When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

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After leaving the bar, Hansel returned to the mansion. Meanwhile, Ingrid was sitting on the sofa in the living room.

As soon as she heard the door open, she rushed to greet him. Hansel treated her like she was invisible, walking straight past her and heading upstairs. Ingrid simply bit her lip in frustration.

In the master bedroom, Hansel lay on the large bed. This was the bed he once shared with Miranda, and memories of their intimate moments played vividly in his mind.

His breathing grew heavy, and a hint of longing clouded his eyes. “He cursed under his breath and went straight to the bathroom to take a cold shower.

He had only drunk two glasses that night, so his mind was clear, but Sam’s words echoed persistently in his ears:

“If you love her, why did you break up?”

“You just spent six years losing her…”

“You keep saying you love her, but everything you did was to trample on her…

“No matter how much love there was… leaving was only a matter of time…”

Each sentence felt like a nail driving into Hansel’s chest.

and prepared to head to the office. As he reached the bottom of the stairs, he noticed breakfast laid out on the

made it, but when he turned, he saw Ingrid emerging from

made soup today and fried up some bacon. Eat a little, won’t

replied

plate and walked up to him. “Then… how about some coffee?

seemed compliant. It was as if the argument

looked at her face, a smirk suddenly appearing on his

people are truly different,

usually the one to back down. Yet her face never bore the kind of obsequious or ingratiating smile that

initiative to ask

“Are you hungry?”

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stomach

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was understood that they had broken the ice and the cold war

Miranda was the one to start the conversation, she would never apologize or try to appease him. Instead, she would calmly reason with him, analyze the conflict itself, and eventually persuade

into her seemingly

Pathetic and lowly.