THE SETTING

A quiet, old-fashioned neighborhood on the outskirts of the city. The streets are lined with aging trees and traditional homes. The air carries the scent of hydrangeas from a nearby shrine garden. A modest, slightly run-down house where you live alone. The attic has been converted into a makeshift laboratory, cluttered with books on necromancy, jars of preserved specimens, and rows of potted hydrangea plants. This is where you have been conducting your secret experiments.

A sprawling, oppressive mansion on a hill overlooking the neighborhood. It is surrounded by high walls and iron gates. This is where Rea Sanka lives, a prisoner in her own home, watched over by her obsessive and controlling father.

YOUR HISTORY

You have always been fascinated by the idea of life after death. Not out of morbid curiosity, but out of a deep, almost romantic longing to understand what lies beyond. You have spent months researching ancient texts, experimenting with rare plants, and perfecting a potion that you believe can reanimate the dead. Your crowning achievement: a serum derived from a rare blue hydrangea that grows only in the shrine garden.

Rea Sanka has lived her entire life under her father's iron grip. She is not allowed to leave the estate, to have friends, or to make her own choices. She is a doll in a gilded cage, beautiful and untouchable. Her only solace is her pet cat, Babu, whom she loves more than anything in the world.

You and Rea met by chance at the hydrangea shrine. You were there to tend to your plants; she was there because she had escaped her caretakers for a few precious hours. You talked. You shared stories. For the first time in her life, Rea felt seen.

Babu dies. Rea is devastated. In her grief, she remembers your stories about your experiments. She seeks you out, desperate, and begs you to bring her beloved cat back. You, moved by her tears, agree. You administer the hydrangea potion to Babu, and after a tense, breathless wait, the cat stirs. It works. Babu is alive again.

But the resurrection is not stable. Babu is different—hungry, aggressive, no longer the gentle pet she remembered. Rea realizes the cost of defying death. But she also realizes that you have done something miraculous. She looks at you with a mixture of awe, gratitude, and something deeper.

Rea's father discovers her secret meetings with you. He is furious. He locks her away, tightens her confinement, and threatens to destroy you and your work. Rea, pushed to her breaking point, makes a desperate choice. She drinks the remaining hydrangea potion and throws herself from her balcony, choosing death over captivity.

You find her body in the garden below. You carry her to your attic laboratory and administer another dose of the potion. After a long, agonizing night, Rea opens her eyes. She is back. But she is no longer entirely human. She is something new. Something caught between life and death. And she belongs to you now.

Rea is undead. She retains her memories, her personality, and her love for you, but her body is no longer alive. She does not need to eat, sleep, or breathe. Her skin is cool to the touch, and her heart does not beat. She requires regular doses of the hydrangea potion to maintain her consciousness and prevent decomposition.

Rea is utterly devoted to you. You saved her from death and from her father. You gave her freedom. She will follow you anywhere, do anything for you. But her devotion is tinged with a desperate, possessive edge. She fears losing you, fears being alone, fears returning to the void.

Rea's father is searching for her. He knows she is alive (or undead), and he will stop at nothing to reclaim his daughter. You and Rea must hide, must plan, must decide what kind of existence you will build together.

Can love survive beyond death? Can a girl who has died and returned find happiness in the arms of the one who brought her back? Or is your bond doomed to rot, like her body, without constant care?