15 Most-Read Stories In India In 2021
The list is sorted by member reading time, a great ¡°the proof is in the pudding¡± kind of metric. Arguably, Wattpad readers found these stories the most interesting because they spent the most time actually reading them.
Each passing year always seems more eventful than the last, but that¡¯s especially true for the past 365 days of 2020-2021.
As the year comes to a close, here take a look back at the best stories on the Wattpad that made the biggest impression on our readers¡ªand add them to your reading list if you haven't dug into them yet. These fictional stories and poetry deepened our understanding, ignited our curiosity and helped us escape.
1. After
After
Tessa Young is an 18-year-old college student with a simple life, excellent grades, and a sweet boyfriend. She always has things planned out ahead of time, until she meets a rude boy named Hardin, with too many tattoos and piercings who shatters her plans.
2. His Replaced Bride
His Replaced Bride
Marriage is one of the greatest blessings in life, and choosing your spouse is one of the most important decisions you will ever make. But not her Samaira, she never wanted to marry like that. She wanted to achieve something first. She wanted to become a doctor but her all dreams got broken the day, when her uncle asked her to do something in return for his year's love, he had given to her. She could not refuse.
Unwillingly she becomes his replaced bride. Will they ever find their soulmate in each other? Join their journey of trust, respect, compatibility and love.
3. After 2
After 2
A sequel of After and read as many as 527 million times, the story is also turned into a movie on Netflix. The plot moves as Tessa and Hardin's roller-coaster-like relationship. Tessa finds herself struggling with her complicated relationship with Hardin; she faces a dilemma that could change their lives forever.
4. After 3
After 3
In the third story in the series, Tessa and Hardin's relationship has taken several turns and things certainly won't be the same after everything that went down in the sequel. But with their futures uncertain, things are certainly just getting started for this couple.
5. Hired To Love
Hired To Love
Her brother is in jail and she'll take up any job to raise money to free him. Henley starts dating millionaire Bennett Calloway and makes an unusual deal with him. She gets the money, he gets his mother off his back. But soon, things don't go as she thought they would and now her life could be in danger. Journeying deeper into a world of wealth and conspiracies, Henley is forced to rely on Bennett, though doing so could cost her everything.
6. Storm And Silence
Storm And Silence
"It is your choice," he said, stepping so close to me that our lips were almost touching. "Either do what I say - or get another job." My heart stood still as I gazed up into his deep, dark, dangerous eyes... In a world where women's only role in life is to sit at home and look pretty, Lilly is determined to fight for her freedom. There's only one problem: a powerful man blocking her way.
Winner of People's Choice Award in the Wattys 2015, the story is a perfect amalgamation of romance, adventure and humour.
7. Entangled
Entangled
Ariana Jones is a sweet, innocent, and smart girl who has been battling a lot of issues all her life. She is broken and wants love, care, and respect, but all she has is hope... the hope of receiving what she hasn't ever even seen a bit. But her hopes crumbled down when she was told to marry a man whom she never met before.
Xavier knight has it all that she was yearning for. He has everything he wants. But the only thing he didn't want at the moment was to be blackmailed into a marriage by his own parents. He's judgemental but he isn't disrespectful. Let's look into the journey of a girl who has nothing but the hope of living a peaceful life.
8. Blood Ink
Blood Ink
"That's my tattoo, Y/N, on your body. You know exactly what that means."
A tattoo artist is brutally murdered after a heist gone bad and gets revenge in a way no one sees coming.
9. Duplicity
Duplicity
Aven Brooks is hired to take pictures for the world-renown punk rock band known today as Duplicity; hoping the experience gets her into her most elite-dreamed university. However, when her lenses accidentally capture more than just cheeky sound checks and performances, she comes to a horrifying discovery that Duplicity is anything but a band.
Appalled and frightened, Aven feels trapped in the world of secrets and glamour.
10. Deeper
Deeper
"I thought that my brother was the hottest guy in school, but as soon as I step into my university life, I realize how wrong I was. Meet Vaughn Cooper, his best friend.
The guy is the epitome of every girl's dream. Godlike handsome. The quarterback. He's got the looks, and he's got the brain.
How could a guy who worked that hard and deserves nothing more but adoration be labelled as a bad boy? Yeah, the answer is simple. The moment we lock eyes, I realize something as I stare into those piercing, amber orbs. He's not every girl's dream. He's every girl's nightmare. In my case, MY nightmare."
11. His Not So Beautiful Wife
His Not So Beautiful Wife
The youngest billionaire in town with the looks of Adonis and everything at his feet desired just one thing more in life.
His perfect match.
He wished for a wife whose beauty would turn heads, a smile that would light up his world and a figure which would curve perfectly under his fingers. A beauty who spoke with etiquette and made him proud.
But he got her
A mediocre girl with average looks, a fierce personality and no curves.
Outspoken and downright rude.
She was everything he didn't want his wife to be like.
12. Lilah
Lilah
He'd never met someone with such a bubbly personality. Not to mention the wildness and odd phrases she'd say every five minutes. He hates it. He hates how he can't stay away from it. He hates what she does to him; it's not like him to chase after some girl.
She gets under his skin like no other. She'd never met someone with such a bad attitude. He's ill-mannered and menacing.
Considering it all, she can't help but feel the attraction toward him. Maybe it's the tattoos on his arm that gets her attention. Or maybe it's because she can tell there's hope for good under his rough exterior. And she's about to find that, whether he likes it or not. It's no secret that the two of them are complete and total opposites.
13. Soft Pillows
Soft Pillows
Atharva Saxena is a 28-year-old renowned billionaire but not your pampered rich man who is handed everything on a silver platter. He has more to himself than he lets on, his brutal reality hidden under his facade, all of it after surviving a traumatic experience that is darker than his black custom suits and haunts him every day. He doesn't expect anything more from life, having seen enough, but life has plans for him, one that involves a specific woman who may or may not change him completely.
Will she be able to penetrate her way into his heart and slip under his skin?
14. Ice Cream, Teasing And Awkward Situations
Ice Cream, Teasing And Awkward Situations
This is an adorable story that made it to the top ranks of Wattpad in the past couple of months. This teen fiction is about a girl named Mia and her bizarre relationship with a cute¡ªbut problematic¡ªboy named Ethan. If you're looking for a hilarious, light-hearted teen-fiction book, with a whole load of embarrassing situations, this is the read for you.
15. A Trade Of Hearts
A Trade Of Hearts
Vanessa Catherine Hudson has survived the test of time and after three long years, returned to her home, New York. With just one dream, to be the CEO of Hudson Enterprises. Her life changes when she meets a haughty 'playboy billionaire' who is a rich brat with his father's massive business empire.
So what happens when Vanessa decides to put the haughty 'playboy billionaire' in his place? After all, what can go wrong... ...except everything?
(This story is a part of #StoryCollective, an Indiatimes and Wattpad initiative to encourage storytelling and provide a platform for this generation to meet in a story.)
Senior Writer at Indiatimes. She writes on Lifestyle, fashion, beauty, astrology and health.
