Gianna Collins A. Smith

Giovanni Clark A. Smith is a student model, a top student, a rich kid, a charismatic good-looking man. He defies the cold and distant image of a man as flawless as him cultivated by society by being a man of smiles, greetings, courtesy, and respect. By being a man who opens his gates for everyone at any time. By having these pleasant qualities and cordial character, people grow to flat out admire, adore, and respect him to the utmost. Up to the extent that no one could ever expose a flaw, an imperfection, or even a weakness in him. Not until she happens. Not until Ophelia Rizette E. Mallari enters his world. The one and the only person who could spot the defect in him, the strange trait, the forbidden secret that no one could ever see. Because in her eyes, he is nothing but a two-faced monster, a rude jerk, a cunning beast! He's a fake! The man who everyone puts on the pinnacle of the pedestal has hidden intentions. His unusual obedience is a deceitful facade, Ophelia concludes. He's twisted. He's weird. He's a major red flag. And most importantly, Giovanni Clark is crazy! Is the man truly out of his mind? Or is the girl just thinking in too much details? Hold on, if that's the case, then who's the real... crazy?

Lumi-as someone who's being told what to believe and hope in everything as she grows up-reckons that living is a way to comply with and entrust one's entire life to serving superiors on top of the hierarchy. Who will not think of that way anyway? Being harbored in the lands of Castellanos, it is engraved in her mind that she lives to pay her debt of gratitude to the family who sheltered her, who protected her from all the cruelties the outside world has to offer behind those fences. What they're doing is to protect her life and welfare-that's what they told her. So there's no other way to live but be the gullible and obedient yokel of the Castellano clan, because they're doing everything just for her safety. But that's before her life turns upside-down as she discovers a strange note from the attic. "To whoever finds this message, they erased us. This is all that remains. Remember us, please." What does the note want to convey? Is it just one of those mundane trivial stuff found in an attic like the usual when someone decides to clean it? Or is it something connected to her... "safety?" For sure it is for her safety. That's what they always tell her. But what one hears is not always the version of reality. Most of the time, it is the most convenient scheme to twist and bend the truth. That... That's what they will never tell her. --- Start: July 01, 2020 End: December 02, 2020