When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 0531

“I remember you liked steak but found cutting it troublesome, so you’d rather not eat it. Since then, every time we had Jovanian food, I would cut it for you.”

Miranda looked at the neatly cut pieces of steak in front of her with an indifferent look. She hadn’t come here to eat, and simply sitting with him was already pushing her limits.

This time, she didn’t give him the chance to interrupt. She got straight to the point.

“…The paperwork is almost complete. What’s missing is the consent letter. I brought it with me today- could you sign it?”

The smile on Hansel’s face slowly faded. The look in his eyes shifted from joy, to calm indifference, and finally, to quiet disappointment.

“Is it so hard to just share a meal with me?”

Miranda frowned at his response.

“Why bring this up right now?”

She felt puzzled. “You’re the one who suggested we talk while eating. Now that we’re eating, you won’t let me talk. Are your words really worth so little?”

Hansel choked on her response and set down his knife and fork. “You want to talk? Fine, let’s talk.”

instinctively sat

and pen she had laid out and gave a bitter smile. “If you didn’t need my signature, you

She answered honestly, “No.”

in your eyes, my only worth is signing this paper, and then we

already went our separate ways

to sign today?” he asked, his

get angry, nor did she show any frustration. Instead, her expression reflected only confusion,

land to me, and you signed the

“Because I regret

regretted breaking up and letting her go. Even more he regretted not pulling her

gave me the land. You were fully conscious when you signed the transfer contract, and you weren’t

I took the land when we broke up, but I never saw it as a breakup gift. When the company became publicly listed,

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that as my rightful compensation or as an equivalent for

signed document, which is why I came to you. But that doesn’t mean if you don’t sign, the land still

completed, and the land

applied to build a lab, the process hit a snag