Maut Ka Mandap
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Kavya Vanshraj Bansal has never lifted a finger in her life. The 18-year-old daughter of a billionaire, she's spoiled, stunning, and untouchably arrogant - a girl who doesn't walk, she commands. With her designer heels, diamond-studded attitude, and a trail of servants behind her, she rules her world like a bratty queen.
Until one day, the universe turns cruel.
A mysterious event yanks her out of her luxurious 2025 life and throws her straight into India, 1960 - into a world of silence, shadows, and suffocating tradition. Before she can scream, she's forced into a marriage with a man twice her age - a stranger who wears silence like armor and carries death in his eyes.
His name is Rana Shaurya Vardhan.
A powerful, stone-hearted royal with a haunted past and a first wife in jail for attempting to murder his adopted son. He didn't ask for a second wife - but he needs one to keep his house intact.
Kavya didn't choose this wedding.
But now she's tied to a man who doesn't speak, doesn't flinch, and doesn't care if she breaks.
In a world where no one dares defy him - she will.
But this house hides more than broken vows and family curses.
And this mandap?
It isn't sacred.
It's stained.
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