Two powerful women. One forced partnership. A love built where rivalry once stood. Bisca Cojuangco and Charrie Arreza are the fiercest rivals in the architecture world-heiresses to empires that shape cities, highways, and skylines across the Philippines and beyond. When a trillion-peso project forces them to work side by side, professionalism becomes a battlefield, and emotions become dangerous. What begins as rivalry slowly turns into tension, attraction, and a connection neither expected-nor are they allowed to have. Because Aurora isn't just a project. It's a test of power, loyalty... and a love planned long before they had a choice.

𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐞 [𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐱𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫] Reign Bright Xavier is a simple professor who was given the opportunity to continue her chosen profession at a well-known and prestigious school where she graduated. Life was supposed to be good and peaceful for Reign there, but fate played a trick on her. Upon setting foot again in the school that paved the way for her current career, she once again crossed paths with the woman she intensely loathed during her years of studying at Astral Crest University; Zerafia Izora Cresmont, a professor slash daughter of the owner of ACU and her one and only mortal enemy. What will happen when their paths cross again? Will the hatred in Reign's heart resurface, or will Zerafia's presence will take her to another dimension where she will find herself slowly falling for the latter? Date started: December 5, 2023 Date ended: November 5, 2024 P.S: cover photo isn't mine, credits to the owner.

Sometimes we're not even fully aware of how similar hate and love really are. How closely they sit together, how thin the line is between them. One wrong word, one wrong choice, one moment of fear or anger, and you cross it without even realizing you've done so. That's how it had alwags been with Casey Miller and Olivia Lordan. They didn't hate each other for no reason. There were reasons, plenty of them, actually. Old wounds that never healed right, memories that calcified instead of fading, words spoken too young and carried for too long. But were those reasons valid enough? That was the question no one ever asked out loud. Because validity is subjective. Pain doesn't measure itself against intent. Trauma doesn't care how old you were, or what you meant to do. It just exists, heavy and unrelenting, shaping you whether you want it to or not. Everyone has flaws. Everyone has demons they fight in private. Some people turn inward and rot quietly. Some people explode. Some people run. Some people stay and harden. None of it is clean, and none of it is fair. And maybe that was the cruelest part for them. Not the hate. Not the anger. Not even the silence. But the fact that, once upon a time, it had been love, or something dangerously close to it, and that was what made everything else hurt so much more.

Rival hearts series 1 Almara Luca Velmora and Solenne Aurelléz were born into rival empires built on power, danger, and hate. But when forbidden love blooms between them, family secrets and deadly rivalries threaten to tear them apart.

Drew Kane, a tough, outspoken, and badass secret agent is tasked along with her siblings to take down one of the richest and most influential families in town. But what will happen when her main suspect is not what she expected. Does falling for a suspect break the rules? Blair Vanderbilt, a stubborn, sensitive, and smart student in her senior year of high school is heir to her family's wealth and most popular girl in school. Perfect life in everyone else's eyes but what secrets is Blair hiding?