She was the kind of girl who tried to make herself small even though her body refused to shrink. Soft in all the places she wished were firm - a tummy that folded when she sat, thighs darkened from years of rubbing, and breasts that never stood the way society said they should. She carried her insecurities like extra weight, always tugging at her clothes, always avoiding mirrors.But he saw her differently.To him her softness wasn't something to hide it was warmth, comfort, realness. The curve of her belly, the thickness of her thighs, the sway of her hips... he loved all of it. Not in a way that made her feel exposed, but in a way that finally made her feel seen. He spoke to her gently, touched her carefully, and never once made her feel like she had to apologize for existing in her own skin.He didn't love her despite her body.He loved her with it because of it completely and slowly, she began to realize that maybe she was worthy of being loved exactly as she was.

"It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man" Nothando Bhengu, a young Zulu independent woman born in Durban, falls in love with a Zulu man, not knowing that he is a hitman. Will she leave him or not?

Lalela Mkhize was once the it-girl of Durban-bold, stylish, and never without a plan. But when life quietly pulls the rug from under her feet, she finds herself back in the rural village she once ran from, carrying nothing but a designer bag full of memories and a fierce determination to stay true to herself. She isn't broken. She isn't looking for savings. She's simply trying to start over-on her own terms. As she reconnects with her roots, bonds with her cousin, and starts to face herself in the silence she once feared, Lalela begins to realize that sometimes the biggest transformation happens when the world stops clapping. She hasn't met him yet the man everyone in the village talks about. That part of the story will come. But for now, this is about her-a woman relearning that losing everything doesn't mean losing yourself.