Dahlia in Bloom: Crafting a Fresh Start with Magical Tools

Dahlia dies the way she lived before, exhausted from being pushed too hard, and wakes up in a world where magic is real and craft can change lives. Raised by a brilliant inventor of magical tools, she grows up loving the work itself, the quiet satisfaction of making something useful, the tiny improvements that make everyday life less heavy. That dream starts to rot when she is steered into an engagement with Tobias, her father’s apprentice, and she tries to convince herself that being «good» and agreeable will keep everything stable. Then her father dies before he can see her married, and the next blow lands immediately: Tobias announces he is in love with someone else and wants the engagement canceled, right before the wedding. Dahlia surprises everyone by not begging, not exploding, and not bargaining. Instead, she recognizes the truth she avoided, that she never had space to want anything for herself. The breakup becomes a release valve. She throws her energy back into invention and business, rebuilding her life around the craft that always made sense to her. When she meets Wolfred, an injured knight tied to monster hunting, the connection forms in a way Dahlia understands, practical help first, trust earned slowly, and no pretending. Her new life is still messy, full of old expectations and people who underestimated her, but now she has something she did not have before: a choice to hold her head up, make tools on her own terms, and let relationships grow from respect instead of obligation.