The Hibiscus in Crimson
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Last published Mon, Sep 22, 2025
What happens when a series of murders takes place in a hustling city,
Mantha has her own highs and lows as growing up in an orphanage with no one ever truly by her side.
Now as the Chief of the Investing Bureau, assigned with her tragic life and a mysterious case, will she ever be able to navigate her self back to a new version of her? and will she ever get ger hands on the mysterious murderer?
Yudh, a Psychologist and a Psychiatrist resolving cases and dealing with patients, but on his resume, lies a degree in criminology which lands tonnes of things he deals with everyday, including bodies, by bodies i meant dead bodies.
What will happen when the case will resolved and the lives included whether they will be reborn or destroyed?
Will Mantha's inner battles will succeed or her will for life ?
Will the case would give her a new way or her life would be shattered again?
Yudh's constant fights with the demons of others would get him his own destiny or would he open the mystery box of his own life or someone else's?
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