LOGLINE: Fake lang naman dapat. Pero paano kung ang pinakaayaw mong maramdaman... ay 'yun ang pinaka naging totoo? ••• BLURB: May instructions si Dr. Callahan: Fake dating. Weekly reports. Walang mafo-fall. At first, Raine thought she could handle it. Okay lang. Gagawin lang para sa grades, para sa data, para matapos. But then came Sebastian Montague-social butterfly, campus golden boy, at literal na kabaligtaran niya sa lahat ng bagay. He was charming without trying. She was guarded without meaning to. And somehow, they worked. Until feelings got involved. Until the truth came out. Until it wasn't just a theory anymore. Now Raine has to figure out what was real, what was part of the experiment, and what parts of herself she lost-just to play along. ••• Started: March 29, 2025 Ended: May 24, 2025 𝗠𝗧𝗔𝗧'𝗦 𝗛𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚 🏅 #172 out of 72.7K stories (Teen Fiction) 🏅 #587 out of 52.6K stories (Love Story) 🏅 #58 out of 4.96K stories (Young Adult) 🏅 #2 out of 45 stories (Slow-Burn Romance) 🏅 #48 out of 976 stories (RomancePH) 🏅 #7 out of 75 stories (Fake Dating) 🏅 #772 out of 5.23K stories (Love Stories Tagalog)

Manileño Series #3 She knew he is trouble the moment she had laid her eyes on him. Despite the pit she had thrown herself into, she felt a hollow inside her heart. She's in doubt whether to follow what her heart desires or what her mind screams. Yes, he is trouble. Indeed a walking trouble. He had made her throw herself into the lion's den. Yet, either she is a walking trouble herself. And God knows how much he forbids himself to walk into this trouble but the force was too much. Now, he is in trouble. They are both in trouble.

Manileño Series #2 Jesiah Kate Saltina--once an Amania, flew in a different country to pursue her passion in arts. She came back to her motherland wihtout knowing what awaits for her come back. There, at the art exhibit in the Philippines where she was invited, she met Ford Khrysler Chua again. It is when he offered her for a job that she realized what he told her back then might be true. "Wala ka ng babalikan kapag hiniwalayan mo ako, Kate." She tried all her best to hide her feelings: grief, pain and insecurities from him. To protect herself. To save herself. She must masked it all!

NOTE: This is a new version of Hey, It's Me, Karma and does not follow the old plot. Anything that you have read in the old version is not considered to be canon. The whole series follows the new versions of my Novels and not the old and unrevised ones. Thank you! STRICTLY NO SPOILERS FOR THOSE WHO HAVE READ THE OLD VERSIONS. If you are a new reader, I suggest you don't read the comments if ever there might be spoilers, for better reading immersion. Manileño Series #1 Floating in an unknown dimension which she believed has no beginning and no end, she thought this is where she belongs. When she finally became conscious after a year of being comatose, what greeted her is a world she thought she had long forgotten. Everything is foreign to her including her own name, and a forgotten past. Despite the fears, she still have it inside her... the longing she have of the life she had before. She swayed her way to regain what she was robbed off by that accident, and within that journey is a guy who called her by a different name-Karma Ylisse Alcantara, that was the name, which is in fact owned by his late girlfriend.

S O O N TRIGGER WARNING: Anxiety attacks, depressive episodes, traumatic flashback, psychotic episodes. Please read at your own risk. ***** Calm, witty, goal-oriented; this is how you can describe the one and only Stephen Joe Diamante. He's a dedicated post-graduate intern, a low-key perfectionist who only has eyes for his goal of becoming a doctor. Then along came a happy-go-lucky medical student who is a year behind him, the one and only Damsel Kathleen Villalobos. Stephen is a walking tranquility, Damsel is a walking chaos. He's plain, she's complex. He's stable, she's complicated. He's a rigid foundation that no one can ever break, and she's an enigma no one can even fathom. Could a knight in shining stethoscope save the soul of the wrecked damsel in distress? Or it will be the other way around where she will make him realize how perplexed his mind is and how chaotic apparently his soul is? That he is opposite to what he believe he is and he's just hiding behind the fake smiles and pretentious personality.

S O O N If Mike Samuel Cuevas is given a chance to correlate his life with three words, it would be "bruises", "rejection", and "failure". Bruises for all the marks he had whenever his father hurt him physically for being such a disgrace to the family. Rejection for all the times he was left by all the women he genuinely loved. Failure for being the lowest in class, for being academically weak, for having no skills to showcase, and for leaving his responsibilities while studying in Med School. As he left the city, he met the life he was yearning for in the province of Siargao: a solemn life where he is well-appreciated and where his mind is in peace. In this place, he found a father figure in the persona of Dr. Barcelon, a doctor to the barrio in one of the municipality of Siargao. Most of all, he found a great love in the persona of Glamour Montanilla, a hardworking nurse of the said municipality. Will he finally stand for himself and bring out his courage that was chained behind the bars and claimed that the doctor is out? Or will he just let those chains tie him up again into the abyss and claimed that the doctor is in?

O N G O I N G TRIGGER WARNING: anxiety attack, rape content, self-harm, depressive episodes, traumatic flashback. Please read at your own risk. ***** "Maganda at matalino talaga 'yang si Jayla, kaya lang may scandal 'yan." These are the words that are usually thrown at Janica Leila Montejermoso, an aspiring lawyer who dreams of giving justice to the abused and neglected children like her. Due to her childhood trauma, Jayla grew up strong, determined, and indestructible. She wanted to prove to everyone that there are still more to life than being a victim of her childhood past. Not until her sex video with her long-term boyfriend leaked, which gradually break her already broken soul. Being with his girlfriend since they are born in the same delivery room, Niccolo John Cadiente is branded as "buntot ni Jayla"; and he's proud of that. He's a dreamer, he dreams of becoming a successful and competent doctor someday, a pediatrician specifically, while building his own family with Jayla. But what if he became the reason of the gradual downfall of his only love? Can they still guarantee that a victim's aftermath is still worth living after all? Or they will just let their hellish past swallow them whole?

[Politico 3] When and how will 24 hours be enough? Grappling with the harsh realities of life, Owie vowed to always set her goals straight-graduate with a decent degree, work in a comfortable firm, retire in her 50s, and wither alone. It was dull and perfect all at once. The walls around her are pretty high up. No one can penetrate them. But Asio was persistent. He broke down walls, tore down skyscrapers, and messed up time--something that she held so dear above anything else. The hours on the clock always fell short. The glass is always half empty. Every one step forward is ten steps backward. And in an attempt to save the last bits of the love she thought she knew, she found herself asking for the impossible: for time to run slower, for the clock to give just one more second.

[Politico 2] For Alunsina, life is a one-time shot. It's a one-time risk and a one-time drown into the open. She gives it her all and would never settle for second best as long as her chance is still on the loose. So when given that one opportunity to prove herself, she threw all her cards down the table. It was all or nothing. No matter the consequences, she must win by hook or by crook. However, getting along with the quiet and gentle Sergio is hard. But she knew that falling in love with this person by chance, which was not part of the deal, was even harder.

[Politico 1] All eyes are on Serena. Molded into politics since she was young, there was no room for disappointment. She only has one way to go on and nothing to back out. Living for her is a routine and a duty. There's no other way to turn things around and disrupt the smooth cycle of her dull life. So when she crossed paths with the mysterious Chaos, she wasn't prepared for the storm in her heart and mind that sent her questioning all the things she thought she knew before.