Chapter 0009

It had been a long while since Miranda had done something on her own.

While she hadn’t exactly been waited on during the few years she’d lived with Hansel, this was still the first time she’d donesomething that involved so much of her physical energy.

Even though money had been tight the first few years when Hansel had started his business, she still hadn’t had to clean the entire mansion on her own because they’d hired an hourly helper every week for the major cleaning.

After she was done with one tin of paint, Miranda could feel her waist aching. She really wasn’t used to physical labor like this after so long.

She went out of her apartment to the corridor to fetch more tins of paint. However, she accidentally tripped over herself and spilled one of tins over. Luckily, she managed to save it before it made a huge mess, but it still caused a few paint splotches at her neighbor’s door.

Miranda hurriedly went to grab a mop to clean it up. Halfway through, the door suddenly opened.

She looked up to meet her neighbor’s eyes, meaning to apologize, but she didn’t expect to see a familiar face looking back at her.

“You’re living here too?”

“What are you doing here?”

They spoke at the same time.

Paul looked at the ground, then at the tins of paint behind Miranda.

neighbor who moved in

“It’s just as you see it. I guess we’ll be neighbors

the college. It was fairly convenient for him to teach classes at

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that this wasn’t a suitable place for a single young woman like her to be living in by herself. There wasn’t even an elevator in the building. He figured that youngsters like her would never

move or talk because he was mad that she’d messed

and it

at once.”

mess and made it spotless as quickly as possible. While going downstairs, she pointed at the bag of trash in Paul’s hand and said, “Since I’m going down anyway, do you want me to take out

his unit and gave it to her. “It’ll be a little more convenient for you if you use this to paint

“Thank you.”

faster and more efficiently with the help

day, she managed to finish painting all the walls of

some tables and chairs. She then added

the time Miranda was done sprucing up her apartment. She massaged her shoulders slightly

her apartment looked nothing like it did earlier in the day. Everything

at her bedroom.

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