Falling in love was never part of the plan.
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Three months before Sachiahia's planned vacation to her hometown, her longtime boyfriend, Daniel, proposed to her. Overwhelmed with excitement, she couldn't keep it to herself and immediately shared the news with her entire family. But just a month after the proposal, she caught him with another woman, living his best life as if their engagement meant nothing.
Heartbroken and humiliated, Sachiahia isolated herself in her apartment for weeks. Eventually, she remembered her original plan-to visit her family back home. But the thought of facing them after announcing her engagement, only to admit it had fallen apart, filled her with shame.
Desperate, she downloaded a dating app-not to find love, but to find a fake fiancé. The plan was simple: take him home, introduce him to her family, let their "relationship" slowly unravel, and then stage a breakup. To sweeten the deal, she even offered a hundred thousand pesos to anyone willing to play the part.
But no one accepted.
Just as she was about to give up, a notification popped up on her phone:
"I'll do it-on one condition. You have to pretend to be my fiancée in front of my family too."
Curious, she checked the sender's profile, and when she saw the name, her jaw nearly hit the floor.
Darius Volkov.
A well-known businessman, the kind who mingled with society's elite.
Why would someone like him need a fake fiancée? And more importantly... could she really trust him?
What started as a simple plan was already spiraling into something far more complicated.