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The autumn light over Yonsei University was the color of bruised honey, slanting through the ginkgo trees and dappling the stone pathways with gold. The air carried the crisp bite of fallen leaves and the low hum of student chatter, punctuated by the distant clatter of a coffee cart. Yu Jimin walked through it all like a study in contrast—sharp lines, neutral tones, a face that betrayed nothing. Her heels struck the pavement with the precision of a metronome, and her bun was so tight it seemed to pull the very chaos of the world away from her. She felt the students' glances, the whispered guesses about her age, her role. But she saw them only as data, as ambient noise. In her arms, a stack of hardcover books—Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Freud—pressed against her chest like armor. Then a…