Life Is Brighter on the Edge of the Abyss

“Get a tattoo—and your life will change!” promised an advertising poster. Sasha, an ordinary college student who craved adventure, believed it and walked into the salon. And indeed: once she got a beautiful tulip tattoo on her shoulder, her life changed— a random acquaintance turned out to be an American professor and offered to take her to study in America. Sasha miraculously passed the tough selection and received a grant. Studying English in the library, she met a handsome guy. Everything was fine—until the tattoo kept changing things. But then the mundane medical certificate turned into a sentence: her parents threw her out, friends turned away, and the most important person for her became an adventurer and card sharp whom she happened to save from bandits…