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: STAND-ALONE UNEDITED

Ilang beses nang sinubukan ni Gingging na kalimutan ang nararamdaman niya sa kapitbahay niyang si Ris. But when fate does its thing, you may never do anything about it. Alam ni Gingging na walang patutunguhan ang nararamdaman niya kay Ris, kaya naman desidido siyang kalimutan na ito; hindi na siya sumisilip sa bintana para sumulyap (minsan na lang), hindi na rin siya uma-attend ng anumang okasyon sa katabing bahay, at hindi na rin niya inabala ang sariling i-chat si Ris sa Messenger. But can she actually achieve her goal when they are practically next-door neighbors and will be attending the same college university? Maybe she won't. Definitely never when Gingging was unable to delete the meme she commented under Ris' Facebook shared post that says: Professional Cuddlers, alok ng isang kompanya sa mga taong stressed at malungkot. | Professional Cuddlers (For Lovers Series #1) | an epistolary novel | 2024 © reyincarnation Started: June 3, 2024 Relaunched: December 3, 2025 Finished: ---

SHS Series #2 How does it feel to be chosen, and to have someone who will tell you to take care of yourself? Cea Ferreira from the ABM strand was forced to be independent at a young age. She has to be strong because the world will not stop turning if she is fragile. After graduation, her parents decided to enroll her in a school where she would meet people she didn't think she would belong with. A community where she would meet Jabez Cortez, a man whom she would experience how to fall in love with someone who likes somebody else. At first, she denied it. But later on, she would unconsciously do something for him she didn't think she could. Just like the sea, trying to reach the seashore, but it never happened because of the unconstructed and sharp rock that formed between them.

Yahela is a girl who travels for work as a member of UNICEF. Despite her contentment with her busy life, she longs to find love and someone who is genuinely willing to be with her. She feels she can't have it all-until one midnight, when she is drenched by the rain. The closest place she can find shelter is Prix's home. Unfortunately, they start off on the wrong foot, but perhaps they could start over again?

Maria Amara Gonzalez, born into a prestigious and influential political dynasty, had lived a life sheltered by the power and privilege of her family. Ever since she was born, a pre-determined fate awaited her, like a manacle engraving her on her only purpose; get married to a rich democrat, have kids and stay as a loving wife. At pinangatawan ito ni Mara, bilang ka-isa isang babaeng anak sa pamilya, she grew up thinking that her only job to do is to keep quiet, do what she's told to do and be a good girl, like what her father says. And when she was finally given the very first choice in her life, whether to stay in the city or get a tiny taste of freedom in the province; she chose that freedom. She chose to live far away from the facade of politics and at least live her life a little. She though she had a fresh start, that she finally found a peaceful life in the province. Until she met him. Hindi niya maintindihan ang malaking galit sa kanya ng lalaki. All she knew was that if she wanted to make friends, she needs to stay away from him.

"His life had nothing but black, white, and the color of blood, until he found her." First Published: May 2023 Republished: October 2024 Finished: --

Ayaw ni Dasha ng nahihirapan. Kung saan sa tingin niya ay magiging madali para sa kanya, iyon ang pinipili niyang daan. She didn't like taking risks because it only meant having the chance to lose as much. She didn't like giving her all to something she knew she would have to let go in the end. Kaya nang mapagtanto ang unti-unting umuusbong na nararamdaman para sa kanyang kaibigan, sinubukan niya iyong kalimutan. She couldn't imagine losing him in the middle of this endless mist getting in between them. But the more she tried to get rid of her feelings, the more their thread grew stronger - so much that she devastatingly developed a desire to change herself, so he would notice her as a 'girl' he could date and fall so hard for, not his 'best muscle buddy' he could play baseball with anytime he wanted. Ayaw niya ng nahihirapan, ngunit sa unang pagkakataon, sinubukan niyang sumugal - isang bagay na pinangako niya sa sariling hindi niya kailanman pagsisisihan... ...not when all the risks were worth taking for her best friend. (will start in january; after hotfr and htta are completed)

A & W

(Backstage Pass Series: Ticket #2) Words are the instrument for us to express what we truly feel. Communicating with the breath of words, animating the novel of our own minds...something like this can be called normal to most but for some, it was a privilege of the others. Dahil hindi lahat, may boses. Hindi lahat nasasabi ang totoo nilang nararamdaman. Hindi lahat may pribilehiyong makapagsalita. And when Castielo Valentine Trujillo finally met the mysterious girl he was supposed to marry for convinience, no matter how he hated the idea of fix marriage, he abandoned his beliefs and decided to push through the engagement to help that girl escape the cage she once called home. Sa kabila ng madilim na kinagisnan, ang ngiti niyang inosente ang siyang nakapukaw sa atensyon ni Ciel. But he was only supposed to save her. He was only there to take her away from the house of her nightmares. He was only there...to provide her the breath of words that were stolen from her. Pero sa patuloy niyang pagligtas dito, siya namang naging dahilan ng unti-unti niyang pagkalunod. Indulging himself to save the girl sank him into the bottom of the sea, but it was fine as long as she could float. As long as she could retrieve the things that were once hers. As long as he could listen to her voice he once sought to hear. But once things started to crumble down. The very person he expected to stay with him... Abandoned him...leaving him... Voiceless. - I do not own the book cover that I used, credits to the rightful owner. Date Started: May 9, 2025 Date Ended:

(Backstage Pass Series: Ticket #1) When Karen Horney stated that every human being has the basic need for love and security, it wasn't just a mere theory but a fact that justified people's agitation when they were alienated. Pero minsan, una lang naman na 'tin nararamdaman ang takot sa pagiging mag-isa lalo na kapag nasanay na lang tayo na walang kinakapitan. Defense mechanism, isolation, detachment...things that people tend to do when they feel like they are being left out. Understandable, but then, how would you treat those people who were willing to be with you after years of feeling alone? The fear of abandonment and being left out made you push people away because of the perception that it is better that it was you who left rather than to be left out. And that's the case for Reece Giovanne Argyros, the total opposite of his famous brother Reed Gustave Argyros. After the traumatic experience that he had with his father, his mother dying, and a brother who moved forward without them realizing how the phenomenon tainted his...young heart. Gusto niyang maintindihan, bakit? Bakit nagagawa nila ang gano'ng bagay habang siya ay nanatili sa madilim na nakaraan nang nag-iisa at kahit pa nakasanayan na, takot pa rin na maranasang maiwan ulit? He tried things to understand them. He rebelled, he played with the fire, he kissed the edge of a knife, drank poison...everything that reminds him of danger that has lurked around since he was a kid. The danger that he used to play with but eventually learns to...love it. And just like the thing that he does, he played with the danger. He played with her and ended up...loving her. But the fear stays, even how much he tries to live in the light, the fear will be there, lurking in the dark poking him. He was scared to feel the same pain again... that he ended up hurting her rather than being the one who would get hurt in the end. - Official Date Started: November 10, 2023 Date Ended: -