ZU × ORI

Prologue

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:41:01 GMT

A bonus episode set after the ending. Zu and Ori share a ride as the world reacts to The Lights.

1.1 My Name is Zu

Thu, 10 Apr 2025 10:47:34 GMT

16-year-old Zu sketches quietly in a New York City café, haunted by a face she’s never seen—and a feeling she can’t explain. In the strange pull of her drawings, a story begins to surface—one about identity, memory, and the moment before everything changes.

1.2 Trinity Rose

Sat, 03 May 2025 19:40:29 GMT

Zu’s sharp sense of smell, her drawings, and a school performance called The Lights begin to connect. Trinity Rose starts feeling less like an accident and more like a clue.

1.3 Wrong Romeo

Tue, 13 May 2025 22:46:25 GMT

Zu’s instinct for Shakespeare lands her an unexpected role in The Lights, but something about Landon’s performance feels off. Meanwhile, a brush with Ori’s artwork triggers a memory. The past is getting closer.

1.4 The Gaze

Mon, 26 May 2025 22:00:10 GMT

Zu tries to unwind, but her mind won’t settle. One name—Ori—keeps rising to the surface. An online search leads to a mysterious livestream and a moment so intense, it feels impossible.

2.1 Ori

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:14:50 GMT

Ori feels it through the screen—someone’s watching. Hermes brings holograms and hard truths, but the white dress keeps calling him back.

2.2 Six Seconds

Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:20:20 GMT

Six seconds. No blinking. No breath. Just everything. Some connections don’t begin—they return.

2.3 Crash

Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:33:15 GMT

Zu leaves the High Line with Ori still on her lips. Then metal screams, glass flies, and Verona comes rushing back. Destiny just took the wheel.

3.1 Verona

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:00:15 GMT

Tai steps into the House of Capulet, where Juliet’s return changes everything. Orpheus shows Lucrezia a theater, a black storm, and the future waiting in New York.

3.2 Convergence

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 07:15:38 GMT

Ori replays the gaze that shattered him. Zu wakes in a hospital, remembering the kiss. Across centuries, Romeo waits under a tree.

3.3 Nothing Against Shakespeare

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:41:38 GMT

Lauren opens a copy of Romeo and Juliet—but Zu brings memories Shakespeare never wrote. Zu rushes to answer the only question that matters: does Ori remember too?

4.1 71 Gansevoort

Fri, 21 Nov 2025 02:02:46 GMT

Ori feels the past closing in. Zu hesitates outside his studio—until a fire escape, a figure, and a voice call her forward.

4.2 Butterfly Wings

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:17:27 GMT

On the fire escape, Zu triggers Ori’s fears. One touch opens Verona: the balcony, the promise, the tomb, and the memory he’s been trying to escape.

4.3 Homecoming

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:16:11 GMT

Zu wakes in Ori’s room and finds the white dress in the moonlight. A sudden intrusion makes it clear the Capulets still want Juliet back.

5.1 Everyone Comes Back

Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:15:39 GMT

Zu rides the subway with Ori’s red yarn on her wrist. Every stranger now feels like a mystery. If she and Ori came back, maybe everyone did.

5.2 The Stage Remembers

Sat, 02 May 2026 05:51:19 GMT

Zu arrives at rehearsal with Verona still moving through her. What once was Shakespeare now feels personal, and the theater begins to notice.

5.3 A Capulet Secret

Tue, 05 May 2026 22:27:28 GMT

Tai and Lucrezia intercept Zu, revealing the hidden history of the Capulets, perfumers whose fragrances unlock the past. The more Zu resists, the more familiar the story becomes.

5.4 Nepenthe

Wed, 06 May 2026 17:37:01 GMT

Zu runs from the theater after seeing Ori dead in a vision. She tosses Nepenthe away—then regrets it, afraid the vision might be true.

6.1 Forget Me Not

Sat, 09 May 2026 05:23:58 GMT

Ori wakes into a life that suddenly has more history. The truth hits home: Juliet is alive, and he came to New York City to find her.

6.2 Oblivion Is Bliss

Sun, 17 May 2026 15:45:49 GMT

Zu wants answers, but bringing Ori to Lauren opens old wounds. As Lauren explains why certain souls keep finding each other, a Capulet ad makes Tai’s warning impossible to ignore.

6.3 GSHH

Thu, 21 May 2026 03:51:03 GMT

Tai launches Nepenthe with a world-ready slogan: Goodbye Sorrow, Hello Happiness. While the crowd cheers, Zu and Ori steal their first free moments in Central Park.

6.4 Destinies Don’t Die

Wed, 27 May 2026 04:17:18 GMT

Tai and Lucrezia work the Nepenthe crowd—but Santiaga sees through the fragrance. Meanwhile, Zu and Ori discover new interests they never shared in Verona.

6.5 Santiaga

Thu, 28 May 2026 22:48:05 GMT

Santiaga moves through the hotel lobby, where past lives flicker behind every face. Upstairs in the blue white light, the ordinary world falls away.

7.1 A Normal Kind of Impossible

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:32:00 GMT

Zu and Ori try to have dinner like normal people. Between fries, fish and chips, the future starts feeling less like prophecy and more like a choice. For one evening, destiny comes with a side order.

7.2 Lemon Pie, Green Lie

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:10:12 GMT

At Hermes’ mansion, Zu meets Ori’s friends. But when Zu is left alone with Nepenthe, the lie she’s been carrying spills into the open.

7.3 Mantua Road

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:01:00 GMT

A time crossing throws Ori onto the old road to Mantua, reliving the past that once destroyed him. Zu follows the light toward the green glow of Nepenthe.

8.1 1789, Paris

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:03:00 GMT

In Revolutionary France, Delphine bursts into Tabithe’s shop with a pistol and nowhere to go. But behind a hidden door lie memories of Mercutio.

8.2 Two Houses Alike

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:18:48 GMT

In the Capulet lab, Zu discovers the future she might have chosen. Ori follows Hermes below the Wright mansion and into the Montague lineage. The two houses are opening their doors.

8.3 Prime Law

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:38:23 GMT

Lucrezia and RITA ask Zu to help perfect the red perfume. Hermes shows Ori why it was dangerous, why the Montagues turned against it—and the law the Capulets broke.

8.4 No Scent, No Sorrow

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:00:58 GMT

Tai tempts Zu with a way to save Ori’s life. When the blue white light descends, her choice is clear—but escape may come too late.

8.5 Lost This Song

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:40:50 GMT

Zu struggles to find Ori through a Nepenthe haze. Her friends draw her away, the music takes over, and Landon gets too close.

9.1 Timelines

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:59:01 GMT

Lauren wakes from a dream where love turns to blood. Ori sees his missed meetings with Zu, their timelines spiraling apart—and The Lights as their last chance.

9.2 Fight, Montague!

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:33:22 GMT

Tai and Lucrezia feel their own pasts stirring. Ori reclaims Adagio—his sword from Verona—as Hermes forces him to remember how to fight.

9.3 Dark Eyes Zu

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:28:49 GMT

Ori returns to Trinity Rose to find Zu. But the person he meets doesn’t look or act like Zu.

9.4 Ancient Grudge

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:14:47 GMT

Tai follows an old hatred to 71 Gansevoort, while Hermes strikes a bargain with Zu. When Ori arrives at his studio, one name shouts out: Tybalt.

10.1 Tybalt Killer

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:04:49 GMT

Five centuries collapse into a single fight. Ori and Tai battle in New York City, while Romeo faces Tybalt in Verona.

10.2 Boba, Verona

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:36:20 GMT

Hermes tries Shakespeare, opera and espresso to wake Zu’s memory. Ori attempts a retrieval—reaching for the Zu that still remembers him.

10.3 First Kiss Forever

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:24:00 GMT

Ori pulls Zu to the rooftop, where their old tragedy waits three stories below. At the ledge, one last chance arrives where everything began.

11.1 My Name is Tai

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:13:12 GMT

Tai survives a childhood accident and is pulled into the Zhu perfume dynasty. The more he is forced to remember, the more he wants to forget.

11.2 She Was the Priest

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:02:28 GMT

Lauren and Kimmo arrive at the wrecked studio. Ori recognizes Lauren from Verona and breaks the Prime Law. The truth breaks the room.

11.3 Starry Dust

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:15:22 GMT

Zu and Ori return to the High Line, still wrapped in their reconnection. But Zu sees the black storm again—and Ori dead inside a circle.

11.4 Tell Your Story

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:52:44 GMT

Zu chooses truth and tells Ori about Landon. Back at Gansevoort, she draws a new ending for The Lights, and Hermes admits what he did in Verona.

11.5 Black Storm Rising

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:44:58 GMT

Zu goes alone to stop Nepenthe before the launch. But her plan changes when Tai begins to remember the brother he used to be.

12.1 Lucrezia

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:14:49 GMT

Lucrezia follows the ache of a father she barely remembers.  The red perfume brings her past within reach—but one memory stays locked.

12.2 Every Street Says Go

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:18:34 GMT

Lauren crashes Zu out of the Capulet store, and the chase begins. The Capulets close in, Ori waits backstage, and the black storm bears down on Manhattan.

12.3 Apple to Rose

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:58:14 GMT

Tai risks everything to remember the lives before Verona. As the storm hits the lab, one memory may change everything.

12.4 Blue White Light

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:49:57 GMT

The blue white light opens above the chase. Zu crosses into a desert life, Delphine sees the sky, and young Hermes finds the path beneath the Wright mansion.

12.5 Once Upon a Time in Verona

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:27:16 GMT

Zu is missing. The appointment is broken. Ori goes onstage alone. In the ghostly Verona tomb, he finds only Zu’s hologram—and the ending they were meant to escape.

12.6 I Am Me

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:25:51 GMT

Zu reaches The Lights too late and finds Ori lost in Nepenthe. Grabbing the dagger, she remembers who she is—and makes her choice.

12.7 Backstage

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:41:24 GMT

The performance is over, but the story is not. As Zu and Ori gather backstage, Hermes faces Tai at the entrance and Lucrezia takes up the dagger.

12.8 Inside the Circle

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:17:46 GMT

Lucrezia unlocks the memory she has chased her whole life. As the circle forms, Tai steps between past and future for one last act of love.