Mirrors in the Deep

In the sweltering city of Velan, a young talent manager falls from a luxury high-rise on the same day an industrialist’s will is unsealed. Journalist Vera Kain follows an anonymous letter into the labyrinth of the Vermillion dynasty, where the dead girl’s case reopens a scandal the family has sealed in blood for three generations. Beneath the polished marble and charity galas lies a curse not of the supernatural, but of inherited cruelty: every heir inherits not just the fortune, but a precise capacity for betrayal. The deeper Vera digs, the more the maze of past crimes begins to mirror her own fractured memory. To trace the rot to its origin, she must walk through the rooms of a rotting manor where the walls whisper old verdicts, until the abyss she gazes into finally gazes back. In this story, the psychological maze is far more lethal than any physical jungle, and everyone who seeks the truth eventually catches their own reflection staring from the dark.