When fate plays its hand

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He continued, “Once you do that, she will feel that you’re a reliable guy. Then, she will let go of her concerns and trust you enough to fall in love! Get it?”

Paul thought that the suggestions made sense, except for one thing that he didn’t quite agree with. Tripping and ending up in a kiss or directly pulling someone into your arms for a kiss….

The former was too fake and quite dangerous, while the latter was outright harassment.

He didn’t think those were expressions of love. Instead, it conveyed disrespect toward women. Yes, disrespect!

However, he did all sorts of things toward Miranda in his dream. As if he was possessed, he even asked, ” Mimi, do you feel good?”

Paul jolted awake from his dream. He sat up on his bed and held his head in frustration, like a child who had made a mistake.

After a long time, he recomposed his emotions and got out of bed. He went to his wardrobe and changed into a fresh pair of boxers:

Hadn’t he got over this? Why was this happening again?

Silas arrived at the lab bright and early the next morning. He hadn’t waited for the data to finish processing the day before and left early, so he came in early today to make up.

If Paul knew about this, he would definitely nag him nonstop.

So, Silas set three alarms and got up before the sun rose. He drove straight to the lab, but….

“What the hell! When did you get here? Isn’t today Sunday? You said we’d have two days off this week, so why are you here?” Silas exclaimed, his reaction seemingly too intense.

Paul could clearly read the guilty expression written on his face. He stood at the lab bench and gave Silas a cold look. “So, you don’t have the data from yesterday?”

Silas was stunned. Oh no, this was bad!

“Uh… Why are you here on your day off anyway? Paul, sometimes I really think you’re overworking yourself. You’re going to end up twisted like a pretzel if you continue on like this!

Paul replied nonchalantly, “Oh. I’ve already processed two sets of data for you, but it seems like that wasn’t necessary, I guess?”

Silas froze for a moment. Then, he immediately put on a deferential expression. “I was just kidding! Did you really take that seriously? Pretzels are great! They are pretty and tasty! The more twisted, the better!”

Paul rolled his eyes and didn’t respond.

In the afternoon, Silas was feeling extremely sleepy and decided to head to the break room for a quick nap. As he passed by Paul’s room, he overheard him talking on the phone as the door was ajar.

“Yeah, can you make the pork ribs sweeter? Two portions. Please bring them over to the lab before six

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this evening… Alright…”

When he heard this, Silas couldn’t stop himself from feeling nosy and asked, “Oh, who’s bringing you food? Your girlfriend?”

However, Paul simply lay down on the bed and gave Sllas the cold shoulder. He had no intention of engaging Silas in conversation.

Silas scratched his nose and walked away, feeling deflated.

On the other end, Susan had just hung up the phone with her son and rushed into the living room excitedly. She snatched the tea that Felix was about to drink and shook his shoulders wildly. “Two portions! Two portions, again! Paul is finally doing well for himself!”

Felix was puzzled. “Huh?”

Susan exclaimed, “Do you know what Paul just said on the phone? He asked me to make sweet pork ribs! Sweet ones! Why do you think that is?”

Felix replied, “Stop shaking me, I’m getting dizzy…”

She continued, “It must be because his girlfriend likes sweet food! I’ll get Mrs. Moore… No, I’ll cook it myself and deliver it in person!”

With that, she rushed into the kitchen. As she turned, the hem of her clothes knocked something over, but she didn’t even spare it a glance.

Felix gasped, “My precious Earl Grey tea!”

Paul returned home from the lab with his mother’s homemade meal. Then, he grabbed the ointment and cotton swabs before knocking on the door of the neighboring apartment.

However, there was no response despite him waiting for a long time.