The Fourteenth Day of Rain
By @john1208
Kadir Safar drowned trying to save his colleagues when a catastrophic megaflood swallowed the Pargali Institute. Reborn just weeks before the disaster, he desperately presents his findings to the entire faculty office, only to be laughed out of the room, pelted with crumpled maps, and stripped of his funding. Forced to prepare alone, the overly kind-hearted Kadir retrofits the campus's abandoned bell tower, stockpiling supplies alongside his eccentric groundskeeper friend, Cemil. When the dark waters finally crash through the valley, the mocking scholars are left fighting for their lives. Unable to turn his back on suffering, Kadir opens his doors to his former tormentors - and to Ayla, the brilliant archivist he has silently loved for years. But his vindication turns to ash when he realizes a horrifying truth he never lived long enough to discover in his first life: the floodwaters are slowly dissolving the campus bedrock. They don't just have to survive the deluge; they have exactly fourteen days before the tower crumbles into the abyss. Will Kadir's gentle heart doom them all, or can he harden himself enough to lead an impossible escape?
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