❝Mummy, meri shaadi karvado.❞ Aditya Shrivastava had lived half of his life third-wheeling his friends and their partners. While they went on dates, he was debugging a hundred lines of code. While they got married, he was breaking sweat for an early promotion. Now they're all happy and settled, and he can't help but envy them. Getting a girl on his own was an impossible feat to achieve for Aditya. He couldn't even keep a stable eye contact with people of the opposite gender. Hence, he heavily relied on his mother to get him hitched. He was desperate for a life like his settled friends, unaware there's more to a relationship than book-y romance and cuddle nights. And when he crosses paths with Priya Mathur, the elder sister of the first potential bride he wishes to meet, his life goes spiralling in a whirlwind of sweet and sour love he hadn't expected himself to fall for. Cover credit: @ mystwhizzpuzz on IG

Love shouldn't hurt. But sometimes, it does. When two broken souls collide, affection becomes obsession, trust becomes betrayal, and every moment together is both intoxicating and toxic. Trigger Warning: This story includes references to self-harm, addiction, and mature situations intended for adult readers. - story by @with_love_Anu ❤️

You have all read this before: a rich, cold boss meets a young, hopeful employee....Contract marriage.... Slow burn.... You know the drill. This is not that story. This is my take on an overused genre but stripped of the glamour and clichés, and rebuilt from the ground up with raw, human feeling.Forget the flawless billionaire and the damsel in distress. Meet two erred humans: a man so hollowed by his own success that he is bargaining for his family's return and reclaiming his ancestral property and a woman whose ambition is both her greatest strength and her most vulnerable wound... ...He was supposed to be using her to rebuild his past and reclaim his fortune. She was supposed to be using him to build her dreams . But does life work like that? Can human being really plan their fate? In the fragile ecosystem they built in the basis of transactions,a dangerous feeling forced them to question whether the prize they had been fighting for was the one they truly needed? Their contract was clear from the beginning but their hearts had no clues that it was A Risky pact.

He promised her father he will take care of her if anything happens to him. Now it was time to fill that promise but what he didn't expect was that little girl who use to follow him everywhere has grown into beautiful and mannered woman. He let his selfish desires take over and married her. Make her his. When he already was betrothed to someone else

Enemies to lovers "Apna muh band rakho karo mere samne because it's fucking infuriating." He slammed her back against desk. She hissed in pain immediately gripping wooden desk between her fist and pressing herself into it because he was leaning closer her face more. Extremely close more than her liking "Toh mat kiya karen mere sath baat I don't ask to speak to me." She spoke bluntly avoid any eye-contact with him "And you wonder why your father left." His harsh words made her snap head at him. He didn't move his face and he could see hurt his words has caused in her eyes but he was arrogant enough to not care about it "You deserve it-" He was cut off by slap landing on his right cheek His head tilted and he stayed in that position for seconds processing what she just did. His eyes darken and rage build inside him. There was no regret in her eyes, he has been nothing but asshole to her ever since she come to this college. After whatever he has done to her this slap wasn't even big deal- She wide her eyes when he slammed his lips against hers. She froze for second

A story about unconventional people. People who fail at normal. People who are untamed and wild. A story about how the conventional world is not for people who fail at normal.

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When two souls meet, who have had different worlds all their lives but right after stumbling upon each other realize, how this was the home they were longing for all along but what happens when that home is supposed to be abandoned at one point? What would they do when they know they will have to let go of this love, of this belonging?

Before you start this story, I must admit that this is not a love story. While the love-story is at the core of the story, it's not what drives it. "The bias" is a story exploring themes important to most of the women. A few things in the story could trigger old wounds/ fears. The male lead in the story is not a saviour, he doesn't rescue the woman and neither does she need it. While the male lead himself goes on a life altering journey, it's the female lead whose story would trigger you, make you restless, uncomfortable, bring forth your worst memories and maybe scare you as well. ( It's not a horror story as well) . It is a long journey full of questions, hope, hopelessness, fear , anger, resentment, fight and defeat. It's a story where the system fails you, clips your wings and yet doesn't let you shed a tear. The story would choke you at times, maybe you would want to keep the story away. And maybe you would calm your mind saying that this is just a story and it's not real, while your head would keep thinking of the real people the story happens to. It is my attempt to raise awareness, maybe this story would make someone share their story, or see things better. Maybe this story would help save at least a single person. Maybe. And I hope so. I hope that by the end of this story you and I are a different person, who knows a little more and who can do the world a little better. And save a life.