Chapter 0002

At the dining table, Hansel didn’t seem eased with what had been served for breakfast. “Where’s my pumpkin soup?”

“You mean cream of vegetable soup?”

“Cream of vegetable soup?”

“Yes, I know that Ms. Sutton makes that all the time. It’s the one made with pumpkin, potatoes, onions, and celery, right? Um, I don’t have as much time to prepare all the ingredients for that.

“The pumpkin, potatoes, onions, and garlic have to be roasted and freshly puréed beforehand; it’s best if it’s slow cooked the night before. And then the soup has to be stewed and slowly brought to a simmer over open fire for hours after that..

“I don’t have the same amount of patience that Ms. Sutton has to always be checking on the fire every few minutes. Also, what I make will probably still taste different from what she makes. On top of that

“Bring me some marmalade,” Hansel interrupted.

“Coming right up, Mr. Johnson.”

“Why does this taste so different?” Hansel glanced at the bottle packaging The packaging is wrong.”

“That jar is empty now. We only have this brand left.”

“Go and get two jars of the other one at the supermarket, then.”

“It can’t be found anywhere, Mr. Johnson.”

Hansel wasn’t amused, “Why not?”

Martha smiled rather awkwardly. “Ms. Sutton made the marmalade herself. I don’t know how wait, Mr. Johnson! Aren’t you going to finish your breakfast

first?”

“No.”

Martha watched in bewilderment as Hansel stormed up the stairs. Why did he lose his temper all of a sudden?

“Hey, you lazy bum, it’s time to get out of bed!”

Miranda flipped over in bed and didn’t even bother opening her eyes. “Shut up. I want to sleep a while longer…”

Winter Jefferson, Miranda’s best friend, had already put on her makeup and was in the midst of choosing a purse to go with her outfit.

“It’s going to be 8:00 am. Don’t you need to rush home to make breakfast for your most beloved Mr. Johnson?”

Miranda used to stay the night at Winter’s place from time to time, but she’d always leave before the crack of dawn to make her usual cream of vegetable soup for Hansel, who was extremely prone to gastric problems.

The mere thought of it had always rendered Winter speechless. Was Hansel paralyzed? Or was he too dumb to order delivery on his own? Why did he have to go and make life difficult for Miranda?

he’d

was still reluctant to get up from bed. She shook her hand at Winter and said, “I’m not

planning

Miranda didn’t answer her.

for dinner because I’ve got a date tonight. But you’ll probably be gone by then, so just remember to close the windows

up due to

her and stared at the sun shining outside the windows. She couldn’t remember the last

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changed her clothes

the check for 50 million dollars. She wouldn’t be able to

into the second bank next door and said, “I’d like to speak to your private banking account manager, please. I’d like to deposit ten

who offered her a considerable annual interest rate. Miranda tried negotiating with

little bit, and he accepted

of them, managing to get interest rates that

black cards with 30 million dollars‘ worth of savings and 20 million dollars‘

was worth it after all.” She’d become a millionaire

signed up for their membership, which was

others.

and looked at her long brown hair and large curls. This was the first

taken such good care of your hair. You look exactly like

Hansel liked it. He said he liked how it felt. Every

also meant she always had to spend a lot of

the hairdresser and said, “Please cut

was. She wouldn’t stop anyone. from looking like

of the hair salon, feeling like a weight

on, so she walked in and bought herself

them straight out of the shop. They matched the

watched as the students rode their bicycles in and out of the gates as the sun set in the sky, gradually falling into a

“Sol! We’re here!”

past Miranda. “What are all of you doing

of visiting Dr. Young together,

many people in at the same time,” Solomon Hall said. “Here, I’ll just

Bioinformatics.”

Bioinformatics? Dr. Young?

She hurried forward and asked the students, “Who

at the pretty young lady talking to him. He was

“Dr. Christine Young?”

“Yes.”

is

“Westerton Hospital.”

“Thank you.”

from? Are you alto one

Instead, she turned around and ran

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