When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 0795

Sophie then started applauding mockingly. “But did you forget that I’m your go down, do you think you can still graduate?”

advisor? If I

She leaned forward, her voice dripping with faux sympathy. “Out of respect for our so- called mentor–student relationship, I’m giving you a chance.

“Issue a public statement saying this was all an elaborate stunt you orchestrated. Apologize to me, admit your mistake, and I might consider letting you graduate without a hitch.”

Joli’s lips twitched into a faint smile. “If I went this far, I wasn’t planning to regret it.”

His bloodshot eyes betrayed his exhaustion, but his gaze remained razor–sharp as he looked at Sophie. “And you… Can you look me in the eye and swear that everything I wrote in that report isn’t true?”

Sophie smirked, her contempt palpable. “So what if it’s true? Does it matter?”

“Since you’ve chosen the hard way, don’t blame me for throwing our mentor–student bond out the window.”

Joli almost laughed at her words. Mentor–student bond? To her, he was nothing more than a dog she could summon or dismiss at will. He wasn’t even considered a person in her eyes,

Sure, he could stay quiet, endure the remaining months, and walk away with his master’s degree. But what about Theodore and others like him?

the last. As long as Sophie had the authority to admit

escape, but what about those who couldn’t endure? Would they be left with no choice but

time to act–for himself and

he believed he could be that

Even so,

conversation ended on

spat a warning, “My patience has limits. Do às I say before time

didn’t sleep

It was titled “Official Report:

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long. The author was identified as Joli Clifford, a third–year graduate student in Sophie X’s research group. It meticulously detailed Sophie’s fraudulent publications, complete with fabricated

near the end

for this day, enduring far more than I ever should

final–year graduate student like me. In just five months, I could have walked away from

when I chose to take this step, I

up and do something

to see, and graduating while

this system, their passion for research snuffed out, their hope for life