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-alisha  and  mashal  were  step  sisters  , also  their  mothers  were  sisters  and  so  they  were  cousins  too, yet   mashal  was  rejected  by  salar  just  a  couple  of  days  before  their  marriage, she  had  never  been in love  with him, but  arranged  by  her  parents  mashal  had  obediently  agreed, but  salar  married  alisha  humilaiating  mashal  who  left  kerachi  to  a  remote  town abtabaad  where  winters  were  harsh  and  she  was  alone  and  lonely  but  her  job  kept  her  busy  till she  met  alyan and  khazar  -whose  rich  family  background  and  young  widower status   made  him a  highly  sought  after  catch  specially  by  calculating  women like  lily  and  tanya  who  used  the  little  boy  as  their  social  ladder  to  reach  the  position of  emotional  throne  in the  family  of  the  landlords,  thinking  that  mashal  was  also  like  one  of  the  hookers  khazar   taunts  her  , when he  relaises  his  mistake  and  sees  she  was  the  one  engaged  to  be  married  to  salar  whose  marriage  he  had  attended  and  ahmer  ali  mashal  and  alisha"s  father  was  his  close  acquaintance   and  met  regularly  everytime  khazar  was  in kerachi, brings  them emotionally  closer, mashal  was  upset  to know  salar  and  alisha  were  soonafter  their  farce  of  a  wedding  had  separated, though  father  had  sent  alisha  back  , allowing  her  entry  as  salar"s  wife  not  as  a  angry  woman  ,  finally  what  happens  on the  new  year  eve  changes  the  whole  world  for  mashal , life  for  her  proves   what  is  lost  is  also  found