Wang Li Xun, the Crown Prince, goes out hunting for the Celestial Flower to save his mother from a terminal illness. When he nearly dies from the attack of a mythical beast, he is saved by a mysterious boy who lives in the mountains. To repay his kindness, Li Xun offers the boy a place to stay in his royal palace and employs him to be his personal bodyguard. But little does he know that he has brought home a girl instead. Completed: 4/2/2020 (Word count: 60,000 - 70,000) Highest rankings: #1 in Historical Fiction #1 in Romance #5 in Diverse Lit Featured on Wattpad || Community Curator: @KateLorraine - May 2022 Featured on Wattpad || Lunar New Year - February 2022 Featured on WattpadAsianFantasy || Asian Fantasy Recommendations - September 2021 Featured on Wattpad || Stories of Trailblazing Asian Characters - May 2021 ========================================== Copyright © 2019-2023 by Kim_Knights

ONLINE IS SO OVERRATED. To escape the prison-like discipline of Camp Unplugged, Nathaniel "Nate" Policarpio makes a secret call to his Korean half-brother and K-pop star Kim Ji-hoon, a.k.a. Shadow. Shadow comes to his rescue and the two escape on a motorcycle while being pursued by camp counsellor Trinidad "Miss Perfect" Blanca. Nate and Shadow get into an accident and Shadow dies while Nate becomes a quadriplegic. Kate Lapuz is still searching for her virtual boyfriend Ecto. He deleted his avatar after making a promise to Kate's mom to stay away from her daughter. Kate believes Ecto still exists and is wandering the Internet without a home.

*Wattys 2018 Winner / Hidden Gems* CREATE YOUR OWN MR. RIGHT Weeks before Valentine's, seventeen-year-old Kate Lapuz goes through her first ever breakup, but soon she stumbles upon a mysterious new app called My Dream Boyfriend, an AI chatbot that has the ability to understand human feelings. Casually, she participates in the app's trial run but finds herself immersed in the empathic conversations with her customizable virtual boyfriend, Ecto. In a society both connected and alienated by technology, Kate suspects an actual secret admirer is behind Ecto. Could it be the work of the techie student council president Dion or has Kate really found her soulmate in bits of computer code? She decides to get to the bottom of the cutting-edge app. Her search for Ecto's real identity leads Kate to prom, where absolute knowledge comes with a very steep price.

THEIR LOVE WILL BREAK ALL THE RULES. Weeks after the apocalyptic fight with her ex Josh that saw to the destruction of her phone and the severance of her one and only link to Ecto, Kate finally confesses to her ma about the true events of that fateful prom night. Her digital boyfriend Ecto is still MIA and, unbeknown to her, trapped inside an RPG. The next thing she knows, Kate is sent to an Internet addiction rehab facility called Camp Unplugged. There, she meets all sorts of characters: Ms Blanca a.k.a. Ms Perfect: the perfectionist camp counsellor Yssy: Kate's fashionista and caffeine-junkie roomie Nathan: the handsome and brooding gamer With Kate's debut (18th birthday) drawing close, will she allow herself a glimmer of hope and attempt to break out? Who can she trust with her escape plan? Unfortunately, before Ecto could help her, he would have to help himself first. And why was Kate banished to Camp Unplugged anyway? The answer may lie in the mysterious past relationship of her ma.