The Girl In The Crowd

Heavy rain meant harvest.
Wet earth meant crops.

Ryuki was both.
Yet nothing grew from him.
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In the north of Thailand lived a girl quietly trampled by life's tribulations and the subtle darkness that followed her home.

Holding on to the dregs of hope, Kesorn Surasak grows up in a world that has already begun deciding her fate. Bound to a boy meant to be her future husband. Her life seems destined to unfold along a path she never chose.

But the world is only beginning for Kesorn.

Questions begin to surface, and raised brows start to follow her steps. Fate soon places her in the path of a peculiar man from a foreign land. His presence is brief, unsettling - and his passing leaves catastrophe in its wake, collapsing the fragile order her world.

In the ruins that follow, Kesorn is left with only one certainty: somewhere beyond the life she once knew stands the man who shattered it.

A man the world knows by a single name.

Ryu.

The singer.

And sooner or later, Kesorn will collide with him.