Lily Cruz

"Just like gold, I am indestructible!"

- Lily Cruz announcing her indestructibility

The main heroine and antithesis to the evil and cruelty of the Ardientes. After she escaped Poblacion Ardiente as a little girl, she was adopted by Prianka Aguas, a billionaire-philanthropist, owner of one of the largest property development firm in Asia and a wife of the late Jose Ricardo Mendoza Aguas. Prianka helped her exact revenge on the Ardiente by giving Ivy Aguas all the resources available. She raised her to be independent, arming her with all the skills needed to defend herself. When she moved into Poblacion Ardiente as Ivy Aguas, she rekindled her friendship with Diego Torillo, her childhood bestfriend while methodically executed her plans for revenge against Ardientes. She is a strong-willed person, vicious, manipulative, cunning, and devious.

She is a skilled martial artist and trained fighter, with the ability to hold her own against the goons of the Ardientes. Her hard-headedness is also her weakness as the evil Ardientes are able to keep up with her. She successfully drove Arnaldo Ardiente-Torillo insane, but at the expense of Carlota 's life. She also successfully gathered evidence against Emilia 's corrupt practices as a governor and manipulated the events to turn Julio Ardiente against her. Her interaction with Emilia in many occasions involve sarcasms and at times end up in violent catfights. Emilia Ardiente-Torillo orchestrated a plan with Julio Ardiente to bury Ivy Aguas alive. Ivy Aguas was rescued, and used her highly publicized “death” to make a comeback during 100th celebration of Poblacion Ardiente. In this event, she exposed Julio’s cheating, successfully removing him from his seat and lodged cases against him. She revealed her true identity as Lily Cruz, and vowed to use her money and resources to build the Poblacion Ardiente community, despite of the evil schemes of Ardientes and her new enemy, Red Dragon.