eight dates

Marissa was only eight when her mother sold her. Hikaos sila sa buhay kaya kailangan ng kanyang ina na dumeskarte. Nabenta siya ng kanyang ina sa halagang tatlong daang libo sa mag-asawang nangangarap magkaroon ng anak. Akala nya ay magiging masaya na siya sa buhay dahil sa yaman ng mga bumili sa kanya, lingid sa kaalaman niya ay pinagkasundo siyang ipakasal sa lalaking di nya kilala. Pero sa hindi inaasahang pangyayari, nabuntis si Marissa ng isang lalaki na kinamumuhian nya. Kilala ni Marissa ang lalaki dahil madalas nyang makita ito sa mga business meeting ng kanyang mga adoptive parents. Nang mabalitaan ng kanyang adoptive parents ang nangyari sa kanya ay pinalayas nila si Marissa sa kanilang pamamahay. Bumalik sya sa kanyang tunay na pamilya dala-dala ang sanggol sa sinapupunan.

Aero Manzinilla died in an airplane crash together with his family when he was twenty years old. It wasn’t that bad, afterall. Dahil kahit sa kahuli-hulihang hininga ay buo pa rin naman sila at magkakasamang nadeadball. Eight years later (in human world) isa na siya sa mga kaluluwang malapit nang maging anghel. He was Michael, the Warrior Archangel’s, most beloved student. Lahat kasi ng mga ipinapagawa nito ay ginagawa niya. He mastered all the trainings of being a true warrior of God. Kaunting-kaunti nalang talaga ay makukuha na niya ang minimithing tungkulin. But one wrong move made him lose that chance. He was stripped off of his right to become a soul soldier, was thrown back to Earth and was under the surveillance of the high Angels. All because of a suicidal depressed girl with a dream to become a fish – the poet and painter, Maeve Carcel. What a beautiful nuisance, indeed!

Maureen Salagunting is a go-getter whose dreams are bigger than her ability and wallet. In fact, she wanted to become a neurosurgeon because she thought it is the hardest profession anyone could have, and she doesn't mind if she would be an old, loveless maiden as long as her bank account is fat and flooding with money. But fate didn't coincide with her plans and she settled with being a private school teacher, then an online live seller when COVID-19 shook the lives of humanity that made her lose her job as well. When she thought everything couldn't get any worse, her shaken life shattered totally when her mother lost the battle against the virus on the day of her 24th birthday, making her wish to cease her existence too. After crying her heart to God, a dashing, mysterious man in a business suit was waiting outside the chapel, telling her to fulfill the marriage agreement she signed eight years ago as a joke. Should she deny it? Or should they begin faking love amidst the pandemic?