There are things the garden never speaks of. It blooms, and it burns, and it hides. In a world divided by species and quiet hierarchies, Oleander, a mouse hybrid, learns that silence can be both shield and prison. Once rescued from a place that tried to quiet his existence, he now lives under the delicate protection of his adoptive mother - a woman whose influence reaches deep into the heart of the government. When she pulls strings to send him to a renowned academy run by one of the most influential families in this world, she calls it a chance for him to live a normal life, a chance for him to enjoy the time that he has a a teen. But in the garden of that academy, nothing grows without purpose - or without cost. As Nerium and his small circle of friends are drawn into the agency's secret missions, they begin to uncover threads of a world rotting beneath its polished surface: experiments hidden under the name of peace, alliances born from fear, and histories rewritten to keep castes in line. Amid coded whispers, blooming conspiracies, and an order that pretends to protect, Nerium must learn what it means to choose his own roots - and who he dares to love in a world that was never meant to let him bloom. And through it all, the garden remains silent. Because some truths are too alive to be spoken.