{ Office romance x Ex-lovers x Slow burn x Second chances } They didn't break up with closure. They broke up with silence. Six months later, the office still remembers them - the pauses, the empty chairs, the things no one asks about. Some stories don't end when people walk away. They just wait. Between routine workdays, forced smiles, and one picnic no one planned for their hearts, two people are pushed into facing what they never finished. This is not a story about falling in love. It's about what lingers after - and what happens when you're forced to look at it.

Every Christmas, Madhu and Tejas return to the same bakery in Elarin. Best friends. Almost lovers. Until this year, when snow, a delayed train, and a promise lead to something neither of them expected.

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗮 ❝𝒃𝒍𝒖𝒆 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒉𝒚𝒑𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊❞ 𝗯𝗼𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗮 ❝𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔❞ 𝗴𝗶𝗿𝗹 ──★ ˙🧷 ̟ !! --------------------- 「 ✦ 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐈 ✦ 」⠀ Ravenford University in Cambridge is owned by the powerful Indian royal family-the Mehrotras'. When 𝙋𝙧𝙖𝙮𝙖𝙣 𝙈𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙧𝙖, a grounded, sharp-witted boxer from Bihar, earns a scholarship to Ravenford, he expects nothing more than a chance to study, fight, and build a better life. What he doesn't expect is 𝙃𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙈𝙚𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙩𝙧𝙖 𓂃۶ৎ He's grumpy but sunshine when it comes to her. She's cold but newly emotional because of him. He falls first, she denies, and heartbreak finds them long before any confession. She teaches him the world he never knew; he makes her crave the homeland she barely remembers. But behind their growing bond, the Mehrotra family is secretly playing games to control power, inheritance, and the future of the university. Heirs and Heartstrings mixes royal college romance, mystery, fun moments, and a rich-girl/poor-boy love story. It is about two people who meet too soon, get hurt too early, but still end up loving each other deeply. --------------------- In Phase I of H&H, you'll get all the heartfelt moments-soft confessions, stolen glances, and the first sparks of a love that quietly grows deeper, like a flame learning how to breathe. But by the end, Phase I becomes the calm before the storm. It sets the stage for a completely opposite Phase II-one built on deception and desire, tangled lies and buried family secrets, where every truth hits like a sudden crack in the glass.

This isn't a book of perfect stories. It's a book of what-ifs, second chances, sleepless nights, and the chaos we call love. Each story is a memory - some lived, some imagined, some haunting. Welcome to 𝐘𝐚𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐢𝐧.

✦𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞✦ ──── ୨୧ ──── ✦ Aryan X Sitara 🧸🍓 She was a 'din bhar tedhi medhi shakale banati rehti hu !' He was a 'mujhe tedhi medhi shakale banane wali ladki bahut pasand hai !' ✦ Ruhaan X Shivani 🧸🍓 She was a 'mujhe chaand bahut pasand hai !' He was a 'aap kaho toh aapke liye le aau?'

★ 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻'𝘁 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁... 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆'𝗿𝗲 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝘁.* A love story written in whispers, in half smiles, in the quiet spaces where words dare not go. It's about a boy who loved too much and a girl who carried the sky in her lungs - fragile, fleeting, yet infinite. Their journey isn't about forever... it's about the beauty of right now. ─── ୨୧ ─── 𝗔𝗜𝗥𝗔 𝗞𝗔𝗦𝗛𝗬𝗔𝗣 The girl with quiet eyes and a smile softer than starlight. Fragile yet brave, she lived tethered to the hiss of her oxygen, carrying constellations in her silence. She found comfort in books, in the glow of fairy lights, in the kind of love that didn't demand too much of her. She never believed she'd become someone's entire world... until he looked at her like she was the universe itself. 𓆩 𓆪 𝗩𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗥𝗢𝗥𝗔 The boy with laughter like sunshine and warmth that could melt walls. A dreamer, a giver, a boy who played life like his favorite song always in rhythm, always in joy. But when he saw her, the world shifted suddenly, every smile, every heartbeat, every dream began and ended with her. He wasn't afraid of her fragility he held it like something sacred. 𓂃 ࣪ ˖ ⛰️ In a world where time slips too fast, their story lingers slow like fading sunsets, unspoken promises, and a love too big for the days they were given. ─── ୨୧ ─── ✦ ˚ 02 ' 🪐 ☆ "Breathless Stars" ☆ Ellie ✎ @the_wtpd_gurly When she was a " इतना न मुझसे तू प्यार बढ़ा " And he was a " इसलिए तुझसे में प्यार करु "

a collection of heartwarming one shots consisting of fuzzy romantic snippets, which can compel you to grab a mug of coffee and enjoy them while sipping the sweetness of the coffee resonating with the moments you read! oh and also, cliché alert! that is because, these snippets have been written to dwell inside those warm fuzzy feelings of cute romance and picture ourselves being the protagonists of the scenes we only read in some stories and wished, how we were those characters!

『 𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐁𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐒』 ──★ A highschool tale of tangled hearts ★── "She never wanted the spotlight, but somehow, it always found her." - Reet "He could bend rules, bend people... but little did he know, one girl would bend his entire world." - Ishaan "She carried storms in silence, but he was the calm that made her want to stay." - Meher "He noticed the little things, and in the quietest ways, he made her feel seen." - Manav ✩°｡⋆⸜ 🎧 ✮ Corridors , scribbled notes, stolen glances, playful fights, and unspoken truths. Where friendship tangles with feelings, and every moment feels like the beginning of a story written in the margins of their notebooks. ✦ ˚ 01 ' 🪐 ☆ "Scribbled Hearts" ☆ - Ellie ✎ @the_wtpd_gurly

He came back to where it all began- where smiles bloomed like spring and love felt endless. Sometimes, even when flowers fade, memories still hold their scent.

𝒔𝒖𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒚𝒂 𝒎𝒂𝒂𝒉𝒊𝒚𝒂, 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒔𝒂 𝒅𝒆 𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒒𝒂𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒔𝒚𝒂𝒉𝒊𝒚𝒂𝒂𝒏 ♫₊˚. ✩｡ 𝐓𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐑𝐚𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝 · the one who doesn't tops report cards, but crafts poems, paint emotions and forgives too easily. she's too pure to be true. 𝐑𝐞𝐡𝐲𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐫𝐚 · he's everything which she's not, the popular sports captain and the rich guy who thinks that his world is limited in academics and sports. A fake relationship. An accident rivalry, and, A bittersweet goodbye no one noticed. ─୨ৎ 𝐒𝐮𝐧 𝐒𝐚𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐲𝐚 · a tale of unspoken feelings and untold love. And if you think it's just soft romance, then baby, you are absofuckinglutely wrong.