The maid secretly dyed a pot of cheap rice yellow and called it “gold rice” so the four little boys would feel like princes… But the day the billionaire came home early and saw it, he froze—because the boys looked exactly like him, and that “gold rice” was the secret that kept them alive.

THE SHOCK OF RECOGNITION
Alejandro should have stormed in, demanded answers, thrown everyone out.
Instead, he couldn’t move.

The boys’ profiles—one turning to laugh, lamp light catching his face—hit Alejandro like a time-warped mirror. The nose. The smile. The expression. The familiarity was terrifying.

The mansion was a fortress. No one entered without permission. Yet here were four children eating at his table like hidden royalty—alive, real, laughing softly in a house that had been silent for years.

ELENA SEES HIM FIRST
The faint creak of Alejandro’s Italian shoes was nothing… but Elena reacted like it was thunder. She turned, color draining from her face.

The boys sensed her fear at once and looked toward the doorway in perfect unison.

Alejandro couldn’t breathe. Up close, the resemblance wasn’t “similar.”
It was identical.

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