Doing as others told me,
I was blind.
Coming when others called me,
I was lost.
Then I left everyone,
myself as well.
Then I found everyone,
myself as well.
- Rumi.

An overly enthusiastic Viraj takes out something after a second of searching as if he's been always ready to public it on specific time.

Meanwhile, Vansh is holding himself back from attacking this vile woman who is behind his and Riddhima's broken life. Though he accepts him to be the main culprit in hers life.

Aryan, Maan and dadi are silent to prepare themselves for something serious while Siya is as cool as before. Without showing emotions out, she's biting the chewing gum as if everything could rest but not this.

That's when Viraj claims loud - "It's done. Have a look!" And soon all eyes fall on him who points towards the flat screen of television.

It's the CCTV footage of that cursed night which has changed the lives of many people by pledging a girl's life in a mere play. Though the screen is not so clear due to dark background but all could assume atleast no life loss has happened there, instead of attacking a lone soul and losing a barrel of her blood. And that poor soul is none other than Riddhima.

This incident has not only snatched six months of her life, but also portrayed her evil before this society.

Seeing the screen, Shivali gulps hard when the people present there have been looking at her with somewhat cold expressions.

So to save herself with the slightest chance, Shivali reasons : "Pl..please belive me .. trust your love, Vansh..I'm just a victim as well as Riddhima.
You on..only think how could I live these long days without you..I truly love you a lot!"

Vansh who's been already shaking in anger imagining all those past scenarios where he himself has a number of times claimed and felt her - this selfish girl as his love?! And now listening her unreasonable urge, he growls angrily which makes his love afraid like never before.

But the argument couldn't take long route when Viraj starts to play hers and Randhir's moments one by one, including the airport scene and her confrontation with Randhir.

Now she's truly nothing to ignore the truth while dadi is silent ; she's been always wrong to judge the culprit and victim, after having such a long worldly experience also.

But surprising all, the first step is taken by Siya who slaps this evil viper soundly. Till now she's been chewing the gum uncontrollably just to stop the ultimate urge to choke the vital problem of their life but kept calmness intact. And when everything is out, she couldn't finally stop herself from slapping her hard which makes Shivali to touch the ground.

It's true she's been behaving indifferent towards all, including her bhabhi maa too after her departure. But none knows how each night she's been crying in guilt for not to save her maa from getting injustice each and every day. She's promised herself then and there that she'll punish the culprits in any way to have a little payback atleast so that her bhabhi maa gets a little bit of justice.

Last time she's seen that cold eyes of Riddhima to realise how much pain is needed to excess the tolerance level. The pain and inner guilts have broken her so bad that now she has lost her baby to fate .. her first baby which is a dream to every mother. And today she is battling with life to have an earthly existence.

She has been awaiting for the day when she'd get the chance to punish that person who's destroyed the peace, image and life of her bhabhi maa and it's the day!

"How dare you..an insignificant brat! How dare you to hit me so hard? Don't you know what can I do?"

"What will you do..let me guess, you'll trap my celebrity crush to destroy my life..just the way you have demolished the social and personal life of Mrs Riddhima!?"

Here comes the most sarcastic and surprising blow from Siya. All gape at her wording when the fallen person shrieks in astonishment :

"How..how could you know..?"

But she couldn't finish when a raging Vansh claims to get all answers : "Just stop your actings for a moment and give the answer. Why the hell you've played with Riddhima's and my life? What wrong we both have done to you?"

"Wrong?!......hahaha.
Naah! You've done only one crime and that is to show eagerness in me which has twisted my life....that has snatched my love from me. Just because you've been richer that time, my family has denied Randhir in my life. And now you're saying where you've been wrong?
Huhh hypocrisy!"

Vansh swallows the bitter emotions rising inside, only to mutter : "It makes the sense. But why Ri..Riddhima?"

Now Shivali starts laughing like a lunatic - "Why Riddhima? God..is that even a question!?
I mean come on, are people really dumb not to get little bit of doubt itself?! She's the illegitimate daughter of my so called father and her first love.

She's the thorn of my life. It's her for whom I've to leave my country and settle outside. Do you know why? Just because of some fucking facial similarities in between us, people have started gossip about my parents' relation. It's been speak of the town that my mom is unable to bound my dad in her pallu so he's found that pleasure in other woman and Riddhima is the live example of their relationship."

Finding all eyes on her, Shivali starts to speak of dark sides of her life :

"Riddhima was ten when my so called dad brought her home, resulting the continuous arguments in between mom and dad. Earlier it was bearable but after her arrival, things started to get hard.
People started to notice her with papa in more occasions, in stead of me and Pritam. The way she used to wrap her tiny fists wrapped around papa's big hand started to get acclaims everywhere.

That poor brat had been in orphanage since her birth which had made her personality meek and low. So people started to claim her nature against my boldness. We were compared for the facial similarities but I had been trolled more for my outspoken and bold nature.

Things started to go higher with the passage of time.

It had been some five or six years that low life was living with us. Arguments increased in my family along with our ages. And that's when I got to know of her one secret by using which I could avenge the humiliations of my mom and I.

One day I'd gone to her room to ask for the school notes and in between one newspaper cutting had slipped from her maths book. She was so horrified with the sudden happening that it had increased my doubts. So before she could grab the piece of paper, I'd picked up....and to my surprise, that low life had been crushing on the handsome buisness man of the year."

With that Shivali gives a humorous chuckle while all are trying to devour the piece of information. It's not something serious. Anyone could have a celebrity crush, moreover, that poor girl has been in her teenage hormones.

But Vansh tries to swallow the hard truth by gripping on his own paw. It's hurting him to imagine Riddhima..His Riddhima could have a celebrity crush earlier. But suddenly his brows wrinkle with the settling of information in his mind.

And realising Vansh's mind, that abominable woman shows a green flag to his wit : "Yes..yes, Mr Vansh Rai Singhania. That poor creature was crushing on the famous buisness man of the year 2016 and it was none other than YOU!

Such a quiz life is, naah!? I mean an illegitimate girl was having a tiny winy crush and that also on the handsome and most desirable bachelor of the whole country. So that was when I had smirked inwardly to get a chance to depict her low before all.

But before I could do anything, my mom had sent me to Dubai to my maternal uncle because she couldn't accept the comparison drawn between Riddhima and I.
And when I returned after a year in my house, she was gone for good.

After a couple of years, I'd fallen in love with Randhir in Dubai only so life was going good. But my vengeance for Riddhima was still there and with time it was growing bigger.

That was when you happened to appear in my life to destroy my perfect life.

I was adamant to ask you to leave me. But Randhir had another plan. He had asked me a year to build an empire for our future and I had to act to be so in love with you and leak all your buisness information to Randhir!

And as per plan, we had decided to end Shivali's chapter in your life by making you guilt ridden. But Randhir was searching for a scapegoat to shape our plan perfectly. That was when I had suggested her name. And with my good luck and Randhir's endless searching, we'd got her address and each tiniest information.

Just like her mother had snatched piece and love from my mother's life, I've done the same. So now we're equal. I've even faked my grief in a letter to my parents, just to show her as a homewrecker. And thus, I've succeeded to perish her personal and social image.

Heck! She's started to feel herself guilty for the loss of two lives when there has been no accident happened at the first place..upon that there has been no baby involved to have a loss so how could it count of two lives? You've snatched my love from me once, naah so I've planned the part so that you could never achieve love in your life.

But Vansh, I must say the title for the biggest fool of the decade goes to you! After living with me for one year also, you've got no doubt. Shame!

I must have planned each and every part with Randhir, but to destroy Riddhima's life by marrying her has been yours own decision. However, it's been good as it's given me enough peace."

Vansh just couldn't grab more and sits emotionlessly. Truly he's the only culprit to attack her verbally and emotionally when she has done nothing, except for being a love child of her parents and having a teenage crush on him!

And what Shelly has confessed about the facial similarities, gosh! The thing has been a curse thoroughly in her life. He's married her thinking he could cherish Shelly always through her, this way. How sick he's been!

Oh God, how could he forgive himself for all those hurtful words, he's used for her?!

When one soul is broken due to guilt and heartbreak, another virtuous person is busy to broadcast the whole footage in live through social media. And Siya has silently called the police as to keep her own words to punish each and every person for her downfall.

Soon the confession gets spread among people to reach it to Sharma family. They could do nothing rather than tolerate the slander of their daughter.

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Standing before the mirror, she unveils the scarf from her bald head and touches the smooth skin of her head. Once the same place has been adorned by black fat silky hairs. And now it looks so barren.

Suddenly her fingers linger more over the front side as if it reminds her some bitter irony of life.

Irony .. because once the partition of thick black hairs used to get adorned by sindoor along with those black beaded holy chain around her neck. But now everything is gone along with her beautiful hairs and thick eyelashes! Even she looks so different from last time. She looks ugly as her skin has been affected a lot by a numbers of chemotherapy. Her face has gone through a malformation..along with her figure. She's changed a lot from her earlier appearance.

She still remembers how she's cried for whole night with the sudden changes in her physical appearance. And the first person she's dreamt of grapple in this hardest time of her life is him!

But the sudden picture from past has flashed before her eyes to make her realised of her position in his life. When he couldn't accept a baby from her then how could he accept a diseased person as a wife?!

So she has taken the vital decision which she should have taken earlier. She has settled upon at the thought to go through medication only if she gets the divorce!

And before her strong stand, Anushka and Prabhas has to bow.

After having her signs, Prabhas has sent the divorce papers to his one old friend in Hyderabad. There his friend along with another has posted the letter for some Vansh Rai Singhania. Keeping Prabhas's words in mind, they've wore masks to remain their identities under shadow.

It has been her another condition to make her address hidden from him.

However, it feels too light on her part that she has left her past behind and the man itself who's the reason behind her baby's untimely death. So much revenge, a person could hold that he could even destroy his own baby! This one thought makes her guilty that after everything also a part in her wants to forgive him. Why? She has no answer.

May be a part in her till now has remained in that house which once has been a temple for her along with them.

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