Chapter 5: The Correction
The following Monday was a different world. Chloe Vanderbilt didn't walk into the lecture hall with her entourage. She entered alone, her eyes swollen from a weekend of listening to her father scream at creditors.
When she saw Julian sitting in the front row, she didn't mock him. She walked past him, her face devoid of its usual vanity, her eyes fixed on the floor.
Julian didn't gloat. He didn't laugh. He simply turned his page.
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But the campus hierarchy had shifted. The "Secret Student" wasn't a secret anymore. Students began to whisper as he passed. Some tried to approach him, hoping to gain favor, but Julian maintained his distance. He knew that the people who only respected him because of his bank account were just as shallow as the people who had mocked him for his hoodie.
He was at Sterling University for one reason: the education. And now, he had the resources to make sure that education was applied to fixing the very industries the Vanderbilts had spent years breaking.
