I PRETENDED TO BE “D.E.A.D” TO TEST THE LOYALTY OF MY SHY HOUSEKEEPER — BUT WHAT I DISCOVERED… WAS DEEPER THAN MY HEART COULD HANDLE.

My name is Alejandro Reyes, 41 years old.
CEO.
Rich.

Everyone admires me—
except for one person:

Lina, my shyest and most loyal maid.

It is silent.
Respectful.
Never rude.
He does not speak unless he has to.

And in the two years that he’s worked on my home in Quezon City…
Never, not once, has he looked me straight in the eye.

But there’s something different about her—
a kind of kindness I could never explain.

And since I had been hurt many times by people who were only pretending to be nice,
a question began to haunt me:

Was he really loyal?
Or was it all just a performance?

That’s when I came up with a plan
that I should never have done.

THE DECEPTION I THOUGHT WOULD BE SIMPLE
I prepared the plan for a whole week.

I would fake a heart attack.
I would pretend to collapse.
I would pretend to stop breathing.

I wanted to see their real reaction.
I wanted to know if he would take care of me…
or if he would flee like almost everyone else.