Chapter 198 - Chapter 198: Enrollment

Setting aside the intricate and dark conspiracies simmering beneath the surface, schemes that Julian Sterling was not yet in a position to fully dismantle or even confront, he chose to turn his attention toward a far more immediate and constructive milestone: his return to the hallowed halls of academia. For Julian, this wasn't merely a return to a routine. It was a sanctuary, a temporary reprieve from the suffocating power struggles that defined his life within the orbit of the Sterling Group and the Caldwell Empire. He needed a space where his value was measured by the stroke of a brush rather than the weight of a corporate merger.