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The most pristine surface usually hides the deepest cracks.
Lian Gabriel Sy is the walking embodiment of academic perfection and filial duty. Student Council President. Top of his class. Heir to a sprawling Tsino-Filipino business empire. His life is a meticulous schedule managed by expensive specs and parental pressure. His only secret indulgence? A nightly pilgrimage to the campus jeepney waiting shed.
He's not waiting for a ride. He's waiting for Sabina Rio Silang.
Sabina is the campus's resident war-freak. Loud, short-tempered, and specializing in the fierce martial art of Arnis. Her life is a relentless fight: against rivals, against bullies, and against the difficult past that made her tough. She's strong, but she's perpetually in chaos-and dangerously oblivious.
For three years, their worlds have never officially met. Lian, constrained by his reputation and anxiety, could only protect her from the shadows: paying off petty rivals, discreetly fixing academic threats, and ensuring she reached the shed safely every night. Sabina noticed the coincidences-the timely warnings, the bullies who suddenly vanished-but she never noticed the wealthy, spectacled President standing vigil in the dark.
But when a calculated act of forgery threatens Sabina's Arnis career, it shatters Lian's perfect silence. Sabina is forced into his office, where her fury clashes with his devastating composure, and she realizes her chaos has always had a quiet, powerful protector.
What happens when the girl who fights everyone discovers the man who has spent three years fighting unseen battles just for her?
A New Adult Slow-Burn Romance about the silence of deep devotion and the chaos required to break free.