Trapped in Us | Guontiveros AU

"Even at your worst, being your villain will be my favorite role.."

To all the world, Alice Leal Guo lived an easy life-being a billionaire student of Crestview University. However, little did she know that her ex-girlfriend from four years prior would suddenly become her professor. That mysterious breakup on account of Ana Theresia "Risa" Hontiveros's unexplained reasons surfaces again amidst the backdrop neither of them could have foreseen: entrenchment in rival syndicates unbeknownst to the families.

As their reignited bond pushes the constraints of a taboo relationship between a professor and her student, Alice and Risa are bound into the depths of their feelings and the underworld of their families' crime syndicates. When Risa's mother discovers their past, she puts a kill order on Alice-another twist of fate that brings them together again within the setting of academia.

After all, the deck's stacked against them: from societal taboos to familial expectations rooted in organized crime, Risa struggles to mend what was broken and see if there migght be a future with Alice.

Will they be able to sail through troubled waters of love and loyalty, breaking social norms and family allegiances, and find happiness together?

With love being both their greatest weakness and their only hope for survival in a world against them, Alice and Risa have to make the fateful decision: whether they can take the chance of everything-all the laws they were brought up to obey and the families they were taught to respect-for love.

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