In Spite of You

"He used to bully me for being different. Now he burns at the thought of losing me."

She was the poor, shy, effeminate boy he humiliated every summer in Limasawa.
Now, she's a brilliant transgender woman who got everything he said she never would-beauty, brains, and a life that doesn't revolve around him.

Aurelia Ysabelle Villamonte thought she had buried the past with the name Esten. But fate had other plans.
At UP Diliman, she crosses paths with Leonardius Santiago Madrigal III, a powerful, arrogant Atenean and heir to one of the country's richest old-money families. He doesn't recognize her at first. When he does, his shame turns to obsession... then jealousy... and something dangerously close to desire.

He hates that he wants her.
She hates that he still has power over her.

This isn't a fairytale.
This is a story of revenge that turned into longing.
Of survival becoming love.
Of a woman who rose despite the cruelty and a man who fell because of it.

What happens when the boy who broke you becomes the man who begs for your love?
Would you forgive him... in spite of everything?

This is a Transwoman × Straight Man love story