While delivering an order to a gated community, Jacob Ward encountered Lilith Howell, who was honoring her late husband's memory while grappling with the internal power struggles within the Ward Group. The moment Jacob entered, Lilith was stunned to see he was the spitting image of her deceased husband. In that pivotal instant, she resolved to hire him to impersonate her late husband, a desperate gambit to secure control of the family's entire inheritance.