"She wore black to every dawat. Until he made her laugh in colour."
Miraal Aftab, 25, designs palaces she'll never live in. Born into peshawars old money and older expectations, she's the perfectly cold daughter, grumpy, guarded, always in black. Her life is an architectural blueprint of silence, duty, and sacrifice.
Muhib Khan, 28, is everything she hates: charming, reckless, and drowning in secrets. A golden boy in the eyes of society, but beneath his sarcasm lies a darkness he's buried deep.
They were forced into a secret nikkah two years ago after a scandal that could have destroyed both families. No love. No romance. Just silence. Separate homes. Separate lives.
Until now.
Miraal's younger sister's rishta drama brings Muhib crashing back into her world uninvited, unwanted, and still married to he
A photo of their hidden nikkah certificate leaks online, their world erupts in gossip, shame, and press frenzy. To keep both legacies intact, they're ordered to move in together and play the perfect couple.
But they aren't perfect. They're broken. Bitter. Bound by duty, not desire.
As fake smiles turn to real sparks and buried secrets resurface-including who leaked the photo-Miraal and Muhib must face the truth:
Can a marriage built on ashes ever bloom into love?
Or will they burn each other down trying?
She was his coworker. She was his close friend. She was his cousin. These were all things I knew. There were just a few crucial components to their connection of which I had been unaware. She had been his crush. And now he was hers.