~ 𝙰 𝚁𝚘𝚢𝚊𝚕 𝙳𝚎𝚜𝚒 𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚐𝚎𝚍 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚐𝚎 ~ "𝑯𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝑲𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒕. 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒆𝒅." Aarav Gaurav Singh is a man of cold stone and heavy guilt. A Royal CEO who believes his existence is a "stolen life," he has spent seventeen years punishing himself for a tragedy that shattered his soul. Gauri Shrivastava is a baker with a heart of gold and skin the color of twilight-Surmai. Used to being overlooked in a world that prizes fairness, she enters the palace expecting a cold contract. Instead, she finds a King who is as possessive as he is broken. 𝑯𝒆 𝒗𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓. 𝑰𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒅, 𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒃𝒔𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅. But beneath the royal glitz and dark romance lies a web of lies. Someone is watching from the shadows of the past-and the tragedy that defined Aarav's life was only the beginning of the game.