Love by Design
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Complete Fri, Apr 11, 20251h 10m
A force engagement. A whirlwind of fame. A love they never saw coming.
Elaila Hyacinth Samonte has it all, beauty, talent, and the spotlight. As a rising ballerina and social media star, she lives between the glamor of New York and Paris. But when a painful breakup shatters her perfect image, she escapes to her best friend's wedding... only to walk into an even bigger twist.
Axel Blaine Palero, a brilliant and stoic medical student, prefers labs over limelight. But when their powerful families announce an unexpected engagement between him and Elaila in front of the press, he's forced into a world he never wanted.
Thrown into a force engagement to protect empires, Elaila and Axel set strict rules: no feelings, just public. But as jealousy brews, sparks fly, and hearts begin to betray those rules, they must face the truth, this love might not be force after all.
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