When she came inside the house, She had a big smile on her face. She felt proud of herself because even Mr. Firestorm didn't know the answer. Her aunt as usual scolded her for laughing like mad in the center of the hall.

She had dinner alone, She was missing Ahana badly. After completing her dinner, She quickly narrated the entire thing that happened today to her uncle on the phone.

"Why is he doing gold and diamond type of illegal activities? This is against mafia rule." commented Riddhima.

"No, Riddhima. You are wrong. Vansh belongs to the fire clan. But he can do illegal business on both guns, gold, and diamond. He has that power because Ajay is from the fire clan and Uma is from the earth clan. So Vihaan and Vansh, both have the power to do the illegal business of fire and earth clan." explained Shankar.

"Uncle, He also told about his marriage with Ragini is a business deal by his grandmother." shared Riddhima while thinking about everything that happened today.

"Uncle, Now I understood. His grandmother is forcing him to marry a space clan girl. So her future generation that is Raisinghania heir's will do illegal business with guns, natural resources, drugs, and alcohol. What a cunning lady!" predicted Riddhima by acknowledging Vansh's situation.

"Uncle, I have a doubt. Uma's aunt's family member didn't come to save her, why?" asked Riddhima curiously.

"Riddhima, I can't understand your question." Stated confused Shankar.

"Uncle, Why didn't earth clan people come to rescue aunt from Raisingania's?" questioned Riddhima.

"Riddhima, really you don't know what happened in Ajay and Uma's life?" interrogated Shankar.

"Nope. When I was in childhood, there used to talk with me nicely. That's it. I don't know about their life history. I thought they had only two children, one was Sia and another was Vihaan. But after meeting then in VR mansion prison, I came to know they had four children." voiced Riddhima.

"Riddhima, Coming to Uma's life, that's the biggest mafia clan fight. It is a revenge story." Started Shankar.

"Uncle, stop it. I am not interested in listening to these stories. If earth clan can't save them, I will save them." Replied Riddhima quickly.

Yes, she was fed up with this revenge story. She didn't know everything about the mafia, but few things she know when her grandpa used to tell her. She couldn't even forget the days she used to recite the rules of the mafia-like a poem in her childhood. Now, she even hates that rules.

"Riddhima, Watch every activity carefully. We might get any chance to get the couple out of the mansion. Until then try to get Vansh's trust completely. I forget to tell you something, come to Bangalore soon, there is a surprise for you." uttered Shankar by disconnecting his phone call.

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After finishing her classes the following morning, Riddhima visited the gift shop. She indicated an item and requested that the store owner bundle it. She spent fifty rupees on the thing she bought. The item was kept safely in her bag.

She reached the office and noticed Vansh was busy in the meeting. She started to read the files and mail which are important for tomorrow's meeting.

Vansh entered the cabin with his two bodyguards. Angre and Reyansh helped Riddhima in arranging the files. It was break time, the trio was asked to go for the break to have some coffee by Vansh.

But Riddhima hesitantly was standing near Vansh's table. Angre and Reyansh halted by seeing her behavior. Vansh noticed still the trio standing in front of him.

"What happened to you all? Why are you staring at me?" inquired Vansh to Riddhima.

"Yesterday, I told you that today I will tell you the answer. Shall I tell you?" asked Riddhima politely.

"No need. I found the answer. The answer is the alphabet." Said Vansh bluntly by typing something on his laptop.

For a few seconds, Angre and Reyansh couldn't recognize the interaction between Riddhima and Vansh. Now they understood it.

"No, it is wrong." Announced Riddhima giving a stupefied reaction in the face of Angre and Reyansh. Vansh's eyes which were fixed on the laptop now gazed at her.

She immediately tugged her bag from the nearby table. She took the gift from the bag that she brought it before few hours. She placed it on the table.

"Inside the gift box, the answer to my question is placed. Open it to the know the answer." Admitted Riddhima.

Vansh unwrapped the gift cover and opened the box, noticing the object. He was perplexed, it can't be the answer to the question which Riddhima asked Ragini. Angre and Reyansh went near Vansh to know what was the answer.

"POSTBOX" exclaimed Angre and Reyansh at the same time.

Yes, the gift was a Red Tinplate POSTBOX coin piggy bank, which is typically used by children. The postbox is 19 x 6.7cm in height and weight around 170g. Vansh removed the little postbox's roof lid to discover only a few coins inside.

"How could this POSTBOX and coins be the answer to your question?" argued Vansh viewing the postbox. Angre and Reyansh also supported him.

"Do you know the purpose of the POSTBOX?" asked Riddhima curiously to get an answer.

"It contains all letters in it. Riddhima, to explain to you clearly, a postbox is a place where letters which we want to send to someone are contained safely." Replied Angre spontaneously.

"Yes, You are correct. I asked Ragini for a word such that every letter contains it. The postbox contains all letters in it. So Postbox is the answer." Expressed Riddhima with a smile on her face.

Reyansh chuckled out loud, While Vansh was glaring at her. Angre recognized that she had told a crazy joke.

"Riddhima, in the nearby table drawer look at the left side corner, there will be a sharp knife. Bring it to me," asked Vansh.

Riddhima understood that she had done something wrong. So she held up some courage and asked him, "May I know the reason for asking for the knife?"

"To cut your tongue. So you won't ask such a question in the future." Said Vansh in a composed tone.

Angre and Reyansh started to chuckle loudly, while Riddhima's eyes widened listening to his word.

"Now, you three just get the hell out of here." Yelled Vansh. The trio rushed towards the door, while Vansh asked Riddhima to wait for a minute.

"Why did you place coins in it and Why did you present me this postbox?" asked Vansh.

"Whenever you are angry with anyone, just add some money in that postbox. I have added some coins it indicates your anger level. Then the reason for presenting this postbox is whenever you look at it, you should remember the moment we won against Pratap's family." Said Riddhima closing the door quickly.

After the trio left, he kept the postbox near the pen stand on his table. His lips curved upwards viewing the postbox.

"Did I Smile? I shouldn't smile, I must be a cruel person in this universe." He told to himself.

When he was deeply thinking about the postbox, he noticed his laptop screen has turned into sleep mode. The screen was black, he noticed a man smiling on it. His face was reflecting on the laptop screen. He observed himself on the laptop screen, he was different.

After so many years, someone had the power to make his lips curve and turn upwards. He was smiling. He enjoyed the moment by leaning on his chair by closing his eyes. He didn't even remember when he had stopped smiling.

But his smile turned into a straight line when he saw the notification on the phone. It was from Anupriya and his grandmother. Both have asked him to come home quickly to discuss something important.

When he entered the house, he noticed Anupriya and Gayathri with a sad faces. But looking at Vansh, his grandma marched towards him angrily.

"Riddhima is not going to work as your secretary anymore. You are going to fire her from this job. How dare that water clan girl insults our future in-laws." Screamed Gayathri.

As per usual, Vansh remained silent while the two women criticized Riddhima. Vansh eventually became irritated.

"Riddhima will work in my company. If you have any problem, then I can't do anything." Yelled Vansh and left to his house.

While Riddhima got a phone call. She picked up the call and after having the conversation, she went into Aryan's cabin. She asked him for help as Reyansh and Angre went with Vansh to the VR mansion.

Aryan, who was busy playing games on the computer, agreed to help her. She explained the situation, but she didn't give a full explanation of the problem.

"Riddhima, If my cousin comes to know about it, he will just tie a rope in my neck and hang me in the fan. I don't want to die like that I am not going to help you." Excused Aryan by raising his hand.

"Look if you help me, your life will be happier. Please believe me. You are going to make your parents proud and promise me that you won't tell anyone the interaction that happened between us except Vansh." Encouraged Riddhima.

"Ok, tell me what should I do?" asked Aryan.

"Come with me to the locker room in the office." Requested Riddhima.

Both were standing in front of the locker room. Riddhima carried a box file with her.

"Do you know the password?" asked Riddhima nervously.

"Yes, I know that but I have not tried it." Said Aryan bluntly.

Riddhima understood why he said that he didn't try it because if he try to open it then Vansh will make his life hell. Aryan opened it.

Aryan stood outside, and Riddhima went inside and came out within two minutes. Gazing at the box file, he assumed that Riddhima had hidden the thing inside the box file. He returned to his work, and Riddhima quickly went inside Vansh's cabin.

At around 9 clock night, she got a message that works for today is over from Angre. So that she can go to her home. She messages Aryan to help her. She went to the security room and storage room accompanied by Aryan. Around 11.00 P.M. both came out of the office.

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The next day, It was heavily raining. Vansh was busy attending the meeting in the conference room. He noticed a few people coming into the room without knocking on the door.

Few men, who were decently dressed came towards him. A man among them who was standing in front of everyone told, "I am Johnson, the customs officer and the Commissioner of the Income Tax-Air Intelligence Unit. I came to raid your entire office."

"But Why?" asked Vansh with a firm gaze towards them.

"We got information from resources that you are illegally exporting and importing diamond. It will be better if you and your staff co-operate with us." Said the Officer.

Everyone hands over their mobile phones to the customs officers. A jammer was placed in that building. So no one can call anyone. Even the entrance of the gate was completely closed so that no one couldn't go outside or come inside.

The Customs officers went towards the locker and broke the entire locker room to find the illegal things which they were searching for.

But after seven hours of search, the customs officers returned empty hand. They have checked the CCTV camera and even surfed the computer and phones of everyone to know if any illegal transaction had taken place. But nothing like that happened.

After the customs officer left, Anupriya, Gayathri, Mahendra Pratap, and Ragini came to the office and stood along with Rudra and Aryan. Because the government official had searched his workplace, Vansh was fuming inside. He was standing in the center of the office with so many questions inside him.

His enraged gaze gave fear to everyone who was standing in the office.

"How did the information leak out that I am exporting diamonds illegally? Who is the notorious spy inside the office? Where are the diamonds which was placed inside the locker? How was the CCTV footage removed from the database on the day Mr. Francis visited ? ", like this so many questions were running through his mind.

He went inside his cabin furiously by holding Angre's wrist. Angre quickly closed the door.

"What is happening in my office? Why the hell nothing is in my control?" barked Vansh by smashing the glass vase nearby him into pieces. Angre remained silent.

"I want to see the entire CCTV footage." Growled Vansh.

The entire day of Mr. Francis' visit was wiped as Vansh was watching the complete video. He eventually ascertained the culprit.

Reyansh was told to transport the full glass vase from the workplace to Vansh's cabin, and Angre was told to invite his family and business associates. The cabin's one corner was littered with shattered glass.

Family and business associates were seated on the other side of the cabin. As Vansh and the 20 glass vases were placed in front of them, everyone in the room gasped. Angre sealed the door to prevent anyone from leaving.

"Aryan, Take a glass vase and give it to me," ordered Vansh.

Aryan's hands were trembling, his palm was sweating, he slowly lifted the vase and hand it over to the Vansh. Within a second, the vase was broken into multiple pieces.

Not on the floor but on Aryan's forehead. Blood was flowing like a brook from his forehead. Angre and Reyansh held his arm and pushed him to kneel before Vansh.

"Where are the diamonds?" yelled Vansh making everyone gasp.

"Bhai, I don't know anything..." started Aryan, he couldn't complete his words. Vansh had hit him with the vase again.

"Am I looking like a joker?" roared Vansh and he showed the video. The video depicts Riddhima and Aryan coming out of the security room together.

Aryan's head was lowered. Rudra couldn't believe that his son was the culprit. He was pleading in front of Vansh to leave his son.

"Riddhima was told to go to her house at nine o'clock, so why did you both go to the security room and return from there at eleven o'clock?" questioned Angre.

"Riddhima and I went to erase the CCTV footage on the day when Mr. Francis came to the office to deal with us." Said Aryan. Vansh picked a broken glass piece from the floor and held Aryan's palm. He started to slit his palm with the glass piece. Aryan was screaming with immense pain.

"Really? You both, though, are intelligent but not smart in my opinion. You both wiped and replaced the full days' worth of footage from yesterday, as well as the footage from when Mr. Francis first arrived at the office. You removed the video of you and Riddhima entering the security room at 9 p.m., but you idiots failed to remove the video of you two exiting the security room at 11 p.m." Accused Vansh by stopping the punishment.

Aryan just nodded his head, he had a blurred vision of Vansh due to the loss of blood.

"Vansh, now the most important thing is diamond. Where is the diamond?" fumed Gayathri Raisinghania.

"Now, in this office, only two things are missing. One is Diamond and another one is Riddhima." Mocked Ragini using the situation.

"So, Riddhima cunningly took the diamond along with her by mesmerizing our Aryan. She is a witch" cursed Anupriya.

"Will you all stop talking?" Shouted Vansh by taking another glass vase in his hand, Aryan understood what was going to happen to him.

"Bhai, Diamonds were handled by Riddhima," said Aryan quickly.

"How can she stoop so low?" thought Vansh.

A knocking sound was heard on the door. Someone was trying to open the knob from another side.

"Angre, you go and open the door." Ordered Vansh.

After opening the door, "May the god save you!" gasped Angre viewing the person who was entering the cabin.

"May I come in boss?" asked an energetic Riddhima.

Will Riddhima be able to handle Vansh's anger?

Where are the diamonds?

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