Separate Love

For three years, Eleanor Chen has loved Marcus Ward in secret—a quiet, consuming devotion that she nurtures from the shadows of their university library. He is the golden boy: effortlessly handsome, charmingly careless, and perpetually surrounded by a revolving door of girlfriends who never last. Eleanor, by contrast, is the invisible girl—reliable, unassuming, and utterly overlooked. She knows every curve of his smile, every inflection of his laugh, yet he barely knows she exists.