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She loved him quietly,from the back rows of the classroom and the edges of school corridors.He was her senior confident, admired, untouchable. The kind of boy whose name lingered long after graduation, the school's heartthrob who never needed to look back to know he was being watched.
When he leaves the country to study abroad, her world doesn't stop but it grows quieter, she buries her feelings in her studies, learning to survive under the weight of expectations,especially from a stepmother who sees marriage as her only future and obedience as her greatest virtue.
Years later,he returns.
Successful.Polished.Arrogant in the same effortless way he always was. His presence stirs old feelings she thought she had outgrown, and his return unsettles the fragile balance of her life. But the girl who once admired him from afar is no longer the same. Time, pressure, and silent endurance have reshaped her.
As her stepmother pushes her father to arrange a marriage she never chose, she stands at a crossroads.