so softly. But Ulfat Hussain has spent her whole life loving things that were never meant for her. After returning to Pakistan from America to uncover the truth about the parents who abandoned her, she finds herself trapped between secrets, politics, and the one man everyone tells her to fear. A man who keeps pushing her away while watching over her from the shadows. A man whose anger disappears every time she gets hurt. A man who looks at her like loving her feels too much like losing control. And Rehman knows he should stay away. Because Ulfat is too gentle for the world he was raised in. Too innocent for the blood attached to his name. And loving her was never supposed to happen. But yearning does not care about loyalty. Or danger. Or the promises men make to themselves at three in the morning. It lives in stolen glances. In trembling hands that almost touch. In the way he memorizes her voice while pretending not to listen. In the way she keeps choosing him, even after he breaks her heart trying to protect it. Barbaad Ishq - the story of two people who loved each other so quietly that the whole world mistook it for hatred.