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In the city of Aarvanya, power is inherited, loyalty is sacred, and secrets are buried deep enough to kill.
For generations, the Chauhans and Rajputs have stood side by side-bound by bloodless vows, shared history, and an unbreakable alliance. They grew together, celebrated together, and trusted each other without question. Their children inherited that bond long before they understood what it meant.
Ishika Singh Chauhan was raised in warmth and protection. Soft-hearted, intelligent, and quietly ambitious, she believes in goodness, balance, and love untouched by cruelty.
At twenty-four, she is pursuing her MBA at Aurelius International University, an elite world where privilege rules and power is currency. To those around her, Ishika is gentle, innocent-and dangerously unprepared for the darkness lurking behind familiar faces.
Her safest place has always been the Rajputs.
Especially Reyansh, her best friend since diapers, her shield in a world that never quite deserved her softness.
But safety is an illusion.
Because the Rajputs do not rule only boardrooms.
They rule shadows.
And at the center of those shadows stands Ishaan Singh Rajput.
Known to the world as a brilliant, untouchable CEO, Ishaan is everything power demands-intelligent, ruthless, and impossibly commanding. Known to the underworld as ISR, he is a name whispered in fear, a man no one sees yet everyone obeys. Armies move at his will. Politicians bow. Enemies disappear.
For six years, he ruled from America-cold, distant, and unstoppable.
Until he decides to return.
His arrival sends shockwaves through the country. Deals tremble. Alliances fracture. The underworld braces itself for blood.
What no one anticipates is the past he brings with him.
Because Ishaan has not returned to a city of strangers.
He has returned to something he could'nt leave.
This is a story of legacy and loss,
of soft hearts and merciless men,
of love that was never supposed to exist-
and a past that refuses to stay buried.