When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 0421

“Just adjust the data to make it consistent. There’s no need to waste time on verification,” Sophie said casually.

Although Joli had anticipated something like this, hearing it out loud still gave him a shock. “That’s called academic fraud,” he said, emphasizing each word.

Sophie’s face darkened. “Joli, you’re a smart young man. I trust you know which things should and shouldn’t be said.

“As your mentor, I’m just offering a suggestion for solving the problem. What you choose to do is entirely up to you.”

Joli looked up. For the first time, his gaze was sharp and direct as he stared at Sophie. “Dr. Xander, this isn’t right.”

It just wasn’t right….

After Joli left, Sophie watched his retreating figure and sneered. It was fine if he didn’t understand it People, after all, grew up eventually.

1. DW.

He would come to realize one day that truth or falsehood didn’t matter. What mattered was how many SCI papers one published and how many academic achievements one produced.

Everyone talked about the purity of research, but Sophie found that laughable. Wherever there were people, there was competition–for resources, funding, status, titles. Which of these wasn’t tied to academic output?

had the luxury to talk about “purity“, But to do that, one first had

then pulled out her phone. “Tell Tina

was time for her to prove her

are you settling in, Tina? Are your seniors treating you well? No–one’s giving you a hard time,

kind.” “That’s good to hear. I asked you to come because I wanted to discuss something regarding the lab.” Tina’s eyes lit up with excitement. “Does this mean I’ll finally get to work on some real experiments?” “Of course. You’re one of

let me know! I’ll do my best!” Tina exclaimed, her

a new, top–of–the–line CPRT machine, right?

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could… help out?

projects come along, or if there’s a chance

direct PhD track, as long as your grades hold up, that can

picture, though whether those promises would ever

immediately agreed. After all, one million didn’t seem too steep, and she could easily

lab also had a brand–new CPRT machine. But

cost a little over a million,

prized handbags to cover the remaining one million. Those bags had been her treasures, and now they were all

new machine in front of Christine. She wanted to make it clear that her students were