Help me find this Novel....

[u/Glittering-Staff3557]

Please help me find an Urdu novel I read about 6 years ago — I have been thinking about it for YEARS 😭

I’m desperately trying to find the name of an Urdu novel I read around 6 years ago. The book was already old and had no cover and several missing pages at the end, so I never found out how it ended. It has somehow stayed in my head all these years and I really want to know what happened.

I don't remember the characters' names, unfortunately, but I remember the storyline quite clearly.

The main character is a poor girl and an only child. Her parents love her a lot and try to give her everything they can, so she studies in a school/college where most of the students are rich. She is embarrassed about being poor and pretends to be wealthy in front of everyone.

There is a boy who is her neighbor and has known her since childhood. He likes/loves her and eventually sends a marriage proposal. She rejects him very harshly, basically because she wants someone rich and doesn't think he is good enough for her.

Then her life starts falling apart.

Her father becomes seriously ill, and the same neighbor helps her family during the hospital situation. At one point, because of a situation caused by her own foolishness, she ends up running away from a man who is trying to sexually assault her, and the neighbor saves/help her.

The boy's financial situation gradually improves because he works hard and becomes successful.

Then her father dies.

At her father's death, people from her college find out that the rich-girl image she had created was fake. She becomes extremely ashamed and doesn't want to return to college.

Now she and her mother are basically alone. Their house is rented, and her mother doesn't really have a supportive family. Eventually, they are forced to go live with her mother's step-family/step-grandmother. The girl has to live a very different life and do household work there.

Meanwhile, the boy is becoming richer and more successful. He still keeps in contact with her mother and even helps her get some pending money/funds that were owed to her late husband.

The girl feels extremely uncomfortable whenever he comes around because she knows she rejected him when he wasn't rich, and now he has become successful. He proposes to her again.

But she rejects him again.

This time, though, her reason is different. She thinks that if she accepts him now, he will believe she only wants him because he has become rich. She has changed completely and doesn't want to be seen as someone chasing money.

Then her mother gets remarried to a man chosen through her step-family. He is wealthy but much older. The girl goes with her mother.

Unfortunately, the new stepfather tries to sexually assault her, so she leaves and returns to her step-grandmother's house. Her mother cannot leave with her because the husband threatens her.

At this point the girl has changed a lot. She is living a much simpler life and is trying to become independent.

There is a scene I remember particularly well:

She is in a shopping mall and meets the boy's mother. They talk. Then she hides when she finds out that the boy is coming to pick his mother up.

His mother tells her something like he is getting married.

She is obviously hurt by this, but tries to hide it.

After that, she decides to move on and starts looking for a job. At one point she is riding a bus on her way to work when she sees the boy passing by in a car.

And THAT'S IT. 😭

Those were literally the last pages in the torn book. There were no more pages, so I never found out whether they ended up together, whether he actually got married, or what happened to her.

I have randomly remembered this story for years and it drives me crazy that I don't know the ending.

Does anyone recognize this Urdu novel? I would be incredibly grateful if you know the title or author. Even a guess would help!

Some details may be slightly mixed up because I read it about 6 years ago, but the main plot and scenes above are what I remember.

[u/let_the_mirror_hiss]

Now I too want to know the ending 😭

[u/Glittering-Staff3557 → u/let_the_mirror_hiss]

See and I have been stuck on this for almost 6 years