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Where Memory Bleeds Quietly In a summer that burned too brightly, something shattered — not with noise, but with a silence so deep it echoed through the soul. This is not a story told in straight lines. It is a fragment, a perfume, the fading warmth left on a bench after someone has gone. Amid the crimson blaze of a flamboyant tree and the restless pulse of Saigon, two hearts touched briefly — only to be pulled apart by time, by fate, by that quiet cruelty life wears when it smiles too gently. There is joy here, yes — the laughter of a girl beneath sun-dappled leaves, the sparkle of flan on a silver spoon, the click of a shutter trying to trap eternity. But beneath it all, something trembles. A love too tender to last. A presence that lingers like a shadow just beyond reach. By the river where the city exhales, a soul once cast its past into the current — hoping the water could carry grief where memory could not. But sorrow, like love, does not drown so easily. It clings. It haunts. It sings in every place you once were whole. This is for those who carry the weight of absence. For those whose hearts remember what the world has already let go.
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What if money was power? What if capital was magical? What if income was cultivation? What if a young man decided to destroy this unjust world of inequality and build a better one? That was exactly what Cæ (Cash) sought to do amid grief, anger, and hatred when he lost everything in an accident. Having come from nothing in the slums, his only goal had been to live a good life. By the age of twenty-two, he had finally managed to pull himself out of poverty with a decent job and romance. And then he lost everything he had ever built in an accident that left him in a coma for half a year. The world deprived him of the only person he had truly come to love. The predatory healthcare system burdened him with debt. The corrupt justice system deprived him of justice. The financial system robbed him of everything he owned. For the second time in his life, Cæ had been left with nothing. Well, almost nothing. The accident and the ensuing coma had altered his brain and mind, giving him an extraordinary talent for cultivating and mastering magic. He had been blessed with Acquired Savant Syndrome, a medical condition so rare that there were very few instances of it ever having occurred in history. It gave him endless potential and remarkable power. It gave him the power to destroy the world that he hated from the bottom of his heart. It gave him the power to destroy it and build a better one. And that was exactly what Cæ set out to do. --- This is my second novel, albeit my first time trying my hand at Royal Road. This story is centered around my desire to explore a story with a magical system centered around macroeconomics and politics. As the title suggests, this story will be centered around kingdom-building and progression fantasy. Romance is a coin flip. No smut. No harem. No systems. Hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoy writing it.
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