Binibining_Zaff
Celeste Marie Alonzo is the top Civil Engineering student of St. Claire University - super strict, logical, and lives by 13 Rules she made herself, all designed to protect her heart from getting broken again. Her number one, non-negotiable rule? Never date or get involved with anyone from the Architecture Department. For her, students from that course are nothing but arrogant, messy, all style and no substance - and after getting hurt by an ex from the same department, she's dead set on keeping her distance forever.
But everything changes when she crosses paths with Julian Rafael Varela - the most brilliant, popular, and infuriating Architecture student on campus. Gwapo, talented, overly confident, and loves pushing all her buttons, he's literally everything she swore to avoid. What starts as hate-at-first-sight turns complicated fast when they get paired up for the university's biggest joint project: Civil Engineering and Architecture working together to build a structure, with the winner getting a full scholarship and campus-wide recognition.
To make things worse (or way better), Julian challenges her to a bet: whoever gets the higher grade wins, and the loser has to do anything the winner says - no excuses, no backing out. And Julian makes it his personal mission to make Celeste break every single one of her rules... one by one.
From late-night conversations that make her smile, accidental touches that send shivers down her spine, silly arguments that turn into deep talks, to quiet moments where walls slowly crumble - Celeste finds herself breaking rule after rule, even when she knows she shouldn't. She thought rules were there to keep her safe... but Julian teaches her that sometimes, the best things in life happen when you break them.
A sweet, heart-fluttering enemies-to-lovers college romance about two people from opposite worlds: the girl who lives by structure, logic, and order, and the boy who lives by art, feelings, and chaos.