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The Scent of Memory and Tea
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Ongoing, First published Oct 20
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Amara Dela Merced, a former high-powered executive, trades her corporate life for the quiet simplicity of the Philippine countryside, investing half of her inheritance given by her mother, into opening a small, heartfelt tea shop. Her new venture is quitely located near a home for senior citizens, a place that unexpectedly becomes the center of her life's purpose.

As Amara navigates pursuing her dream business, she finds an unexpected friendly connection with her former corporate assistant, who agrees to manage the property, left by her mother. Her life is further complicated and enriched by two very different situation: the wisdom of a senior resident who survived the Japanese invasion as a comfort woman, whose memories ingrain the air with history and resilience; and the constant, irritating presence of a handsome, yet persistently annoying man who keeps crossing her path.

"The Scent of Memory and Tea" is a story of slice-of-life, healing, and transformation, where the aroma of brewing leaves unseals deep-rooted memories, and a city-dweller finds an unexpected family among the past, present, and the prickly charm of a local annoyance.





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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
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Where Dahlia Bloomed

21 parts Ongoing

Tucked deep in the misty hills of the Philippines stands San Lazaro de Silencio, a crumbling asylum known not for healing, but for forgetting. Among its latest arrivals is Severino Madriaga, a man transferred from one institution to another-violent, withdrawn, and unreachable. Tasked with caring for him is Nurse Margaret Dahlia Astundo, a reserved but compassionate woman whose soft defiance lives in the smallest acts: a warmer blanket, a gentle word, a sweet smuggled past the rules. As days pass, a bond quietly forms between the patient and the nurse. Not love. Not quite friendship. Something softer. Something dangerous in a place like this. But kindness has no place behind locked doors. When Margaret is reported for sneaking him small comforts, she is fired without a chance to say goodbye. Left alone in his cell, He doesn't speak. He simply waits. One year passes within the walls. Another beyond them. And still, he searches for her-in memory, in silence, in every place where kindness once lived. "Where Dahlia Bloomed" is a slow-burning tale of fragile humanity, forbidden connection, and the quiet kind of love that refuses to be forgotten-even when it was never meant to exist.

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