Alankrita, orphaned twice, had slowly begun rebuilding her life. Her scars, still raw and without respite bleed on every sketch she creates. Caught in a scandal where she was at the wrong place at the wrong time, she becomes the talk of the city until Aatreya Raazdaan, the chief minister for decades, fears losing his position and turns the wheels and announces he acknowledges the crime by his party man and invites her into his family as his daughter-in-law. It is not a choice but an ultimatum. Finding herself married to Harshavardhan Raazdaan, the only son of Aatreya, whom the former despises with passion, she is invisible to him, and he disregards her entirely. In an instant, her life is turned upside down. Harshavardhan, finding himself tangled in this suffocating arrangement purely due to the threat of him losing everything, wants nothing to do with her ever. Two strangers, controlled by the same man, just in different ways and forced to share a roof together-what if they are destroyed by the very beliefs they had built their lives on? Tropes Surgeon X Architect Forced marriage Slow-burn politics Mystery Family secrets Angst

"Are we a moment of illusion or a lifetime of truth?" Viraj Randhawa is a man battling with his own demons. He has lived with a sense of unrequitedness all his life. Now he is guarded and emotionally unavailable, often due to his own shortcomings. Vani Agnihotri is a woman who has forever wished to just belong. She has her own insecurities and abandonment issues that lead her to overanalyze every gesture and word. A marriage binds them, and despite six months of fleeting moments, unsaid words, and the flutter they feel around each other. There is an invisible chasm between them that she desperately tries to fill, but he is blinded to the truth of her emotions that are laid bare in front of him. When one moment shifts their entire relationship, and he realizes he is turning into what he swore he would never become, will they fight for each other and reconcile, or will the chasm widen further, swallowing both in its darkness?