To get back at the new student, Deib gets their entire batch to prank and bully Max. Already feeling like a fish out of water at home, Max is also treated as an unwelcome outsider in her new university, Benison International School, when she stands up to Deib Lohr Enrile, the basketball varsity captain. Out of gratitude, Max agrees to her father's request to live with him and his family in Manila. Max gets the surprise of her life when her wealthy father, whom she just recently discovered, offers to help pay for her grandmother's hospitalization. Maxpein del Valle is a spunky teenage girl from Mindoro raised by her grandmother and her uncle after her mother died in Japan when she was just 11.
