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Set in the graceful yet rigid era of 1920s India, 𝗔𝗻𝗶𝗿𝘂𝗱𝗵 𝗿𝗼𝘆 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘆, a 25-year-old London-returned barrister, finds his idealist world shattered when a twist of fate forces him into an arranged marriage with Bondita Das, a 13-year-old girl he has cherished since her birth.
To Anirudh, Bondita is his 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒏𝒂, his little princess, the tiny soul he swore to shield from the world the very moment he held her newborn self in his arms.
She is his 𝑱𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒆 𝒌𝒊 𝒘𝒂𝒋𝒂𝒉 (reason to live) and 𝑫𝒊𝒍 𝒌𝒂 𝒔𝒖𝒌𝒐𝒐𝒏 (peace of heart), the quiet sanctuary in a loud world.
To 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗮, a lively bubble of innocence with big, round eyes full of fearless, sparkling life, Anirudh is her entire universe, her 𝑺𝒂𝒌𝒉𝒂 𝒃𝒂𝒃𝒖, her ultimate protector, and the only one who indulges her endless curiosity and sweet stubbornness.
Now, society demands he turn his little princess into his wife, blurring the lines between pure devotion and a dark, overwhelming obsession to protect what is solely his.
Can he ever truly see his little Shona as a wife?
Will the duty of a husband ruin the purity of Sakha Babu?
Can their sacred bond survive society's heavy demands?
Will destiny destroy their peaceful connection, or forge it into an unbreakable obsession?