prettyplease0310
"Control is not an illusion, Malhotra. It's an equation. And you are a variable I refuse to calculate."
"Maybe your logic just needs a better soundtrack, Ice Queen."
Avani Sharma doesn't do variables. As a brilliant tech prodigy and head of her college's Tech Club, her entire life is built on logic and absolute control. Raised by a strict, retired-Army Punjabi father, she views love as a messy, inefficient distraction she simply cannot afford.
Enter Armaan Malhotra-or Aksh, as the roaring campus crowds call him. The son of a powerful Gujarati tycoon, he is the college's resident soulful rockstar: chaotic, passionate, and effortlessly charming. He is everything Avani detests.
When a fierce campus budget clash forces the Ice Queen and the Rockstar into an all-out war , Avani throws out a reckless, sarcastic challenge to shut him up: "If Papa agrees... then I'll marry you."
She thought her terrifying father's reputation was an unbreakable shield. She thought she won. But before the echoes of her words can settle, a tragic accident and an abrupt graduation tear them apart into a three-and-a-half-year silence.
Now, 3.5 years later, the universe pulls a major glitch.
Avani is a rising tech industry leader, and Armaan is a nationwide Bollywood musical sensation. When their powerful families arrange a traditional blind meeting for them, they walk into the room expecting a stranger-only to find their past staring right back at them.
Avani assumes it's a cruel, random twist of fate. But the real system crash happens when Armaan smiles, looks her dead in the eye, and reveals the audacious truth: it wasn't a coincidence at all.
Because Armaan Malhotra never forgets a promise. And years ago, right after she walked away, he had walked straight up to her terrifying father to ask for her hand.
Can a tech girl who only trusts logic find harmony with a singer who only trusts his heart? Or will the secrets of their past break them completely?