Martina Rasha Radejas is beautiful but rebellious--like an enticing rose covered with thorns. She likes to party. She likes to drink. And she likes men who challenge her--the type who will not easily give in to her. Due to the threat in their families' lives, her brother hired the most annoying bodyguard she ever had. Alano Kerzaes. The ruthless, cold, and most handsome man her eyes had laid into. Her former crush, whose ideal girl is the opposite of her. If she is a rose with thorns, he is a deadly poison who dominates all. How is she going to rule over him when it is her who is ruled from the very beginning? date started: october 03, 2025 date ended: december 28, 2025

Royce Allegre was never meant to kiss Giordana Ramirez. One slip in the dark, and suddenly he was caught in a moment that should never have happened, his lips on the girl he should never want, the girl his family would never accept. He should have walked away. Instead, the memory clings, haunting him, drawing him back to her with a gravity he cannot resist. There is something in her eyes-sad yet fiercely alive and brimming with quiet resilience that pulls him closer, even as every glance threatens to ignite what must remain forbidden. Some mistakes can be buried. Others blossom into obsessions. And Royce is about to discover just how far he will go when desire refuses to be denied... for the wrong girl. The Wrong Love | Book Two --

It hurts to be deceived by someone you love, and because of that pain, Leandro Dela Paz lost his love for his girlfriend. His relationship with Leighton Acosta was no longer happy. Just when he found a new love, his ex-girlfriend reappeared, claiming she was pregnant. He no longer believed her and was forced to take care of her. However, he forgot that Leighton could also get tired of him and leave on her own with their child. When he finally learned the truth that he was the real father, they were already gone. Can Leandro reclaim the family he lost, or will he face the painful truth that they have found happiness with someone else?

Elara Soledad de Merced thrives in attention and affection-being the youngest and only daughter, never once did she experience being set aside and treated as someone deemed unworthy. All her life, she was treated with utmost care and love. The princess with a perfect life who had never gone through hardship. Boys dream of her. Girls look up to her. Some hate her. Whatever she does, everyone follows. Second to none, rejection was something she was never familiar with, until him-her first love and the only man who ever rejected her. But not even her first rejection could stop her, so she pulls out her highest heels and her sparkly little dress, because what Elara wants, Elara gets. Luis Silvino Prodigalidad is what she wants, and she will get him, even if it means painting his hurricane into pink skies.

To Reese, every centavo counts-an hour wasted feels like a push further to poverty, and having fun is a luxury she can never afford despite her young age. So when the strings were pulled and lives were entangled, she was unfortunate enough to meet Leo-the punk, spoiled, and unpassionate law student who had been forced to move to his mother's hometown-Bahaghari, La Carlota.

[ONGOING] Thione Alina Cuevas knew Achilles all her life. She is determined that he will never leave her side, because he is her best of friends. But what if one summer, she'll see him in a different color? In a sweeter tune? It will turn her feelings upside down, unveil something inside her she never knew was there. But what about him? Will the strum of his heart ever harmonize with his best friend? Will they overcome rhythmed of life? But what if it's the other way around? And their rhyme will never ever be the same. Summer Serenade - Astalièr Series II raindropsandstar

For some, life is a battlefield-ruthless and unforgiving. For others, it's a less lethal but equally competitive play, full of unexpected challenges and struggles. But everything in life is like a game. There are wins and losses. Prizes and rewards. And most of all? Rules. For me and Erebus Davis, there are simple ones. Obvious ones. Three rules. Easy to follow. Easy to remember. But one move changed everything. One moment, we are who we've always been. And the next second... there's a misstep. A violation of the game. A decision I could never take back. Out of all the rules, I broke the most important one. In this grand play of our lives, there's a zone I shouldn't have crossed... and a silent rule that shouldn't have been broken.

THE LOSERS' CLUB SERIES #4 How does it feel to live with tons of what ifs and should-have-beens? Knowing that under different parameters, you could have worked it out. Knowing that if you only weathered the storm together, you could have built a home in each other's arms. Napakaraming sana--ganiyan ang naging takbo ng buhay ni Ysabelle Katana Montecer. Sana mayaman siya. Sana mas maganda. At sana may kapangyarihan siyang ibalik ang oras. If only she had listened to the little voice in her head, she could have been in a relationship with the only man who ever caught her attention--River Mattias Fuentabella. But it was too late for her. She was a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. A heartbeat away from silence. Kahit ayaw niya, kailangan niyang tanggapin ang hatol ng tadhana. River would always be out of her reach. He was close, but not too close enough for her to hold. They could have happened. They could have been together. But sadly, they never were.

Dr. Dayanara Scott, now Larralde, spent years working herself to exhaustion just to keep the lights on while her husband gambled away their savings and their marriage. When it finally ended, she walked away free but hollow. She left her prestigious career in Pittsburgh for a teaching job in the Philippines, hoping to rebuild her bond with her daughter and find peace. While she works on winning her daughter back, a boy named Matveyo Zimnyakov, a lazy, unmotivated, and a repeat who can't even explain a covalent bond ends up in her class. When she catches him cheating, she has no choice but to call his father. Men with guns surrounded her office before Isaak Zimnyakov walked in. Tall, broad shoulders beneath a black dress shirt, tattoos peeking through his collar, dark blue eyes that hold no mercy. The kind of man who looks like sin and moves like power. That moment, she knew he was trouble, and she was not wrong. He tried to pay her off to pass his son. She told him to fuck off. From that day, she knew she had stepped into something dangerous. He left, but something about him lingers, a current she cannot ground no matter how hard she tries. Now, her daughter is growing close to Matveyo. Isaak keeps appearing where he shouldn't, obsessed and possessive, and he doesn't bother to hide it from her. And Dayanara can feel it every time they're in the same room. The pull. Equal and opposite. Inevitable. A dipole. She teaches it in theory. But Dayanara is about to learn firsthand that the most dangerous chemistry doesn't exist in the lab. It exists between two people who should never touch.