The Selection Code (Luxara Series 1)

The Selection Code （Prolouge）

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If selection is real if people can really decide who’s worth it and who’s not then what happens when someone refuses to be chosen?

Aveline isn’t new to prestige.

She was raised in it. Money,influence,expectations.

Lahat nasa kanya na.

And attention. Hindi niya kailangan mag-effort para mapansin.

Russian. Half-Filipina. Soft features, pale skin. And eyes blue.

Yung tipong tinititigan ng tao ng mas matagal kaysa dapat.

Yung tipong may iniisip na agad sila

kahit hindi ka pa nagsasalita.

But she does speak fluently ng tagalog.

Hindi siya tunog dayuhan. Hindi siya hirap.

Hindi siya nagdadalawang-isip. Because she made sure of that.

She left everything behind ibang bansa,

ibang buhay, ibang version ng sarili niya and transferred.

To the Philippines. To one of the most prestigious institutions

Hanseo University of Traditional Medicine.

Section B, hindi top, hndi rin pinakasikat.

And she chose it that way. Because in a place where people study the body pulse, meridians, balance.

Aveline learned something else.

Distance.

She keeps hers controlled, measured. Parang pagkuha ng pulso steady, predictable, untouchable.

Her days are simple. Grinding herbs. Memorizing acupuncture points. Tracing meridian lines na parang ayaw niyang mawala sa daan.

Everything precise. Everything under control.

Until she hears his name.

Kaelis Rhune.

Section A

Top section.

Top student.

Top of everything.

Hindi lang siya kilala. Sinusundan siya.

Openly gay, super confident, beautiful in a way that feels intentional parang lahat sa kanya pinag-isipan.

But that’s not what people remember.

It’s what he does. He rejects people.

In public.

“Thank you. But no.”. Direct

Parang wala siyang kausap. Parang tinanggal lang niya yung isang option.

And everyone hears it. Everyone watches.

Parang demonstration. Parang lecture.

Because in Hanseo selection is everything.

Even in medicine.

You observe.

You diagnose.

You eliminate.

And Kaelis Rhune does the same, with people.

If you don’t fit you’re dismissed.

No second chances, no reconsideration.

And the worst part? He only approaches what he wants. Hindi siya naghihintay.

Hindi siya humahabol.

If he finds you interesting lalapitan ka niya.

If not? You don’t exist.

Aveline watches, from a distance.

Parang nag-oobserve lang ng pasyente.

Pattern,behavior,outcome. And she already knows the diagnosis. Super predictable.

So she decides she’ll never be one of them.

Hindi siya lalapit. Hindi siya maghihintay na piliin. Because she didn’t leave everything behind para lang ma-evaluate ng taong katulad niya at bakla siya.

But fate like an imbalance in the body has its own way of correcting things.

Because on her first week as a transferee—

napunta siya sa combined lecture.

Section A and Section B.

Of course. Her fingers rest on the table.

She checks her own pulse, steady. Sanay siya magbasa ng pulso ng iba.

But not this, not him. Kaelis Rhune stands at the front answering effortlessly.

Voice calm, certain. Everyone is watching him.

Like always.

And then for reasons she refuses to name, she stands up.

Walks toward him, people start to notice.

Of course they do, because it’s him.

And now it’s her.

She stops in front of him.

Close enough to know he already decided.

He tilts his head slightly, amused.

“Thank you—” Hindi niya siya pinatapos.

She smiles softly. Parang doktor na alam na ang resulta bago pa magsalita.

“Actually… never mind."

“You’re not my type.” And she walks away.

No hesitation, no looking back. Her pulse remains steady.

But behind her for the first time.

Kaelis Rhune wasn’t the one who chose.

He was the one, who wasn’t chosen.