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In a world where marriages are decided by families and feelings are expected to follow later, Diya Ahuja steps into matrimony with quiet acceptance. Raised in a middle-class home rooted in values, she believes love is something built with time, patience, and effort.
Yug Verma has learned to be careful with emotions. Having seen a marriage fall apart within his own family, he trusts responsibility more than romance, stability more than promises.
Their marriage is purely arranged.
No grand expectations.
No dramatic love at first sight.
Just two strangers tied together by fate and families.
What Diya doesn't know is that Yug has been a familiar presence in her life for years, the childhood best friend of her elder brother. Yet, in all that time, they never truly saw each other.
After marriage, life unfolds quietly shared routines, unspoken adjustments, small acts of care, and long silences that slowly begin to mean something. As Diya learns to balance her own desires with family expectations, and Yug confronts his fear of emotional vulnerability, their relationship is tested not by conflict, but by distance.
Because sometimes, love doesn't arrive loudly.
It grows softly
in everyday moments,
in mutual respect,
in choosing each other, again and again.
A story of pure arranged marriage, middle-class realism, and a slow-burn romance where love is not demanded... it is discovered.
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