The Uncrowned King

He was not born cruel.
He was born first - and that, they said, was crime enough.
Duryodhana, son of a blind king, raised in the shadow of cousins the gods loved, watched his inheritance be called a gift every time someone else was given it. They wrote his rage as jealousy. They never asked what it cost to be the villain in a story where the heroes cheated, too.
This is not the Mahabharata you were told.
This is his side.
And will he choose a different tale or will his destiny unfold as written?
Read to find out.