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Campus · 36 episodes · YourChannel

My Rival’s Secret Crush

Name: My Rival’s Secret Crush
Genre: Campus Romance, Rivals to Lovers, Fake Dating, Sports Romance, Young Adult

Publicly humiliated, she kisses her infuriating campus rival to save face — then agrees to fake-date him under three very strict rules.

36 episodesYourChannelCampus RomanceRivals to LoversFake DatingSports Romance

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The story

The short version. Campus, 36 episodes on YourChannel. The opening arc starts with a very public humiliation. Harper catches her boyfriend kissing another girl in front of the entire campus, and proud and heartbroken, she refuses to give anyone the satisfaction of watching her fall…

The premise is a revenge kiss that becomes a contract. Harper is proud, heartbroken and cornered in front of the whole campus, and her answer is to take the least safe option available: she publicly kisses the boy she has spent years writing off as a rival. The video that spreads overnight forces a decision — back away and let the campus narrative write itself, or control the story herself. Her answer is a fake relationship, built on rules she writes and Nate agrees to.

The series runs 36 episodes in English, with the opening stretch playable on the official YourChannel player. That opening stretch covers the public breakup, the revenge kiss, the viral video, the fake-date agreement and the first few campus events that test the rules. The longer question — how long Nate has actually liked her, and what Harper does once she finds out — is left to the show rather than summarised here.

What the opening stretch is really about is the gap between Harper’s public image and the person underneath. Nate sees the vulnerable girl behind the perfect facade, and Harper slowly discovers that the guy she loves to hate may be the only person who never asks her to pretend. The show leans on the campus calendar for that slow reveal: hockey games, late-night group projects, festivals, a storm that traps them somewhere they would rather not be alone, and the formal dance. Each beat bends one of her three rules a little further.

Series facts checked against the YourChannel listing. Notes cover the opening episodes only; nothing here reveals the ending.

Who carries it

Harper and Nate carry the opening arc.

Harper

The proud campus rival who starts the fake relationship

A proud, high-achieving campus student who catches her boyfriend kissing another girl in front of the whole school. Too proud to let anyone watch her fall apart, she kisses her rival Nate on impulse and then turns the moment into a controlled fake relationship under her own rules.

Nate

The infuriating campus rival

The boy Harper can barely tolerate, and the one she grabs for the revenge kiss. Agreeing to the fake relationship on her terms, he is the person who sees the vulnerable girl behind Harper’s perfect image — and whose own feelings, the description hints, started long before the contract did.

Scenes worth the episode

Four editorial picks from the opening campus arc — the public breakup, the revenge kiss and the first rules. No ending spoilers.

Episodes 1–8

Caught in Front of Everyone

Harper walks in on her boyfriend kissing another girl in front of the entire campus. The public nature of the betrayal is what forces her into the public response that starts the whole story.

Episodes 1–8

The Revenge Kiss

Too proud to fall apart on camera, Harper grabs Nate — her infuriating campus rival — and kisses him in front of the crowd. By morning the video has gone viral.

Episodes 1–8

Three Rules for a Fake Date

To control the gossip, Harper agrees to fake-date Nate under one condition: her rules. No jealousy. No real feelings. Absolutely no falling in love.

Episodes 1–8

The Campus Calendar Bends the Rules

Hockey games, late-night projects, festivals, storms and a formal dance — each campus event pushes the fake relationship a little closer to something neither of them wrote into the contract.

Frames from episode one

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Our notes

Written from the opening arc. These are editorial impressions, not audience scores.

WebShorts notes · on the premise

The show works because the fake relationship is a defence mechanism, not a plot device. Harper writes the rules after a very public humiliation, and every rule is there to keep her from being hurt again.

WebShorts notes · on the two leads

Nate is written as the only person who does not ask Harper to perform — which is the single thing she is unprepared for. The campus calendar does the slow work of letting that show.

Best for viewers who like campus rivals-to-lovers with a fake-dating engine, hockey games and a formal dance, and a heroine whose pride is the main obstacle rather than the villain. If you want grown-up workplace romance or a darker tone, the early episodes stay firmly in bright campus territory. The 36-episode run gives the rules time to bend one at a time rather than collapsing in a single episode.

Before you press play

How many episodes are there in My Rival’s Secret Crush?

All 36 episodes sit on YourChannel's official player.

What is the premise of My Rival’s Secret Crush?

After catching her boyfriend cheating in front of the whole campus, Harper kisses her infuriating rival Nate on impulse and then agrees to fake-date him under strict rules — no jealousy, no real feelings, no falling in love.

Is it a rivals-to-lovers story?

Yes. The two leads start as campus rivals who can barely tolerate each other, and the fake relationship is what gradually turns that rivalry into something else.

How do I watch My Rival’s Secret Crush online?

It streams on YourChannel. We only link to the official player for it.

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