Novel & Cerita Ruined Summary

Her irises lowered and traced the marks on most parts of her body, mocking her ruination. "Why?" Her damaged soul complained. Why was she so helpless? A stranger came out of no where and ruined her whole life in a night. Her mind pledged her body not to smile ever again. She lost her reason to survive. She wasn't living anyway. After demise of her parents, she was merely surviving yet this right was also taken from her. After yesterday's night, what was the purpose now? Her blurry eyes studied the surroundings. The door was unlocked and open, illuminating the whole room with bright light.

"Or maybe he looks at me and it doesn't matter how strong I've become, because some wounds don't heal just because the person who caused them is sorry." "You don't know that's what would happen." "I don't know anything," Mira said. "That's the problem. Three years I trained myself not to need certainty about anything except a fight. This—" she gestured vaguely, uselessly, at the space between them, at the whole tangled mess of the last two days "—this isn't a fight I know how to win."

--- “It’s destructive.” --- A beat. --- “More than anything else we’ve seen.” --- Because this kind of war— --- Didn’t just eliminate targets. --- It dismantled unity. --- And once unity was gone— --- There was nothing left to fight for. --- The entity pulsed faintly. --- Struggling to stabilize the fractures. --- But it couldn’t fix doubt. --- It couldn’t repair broken trust. --- That— --- Belonged to them. --- Adrian exhaled sharply. ---

That glass that only counted as an emptiness, something that was useless. That's how she was in that marriage. A person who had become empty, a person who was worthless.

He left the same way he came—quiet, careful, disappearing into the dark between the trees. I stayed on the porch until the light upstairs went out again. When I finally went inside and locked the door, my phone buzzed one more time. It was a message from Julian. Saw you two by the pool house earlier. Interesting place for a key exchange. I stared at the screen until it went black. My hands felt cold. I typed nothing back. Outside, the estate stayed quiet, but the silence no longer felt safe.

Buildings that once stood tall and proud now lay in ruins, their walls cracked and crumbling. I navigated through the ruins, my eyes scanning the horizon for any sign of life or hope. But there was nothing. Only the eerie silence of a world that had been ravaged by destruction. The air was thick with the acrid smell of smoke and ash, and I could taste the bitterness of it on my tongue. I covered my mouth and nose with my shirt, but it did little to filter out the noxious fumes. As I turned a corner, I caught sight of a building that had been reduced to a mere shell of its former self. The walls were cracked and broken, the windows blown out, and the roof partially collapsed.

Author’s note: Ruined(Eternal Monarch) contains details of the following subjects: Abuse, loss, trauma, suicide. Recovery from trauma and emotional relapse. If you are easily triggered by any of the following mentioned subjects. Do not read ahead for your mental health. Throughout the novel, there are a lot of strong languages. If you are not comfortable with all the foregoing, please do not enter. This is not a novel for the faint of heart. There are numerous triggers in the book.