Gem, Under Pressure.
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Just like her name that cannot be broken easily. Diamond tries so hard on pretending to be strong as the eldest daughter of an Asian Household. Living for 23 years in the slum province of Bacolod, having a father whose addicted to drugs, a hard working mother that seldoms going home just to provide foods for her and her 3 younger siblings, and having a youngest brother who's a person with autism; a poor and chaotic family. Finds comfort in music. But what will she do if the music that always feels her safe and sound are rare and always put in discrimination because of society's standards? How she can express it openly? Will she also hides her passion in loving kpop?
As she loses control of her patience and lack of courage to pursue her life, She accidentally found a VIP Ticket to one of her Favorite kpop soloist singer's concert in a public comfort room and no one ever claimed the ticket at lost and found station, just like how the universe give her present in her lowest moment in life, she decided to attend the said concert and meet the man that literally push her life into a roller coaster ride.
Will that man become her light to make her life brightest or become the pressure that can shatter her little courage left easily?
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