When Orchids Remember
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Amara Saitō, the most powerful and cold-hearted CEO in Japan, has spent her entire life suppressing the memory of the Filipina mother who vanished from her childhood. Meanwhile in the Philippines, Celestine Montero rises as the youngest and most spirited CEO in the country bubbly, kind, and adored by her workers, though she grew up with only faint memories of her mother.
They were never supposed to meet.
But fate intervenes when Amara spots a familiar face on a billboard. A face that shouldn't exist.
Drawn by the resemblance and haunted by a past she tried to bury, Amara starts to investigate.
Unaware, Celestine's world is about to be shaken by the truth behind her mother's hidden life and a sister she never knew she had.
Two worlds. One bloodline.
When orchids bloom again... the past remembers.
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