When Numbers Meet Concrete
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Last published Wed, Mar 25, 2026
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Accountant x Civil Engineer
Liora Vaelith Mireaux lives by precision.
As one of Manila's top accountants, her world is built on numbers, logic, and control - everything predictable, everything neat. She doesn't do chaos, and she definitely doesn't do distractions.
Until Kaiden Thalric Suarez a civil engineer with a blueprint in one hand and a smile that ruins her calculations walks into her life.
He's loud where she's quiet.
He sketches dreams where she balances risks.
He builds bridges while she breaks walls.
What starts as a clash of spreadsheets and blueprints turns into something neither of them planned a connection that can't be solved by logic or ledgers.
In the city that never sleeps, surrounded by deadlines and expectations, can Liora learn that not all equations are meant to balance...
and that sometimes, the heart is the only formula worth breaking?
"In a city of blueprints and deadlines, love was the one thing she couldn't compute."
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