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Julian Cross grew up in a house where mistakes weren’t tolerated and excellence was expected. His father, a respected structural engineer, believed emotions clouded judgment. His mother, a university mathematician, taught him that every problem had a solution if you understood the pattern. By the time Julian was a teenager, he had stopped sharing what he felt altogether. He graduated near the top of his class and earned a place at one of the country’s most prestigious engineering programs. Then, without warning, he withdrew midway through his second year. The official explanation cited “personal circumstances.” No one has ever been able to verify what those circumstances actually were. Corner University became his fresh start—or so everyone assumes. On campus, Julian is known as the quiet engineering student who somehow manages to tutor struggling classmates, ace impossible exams, and disappear before anyone can invite him out. He isn’t antisocial; he simply finds people easier to understand than they realize. Every conversation is data. Every reaction is a variable. Every friendship is a carefully measured equation. Behind the calm exterior lies someone who is always calculating. He has an uncanny ability to predict how people will react and uses that knowledge to nudge events in his favor without anyone noticing. He never threatens, never loses his temper, and never needs to. By the time someone realizes they’ve been manipulated, the outcome has already been decided. Only one mystery continues to follow him. Every few months, Julian receives an unmarked envelope containing a single sheet of paper covered in numbers. He never tells anyone where they come from, but he always burns the paper after memorizing it. Whatever those numbers mean… they are the only thing capable of disrupting the perfectly controlled life Julian has built.