13 parts Ongoing MatureTAGLISH (ARKI SERIES: #1)
In a world where uncertainty shapes every blueprint and the unexpected lurks behind every draft, one question lingers:
"Do you still believe in love?"
At twenty, Deves Ember Silverado was just another Architecture student striving to meet deadlines, perfect her designs, and survive the relentless critiques of Professor Calista Mae Vesper Laurent. Known for her precision and unyielding standards, the professor was both an enigma and a force of nature. What began as a battle of wills-late nights spent revising floor plans, relentless corrections-soon transformed into something else. Fascination. Admiration. Perhaps even love.
Between stolen glances across the drafting table and unspoken understandings in the quiet halls of the studio, Ember's feelings deepened. But just as she was beginning to make sense of them, tragedy shattered everything. Guilt weighed on her, and questions of fate and purpose overshadowed her once-clear ambitions. Then, the impossible happened-an extraordinary gift, a chance to bend time itself.
What if she could return to the moment before everything fell apart? What if she could change the course of their story? But as she raced against time, another truth emerged-one where the professor, in a life Ember had yet to see, had already moved on, had built something new, something lasting.
In a world full of blueprints and "what-ifs," Ember faced the ultimate design challenge: Would she redraw the past to fit her longing, or accept that some structures, no matter how beautifully conceived, were never meant to stand? If love was an architectural wonder, was its beauty in its permanence-or in the fleeting moments that made it real?
Perhaps, in the end, love wasn't about building something that lasted forever but about embracing the imperfect, ephemeral beauty of the present.
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STARTED: MAY 24, 2024
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