WARNING: MATURE CONTENT [ SPG | R18 ] A rebel and savage girl who loves to break all the rules--falls in love with an innocent and religious man who lived his life imposing all the law, including the laws of love. - Danary Belcalis Amari De Valentin doesn't like following rules. She hated it so much that she purposely break them to hurt his father's ego and get his attention. She was the black sheep of the family. The breaker of laws, the curse to her father's reputation and the constant pain to his brothers' ass. She doesn't really care about all that. She was living her life being a major disappointment to everyone but that were all shaken when his father thrown her to Buenavista after she almost killed a girl. She had no choice but to live her life on her own. It was a boring town with a lot of boring people, she thought. But that changed one day when she met Achilles Arquin Cordova. A gorgeous, intelligent hot local boy who made her heart's rhythm deranged--until she realized that Archi loves doing and imposing the only thing she hated the most, rules. Will Cali abide all of Achilles' rules to finally get his attention and love? Or will she break them too just to save her own wee heart?

"I'm still gay. I think. But Gosh, I'm so in love with her." Zae is the university's flamboyant gay and a rising star in fashion. Xavi is his quiet, lens-loving best friend of twenty years. They were the perfect platonic duo-until a glitch in their decades-long friendship turned a safe brother-sister bond into a confusing, soul-deep romance. Forced to strip away the labels they've lived by, Zae and Xavi must navigate family shock, societal judgment, and their own fears to prove that the most beautiful masterpiece isn't found in a textbook or on a runway, it's found in the one person who has been there all along.

"Beauty is pain, honey. Pero ang pag-ibig? Iyan ang operasyong kahit walang anesthesia, handa akong tiisin... basta si Doc ang humahawak ng scalpel." Si Cairo ay isang celebrity makeup artist na ang tanging batas ay perfection. Para sa kanya, ang lahat ng deperensya ay kayang itago ng contour at concealer. Ngunit mababasag ang kanyang mundo nang makilala niya si Dr. Gauri, isang doctor na walang oras para sa vanity at mas pinapahalagahan ang katotohanan kaysa sa ilusyon. Sa pagitan ng makulay na brushes at matatalim na scalpels, madidiskubre nila na ang tunay na kagandahan ay hindi nakikita sa salamin-kundi sa mga peklat na matapang nating ipinapakita sa taong nakakaintindi sa atin. Isang makulay na banggaan ng sining at siyensya. Dahil minsan, ang kailangan mo lang para gumaling ay ang taong hindi takot makita ang iyong bare face.

kiss lessons: taught by ME, his greatest enemy

Lia is bratty, curious, and addicted to new experiences. Getting a boyfriend is just another item on her list. Then Gaddiel walks in - shy, quiet, and her new obsession. They couldn't be more different, but that's never stopped Lia before. She'll win him over, no matter what. What she didn't expect was to be the one falling first, undone by his warmth and innocence.

Just like everybody in Castañaz, Tammy Mercado thinks she's a good for nothing, but in the eyes of the most religious and chivalrous Reino De Alba, she's just another misunderstood child in an adult body. Can Argus help Tammy heal the broken parts of her? Or in the end, Argus will cause the woman he loves the kind of pain that will bruise her soul forever?

'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

'Madaling magsalita at mag-desisyon dahil wala ka sa sitwasyon' but Vivienne says otherwise. For her, being in a relationship shouldn't remove someone's rationality, hindi normal maging tanga sa pag-ibig. It shouldn't make you size down just to fit into the relationship. It shouldn't make you question your worth at higit sa lahat, dapat marunong kang magpalaya. But what if love doesn't arrive in a way that's logical? What if it comes unexpectedly, slowly blurring your boundaries until you don't even notice you're already compromising pieces of yourself? What if you wake up one day and realize you've been patient for too long, understanding for too much, forgiving for things you swore you never would? What if it became a poison that lingers in your veins, tempting you with its beauty even as it slowly destroys you? What if loving someone makes you brave...but also a little foolish and selfish? Because it's easy to say you'll never beg for bare minimum. It's easy to promise you'll walk away at the first red flag. It's easy to believe you'll choose yourself every single time. Until it's you, until it's their voice that softens your anger, until it's their hands that feel like home...until walking away starts to feel like you're turning your back on everything you once struggled to hold together. So what if the hardest part isn't loving but learning you have to let go?

Yvonne Maica Lim is an aspiring UAAP court side reporter for UST, she was so close to getting her football player crush after plotting on him for almost a year...but everything fell apart when she had to fake date the infamous star basketball player of the UST Growling Tigers instead. Book cover by cottonbro studio in pexels

Cardinal Series 2