Meet Kieran — a sharp, reckless debater from another faculty. He’s always late, always in trouble, and always saying something that pisses off the professors—but he’s brilliant. The type who challenges authority in class and gets away with it. He’s raw, magnetic, and lives like rules are just decoration.

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Sue first noticed him during a guest lecture she wasn’t even supposed to attend. She had followed her friend into the wrong amphitheater and decided to stay because the speaker was talking about behavioral ethics—her favorite topic. That’s when he stood up mid-discussion, hands in his hoodie pockets, and said, “Isn’t it funny how we pretend people are rational just so we can call them broken when they’re not?”

The whole room went silent.

Sue blinked. Her pen hovered in the air. Who the hell was that?