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Chapter Zero: “The Garden of Psychopaths”

Title: "The Garden of Psychopaths"

CORE CONCEPT:

"Only those who dare to kill their own weaknesses deserve to live."

A philosophical thriller set in a morally decayed world where a couple lives by the law of evolution — the strong survive, the weak perish.They're intellectuals, philosophers, readers — quoting Nietzsche, Darwin, Dostoevsky, and Machiavelli — and they justify their crimes as "natural selection."

In public, they're a model couple — admired, envied, even called saints.In private, they're predators — manipulating, testing, and eliminating threats.Their love is both devotion and destruction — they'd kill the world for each other… and eventually, they'll kill each other too.

THEMES:

1. Survival of the Fittest – Physical, mental, and moral fitness.

2. Philosophical Morality vs Real Morality – Nietzschean ideas of the Übermensch.

3. Duality of Human Nature – How good and evil coexist in the same body.

4. Love as Possession – Yandere psychology and obsession.

5. Facade of Virtue – The illusion of nobility hiding savagery.

6. Quotes as Philosophy – Using quotes to justify and guide actions.

MAIN CHARACTERS:

Aurelius Kael (Male Lead)

27, a writer, philosopher, and entrepreneur.

Deeply logical, reads everything — literature, science, philosophy.

Emotionally detached but fascinated by human behavior.

Believes morality is a tool for the weak.

Quotes from Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius, and Dostoevsky.

"To be human is to outgrow humanity."

Lilith Noir (Female Lead)

25, artist and social worker — beloved by the community.

Secretly obsessive, possessive, and psychopathic.

Manipulates emotions like art.

Her love is worship and destruction.

She quotes poets and romantics — Sylvia Plath, Poe, and Anaïs Nin.

"Love without destruction is just decoration."

Together, they form a philosophical Bonnie & Clyde — killing those who threaten their idea of perfection or love.

 

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