Caray, Caray!

The game of seduction has a name: Teresa

We always want much more than we have, but how far will we go to get it?

Teresa was born poor and couldn't accept it. Her parents helped her study and get ahead, sure that with a career their daughter could improve her cultural and socio-economic standing.

Mariano, her first love and the only man Teresa loves - in her fashion - also helped her. Her love is egotistical - she considers Mariano to belong to her and nobody else, believing he could never fall in love with another. She leaves him after a three year relationship, dazzled by Paulo's wealth, the best ? of the school for rich folks where she studies on scholarship.

Calculating, always with an ace up her sleeve, she conceals her relationship with Paulo from Mariano, from her family, and from everyone in her neighborhood. She takes equal care to hide her humble status from Paulo.

When Paulo discovers she is poor, his promise to marry her is forgotten and he wants her to be his lover, but she rejects him, and he in turn takes up with Aída out of spite.

Aída and Paulo humiliate Teresa, revealing her poverty and lies in public, so she decides to get reventes and swears she will never be trampled on again - she will get what she wants, no matter what the cost.

Teresa is aided by her professor, the prestigious lawyer Arturo de la Barrera; she subtly seduces him while pretending not to notice the sentiments she has awakened in him.

At the same time, she resumes her relationship with Mariano, because she is dying of jealousy when she finds out that her millionaire friend Aurora has fallen in love with him.

But then, Teresa is not inclined to wait for the 'love of her life' to drum up with money and a career; she decides Arturo will suit her better. Pretending that her parents don't love her and in fact even beat her, Teresa wangles an invitation from Arturo's sister Luisa to come live in the home of the la Barreras.

Living there she drives the professor crazy and lovesick, he wants to explode and confess his sentiments but he contains himself since he promised Teresa's father he would wait until she was no longer his student.

Teresa despises her parents and wants to cut her ties with them completely since all they do is make her vulnerable to ridiculte.

Refugio, her mother, though hopeful of change, has never deceived herself about what kind of person Teresa is, but her father Armando falls into an acute depression because he adores his daughter and will sacrifice himself for her, even to the point of going to prison.

Just when Teresa graduates and is on the point of marrying Mariano, she breaks up with him to accept Arturo, who takes her to Europe for a while ... but then she meets Fernando, Luisa's fiance, a handsome multimillionaire of noble birth, a man who could bring her into a more sophisticated world. Her eyes glitter at the thought of entering the jet set. She decides to conquer her best friend's man...

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