Both are worlds apart but a chance encounter on Eid changes the course of their lives forever. Full synopsis, aesthetics and playlist inside! All Rights Reserved © Halima A 2025

She woke up in a hospital bed with nothing but a name on a necklace. No memories. No past. No idea who she was. The world called it amnesia. But deep inside, she felt like a stranger in her own skin. With no clues to follow, she created a new life-a new identity. Fame became her only hope. If enough people saw her, maybe someone would recognize her. Maybe someone would know the truth. But with every step forward, the past remained just out of reach. Was she meant to remember... or was she supposed to forget? -- This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

THE ERUDITE is a televised intellectual bloodsport where the brightest minds are broken and remade. Five schools. Ten competitors. Three months of psychological warfare disguised as academia. The prize? A future gilded in prestige - if you survive the unraveling. SAGE CALISTA enters with a mind like a scalpel and desperation like a noose. She knows the cost of losing - her mother's fading breath, her own hungry hands. Every word she speaks is a calculated strike. Every glance is a betrayal waiting to happen. ICARUS KIER arrives as if born to burn. All golden arrogance and calculated cruelty, he fights like victory is his birthright. But in the quiet, when the cameras cut, his hands shake with the weight of being flawless. They were never supposed to kneel for each other. Never supposed to carve their devotion into each other's ribs like a new kind of scripture. But the Erudite doesn't care about supposed to. "Win," he whispers against her throat, "But if you have to lose, let it be to me." In the end, the Erudite only asks one question: How much of your soul are you willing to trade for the answer?

⊹ ࣪ ˖ A 22-year old workaholic criminology student at a internship for a small town with big secrets. A case that's a shadow of her own? A case what's hidden somewhere in her? Was it a shadow of her own?

My roman empire ⋆˚࿔ Playlist: - "him and I" by G-Eazy and Halsey - "Swim" by chase atlantic - "Die for you" by The Weekend