Winners?-2

"So, you're saying we're not dead?" Rani took a moment to absorb the news, her mind struggling to process everything. Shrihan, on the other hand, felt a deep sense of embarrassment watching his parents display their affection so openly.

In their culture, such open displays of love between parents were rare. It wasn't forbidden, just unspoken. Even before the apocalypse, couples in public—especially outside the first-tier cities—would keep a respectable distance to avoid drawing unnecessary attention. Men, however, could hold hands and walk together without raising eyebrows. It was a strange paradox, but that was the norm in those times.

Shrihan had never once seen his parents embrace in front of him. His warrior father and strict mother had always maintained a composed, almost distant demeanor. To now witness them like this—it unsettled him. He realized, perhaps for the first time, that their relationship had depths he had never understood.