mona_risa
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"Safety codes totally left the chat, gurl!"
Alia Paloma is a fiercely dramatic, independent, and licensed 21st-century architect who has her life perfectly planned: survive impossible deadlines, design impossible structures, and never leave home without her caramel macchiato. But everything changes when a heritage site inspection in Colon Street goes horribly wrong, and she falls through time into the year 1630.
Stranded in Spanish-era Cebu with no Wi-Fi, no air conditioning, and a completely ruined outfit, Alia must pretend to be a silent "pipi" cousin to survive. Her biggest problem? The man hiding her.
Don Noah San Lorenzo is a stoic and uncompromising maestro secretly running an underground school for katutubo children, risking everything to teach them knowledge the authorities would rather keep forbidden. To Noah, Alia is a strange, loud, and impossible woman speaking a mysterious "demon language" called English. To Alia, his hidden school is a structural nightmare waiting to collapse, with absolutely no emergency exits.
Forced to work together to build a secret escape route before a dangerous Spanish raid, the modern architect, and the old-world teacher discover that some foundations are not made of stone, but trust.
But as a mysterious lunar eclipse approaches and Alia's chance to return home begins to disappear, can a love that crossed four centuries survive a fate that was never meant to happen?