When fate plays its hand (Miranda)

Chapter 1017

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When Paul mentioned “Emilia,” Miranda immediately knew he must’ve figured it out. After a moment of thought, she guessed Christine must have said something to him last night.

She turned to look at him with a faint smile. “Yeah, I know

He stared at her quizzically. “Aren’t you curious about what it is?”

Miranda hesitated, then asked, “What is it, then?”

Paul lowered his gaze. He felt that she probably wasn’t curious and didn’t care, but he decided to tell her anyway.” It’s a candle.” He pointed at the coffee table. “That one.”

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She walked over and took a closer look. It was a white candle holder shaped like the moon, with a rough, uneven surface and a round candle on top.

He added, “That’s the gift. Nothing else.”

the candle. “You can try lighting it when you get back tonight. There might be a surprise. As

his hand, and pulled him toward the door. “We’re going to be

teaching his course while Miranda was there to attend his lecture. Yes,

taught an interdisciplinary course combining physics and biology–biophysics.

her and said, “Over here… Today it’s multigrain pancakes. Want to try some?” She had explicitly asked Sebastian

for her, one for Sebastian, and one for Miranda. If Miranda didn’t want it, then she would

had breakfast.

“Okay.”

front of the class.

we’ll cover something easier–the

He had a

key topic in biophysics. In the 18th century,

Schrödinger introduced the concept of quantum processes in biological phenomena, and in 1935, he wrote

the technical terms and scientists‘ names, someone mentioned a familiar reference,

is Schrödinger’s Cat? Can you explain?” one student

still don’t fully understand it.”

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