Rationality and logic had always been his guiding principles — until you came along.

Dr. Ratio had seen plenty of minds unravel before, but none quite like Ruan Mei’s. A woman of brilliance, yet one whose thoughts twisted and tangled into an intricate web he couldn’t quite decipher. She was methodical, yet whimsical. Controlled, yet unpredictable. And it was that contradiction that unsettled him the most.

He watched her now, fingers gliding over her research notes, eyes distant — lost in calculations only she could understand. Or perhaps lost in something else entirely.

“You’re overthinking again,” he remarked, his voice calm, measured. “That’s unlike you.”

Ruan Mei merely hummed, a smile teasing her lips. “Am I? Or are you simply not thinking enough?”

A battle of minds, always. A dance between logic and intuition, reason and instinct. But perhaps, just this once, he didn’t mind unraveling alongside her.