angel_of_wisper
In a near-future India where algorithms decide marriages better than families ever could, love has been reduced to data, percentages, and emotional risk reports.
Abhi Malhotra doesn't believe in love.
A brilliant, emotionally distant scientist, he trusts logic over feelings and helps design a government-backed AI system that matches couples for arranged marriages with near-perfect accuracy. For Abhi, marriage is a contract-efficient, controlled, and emotion-free.
Shreya Joshi believes in love a little too much.
Warm, expressive, and stubbornly hopeful, she dreams of a connection that feels chosen, not assigned. When family pressure forces her into the same AI-driven arranged marriage program, she feels like her future has been stolen by code.
When Abhi and Shreya are matched with a staggering 99.8% compatibility, neither of them is happy.
Bound by a futuristic marriage contract that strictly forbids emotional attachment for six months, they become husband and wife-legally tied, emotionally restricted, and constantly monitored by the system. Living under the same roof, they share awkward silences, sarcastic banter, chaotic family rituals, and moments that feel dangerously close to real.
Abhi's carefully controlled world begins to fracture as Shreya's laughter disrupts his logic.
Shreya, in turn, starts seeing the tenderness hidden beneath Abhi's cold exterior.
As their bond deepens, the AI detects emotional deviations-and responds with warnings, penalties, and threats of annulment. They soon discover the terrifying truth: the system was never meant to help love survive, only to eliminate it.
Now Abhi must choose between the code he helped create and the woman who makes him feel human.
Shreya must decide whether love is worth breaking rules, families, and the future itself.
In a world where marriage is programmed and love is forbidden, Abhi and Shreya dare to feel anyway.
Because some things-
even in the age of algorithms-
were never meant to be calculated.