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The Quiet Things We Keep
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    Time 1h 54m
Ongoing, First published Dec 21, 2025
Mature
3 new parts
Dev Chaudhary has everything people admire.
A successful career. 
Respect. 
A life that seems enviable from outside.

What no one sees is how exhausted he is from holding it all together. Tired of carrying the world on his shoulders.

Ahaana Sethi enters his life, disrupting the rhythm of his usual tedious life. 
A hardworking sweetheart who brings pastries on ordinary mornings.

Between unspoken disappointments, late nights at the office, and understanding each other beyond words, two people learn what it means to be seen without asking to be saved. 

This is a story about how love happens in silence. 
Calm amidst the chaos, they find each other.
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