BURN LIKE US
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Last published Sat, Aug 30, 2025
🔥 Burn Like Us
by EchoDrafts
Aarya Verma has rules, ranks, and routines. Reyan Malhotra has smirks, sarcasm, and secrets. The only thing they share? A seat in the front row-and an unmatched hatred for each other.
When they're forced to partner for a final-year project, school becomes a battlefield. He challenges her logic. She breaks his ego. Every hallway interaction is a verbal warzone. But beneath the insults, something simmers. Tension sharpens. Glances linger. And what starts as rivalry begins to burn into something neither of them saw coming.
But love never enters quietly.
Enemies. Rivals. Partners. Lovers?
If you thought academic rivalry couldn't set hearts on fire...
Watch them burn.
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