Distilling the Ex's Delusion
By @john1208
Yaldiz’s perfectly calibrated morning routine is ruined when Ceylan, the supposedly tragic ex-girlfriend of her bitterest rival, throws herself through Yaldiz's conservatory window just to scream she was pushed. Ceylan claims she only left Kadir "for his own good" due to a terminal illness, and now paints Yaldiz as a jealous, vicious bully whenever no one is looking. Unfortunately for Ceylan, Yaldiz lacks the emotional capacity to be jealous, and Kadir is a ruthless monopolist who refuses to play the tragic hero. Instead of falling for the victim act, Kadir immediately uses his immense wealth to quarantine Ceylan "for her frail health," cutting off her social supply. As the rival chemists temporarily ally to investigate her claims, they uncover a shocking twist: the mysterious botanical blight ravaging the city’s royal gardens and Ceylan’s sudden "rare lung disease" are the exact same conspiracy. With the city's flora dying from the very toxins Ceylan uses to fake her symptoms, can they stall a catastrophic ecological collapse long enough for a genuine physician to publicly shred her forged medical records at the Grand Gala?
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