Annotations of Us

Dr. Avni Vardhan is a fiercely eloquent scholar with a talent for slicing arguments apart using metaphor and sarcasm. Her weapon of choice? A red pen and a well-placed Shakespeare quote. She believes Aleksandr's obsession with stoicism is cute - like watching a wolf try to meditate.

Dr. Aleksandr Volkov is a logic driven philosophy prodigy whose idea of foreplay is a well-structured thesis. He worships at the altar of logic, data, and a disdain for anything remotely emotional - or Avni.
Especially Avni.

Their academic rivalry is the stuff of departmental legend:
One coffee-stained argument away from HR intervention.
And a thousand passive - aggressive footnotes.

But when a clerical mix-up forces them to co-author a research paper for the most competitive academic conference of their careers, the unthinkable happens:
They have to work together.

Between snarky banter, all night debates, suspiciously lingering eye contact, and fights over font size that vaguely feels like flirting, things start to spiral.
Fast.

Because beneath the snark and citations is a truth neither of them is ready to admit:

"The greatest thesis they'll ever write... might just be about each other."