Before The World Claimed Him: Vaibhav Suryavanshi

*He was becoming the world's favorite.*
*She was learning how to survive hers.*

At fifteen, Vaibhav Suryavanshi was already carrying the kind of dreams most people spend their entire lives chasing. Stadium lights, expectations, pressure, sacrifices - cricket had become more than just a game. It was survival. It was responsibility. It was the only thing standing between his family's struggles and a better future.

The world saw talent.

They saw records.

They saw a boy destined for greatness.

But nobody saw what greatness demanded in return.

Nobody saw the pressure sitting quietly on his shoulders.

Nobody saw the anger hidden beneath calm eyes.

Nobody saw the boy slowly losing pieces of himself while the world kept asking for more.

And somewhere far away from cameras and applause-

lived a girl nobody noticed.

A girl who had already learned, far too young, that homes weren't always built with love. A girl who stopped expecting kindness, stopped asking questions, and learned how to survive in silence.

Y/N never cared for cricket.

Never cared for fame.

Until one random evening changed something.

One match.

One face on a television screen.

And suddenly-

the boy the world was beginning to know somehow became the quietest part of her little world.

Years passed.

He never knew she existed.

She never expected him to.

Until life - cruel, strange, and painfully unpredictable - placed her right in front of him.

As his Personal Assistant.

What starts as distance turns into tension.

What starts as silence slowly becomes comfort.

And what starts as admiration turns into something far more dangerous.

Because Vaibhav Suryavanshi never cared about love.

Until her.

And Y/N?

She had already loved him long before the world claimed him.

*A dark slow-burn romance filled with fame, pressure, obsession, healing, emotional wounds, silent love, and the kind of devotion that ruins before it saves.*