THE CONTRACTUAL HEART
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Aurora Vittoria Montenegro,28, a brilliant and guarded corporate lawyer, operates her multi-million-peso empire with the absolute precision of a well-drafted contract. When an old promise between her late father and a prominent construction magnate binds her to an arranged marriage with Gianna Cara Alonzo, Vittoria treats it as a legal obligation-a partnership of convenience designed to protect her corporate interests.
Gianna, 27, a hardworking and sharp civil engineer, enters the marriage for entirely different reasons. As the unacknowledged illegitimate child in her family, she has spent her entire life chasing the elusive approval and love of her father, complying with the arranged union as a final, desperate bid to earn her family's validation. Living under Vittoria's luxurious roof, their worlds violently clash: Vittoria is formal, precise, and emotionally distant, while Gianna is exhausted, burdened by family pressure, and quietly enduring constant emotional neglect.
She married to protect her empire. Gianna married to finally earn her father's love. But what happens when an arranged marriage turns into the one thing neither of them can control-love?
How can two people bound together by a cold contract break the clauses of their own fears and family pressures, until the legal agreement dissolves into a genuine, unbreakable devotion?
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