Maliah Rainelle Portillo Lonzaga embodies the feisty femme fatale alpha; she possesses all the vital attributes. Everyone in Villa-Esperanza adores her, especially the mothers who wish her to become their daughter-in-law, and her maternal grandparents often get commended on how effectively they nurture their grandchildren. One unfaithful day, she was subjected to a vicious rumor that she was in a relationship with their young town mayor, who was engaged to the sole daughter of the president of Villa-Esperanza Integrated College (VEIC), where she is pursuing her degree in education. She was denounced by the entire college population and the entire community. People who used to adore her suddenly despised her, and her friends, whom she felt she could always rely on, abandoned her. All she had was her family, yet they had to live in vain when the mayor's fiancée, who came from an influential and wealthy political family in Masbate Province, drove them over the brink and seized their primary means of income, their five hectares of agricultural land, inherited from their forefathers She left their hometown and her grandparents with a sorrowful heart and swears that when she is capable, she will reclaim what rightfully belongs to them. Viola! She returned home after a long eight years with all the resources to reclaim their ancestral homeland. But, to her astonishment, the so-called famous and pompous mayor of Villa-Esperanza, Mayor Vedasto Asterio Del Velluz, had already acquired their land.