STATUS: COMPLETE Highest Rank: #2 in Teen Fiction Growing up always being ridiculed for her mother's night job, Sarisa Ophelia Aloria was determined to prove everyone wrong by becoming the top of her class and graduating with the highest grades possible. But her dreams slowly shattered when Marx Gian Hernandez, the school principal's son, became her classmate in highschool. Always being second to Marx, Sarisa was determined to steal the top spot before graduation comes--even staging a public love confession and pretend to have a crush on the one person she hated just to distract him. What started as a facade fueled by hate, was watered down with something Sarisa didn't even expect as she got to know Marx beyond being her academic rival. In a game of tug of war with your feelings, will it be possible to win when in the first place, you already lost?

'If we will be stuck in a remote island naked, nothing will even happen.' Those were Rosh's exact words to describe her relationship with Lucho. She's clearly not a fan of friends to lovers trope. They've been friends for five years yet her indignation towards him gets worse every day. It is past mending. She doesn't even know why she dislikes him, or how and where it all started, she just hates him. That's it. Until her 18th birthday came. Book cover by cottonbro studio in pexels

✓ | University Belt Diaries #1 {UNEDITED} UST X UST For Cherish Romana Baustista, a Medical Laboratory Science student at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, life has been a relentless series of trials. Each day tests her resilience, and as time passes, the weight of her circumstances grows heavier. Octavios Roxian Redejas was born into a prestigious family of doctors, where expectations were clear and futures already written. Yet despite the path laid before him, he finds himself making a choice he never knew he would take. One that leads him away from tradition and into unfamiliar emotional territory. But could his choice become the healing circuit that connects their broken pieces back together-mending what pain has shattered and reigniting the hope they once lost? In the fragile dance of sacrifice and feel, their hearts start to beat, beginning to heal. Yet in the quiet, one question is real... Will the circuits heal? Started: June 11, 2025 Ended: November 11, 2025

[ SAALVADERA SERIES #2 ] Lily Allison Castillo always believe that men will always find her boring because of her studious and business minded mind. As her first boyfriend betrayed her, she carved in her mind and heart that she will only focus in her studies and business for life not until the naughty and free spirit Kyle Ethan Saalvadera came in her life. Is Kyle the one who can open her close and betrayed heart? *** " Summer Afternoons " by scrlylla_ Posted: 03/07/25 Started: 06/05/25 Ended: 10/06/25

She doesn't believe in love, never did, and she thinks she never will. The pain she went through because of her family was too much. It hurt her deeply and left her feeling broken. That's why she started writing. With a pen and paper, she let out everything she was feeling, hoping it would make the pain lighter. She wrote with all her heart, every word full of emotion. But still, something felt missing. Something didn't feel right. Then Red came into her life... and now, she's scared. Because even if she tries to fight it, she knows, she's starting to feel something that she doesn't feel it before.

- C O M P L E T E D - Azeralle Esparaguera, a perfectionist STEM student, lives by a rigid rule: always be the best. With the cleanest notes, highest ranks, and clearest goal of becoming an engineer, her life revolves around securing admission to prestigious universities particularly University of the Philippines. Her world is shaped by her mother's relentless standards--graduation alone isn't enough; she must be at the top of the best. Because of this, Azeralle avoids distractions, including friendships and romance. Until her friend, convinces her to be the female lead in their school's journalism documentary advertisement project. That's where she meets Mark Diom Nique Saracosa, the pride of HUMSS. He's everything she isn't--effortless charm, popularity, and grace--but beneath his perfect image lies a boy struggling with the pressure of being his family's primary hope. As they act out a scripted high school romance for the camera, unscripted feelings begin to form. They started talking even when the cameras weren't rolling. A girl conscious with her every move and a guy drown in responsibilities--will their love bloom or be doomed? Because when perfection collides with passion, someone always has more to lose. (-----------🍀-----------) #268 on Teenfiction - 06/30/25 #150 on Newstory - 07/05/25 #190 on Teenfiction - 07/12/25

Love is the easiest to fake in showbiz industry. A smile can convince millions, a glance can sell a story, and a kiss can be nothing more than a scene perfected for the cameras. Everything can be staged, until the lines between performance and truth start to blur. Selene Avery Huerta knew how to live with that blur. She mastered the art of guarding her heart, giving the world only what it wanted to see. Mas madali kasi magpanggap kaysa ipakita kung gaano siya nasaktan before. And in a world where everyone is watching, she believed the safest way to survive was to keep love hidden behind the script. But the limelight has its own way of rewriting endings. It found a way to bring her back to Kade Asher Alvarez---the one she swore to avoid---because in a world built on make-believe, nothing is more dangerous than a love that refuses to stay hidden. Started: April 29, 2024 Finished: July 04, 2025

EQUINOX SERIES #01 (COMPLETED) Loving your idol beyond the necessary is the stupidest thing you could ever do. ‎ ‎Not only because they are out of your reach, but also because of the reality that you will never be enough for them. ‎ ‎That is what Dahlia Hope Graciano believes. ‎ ‎That no matter how much she loves him, how much money she spends on him, or how much she begs God just to have him... she never will. ‎ ‎He will always be someone she can't touch. ‎ ‎No matter how persistent she is in climbing the ladder. No matter how hard she tries to reach the summit. ‎ ‎He will always be too high for her. ‎ ‎Because Heath Alaric De Giovanni is not just at the summit. He's the heaven--someone she can only look up to and never get through. Genre: Romance, General Fiction Date started: July 22, 2024 Date ended: December 29, 2024

note: under editing. TEMPTRESS SERIES #1 Azalea Queen Diaz, an aspiring actress, who works hard to achieve success in the industry. She finally aimed her success and celebrated with her friends at the bar where she met a charismatic man Tristan Carl Montero, a musician and the owner of the bar where they were celebrating. The man who would shatter her successful life because of one night they would never forget.

SHS Series #1 Because of family issues, Vance Alvarez from the STEM strand believed that love is like an overcast: dark and dull, like black, gray, and white. His world is surrounded by pressures and expectations. Doing everything to remain scholarly and always on top because he was used to it. His mother made him get used to it. But, just as others have said, there's always a sun that comes after the rain. Aiya from the ABM strand came into his life like an angel brought sunlight to his world. The sky that he always thought dull was already given a color. But that color is not meant to stay. The sky started to get cloudy when challenges hit them, and left them no choice but to end it.