At her brother Neev’s chaotic, auntie-filled Indian wedding, YN unexpectedly reunites with Akul—her childhood friend and her brother’s best friend, now all grown up and freshly out of med school. Their reunion is awkward, tense, and a little too familiar. Before they can process it, meddling aunties immediately try to set them up, forcing them into a reluctant “temporary alliance” just to survive the wedding—unaware that old feelings and new chemistry might make things a lot more complicated.
Everyone thinks they know the people they’ve grown up with. Y/N Rao certainly thinks she knows Kailash Shukla. He’s her older brother’s best friend. The unofficial son of her parents’ closest friends. The man who’s been at every birthday, every Diwali, every family vacation for as long as she can remember. So when they unknowingly sign up for Project Ten, an exclusive matchmaking experiment that pairs participants for ten carefully curated dates, they’re both convinced there’s been a mistake. But the algorithm disagrees. Forced to spend ten dates together before making one final decision, Y/N and Kailash begin to see each other beyond the labels they’ve always worn. What starts as awkward familiarity slowly becomes late-night conversations, quiet acts of care, and the unsettling realization that maybe the right person wasn’t someone new at all. As the final date approaches, they’ll have to answer one question separately: Walk away as family friends… or take a chance on forever? A heartwarming friends-to-lovers romance about timing, family, and discovering that sometimes the love you’ve been searching for has been beside you all along.
She planned her future too carefully to look back. He’s the burnt-out golden boy everyone trusts but no one really sees. When their families circulate their biodatas and call it a “perfect match,” they agree to shut it down—until old history starts slipping through the cracks of every forced conversation.
You move into your brother’s best friend’s apartment expecting six quiet weeks. But Archer isn’t the same boy you remember—he’s distant, exhausted, and impossible to read. And the more you try to stay out of his life, the more you realize something doesn’t add up. Because he lets you stay. He remembers things he shouldn’t. And for someone who acts like he feels nothing— He watches you like he never forgot a single thing.
Brothers best friend— Akul— teaches me how to play a video game on his couch while waiting for my brother— ends up touching me, making me grind in him, and ride him
