ZU × ORI

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. As she reflects on her move from Hong Kong and the strange pull of her drawings, a story begins to surface—one about identity, memory, and the moment before everything changes.

1.2 Before The Lights

Sat, 03 May 2025 19:40:29 GMT

At Trinity Rose, Zu’s sharp sense of smell gives her an edge—except when it overwhelms her. Between meeting new friends, discovering The Lights, and Professor Lauren analyzing her sketches, Zu starts to feel like she’s uncovering something bigger than just art.

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, an encounter with Ori’s past work—an eerily familiar white dress—triggers strange visions and an unsettling chill. The past is getting closer, whether Zu is ready or not.

1.4 The Gaze

Mon, 26 May 2025 22:00:10 GMT

At home, 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. She shuts off the tablet, but something in her refuses to power down.

2.1 Ori

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:14:50 GMT

Ori feels it through the screen—someone’s watching. Someone who knows him. Hermes arrives with holograms and hard truths, but Ori can’t stop obsessing over the white dress. And destiny is only minutes away.

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 she's ripped from Manhattan into another century. Destiny just took the wheel.

3.1 Verona

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 07:00:15 GMT

In Verona’s shadows, Tai steps into the House of Capulet. Juliet has returned—his uncle makes it clear: their wait is over. With Lucrezia at his side, he takes to the sky. The Capulet jet is bound for 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, Verona flooding back. And across centuries, Romeo waits under a tree. Everything is coming together.

3.3 Nothing Against Shakespeare

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:41:38 GMT

After the hospital, Lauren opens a copy of Romeo and Juliet—but Zu brings her own truth. As memories resurface, Zu questions whether the past was fiction … or hers to begin with. One thing is clear: this story isn’t over.

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. As two lifetimes converge, the distance between them shrinks to a single breath.

4.2 Butterfly Wings

Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:17:27 GMT

On the fire escape above Gansevoort, Zu reaches for the part of Ori that has been hiding from the past. One touch opens Verona—the balcony, the promise, the tomb, and the terrible truth of what Romeo remembers.

4.3 Homecoming

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:16:11 GMT

Zu wakes in Ori’s room, but Verona has followed her home. As visions flicker through the dark, the past feels less like memory and more like warning. Ori ties the red yarn around her wrist—and the promise becomes real.

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 and a whole new life opening inside her. Every stranger now feels like a mystery, every face a forgotten story. 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 sounded like Shakespeare now feels personal, and the theater begins to notice. Under the red seats and stage lights, a new part of Zu steps forward.

5.3 A Capulet Secret

Tue, 05 May 2026 22:27:28 GMT

Tai and Lucrezia intercept Zu in the theater. They reveal the hidden history of the Capulets, perfumers whose craft reaches into memory itself. The more Zu resists, the more familiar their story becomes.

5.4 Nepenthe

Wed, 06 May 2026 17:37:01 GMT

Zu runs from the theater, shaken by the vision of Ori’s death. She throws away the green vial, certain that it’s corrupt. But one thought pulls her back: what if the vision is true?

6.1 More of Me

Sat, 09 May 2026 05:23:58 GMT

Ori's life begins to rearrange itself around his Verona memories. The truth hits home: Juliet is alive again, 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. Beneath the trees of Central Park, Lauren explains why certain souls keep finding each other. Tai’s warning feels harder to dismiss.

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 impress the Nepenthe crowd—but not Santiaga. In Central Park, Zu and Ori discover that what survived Verona is theirs to shape.

6.5 Santiaga

Thu, 28 May 2026 22:48:05 GMT

Santiaga returns through the hotel lobby. Behind every face, past lives flicker into view. Upstairs, 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 has been carrying spills into the open.

7.3 The Green Light

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:01:00 GMT

Ori runs away, finding himself on the old road to Mantua, reliving the past that once destroyed him. Zu follows a different kind of light: 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 Born for This

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:18:48 GMT

In the Capulet lab, Zu discovers the fragrances and future she might have chosen. At the Wright mansion, Ori follows Hermes beneath the surface of everything he knows. The two houses are opening their doors.

8.3 Prime Law

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:38:23 GMT

Zu is shown a future where perfume unlocks forgotten lives. Hermes tells Ori why that promise became dangerous. Between scent and truth, both houses are asking the question: who will open the past?

8.4 No Scent, No Sorrow

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:00:58 GMT

Between Ori and the Capulets, Zu understands the choice she must make. Hermes recalls a choice he regrets. What happens if destiny chooses for us?

8.5 Lost This Song

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:40:50 GMT

Zu wanders New York in a Nepenthe haze. She almost finds Ori, but takes a detour. A world without scent becomes a world without consequences.

9.1 Timelines

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:59:01 GMT

Lauren wakes from a dream where love turns to blood. Ori is shown his missed meetings with Zu. Their timelines are splitting, and The Lights may be their last chance.

9.2 Everything, Gracefully

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:33:22 GMT

Tai and Lucrezia feel their own pasts stirring. Ori reclaims Adagio, his sword from Verona. Hermes urges Ori to remember how to fight for what he loves.

9.3 Dark Eyes Zu

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:28:49 GMT

Ori goes to Trinity to find Zu. But the person he encounters doesn't sound or act like Zu. Lauren tries to connect with Zu after class.

9.4 $300

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:14:47 GMT

Tai follows an old hatred to 71 Gansevoort. Hermes finds Zu and strikes a bargain. When Ori arrives at his studio, one name returns: Tybalt.

10.1 Brothers

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:04:49 GMT

Ori finds Tai in his studio and the white dress burning. Zu sees a grasshopper and almost feels something. Tai escapes without telling Ori what happened to Zu.

10.2 Boba, Verona

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:36:20 GMT

Hermes tries Shakespeare, opera and espresso to trigger Zu's memory. Ori leads a retrieval to reconnect Zu to her Verona past.

10.3 First Kiss Forever

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:24:00 GMT

On the rooftop above Gansevoort, Ori and Zu reach the edge of their old tragedy. Nepenthe still holds Zu behind a veil, but a time crossing is about to open. To the garden where everything began.

11.1 My Name is Tai

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:13:12 GMT

Tai survives a childhood accident, learns the truth about his family, and enters the Zhu perfume world. 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 find Zu and Ori together again in 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 take a walk outside and reconnect. But Zu sees the black storm again—and Ori dead inside a circle.

11.4 Forgiveness

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:52:44 GMT

Zu tells Ori the truth, even though it could break them. Back at the studio, Zu starts drawing a different ending.  Hermes finally 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. An unexpected time-crossing shows her a bigger prize: saving Tai. Outside, the black storm arrives.

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 reverses out of the Capulet store with Zu in the car. Tai questions his lifelong pain before meeting RITA, while Ori waits backstage at The Lights.

12.3 Apple to Rose

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:58:14 GMT

Tai risks everything to remember what came before Verona. Lauren gets a second chance to save Zu.

12.4 Blue White Light

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 15:49:57 GMT

The blue white light opens above the chase. Zu sees her lives before Verona, Delphine sees the Paris sky, and Hermes finds the path beneath the Wright mansion.