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Story Summary

Anna Celestine Angeles is a fourth-year General Education student who has always tried to focus on her studies and stay out of trouble. But her ordinary college life takes an unexpected turn when she meets her strict and intimidating professor, Professor Lorenzo Andres Salazar.

Lorenzo is the kind of professor everyone is afraid of. His presence alone can make an entire classroom go silent. With his sharp personality, serious demeanor, and intimidating aura, he has a way of making his students question their own intelligence whenever they are in front of him.

To Celestine, Lorenzo is simply the professor she would rather avoid.

But fate has other plans.

As their paths continue to cross, Celestine slowly discovers that there is more to Lorenzo than his intimidating exterior. Behind his strict personality lies someone dealing with complicated family problems-problems that Celestine can surprisingly relate to.

Their shared struggles bring them closer, allowing them to understand one another in ways neither of them expected.

Then Lorenzo makes an unusual request.

He asks Celestine to pretend to be his girlfriend. Fake to be exact.

Celestine agrees, thinking it will only be a simple favor. But things become complicated when she finds herself caught in a lie of her own. After telling her older sister that Lorenzo is her boyfriend, Celestine suddenly has no choice but to ask him to play along.

Now, the strict professor and his student are trapped in a fake relationship neither of them planned.

What begins as a simple arrangement soon becomes filled with awkward situations, unexpected moments, family secrets, and emotions they never saw coming.

They both know that their relationship is supposed to be nothing more than an act.

But what happens when pretending becomes harder than telling the truth?

And what if the person they were only pretending to love becomes the one person they can no longer imagine losing?