Clause 7: Do Not Fall in Love

In an office where everything runs on deadlines, competition, and carefully measured conversations, there's one rule no one really takes seriously-Clause 7: Do Not Fall in Love.

It's just another line in the handbook. Easy to ignore. Easy to forget.

Until something starts to change.

It doesn't happen all at once. There are no grand confessions or obvious moments. Just small, almost unnoticeable things-work that gets easier without explanation, mistakes that quietly disappear, and late nights that don't feel as heavy as they used to.

And somehow, it always seems to happen around the same two people.

Colleagues. Rivals. The kind who clash over everything and refuse to admit when the other is right. The kind who are always competing, always pushing, always trying to come out on top.

Falling in love was never part of the plan.

But somewhere between arguments and silence, between tension and familiarity, something begins to shift-and neither of them can quite explain when it started or why it's getting harder to ignore.

Because in a place where rules are meant to keep everything in order, the most dangerous thing isn't breaking them.

It's realizing why they existed in the first place.