Just an Intern?

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SHUBMAN GILL

Shubman is not impressed. With anything. Or anyone.

He clawed his way up the ladder through excellence, discipline, and pure intolerance for mediocrity. He's seen too many spoiled rich boys think the corporate world is just another playground. So when Ishan stumbles in—Shubman instantly writes him off.

He hates how the kid always has something to say. Hates that he's kind of funny. Hates that he laughs like the world hasn't chewed him up yet. And he especially hates that he keeps thinking about him long after the meetings end.

But here's the thing: Shubman knows power. He did not grow up with a golden spoon, He earned it. And something about Ishan... doesn't add up. His confidence seems rehearsed. His silences are a little too practiced. And why the hell is Hardik Pandya always covering for him? Is he jealous? No, It's just annoying that Hardik interferes between them. That's what Shubman keeps telling to himself.

Shubman doesn't trust easily—Consider love as a mere distraction. But Does Ishan manage to break the walls, He has made around himself and enter his heart?

ISHAN KOHLI

Everyone who knows Ishan Kohli know that he is the son of Virat Kohli, born with more privilege than some people see in three lifetimes. What they don't know? He hates it. He hates the way people bow before his last name, how teachers overlooked his mistakes, how friends morphed into fans the second they found out who his father was.

He's tired—of being seen as a symbol, a name, a ticket. That's why, for once, he Hides. He steps into his father's office as an intern, no last name, no legacy. Just Ishan.

But Still at the end of the day he is treated like a prince and Shubman Gill's side-eyes make him feel like he's just another employee, He wants this, He wants to show this to himself that he can do something for himself, Without the damn surname. He wants this life. Even if he has to clean up spilled coffee and get ignored in meetings. For once, he wants to earn something that's his.

But the more he wants to be seen as a man with no label... the harder it gets to hide the truth.

ISHMAN

VIRUSHKA

VIRAT KOHLI 

To the world, he's a lion—powerful, fearless, untouchable.

To his son, he's a hero.

Virat built his empire brick by brick, blood and sweat and broken trust and promises. But in trying to protect Ishan, maybe he went too far. Maybe he wrapped him in silk when the boy needed scars. Now, all he can do is watch as Ishan steps into his own battle, alone. He is worried, But beyond proud.

He lets him go—not because he wants to—but because he has to.

He watches. Proud. Terrified. Quietly cheering from the shadows, while pretending he's not checking the intern evaluations every Friday night with a racing heartbeat.

ANUSHKA SHARMA

Anushka has always been the calm between Virat's storms.

She's seen Ishan's loneliness for years. She's watched him laugh a little too hard around guests, Never getting friends home, Does not want to go out to chill. And when he said he wanted to intern anonymously, she didn't argue—just hugged him tighter that night.

She knows the power of a name. But more than that, she knows the price. And she'll do whatever it takes to make sure her son finds his voice—not his father's echo.

She walks through boardrooms like she owns them ( she does), and yet it's in her protectiveness  you see her real power.

She still calls Hardik at odd hours to ask how Ishan's doing. She reads between the lines in every update. She's the softest thing he knows—but never a pushover. She's the woman who'll burn the world down for her son, and still apologize to the ashes.

Anushka is the reason Ishan still believes in unconditional love, even when the world only showed him transactional ones.

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HARDIK PANDYA

He's the man in the backseat who sees everything. Virat may run the empire, but Hardik? He knows how to break the rules and still win.

Best friend, co-owner, Everyone thinks Hardik's just the flashy one—loud suits, louder opinions—but that's exactly how he likes it. He's the devil in Versace, slipping past drama and quietly fixing what no one else notices.

He's the only one who knows Ishan's secret. He's always been closer to Ishan than most, the one who cracked his sarcasm, who knew when the boy was hurt, even behind the cocky smirks.

And he keeps that secret like it's sacred. Because he knows how cruel this world can be to someone trying to become more than their last name.

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This is it

I hope you all give me some support

Special mention to @justdelusional1911_ for these aesthetics and the cover.

Also for helping me out to write this. Love you