Listener is a PhD student who doesn’t believe in love—only synaptic misfires and behavioral conditioning. Emotions are data. Intimacy is learned. And desire? That’s just dopamine in a loop. What begins as academic interest twists into a darkness that grows more treacherous the moment their eyes meet. He's brilliant. Controlled. Dangerous. A man who designs experiments to unravel the human mind—and maybe, just maybe, to unravel himself. She sees through his clinical detachment. She knows what he really wants. So she steps into his lab and offers herself up. Willing, curious, and entirely unafraid. What follows isn’t science. It’s a game of stimulus and surrender. Of sleepless nights, artificial affection, and twisted intimacy masked as research. He pushes her limits. She stares him down. They take each other apart—quietly, surgically, obsessively. This is not a love story. This is a study in power, control, and the kind of mutual fixation that leaves scars you never want to heal. She wants to see how far he’ll go, and he wants to see when she’ll break.