𝙈𝙖𝙞 𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙦 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙝𝙪, 𝙩𝙪𝙟𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙤 𝙟𝙖𝙖𝙮𝙚 𝐀𝐬𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐱 𝐑𝐮𝐚 "I'm obsessed with you, Ashrit. Because love is breathing, it is devotion but obsession? It is losing yourself in it, it is worshiping." ~ Rua Mittal "Saari duniya se ladne wala Ashrit, tumhare saamne jhuk raha hai, Rua." ~ Ashrit Dewan Happy ending

She fell in love with his characters and he fell in love with her. ---- Synopsis Rishit Rathore is Reez - one of the most celebrated contemporary authors in India, known for emotionally devastating fiction and an identity so carefully guarded that his readers have never seen his face. He moves through the world with quiet control, his public persona a carefully maintained mystery. Bhavya Singh is a final-year English student who commutes two hours each way to college by bus. She is a devoted reader of Reez - she owns every book he has written, defends his characters fiercely, and has never once questioned whether the man behind the words might be someone she could actually meet. They meet on a morning bus. Rishit recognises the cover of his own book in her hands. He watches her read. He watches her argue, quietly, with his choices. Somewhere between her murmured conviction that his heroine could have been saved and the moment she steps off at her stop without ever looking up, something in him shifts.