Summer of 2007, Rohit is working on a pair of matching silver rings in his workshop when Anokhi lets herself in, having brought some beers she took from her mother's store.
She peppers "Oppa" with questions about himself and his metalworking, but he ignores her until she takes his picture and posts it on social media. Angry, he orders her to take it down, so she does. He asks why she's been asking questions about him around town, clearly paranoid, so Anokhi confesses that she likes him.
Rohit stares into space for a long time, a dark shadow coming over him, and when he snaps out of it, he kicks Anokhi out of his workshop.Present Day, Rohit comes home early in the morning, wearing a large black hooded raincoat because of the storm.
Anokhi is awake and worried, and Rohit tells her that he was down in his workshop because he couldn't sleep. He's picked up some beer, which reminds Anokhi of the day he'd kicked her out.
She asks why he hated her back then, but he says that he just felt awkward because it was his first confession.
Anokhi says pleasantly that this is why she can't talk about her past, but when Rohit asks what she means, she just says, "You'd be surprised. I have a complicated past."Hmmm, interesting.
Not long after, Rohit heads down to the basement to feed kimbap to Ahir . He tells Ahir that he bought the Kimbap in his neighborhood and that it will be the last meal they find in his stomach, which makes Ahir frantically spit it out again.
Rohit takes out the sleeping pills he got from his mother and crushes several of them, then starts to force-feed them to the terrified Ahir.
Ahir shakes his head so hard that he knocks the glass from Rohit's hand, shattering it, then starts screaming for help.Rohit waits patiently for Ahir to wear himself out, then asks him about something he uploaded to the internet back in 2011.
He had claimed to be a high school girl writing a screenplay in which the main character helped someone commit a crime, then later wanted to become a reporter.
Ahir had asked what happens if people find out about his past. In a later post, he'd added there was a video of the crime, and that in the beginning, the "main character" didn't know that something illegal was going to happen.Giving up the ruse, Ahir swears that he really didn't know anything, but what Rohit takes away is that Ahir has video footage of a murder.
Ahir promises not to tell anyone about this or go near Rohit again if he lets him go free.
Rohit says he doesn't want promises, but collateral: "I don't trust people."
He leaves Ahir again, just as the old grandfather clock in the corner strikes four.Later that morning, Anokhi and Vicky arrive at Yash's Chinese restaurant soon after his body is discovered.
Anokhi takes in the severed Achilles' tendons, the missing thumbnails, the stab wounds, and the dog leash around Yash's neck, and immediately connects the murder to Tez Sabherwal's victims.There's a CCTV camera that recorded the whole murder, but the killer was careful to keep his face hidden.
Anokhi remembers Rohit coming home in the early hours, wearing a similar raincoat, but she keeps this information to herself.Detective Ramesh says that back in 2002, the detail of the dog leash wasn't released to the public, yet this copycat killer knows about it and even used the exact same brand and color of leash. Shaan points out that Tez Sabherwal killed seven people, worrying everyone that this might become a serial murder case.
It's discovered that Yash called Ahir Chattw just before he died, and that Ahir can't be reached. Anokhi and Vicky are sent to find Ahir as quickly as possible.
Rohit lets himself into Ahir's apartment and finds his laptop right where he said it was.
He follows Ahir 's instructions to a file folder, the contents of which will "end [my] life whenever you want," according to Ahir.
Rohit downloads the entire file onto a USB.Anokhi and Vicky talk to Ahir 's boss, Ms. Devi, who says that it didn't raise any red flags that she hasn't seen Ahir for a couple of days. It's not unusual for him to turn off his phone, and the reporters often work away from the office.

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FanfictionAs the name suggests, this book involves the stories of two people from entirely different worlds, how they get entangled into each other's life. Their fate makes them entwined to each other despite all odds. But, will the destiny be in the favor...