Beneath Vows
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MatureOngoing1h 6m
Last published Mon, Jul 21, 2025
Trope: Strangers to Lovers | Arranged Marriage | Slow Burn | Angst | Post-marriage Romance
In a world where legacy trumps love, Chandra, the fiercely independent CEO of a luxury design empire, is pressured into an arranged marriage by his dying grandfather - the condition to inherit the company. The catch? He must marry a stranger from a respected but lesser-known family within 30 days.
Enter Khushi - an art curator, poetic yet guarded, with a soul stitched together by quiet loneliness and unresolved grief. She agrees to the marriage out of necessity - to save her family's crumbling gallery - not love.
They marry as strangers, sharing a home but barely lives. Chandra builds walls of cold professionalism, Khushi hides behind smiles and silence. The mansion is vast, but the distance between them is vaster.
But fate has a gentle cruelty. Late-night kitchen run-ins, shared silences in the rain, the scent of strawberries lingering after Khushi's evening showers, Chandra's quiet defense of Taehyung when others belittle her art - moments begin to crack the ice.
Just when comfort finds them, past lovers, hidden traumas, and a scandal threaten to rip them apart. Chandra's ex returns, offering the love he thought he wanted. Khushi's art is accused of plagiarism. A drunken confession between them turns into a misunderstood disaster. The mansion, once a silent witness to awkwardness, now bears storms of unspoken truths.
As Khushi contemplates leaving, Chandra must decide whether he will finally fight for the man he never chose, but now cannot live without.
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