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.

A false report: kidnapping, unsafe conditions. Bernarda had struck back.

Alejandro stepped forward like a wall and told Elena, “Say nothing. I’ll speak.”

At the gate, Bernarda played the victim. The police tried to follow “protocol.” Alejandro fought for 24 hours to secure an emergency DNA test.

Then, in a move no one expected, he told Elena, voice absolute:
“We’re getting married. Today.”

Elena panicked—status, reputation, scandal—until Alejandro said, “Do you think I care what strangers think while my children are in danger?”

She agreed—on one condition:
“Don’t make me a paper shield. Promise you won’t discard me after the storm.”
Alejandro answered without hesitation:
“You have my word.”

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