How to Tame Your Rival
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A spiked beverage forces an artist into a fake relationship with the hockey player she once secretly admired.
Episode 1–11English
Artist Evelyn consumes a tampered soda intended for Julian, a cocky hockey star, and becomes bound by a high-stakes wager requiring them to pose as a couple. The arrangement mandates public displays of affection and constant joint appearances.
Evelyn believed she had moved past her crush on Julian two years earlier, but the manufactured intimacy systematically dismantles her emotional defenses. Each staged encounter pulls her buried attraction back to the surface, threatening the control she fought to establish.
Key points
- A spiked drink links Evelyn to Julian in a binding bet.
- They must perform a convincing romance for an audience.
- Evelyn's resolved feelings for Julian resurface under the pretense.
Suits
Readers who enjoy campus rivals-to-lovers dynamics with fake dating stakes will appreciate this tension.