" and someday maybe we would be happy. " • Anirudh had announced Mahi was his daughter, the five year old child now knew. Yet she didn't know how to accept and forget the Papa she had believed was hers. The father, Vanraj, stood in silence, the memory of this painful truth vivid in his mind. The child looked up at him, with hope of acceptance. And his frozen heart of ice didn't know what to choose. A villain couldn't do any better than hatred, yet how could he escape the tearful eyes of an innocent child? Anupamaa stood in silence, in the corner, unaware of her impending future and the threads of destiny that had bound her to the child. • An illegitimate child, a struggling acceptance from the villain and the fear of losing when there's nothing to hold onto. vanraj × mahi