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How far will you bend before you decide to break?
Since completing her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program in the turbulent year of 2020, Damilola's life has felt completely stuck in reverse. Despite her pristine degree and brilliant mind, she navigates a soul-crushing cycle of unreplied emails and low-paying freelance gigs just to survive the grueling Lagos economy.
But her career isn't her only battleground. Her love life is governed by a cruel, invisible clock: the nine-month limit. A natural fixer, Damilola pours her entire soul into her relationships-cooking, praying, and supporting her partners' dreams-only for every single one of them to end the exact same way: with a facedown phone, late-night whispers, and a devastating discovery of infidelity.
Exhausted, broken, and weary of fighting for crumbs of affection, Damilola makes a radical decision on her bedroom floor. She surrenders. She steps away from the dating scene, stops letting unemployment dictate her joy, and chooses to hide herself completely in the presence of God. She trades her anxiety for an unshakeable inner peace, content to simply be a daughter of the Almighty.
Then comes an unremarkable Tuesday morning in January 2026.
A single call from an unknown international number completely shatters her six-year stagnation. On the other end is Oluwole, a brilliant, exceptionally handsome executive calling directly on behalf of an MIT executive master program. When a skeptical Damilola is invited to meet him beside a massive pillar at the Eko Hotel & Suites, she has no idea that she is stepping into the blueprint of her destiny.