#Read at your own risk
Updated frequently, so enjoy with confidence
Disaster + two heroines + slow burn + strong female lead
She remembers every hand crushed by the System.
When Vera Loren was thirteen, her father sold her older sister to Silver Oak Manor for a bottle of liquor. Vera broke down and was sent to a psychiatric hospital, where she met Guo Qing, a girl with black-rimmed glasses who folded paper birds and believed coordinates could be pieced together into a map. They planned to escape, but Guo Qing was captured protecting her. Five years later, Vera infiltrated the gilded heart of the Empire, only to find a page from an experiment log: “Subject G-19, project terminated. Dispose of according to medical waste protocol.”
No one knows what the girl said at the end. But Vera remembered every symbol she left behind and joined them into a map of revenge pointing straight to the Empire’s core.
This is a story about “seeing.” Seeing that the roofs corroded by acid rain and the fountains of the rich share the same source. Seeing the organ quotas behind “charitable resettlement.” Seeing the uniform label “voluntary relocation” on missing persons’ files. And seeing the love between two girls, passed in wax-sealed candy wrappers through the cracks in the System’s grinding gears, never once recorded.
The Empire calls those on the fringes “expendables.” Vera says: I’ll give every speck of ash a name.
This is the story of a girl who takes love as her compass and pursues a murder case across an entire era.
Beautiful, beautiful Come and see! (*≧ω≦) Please 🥺