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A motherless child at 15, young Nicomaine Elsa grew up with her overprotective Grandmother and a father who can't get over his love to a woman who only treats him as a friend. Poor Nicomaine, she didn't just lose a mother, but a friend, confidante and a fan. The Monte deVilla are very rich family.
Monte de Villa mansion
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Nicomaine Elsa's late mother inherited a fortune from her late Grandfather as well who owns a multi million dollar real estate company and hotel chains and she is the sole beneficiary of this massive wealth.
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Not to mention the wealth of the Monte deVillas who has their own franchise of food chains and owns Beach Resorts in the Philippines, thanks to her very business minded Grandmother Donya Mathilda Romana Monte deVilla.
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Her father Gabriel Monte deVilla is the only son and the President of their companies, Monte deVilla Inc, Donya Mathilda is the CEO. Amanda Jane MacCarthy, Nicomaine's late mother who's company is named after her daughter, the Maine MacCarthy Estate.
Nicomaine Elsa was sent to the US to study, she graduated with honors, majored in Business Management.
Richard Damian de Gracia is the son of Carmen and Ronaldo de Gracia who owns factories that makes high quality furniture that supplies high end restaurant and hotels in the country and overseas.
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Due to high demands of their products and lack of man power, the company is faced with huge debt as they're losing their investors one by one. Richard Damian lost his father from a freak accident leaving him and his mother to face all this problem.
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Gabriel has been in love with Richard's mother for the longest time as they were classmates during their college years. Though married to Amanda Jane, his love for Carmen never waned. After a hearing the struggle of the de Gracia family he offered help.
One of the biggest investor of the De Gracia Company is based in Japan who is also in the verge of pulling out their investments from the company, just to avoid it happening they want an assurance, that the de Gracia Inc's will not go into bankruptcy.
Nicomaine and Richard were schoolmates and have known each other for 4 years until she was sent to the US to study. Nicomaine Elsa admired Richard Damian for the longest time and dreamt that one day, they will meet again and maybe fall in love. Richard Damian on the other hand is engaged to her girlfriend of 2 years, Gwen Ramirez.
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When all this problem arising with the de Gracia family, Richard has to hold up the wedding as his mother doesn't want to lose the family business that she herself inherited from his late father, that she will do everything to save it.
The only way to save the de Gracia Company is not just to get a guarantor but security that the company will not falter. Nicomaine learned this from her father and is willing to lend a helping hand as well. ..and so they invested. The sole investors of the de Gracia company from Japan just needed security. When Carmen and Gabriel met up, they have decided that the only way to secure the Japanese investors is a marriage between Richard and Nicomaine, with the hope that a marriage of these two is enough to secure the investment plus The Monte de Villa Inc is very well known in the country of its wealth.
They will just do it for a show, just to secure the Japanese investors; that they will not pull out. Gabriel suggested this idea to Nicomaine and she agreed to it since it's her dream to be with Richard Damian, even if it just for a show. Richard on the other hand was resistant at first but after realizing that it would save their family business, he agreed to it. He hurriedly called Gwen, his fiancé, and explained to her the situation...she wasn't very happy about it but Richard had promised her that the marriage is staged and only temporary.
The households of the Monte deVilla are composed of Yaya Pining and his grandson Martino, from her late niece. Martino was taken in by Amanda Jane, he and Nicomaine were playmates and became very good friends while growing up. After learning about the staged marriage between Nicomaine Elsa and Richard Damian, they were instructed not to say anything to Donya Mathilda who is now travelling with her friends and is based in Canada. Martino particularly is not happy about the set-up as he is so worried about Else, Nicomaine's nickname.
