Echoes (Architects of Ruins Trilogy 2) ✔
21 parts Complete This story delves into the promising, yet ultimately tested, relationship between Adler Hansley and his college girlfriend, Crimson Morgan, set against the backdrop of their university life in Geneva. From Crimson's perspective, their love blossomed with an almost immediate connection, grounded in Adler's quiet thoughtfulness and a seeming antithesis to his emotionally distant and unfaithful father, Ardian Hansley. Crimson cherishes their "real" connection, a stark contrast to the shadowy past Adler rarely discusses.
However, their idyllic romance faces a profound crisis when Adler, following a night out, has a one-night stand with another woman. The act triggers a devastating realization in Adler: he fears he is mirroring his father's destructive patterns of infidelity and emotional confusion. Adler's subsequent emotional withdrawal and eventual raw confession to Crimson plunges their relationship into turmoil. Unlike his father, Adler is wracked with genuine remorse and a desperate, agonizing struggle to understand his own motivations. The narrative explores Crimson's heartbreak and shock, tempered by her witness to Adler's profound internal battle for integrity. As Adler grapples with his identity and the weight of his inherited legacy, he faces a difficult choice: to dismiss his actions and potentially repeat the past, or to embrace radical honesty, accountability, and the arduous path of breaking the generational cycle.