What if the price of brilliance was your soul? Seventeen-year-old Jonah Reyes has always been “slow.” Raised in a Marikina orphanage, he’s big, kind, and barely passing his classes. His only friend is Miguel, a bullied genius who dreams of building robots to clean the Pasig River. One rainy afternoon, Jonah steps in to save Miguel from school bully Karlo Mercado. Karlo’s punch leaves Jonah with a brain injury — and something impossible. When he wakes up, Jonah isn’t slow anymore. He’s a savant. He sees the world in numbers, patterns, and connections. He can finish Miguel’s calculus homework in seconds. He can predict floods before PAGASA does. He becomes a national hero. Tatap Tech founder. MIT fellow. The boy who turned trauma into triumph. Until the headaches start. Until the numbers go quiet. Until he realizes the brain he borrowed is being repossessed.

A college sophomore who won the billion dollar lottery. He is an orphan. No one took adopted him, so when he reached the age of adulthood he was kicked out of the orphanage. He is an intelligent young man. Because of his wit, he was able to get scholarships. He is taking business management courses. He used the money he won to build his on company, expanded his network, and studied from top universities to gain more knowledge.