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Take Your Time by SiempreHamilton
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Fourteen-year-old Veridi Fontaine-Lekas has always known how to take care of herself. New York City is loud, complicated, and far too big-but she's learned how to navigate it. With her twin sister Silvie beside her, Veridi is convinced she doesn't need much else. Then a chance encounter changes everything. Suddenly, the world Veridi has only ever watched from the audience feels dangerously close, and she finds herself surrounded by people she never expected to matter. But family isn't always something you're born into. Sometimes, it's something you find when you aren't looking. And sometimes, learning how to belong means learning that you don't have to do everything alone.
Married Roommates by StoriesbyAriin
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People do change-but the best parts of them can remain. A government job? Checked. A life free from the suffocating expectations of a traditional marriage? Working on it. Tired of the endless emotional warfare at home, Aditi decides to play the system. She proposes a fake marriage to her old friend and crush-a guy who is facing the exact same parental pressure and seems perfectly content to live a detached, carefree life. The agreement is simple: Live as roommates. Never try to control eachother. Aditi thinks she's found the ultimate loophole to protect her independence. But as the lines between fake vows and real proximity begin to blur, she realises that it's not that fake afterall. Aditi is about to learn that time and distance might alter a person's surface, but people do change-and the best parts of them remain. Now, she just has to figure out who her husband really is. Rankings🏆 07/08/2026 #1 in Self love #1 in independent
MADDY by LostBratGirl
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From a highschool student to the biggest stages in the world. From gated mansions and private school to dirty bathrooms. Maddy's life have gone through every phase of happiness and despair. And with success the lines between who you are and how you think you should be blur, then you turn from someone with an identity to someone who is lost searching for one. What happens when every dream turns into a nightmare, every success is followed by a failure, and when everytime you get up, life knocks you down. At what point you start blaming yourself and not your fate. "Maddy is every label's dream, but she is every label's nightmare"
The Choice Was Already Made by aishwaryaverya
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Ashwika Singhania is a girl who sees marriage as an escape from her family who ever allowed her to see dreams. Veer Raghuwanshi is a man who sees marriage as an unnecessary burden and chaos. But destiny plans to bind them together not by love but by something deeper. One marriage. Two souls. Will they find comfort in each other?
Familiar Strangers by WovenWritess
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Ayansh Arya was never the kind of man who fell in love overnight. To him, love was never a feeling that hit all at once, it was a decision he kept making, quietly, every single day, without expecting anything back. So when his family arranged his marriage to Shagun Mehra, he didn't wait for her to catch up. He just started showing up for her, in his own steady, unhurried way. Shagun stopped believing in love a long time ago. She's the kind of woman who laughs the loudest in any room and means every bit of it, but the moment it comes to her own heart, she shuts every door before anyone can even knock. This marriage is something she's doing for her family, not for herself. She isn't here to fall for anyone. But Ayansh doesn't push. Doesn't demand anything from her. He just pays attention, notices things about her before she's said a word, understands her in ways that unsettle her more than they should. And little by little, despite every wall she's spent years building, Shagun starts to feel something she swore she'd never let herself feel again. Maybe love doesn't always arrive as a stranger asking to be let in. Sometimes it's already there, patient and quiet, waiting for you to finally see it.
The Villain's Last Deal by AlleyB255
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Mark Harold's goals are crystal clear: build a final boss for his company's MMO. Make the monster last long enough to keep players hooked. Keep his job as a game designer. He's been laser-focused on it. So focused that he became an NPC, a non-player character, to everyone around him: a loser to his boss, an outsider to his coworkers, a joke to the player community, and a son his mother sometimes forgets she has. But all of it turns to dust the moment he wakes up inside the very game he built, as the final boss. Not just him. His coworkers, his family, the entire city are pulled in too. Now they're heroes. The narrator. NPCs. That's when they realize: their goals, their motivations, their conflicts, their feelings, none of it is real. The lives they thought they had are nothing but a hallucination. Even they aren't who they believed they were. Now, trapped in endless loops of battle, pain, breakdown, and death, Mark and his people face a choice: stay bound to their new roles and endure the torment forever, or get deleted as a bug and die for good. Or strike a deal with the real boss, one that comes at a price they might not all be able to pay. One final ending. One choice. One villain's last deal.
Just Say Who by GLaC1991
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In 1975 Brooklyn, Jimmy needs money badly. When his gangster boss offers five hundred dollars to kill a thief, Jimmy accepts. But knowing who to kill is only the beginning.
When Silence Chose Him by velvetnoir49
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"Everyone fell for him. He fell for the only girl who never looked his way." Aryaman Roy was the boy every girl admired. Popular, respected, and the heir to Roy Industries, he had never known what it felt like to be ignored. Until he met Natasha Khurana. A quiet first-year university student who cared more about her books than popularity. While everyone chased Aryaman's attention, Natasha never even turned to look at him. What began as curiosity slowly turned into friendship. Friendship became comfort. Comfort became love. But love is never easy. Between anonymous love letters, misunderstandings, jealousy, unforgettable memories, and the countless moments that changed their lives, two completely different worlds slowly found their way to each other. Inspired by real-life experiences, this story has changed names and certain details to protect the privacy of those involved while preserving the emotions and memories that inspired it. Sometimes... The greatest love stories don't begin with love. They begin with silence.
| MARRIAGE FIRST, LOVE LATER | by teekhitales
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"Some love stories don't begin with confessions. Some begin with silence, missed chances, and two people pretending they never cared." ------------ She was supposed to marry someone else... but destiny made her his wife instead. 🤍 A soft-hearted girl. A dangerously calm man. And a marriage neither of them expected. Avantika Rathore & Avyukt Vardan #SlowBurn #ArrangedMarriage #WattpadRomance
✨️The Secret of Beautiful Helen✨️ by Marialenaliva
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Faithful translation in English: "Eleni carries a secret within her. Every day she wakes up melancholic, struggling with feelings she cannot easily let go of. Until a gift, a dedication, and a professor who marked her life open the path for her to rediscover what it means to live, to love, and to learn. A story about melancholy, the contradictions of the soul, and the small dedications that change everything. Because the secret of Beautiful Eleni... may be closer than you think."