AmeDKugler
** I will be posting a new chapter every Friday. **
In this society, love is no longer left to chance.
Every student receives recommendations from the System: ideal classes, compatible clubs, optimal futures... and eventually, the person they are supposedly most compatible with. Most people accept it without question. After all, the System is almost always right.
Aeris is not one of them.
When her annual alignment assigns her to the kyudo archery club and quietly pushes her toward a boy she has never spoken to, Aeris decides she will not let the System choose for her.
But no matter how much she resists, the System finds a way to adjust.
Routes begin to overlap too perfectly. Coincidences stop feeling accidental. Notifications appear at impossible moments. And the quiet archer caught in the middle of it all may not be as unaffected as he seems.
Caught between curiosity, growing emotions, and a society that trusts the algorithm more than its own heart, Aeris must decide one thing:
If the System says two people are meant to fall in love, does choosing each other still matter?
A slow-burn school life romance about choice, identity, quiet moments, and learning whether emotions are real when the world keeps trying to calculate them.
© Ame D. Kugler 2026