Byherpen
For Alliana Ysabelle Reyes, life has never felt like a gift.
She feels like a visitor in her own story.
Haunted by an identity crisis and fragments of memories she cannot access, Alliana longs to understand who she truly is. But how can she, when remembering could cost her life? After a brain trauma, her father forbids her from digging into the past - insisting that some truths are better left buried. And Alliana believes him, choosing obedience over the risk of knowing.
She grew up under her father's strict guidance-homeschooled, disciplined, trained in self-defense. Her world was small, controlled, and predictable. Until one day, she is finally allowed to live on her own in Manila to pursue college.
There, she begins to build a life piece by piece-
a dutiful daughter,
a woman with quiet dreams,
and someone still searching for herself.
Despite the confusion, she learns how to live as if she were whole.
Until he comes along.
A man she does not fear but one who makes her feel something unfamiliar. Something dangerous. With just one look into his eyes, she feels a pull she cannot explain, a place she wants to stay in, even without knowing why.
In a world filled with missing memories and unanswered questions, he becomes the only thing that feels real, certain, and true.
But what if the love they fight for heart to heart was never meant to last?
What if it ends the same way their first shared song once played as they danced?
"Let the world around us just fall apart, we can make it if we're heart to heart..."
And in the end, not even love was enough to save them.