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Elijah Consunji is a public elementary school teacher who lives by quiet principles: kindness without reward, integrity without recognition, and love expressed through patience. His simple life takes an unexpected turn after he helps an elderly man who collapses near his school. Elijah stays by the man's side until help arrives, refusing compensation-unaware that the stranger is Don Alejandro Zobel de Ayala, the powerful chairman of one of the richest clans in the Philippines.
Deeply moved by Elijah's sincerity, Don Alejandro alters his will. In a shocking decision that rattles the elite, he names Elijah as a conditional heir to his vast fortune-unless his cold, arrogant grandson, Sebastian Zobel de Ayala, agrees to marry him. Sebastian, a brilliant but emotionally detached third-generation heir, sees Elijah as a threat to his inheritance and assumes ulterior motives behind his kindness.
To avoid marriage while preserving his legacy, Sebastian proposes a six-month contract dating arrangement: a purely transactional relationship meant to satisfy his grandfather's condition. Elijah agrees only to protect his dignity, making it clear that he has no interest in wealth or power.
As they navigate forced proximity, media scrutiny, and class differences, the rigid walls Sebastian has built around himself begin to crack. Elijah's compassion, humility, and devotion to teaching challenge Sebastian's worldview, revealing how empty privilege feels without genuine connection. What starts as pretense slowly turns into affection neither of them planned for.
However, pressure from the Zobel family, the reappearance of Sebastian's past lover, and Sebastian's fear of vulnerability lead to misunderstandings that threaten to destroy what they've built. When Elijah chooses to walk away rather than be reduced to a condition in a will, Sebastian is forced to confront the truth: the greatest lesson of his life was never about inheritance, but about love.