He promised to be the perfect gentleman. She promised to ruin him. Shreyash is the ultimate gentleman every parent wants. He is polite, intelligent, respectful, and blushes very easily. Back in college, he was the untouchable, brilliant senior and also Adhira's brother's best friend. Now, he's Adhira's husband, and he is determined to treat her with the utmost patience, care, and gentlemanly restraint. There's just one problem, Adhira is determined to be a thorn in his gentlemanly ways. Stubborn, demanding, and utterly unapologetic, Adhira knows exactly what she wants. And what she wants is for her shy, tightly wound husband to finally snap. From deliberate teasing under the family dining table to cornering him against locked bedroom doors, she is on a relentless, sensual mission to completely shatter his polite boundaries. As Adhira pushes him closer and closer to the edge, and once the senior finally surrenders control... there is no going back. Tropes: Brother's best friend Popular girl x Smart Topper guy Badgirl x Goodboy (in bed) Virgin x Virgin

Famed cricketer Aaban Khan is in need of a quick reputation fix after pictures of him dancing in a club with a girl go viral over the internet, followed by titles like womanizer, playboy, and a disgrace-nasty but not entirely false. When his trusted publicist suggests he just get married, he shuts down the idea in a flash...until his mother gives him an ultimatum: quit cricket or settle down. With an obvious answer in his mind, he ends up blurting out another lie about already being interested in a girl. And Manha is here to fill in the role. *** Manha Amin-sweet, sassy, and Aaban's saviour (though he certainly doesn't think that) is caught off-guard when her mother accepts her birthday invitation after three years of turning her down. However, Zoelle isn't visiting out of the kindness of her heart, or out of love for her daughter; she has a perfectly devised plan that she dumps on Manha quicker than the girl can blink. Manha, naïvely, finds herself agreeing to get married to her mother's client after she lays out the perfect fairy tale filled with love and all things nice. Unfortunately for Manha, the fairytale couldn't be farther from the truth. ***Rated R due to mature content. All copyrights belong to StoriesByZainab.***

| Completed in Scrollstck | Arranged marriages: the ultimate gamble where your happily-ever-after hinges on a profile pic and a painfully dull bio. Scary, right? For thirty-one-year-old Srinidhi Shankaran, though, love is a luxury she can't afford. Society's already slapped the "expired" tag on her, so she ditches the romance circus altogether. Instead, she dives headfirst into the chaotic world of matrimonial websites, armed with nothing but determination and a ticking clock. After facing rejection from enough grooms to make her question her existence, she finally stumbles upon one who agrees to marry her. Will she settle for her plain, uneventful life of companionship or will her husband, Mr. Aneesh Muralidharan, stir up those inconvenient, unwelcome emotions people call "love"? ------ Intended for mature readers, rated R (18+) for the subjects dealing with strong language and sexual content. ------ One of the standalone stories from the 'Mad Love' series. ------ [Updated every Saturday; Faster updates in Scrollstck] [Third Person Limited + Omniscient Narration] [Unedited First Draft] [Full-Length Novel, Word Count Approx. 250K to 300K] ----- © 2025 Suganthii Media attached to this story belong to their rightful owners and there is no violation of copyrights.

❀Contract Marriage❀ For Shravani Kamat, a cynical and grumpy bank manager, marriage is a cage that strips women of their freedom. For Ashutosh Dessai, a cheerful software engineer, romance is dead after his girlfriend of seven years cheated on him. They don't want love, but the parental pressure to settle down has become unbearable. So, they strike a secret deal: get married, live in separate bedrooms, never interfere in each other's lives, and quietly divorce after exactly one year. When the 365 days are up, will they be able to sign the divorce papers and walk away, or will they realize that the perfect partner was right across the hallway all along? ❀❀❀❀❀ The story will contain three Pov's - Ashutosh, Shravani and Author. Do give this story a try. At least read 10 to 15 chapters to form an opinion about the story. ❀❀❀❀❀ Started ~ 7th May 2026 Ended ~

Raina has seen heartbreak up close. She has felt the pain of it once in her life and had sworn to never do love again. But, yet again, what's life if it doesn't flip your plans upside down? Cut to a stranger in her house, Vinay, the supposed family friend that her parents claim she's met once in her childhood and someone who will be staying over for the entire month that she's back home for. He's charming, infuriating, far too comfortable in her space, and somehow always finds a way to get under her skin. One summer vacation. Two strangers sharing one home. What could go wrong?

"I am a very petty human being." "You are a very pretty human being." "I said petty." "And I said pretty." -- In which a wife perfects the art of nonchalance while her husband perfects the art of simping. -- (Extended Description Inside) - (Updates on Tuesdays and Saturdays)

Sandhya Sandhya, the youngest of her family, is a vibrant spirit, full of life and unspoken dreams. Despite her outward cheerfulness, she has learned to stay quiet in the face of familial expectations, choosing silence to maintain peace in a home that never fully understands her. Her accomplishments, though significant, go unnoticed, and her older sister's achievements often overshadow her. Sandhya, however, harbors a secret: a part of her soul that flourishes in ways no one knows. To escape the suffocating grip of her family, she agrees to a marriage of convenience, not seeking love, but the freedom to live as she chooses. Arjun Arjun, the eldest son in a family with expectations as high as the mountains, has always been the dutiful one. Pressured to follow a path that never felt his own, he's a doctor not by choice, but by duty. In his heart, he longs for a partner, someone with whom he can share the quiet moments and the wild dreams, someone who will choose him just as he chooses them. When he marries Sandhya, he hopes for more: an emotional connection, a bond that goes beyond the surface. Yet, despite their physical closeness, something feels missing, a distance he can't bridge. The Love That Took Its Time Two souls, each running from something they can't face alone. Sandhya's world is a quiet one, built on layers of unspoken truths and dreams left hidden. Arjun's world is one of unrelenting expectations and a life he never chose. When they marry, neither expects the other to change everything. But in the stillness of their shared space, they discover that sometimes, the quietest moments are the loudest. Their journey won't be easy, but in the places they never thought to look, they find something unexpected, something that was always there, waiting to be uncovered. In a marriage built on silence, can they find the voice to truly understand each other? Or will they remain strangers, even in love?

They say we have the perfect life. A powerful surgeon. A respected doctor. A beautiful home. A child. And a marriage everyone admires. Our marriage was never built on love. It started with a mistake. However I wouldn't dare to call our son a mistake... We live together. We share a life. But we are not really together. He is cold, distant, and always in control. Everyone respects him. Everyone admires him. Even me. But he has never loved me. And sometimes... I wonder if he ever will.

Alaika Roy travels to India every two years, but this time, her perspective is different. A place once home is now nothing but another foreign land to navigate. Determined to survive the holidays, she starts counting down the days until she can return to the life she's built in Norway. Then she meets Farhan Mehta. Captain of the local cricket team, Farhan seems to know everyone, and somehow, everyone knows him. Confident, infuriating, and impossible to avoid, he's everything Alaika thinks she can't stand. Yet as days slip away, their constant bickering turns into unexpected side quests, shared sentiments and an unforgettable summer. For the first time, she stops counting her days. For the first time, she doesn't want summer to end.

Sometimes, it doesn't start with something big. No dramatic moments. No sudden realization. Just a classroom. A question asked at the wrong time. An answer given a little too sharply. A glance that lasts a second longer than it should. And something shifts. It's subtle at first. Almost unnoticeable. Until it isn't. Because what begins as defiance... slowly turns into attention. What feels like irritation... starts resembling something else. And somewhere between lectures, silence, and unspoken tension, rules stop feeling as important as they once did. They both knew where the line was. The problem was, Neither of them realized when they had already crossed it.