Scandal with the Billionaire Heir

Lucius Adrien Tantoco was never supposed to fall for a woman like Anri Sevilla. He was the billionaire heir to Manila's most powerful old-money family - raised to marry someone polished, quiet, and bred for legacy. Anri was the complete opposite. A nurse-turned-actress, unapologetically Filipina-Australian, loud in the press, and absolutely uninterested in his last name.



One reckless night in Melbourne should've been the end of it. But when she resurfaces months later as the breakout star of a viral Netflix show, all eyes on her, Lucius realises he never got over her. And now that the world is watching, he wants her more than ever.



The tabloids call her a gold-digger. Rumours say she trapped him. Headlines paint her as a fame-hungry outsider clinging to his name. His family wants her gone before she stains their reputation. They say she's too new, too wild, too beneath him. But Lucius doesn't care about any of it.



Anri is chaos and fire and everything he was told to stay away from. He doesn't want the girl they would approve of. He wants the one who might destroy him. And if loving her ruins everything, then he'll ruin it all with a smile.