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"I didn't want this crown, and I didn't want this marriage. But now that you wear my family's crest around your neck, Bani... what is mine, stays mine. And I burn down worlds for what belongs to me."
Bani Sharma is not fragile. She is not silent. And she is definitely not the kind of girl who bows her head just because the world tells her to.
She is fire wrapped in simplicity-fierce when it comes to her family, soft only where her heart allows, and strong enough to survive even when life breaks her without warning.
But everything changes the night a forgotten royal debt drags her into a world she never asked for.
Into Rathore Garh.
Into a crown she never wanted.
And into the life of a man who was never meant to feel anything.
Rudra Singh Rathore is the King of Rathore Garh-cold, ruthless, and untouchable. A man who rules empires but refuses to let emotions rule him. To him, love is a weakness. Marriage is duty. And trust is nothing but a risk he cannot afford.
He does not bend.
He does not break.
And he certainly does not change.
Until Bani Sharma enters his world.
Two opposites collide inside the walls of the 400-year-old palace-her warmth against his ice, her chaos against his control, her truth against his silence.
He expects obedience.
She gives him defiance.
He expects fear.
She gives him fire.
And somewhere between their constant clashes, something begins to shift in the King who once believed he was unbreakable.
Because Bani does not just survive Rathore Garh...
She challenges it.
She breathes life into its cold walls.
And without even trying, she starts turning a ruthless King into something he never believed he could become-human.
But love in Rathore Garh is never simple.
When enemies rise from the shadows and hidden truths begin to surface, Rudra's protectiveness turns dangerous... and his obsession turns irreversible.
She thought she had entered a golden cage.