MY SHUT-IN WIFE

Having always dreamt of a lovey-dovey marriage when older, Bilal never realized teenage fantasies were nothing more than lies dressed as ambition. Back in SS3, he had it all mapped out: graduate, move out of his parents' house after college, land a great job, climb the corporate ladder, buy a car and a house, marry a beautiful woman, have two kids who would someday inherit his wealth and pamper him when he hit forty.

That was the goal. HIS ULTIMATE PLAN.

Sadly, barely any of it came true. He lost his job-twice. Never moved out of his parents' house. Has no girlfriend, no money, and no grand career to boast of. Just a NEET feeding off his parents like a child. A loser, by all accounts.

And yet, somehow, he still got a wife.

Not out of romance, but out of suggestion. A proposal, not of love but of business. "Marry my daughter," they told him, "and you'll get a high spot in my company." For Bilal, it looked like most of his dreams were being handed to him on a platter.

That daughter was Yusrah.

She was not the bubbly, lovey-dovey kind of girl his SS3 self used to daydream about. Yusrah was quiet. Blunt. Introverted to the bone. She wore a permanent expression that made people uneasy, as if she were silently judging the world. Words didn't come easy for her, and emotions stayed locked somewhere deep inside. But that wasn't what made her a shut-in.

Her world had closed in long before him-sealed off by a trauma no one saw coming.

Now Bilal, the self-proclaimed loser with borrowed dreams, and Yusrah, the woman who hides from the world, find themselves bound in a marriage that is anything but ordinary. Together, they must learn whether love can exist not in the open streets, but behind closed doors.