The Silent Moonlight's Venom
By @john1208
Mirela Vesna returned to the drowned city of Olovo after five years of brutal exile, orchestrated by the manipulative Cernak family. She expects a bittersweet reunion with Davorin, her former fiancé. Instead, a morbid wedding invitation arrives by courier, accompanied by a preserved, whispering mourning-moth. At the estate, Davorin begs her to understand: he is marrying a weeping lookalike for duty, but his heart belongs to Mirela. Her response? A cold smile as she drops her priceless engagement ring into a rusted waste-chute and vanishes into the fog. While Davorin's alchemical empire spectacularly collapses without Mirela's hidden stabilizing formulas, she embraces her quietly ruthless nature. Guided by her shadowy moth-hound, Mrak, she proposes a dangerous pact with her former nemesis, Kasimir Vor. But as the mist thickens and their rivalrous banter turns into a dark romance, Mirela realizes her initial exile wasn't just aristocratic cruelty. Her most trusted confidante has been pulling the strings all along. Can Mirela outmaneuver the friend who knows all her secrets, or will the city's toxic shadows consume her first?
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