The Cost of the Lead

To Campus Journalists Ezekiel Luigi Aaron D. Lopez, the truth is absolute.
To PolSci Scholar Jay Ahora Michika V. Perez, the truth is a luxury she cannot afford.

He is chasing the story of a lifetime- a web of corruption that leads straight to the man who raised him. She is chasing a future for her family, built on the fragile hope that her father isn't the villain she remembers.

They were never supposed to meet, but in the crowded hallways of the university, their lives begin to intertwine. He thinks he's saving the world by exposing the rot; she doesn't realize he's dismantling her life, brick by brick.

And some truths don't just reveal the past-they destroy the present.