Before The Petals Fade

Rosalie Flores spent most of her life surviving.

An architecture student by day and a working student by night, she balances drafting plates, sleepless deadlines, and multiple jobs just to keep herself afloat. Coffee becomes dinner, jeepney rides become naps, and exhaustion becomes normal. She tells herself it's temporary - that one day, all the sacrifices will be worth it.

Until she's diagnosed with early-stage leukemia.

Everything changes after that.

While her classmates worry about thesis deadlines and graduation, Rosalie is forced to leave for Spain to undergo treatment, carrying the terrifying possibility that her future might end before it even begins. Months later, she returns to the Philippines quieter, weaker, and no longer certain if dreaming big is still worth the pain of losing it all.

Then, during a late-night group project in the architecture studio, she meets Karlo Euan Reyes - a man just as lost and burdened as she is, except his battle isn't with sickness, but with life itself.

He understands her silences.
She understands his loneliness.

What starts as shared coffee, unfinished plates, and midnight conversations slowly becomes the reason Rosalie begins wanting more tomorrows. For the first time since her diagnosis, she stops counting the days she might lose - and starts imagining the life she could still have.

But love becomes dangerous when time is uncertain.

And as Rosalie's condition threatens to return, both of them must decide-whether loving someone fragile is worth the heartbreak of watching the petals fade.