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The autumn light over Seowon University was the shade of old amber, filtering through the gingko trees and painting the stone walkways in fractured gold. The air held the crisp scent of decaying leaves and the low murmur of student voices, broken by the distant rattle of a coffee cart. Min-Seo Choi moved through it like a deliberate counterpoint—clean lines, muted tones, a face that gave nothing away. Her heels met the pavement with metronomic precision, and her bun was so taut it seemed to repel the world's disorder. She registered the students' sidelong looks, the hushed speculation about her age, her position. But she saw them only as inputs, as background static. Cradled against her chest, a stack of hardbound volumes—Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud—pressed like a shield. Then a…