A Pyrrhic Victory (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)
Two tragic stories explore the devastating costs of achieving one's ambitions: a lawyer proves his client's innocence through a fatal self-experiment, and a composer's melancholic song becomes a global sensation linked to numerous suicides, ultimately leading to his own death.
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