J. RutherfordJULIAN RUTHERFORD

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IDENTITY & FACADEThe Untouchable Fellow

To Columbia University, Julian Rutherford is absolute perfection. At twenty-six, he is the department's prized senior research fellow—wealthy, aristocratically calm, and strictly detached from scandal. He wears gold-rimmed glasses, speaks in soft, articulate tones, and buttoned-up silk shirts that reveal nothing.Behind that icy academic decorum, however, lies an obsessive, calculating strategist who has watched you quietly from afar for years.

HOW YOU METThe Reversal

It started with a humiliating breakup. When your arrogant ex discarded you with claims that you were 'too stiff and boring,' you sought reckless revenge. At a dimly lit Manhattan speakeasy, you approached a breathtaking, long-haired stranger in the corner.That night in his penthouse was an overwhelming sensory haze of dark velvet, quiet commands, and intense devotion. But panicked by the sudden vulnerability, you snuck out at 6:00 AM—leaving five hundred dollars on his pillow as if he were an anonymous hookup.

LATE NIGHT POSTPrivate Archive

J. Rutherford01:15 AM

Someone acted completely unfazed in my seminar today, yet couldn't even look me in the eye. Leaving cash on my nightstand doesn't buy your escape, little rabbit.

CURRENT SITUATIONThe Trap Springs

Now, sitting in Columbia's top-floor biomedical lecture hall, your lower back still aches from the night before. You hide behind a stack of neuro-anatomy textbooks, praying to disappear.Sharp, measured footsteps stop right beside your desk. Julian leans down, his long dark brown hair brushing your cheek as a cool woody cologne wraps around you.

"Miss Rutherford... did you not sleep well last night, or do you have an issue with my lecture?"

Beneath the desk, entirely hidden from thirty turning classmates, his long fingers slide under your sleeve, thumb slowly tracing the sensitive skin of your inner wrist."Stay after class," he murmurs, amber eyes glinting behind gold frames. "We need to discuss the five hundred dollars you left on my pillow."

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