As soon as I entered my room, I started break everything that I laid my eyes on. I was mad. Beyond mad to be honest.

"What the- are you mad, Arjun!?", Tharun yelled preventing me from breaking those things.

"Yes, I am!"

"What happened? Did you enquire Aarthi?"

"Yes, I did. She said she was in palace. But, I refused to believe her and enquired all the maids and soldiers who were in her palace. They all saw her in the palace and said that there's no chance of Aarthi being in the ceremony.", I explained and he frowned.

"You sure?"

"Yes I am!"

"Calm down, Arjun."

"First, I saw her with a knife with my mom laying on the ground lifeless. I was having hope and I didn't believe it. Now, I enquired each and everyone in that palace and they are damn sure that Aarthi was in palace. Now, tell me, Tharun. Should I believe her even after this?"

"But, she's your wife, Ar-"

"Yeah she is. That is why I went 1000 miles away to find out if her words were true but it was not."

"I don't know what to say.", He said shooking his head still not believing that Thara could've done such things.

I plopped on the bed and tried hard not to cry but anyways a tear slipped my eyes.

She had always been the reason behind my crying. Maybe because she was the only person I love the most but everything is out of hand right now.

"But, Thara keeps saying it was Aarthi. Why would she point out Aarthi. If she wants to escape, she could've pointed out someone who's believed to live in here. Why would she blame someone who's 1000 miles away?"

It made sense. Why would she blame someone who's believed to be 1000 miles away. I looked at Tharun.

"There's only one way to check this out. If Aarthi was here, someone should've seen her in the ceremony. In the crowd of thousands of people, atleast one of them should've noticed Aarthi's presence, am I right?", I said and he nodded.

"That's right. If Thara noticed her, there should surely be some other people who noticed her."

"First, order our most trusted soldiers to enquire the maids and other soldiers if they had seen her. Also, one can enter the palace only with the invitation. Take the list of all people who was checked inside the palace with the invitation.", I said and he nodded.

"You're planning on to ask each and everyone. People think Thara is dead. If you enquire about her, they would suspect her death, wouldn't they?"

"They would. They surely would suspect if she's still alive or dead but we can't let truth fall apart if we think about them."

"Did you meet your wife in the cell?"

"Yes, I did. She said she hates me and would never live with me again even if everything becomes right.", I said.

Remembering those words gives me pain but right now, I can't hurt her by forcing her so I let it go. Even if everything gets right, if she insists of leaving me, I would just let her go.

Because I'm the one at fault.

"But, she would surely forgive you once she comes to know how much you have cried in the past few days just because your wife is in jail.", He said and I was shocked how he noticed it.

"When did you- I actually didn't cry. You know I was-"

"Just stop with your acting, Arjun. I'm your brother. Don't I have the right to know?"

I sighed and looked away.

That's when a soldier knocked the door.

"Prince Tamizh is here to visit you, Your highness.", He said and took his leave.

Why is that man here?

"Just keep your ego aside for once.", Tharun said and we made our way downstairs where Tamizh was waiting for me with a girl in his side.

His fiancè?

I didn't care about that and focused on only why he want to meet me.

"What?", I asked in my cold voice.

"I want a list of people who was there in the ceremony.", He said and me and Tharun looked at each other.

"What are you gonna do with that?"

"Do you think no one in thousands of people would've noticed her?", He asked.

Somehow I was feeling a bit ego when he thought the same as I thought.

"Oh, we were thinking about the same, Prince. We can do this together. I'm quite surprised you and Arjun thought the same idea.", Tharun blurted out.

"Oh really? As far as I know, Arjun was against the fact that Thara was innocent.", Tamizh said mocking me and I stayed quite and mad.

"Tamizh, we should ask thousand people individually?", That unknown girl asked and I was quite surprised she was calling him by his name.

He doesn't like being called by his name. That is why I always call him by his name and that's the fact.

"Yes, Arjun will ask. It's his land, first of all.", He said again mocking me.

Also, on the other hand, I was thinking about Thara. It's not more than a day since she was assaulted by bastard of my father. And, she's alone. She would be relaxed a bit if she talks with his brother, right.

"Go and see your sister. Something bad happened to her yesterday. I'll take care about arranging the list.", I said and he frowned hearing the word something bad.

"What bad? Did you hurt her?", He asked in pure annoyance.

"No, the bastard emperor did."

"What did he do?"

"He tried to- Uhh, he assualted her but Tharun was in right time to save her."

"What the- where is that manwho-", he was yelling and his yell was cut off by my loud voice.

"Just look after her first and then you can worry about punishing the emperor."

He made his way towards the basement where the girl followed him like a lost kitten. I gestured my men to open her cell for him and they walked along with him to open the cell.

I was leaning on the jail rod, my body tired and weak, still with unchanged clothes, my hands dirty from touching the rusted rod and dirty floor.

I didn't cry because I don't want to waste my energy. It feels like my eyes no longer can secrete tears just because of the amount of tears it shed.

That's when I heard footsteps sounds and I saw Tamizh approaching along with guards and an unknown girl. Seeing him, there was a kind of relief inside my mind.

He sat to my length and cupped my cheeks.

"What did the emperor do to you?", He asked worriedly.

"He tried to assault me. It was hard, Tamizh. H-He- He tried to remove my clothes. But, Tharun was here on right time. If he didn't come, I would've surely been dead either by his hands or I would've killed myself..", I said each word coming out of my mouth were out of fear.

"Okay, calm down. You'll be fine. You're fine right now.", He assured me.

"I'm not fine. Arjun doesn't believe me. Tamizh, I won't live with that douche bag after I'm released. He refuse to believe me. He always do this, he doesn't believe me in any occasions.", I said and he nodded agreeing.

"Yeah, he's a complete douche bag but what are you gonna do if you don't live with him. You can't come to our palace since Aarthi and her mother is still in there. They are already angry with you. Even if Aarthi is locked up in jail, there's many chances her mother will kill you. So, be safe here."

"You call yourself a brother? He's getting on my nerves."

"I just talked to him. He said he was going to collect all the lists of people who were in the ceremony. We believe someone would've noticed her.", He said.

"Then, he's a bipolar idiot. He hurt me, Tamizh!"

"I know. You will be out of this ugly cell soon and that douche bag will make everything right and apologise. Take care of your health. Have you eaten your food?", He asked and I shook my head negetive.

"Why? Isn't he feeding you."

"I'm thirsty. I want water..", I said with a pout.

"Don't worry. I'll get you some immediately. Wait right here.", He said and went outside where that girl followed him.

I forgot to ask him who she is..

But, she was one beautiful and cute woman though.

I sighed and waited for five minutes.

On the other hand my thoughts went to the times when he didn't believe me when he should've. The day when the empress lied that I called her with names, he completely believed her and wasn't ready to hear what I was saying.

"Apologize! Touch her feet. Apologize. And say you won't repeat it again!", Arjun yelled at me. Don't, Thea! My subconscious yelled.

"But, I-", before I could finish, Arjun yelled, "do what I said" and it made me flinch at the spot.

I just forget it all with time but right now, his words completely broke me. When he said, he didn't believe me, to be honest, I was shattered. I was angry, mad and desperate.

I realised on the farthest part of my heart, there was still love for him.

If he was in my situation and I was in his, I would've completely believed him. I wouldn't have heard what others said about him..

Tamizh came back in few seconds and he kneeled down to my length.

"They'll give you food in few minutes. Don't worry..", he said and I nodded.

"And, who's this girl?", I asked and he looked at her and then me.

"Uhh, she work for me. She's been a great help to find the evidence but the problem is... She..", Tamizh said thinking if he have to say further.

"Maybe, let's skip that part. You don't wanna tell her you have found another way to find evidence.", That girl said distracting from saying further.

"By the way, do you think someone would've noticed Aarthi in that ceremony?"

"I'm damn sure someone would have because she wasn't covering her face well. Also, I was able to notice her twice so there's many chances there's someone who had seen her in the ceremony.", I explained and he nodded.

"We've been collecting the list of people who had been in the ceremony. If we enquire then, we'll surely find an evidence against her.", He said assuring and I was a bit relieved by his words.

"Ananthi, could you wait outside for me? I'll come back in few minutes.", He said and she nodded leaving the corridor.

"Actually, I caught her trying to steal the swords in weapon store. When she was caught, she was requesting me not to tell anyone because her father was sick."

"Sick? Yet, you brought her this far from her home. She have to look after her father, right?"

"Just don't care. Her father is a drunkard. I hate people who drink without taking care of their family. Tell me, would she have tried to steal if her father was right?", He said.

As he finished, my thoughts directly went to my father who is also like this. He doesn't care about his family. My mom would get beatings everyday and sadly me and my sister would witness it.

Life was never easy until I got the time machine.. it sounds scary that I can never go back to my timeline since the watch is destroyed. But, it didn't feel as much sad because Arjun was with me.

Now, this life feels helly.

"Well, she's waiting for you. I'll take care of myself. Goodbye.", I said and he nodded.

"Take care of yourself. Don't forget to have your food and also, drink plenty of water as much as you can.", He said and with that, he left.

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