Two years ago, New disappeared from Tay's life without a word. No explanation, no closure, just absence. When New suddenly reappears on campus, Tay doesn't understand it. New is distant, controlled, and acts as if the past never happened. Every attempt at contact is ignored. Every unanswered look only makes the frustration grow. Tay can't let it go. Not the silence. Not the way New refuses to acknowledge him. Not the feeling that something is being deliberately kept out of reach. Then, at the end of an ordinary school day, Tay meets a small boy in the hallway. The encounter is brief, confusing and unsettling in ways Tay can't immediately explain. Until New appears moments later, scoops the child up, and walks away with him. And that moment changes everything... Main couple: TayNew [This is just a fictional story from my brain]

Three generations of friendship built a perfect legacy. Tay and New ruined it. They've been rivals since preschool-locked in a cold war that followed them through elementary school, high school, and straight into university. To their families, they're polite, distant sons. To each other, they're enemies who know every weakness, every trigger, every move. Tay is the campus popular boy-chaotic, charming, impossible to ignore. New is the untouchable varsity star-cold, precise, impossible to challenge. They share a curse: the same taste. Every person New has ever liked, Tay has wanted too. Now it's happening again-with Inn, a quiet Business major who becomes the newest prize in their lifelong war. "It started on a playground. It followed us to university. We never learned how to share-especially not love."

At this university, reputation is everything. New has built a career out of understanding that better than anyone. For the right price, he becomes exactly what people need him to be: the attentive boyfriend at family dinners, the perfect date for formal galas, the convincing rebound in carefully curated photographs. He sells presence, charm, and intimacy polished to perfection. There are rules: - No sex. - No real relationships. - No feelings. - Everything is negotiated and controlled. He has never broken a rule. Tay Tawan was never supposed to need someone like New. As the heir to a powerful family and one of the university's most admired students, Tay is used to managing his image with effortless precision. But when a public breakup turns him into the villain of his own story, he needs more than silence to restore his reputation. He needs someone believable. Someone untouchable. Someone who knows how to perform. Hiring New is supposed to be strategic. What begins as a transaction quickly turns into something far more complicated. The staged smiles start to feel natural. The paid touches linger longer than they should. The line between performance and truth begins to blur, and neither of them is prepared for what happens when the act no longer feels like an act. Because New has spent years selling the illusion of love without ever letting himself experience it. And Tay is about to offer him the one thing that was never part of the deal. In a world where image is power and vulnerability is dangerous, they will have to decide whether what they built was only ever pretend, or if it was real all along. **He sells love for money, until someone offers it to him for free.**

It all started with a bet, a challenge thrown by a friend daring New to get close to the one person everyone assumed was untouchable. Loud, reckless, and used to controlling the chaos around him, New thought it would be simple, a game he could win without effort. But Tay was nothing like anyone expected. Quiet, composed, untouchable in a way that felt deliberate. He never revealed his moves, yet somehow he always seemed a step ahead, watching without reacting, calculating without showing his hand. What began as a bet turned into a collision neither of them fully understood. Rules were broken, routines unraveled, and control slipped from both sides in ways neither of them could predict. What started as a challenge soon became a question neither of them could ignore: when chaos meets control, who is really playing whom?

New, a celebrated actor, has it all-fame, wealth, and a carefully crafted image. But behind the flashing lights and red carpets, he harbors a secret: his son. Once a devoted house husband, his life took a sharp turn when his marriage crumbled, leaving him to fend for himself. Desperate for stability, he stepped into the spotlight, never looking back. Love? He doesn't believe in it anymore. That is, until he meets Tay-a passionate photographer assigned to work with him. Tay is ordinary in every way New is extraordinary, yet something about him feels different, real. Their work together is supposed to be temporary, but everything changes when Tay accidentally stumbles upon New's biggest secret-his son. With the truth now out, their lives become unexpectedly intertwined. As Tay is pulled deeper into New's hidden world, feelings start to bloom, blurring the lines between personal and professional. But will New let Tay in, or will fear and past wounds keep him from the love he never thought he'd find again?

It begins with a kiss, breathless, unexpected, too much and not enough. One night, alone in a room, Tay and New cross a line they've both been dancing around for months. The sex is intense, overwhelming and far too real to be meaningless, but New insists it doesn't change anything. Tay agrees, even though neither of them believes it. Weeks later, New discovers he's pregnant. He doesn't tell anyone, least of all Tay, afraid that staying out of obligation would hurt more than leaving. But secrets can't stay hidden forever, especially when they grow under your skin. Main couple: TayNew Side couple: MarkJunior [This is just a fictional story from my brain]