ReTry

RETRY

by Zach Aki
Tagalog-English Time-Loop Fantasy Romance

What if life keeps giving you unlimited second chances-
but the one thing you want most is the only thing you can't control?

Lukas Mendoza is twenty-seven years old... or ten... or seventeen... or twenty-two.
Hindi na niya sigurado.

Bakit?
Because he's been stuck in a time loop for as long as he can remember-
bouncing randomly to different points of his own past every time he fails.
No warning. No logic. No pattern.
Just a reset.

He remembers everything.
Every heartbreak.
Every choice.
Every wrong turn.

But there is one rule he cannot break:

He cannot choose love.
Love must choose him.

The only way to escape the loop is for Aiah-a girl he meets differently in every timeline-to fall in love with him naturally, without him manipulating fate with his knowledge of the past.

No shortcuts.
No advantages.
No guarantees.

And somewhere behind every reset...
someone is watching him.

Not God.
Not fate.
Time itself.

A living will-cold, ancient, relentless-determined to keep Lukas running in circles forever.

To break free, Lukas must do the impossible: earn love without forcing it, find meaning without control, and defeat the very force that keeps rewriting his life.

Because the real enemy...
is time.