The Double or more Life of the Fake Heiress (Mirabella)

Was that Mirabella's silhouette?

Had she just come out of the lab?

A flicker of confusion crossed Meg's eyes. The third floor was home to the Biology and Technology departments' labs. What was a freshman from Information Science doing here?

As she pondered, the figure had already vanished at the end of the corridor.

She hadn't even registered what Taylor on the other end of the phone had said.

Snapping back to reality, Meg coughed and, while heading towards the end of the hallway, asked again, "Sorry, what did you just say? The signal might be bad here in the lab, I didn't catch that."

Taylor, patient as ever, repeated, "I've got something on tonight, can't make it for dinner, sorry."

Meg had reached the lab Mirabella had left. Hearing Taylor's words, although disappointed, she didn't insist. "No worries, we can plan for another day."noveldrama

"Sure, I'll treat you next time," Taylor said.

Meg nodded, responding, "Alright, you go ahead with your work. I won't keep you."

After hanging up, Meg put her phone back into her pocket and looked up at Lab 5,

still puzzled about what a freshman was doing here.

Shrugging off her curiosity, Meg turned and walked back to Lab 1.

Mirabella descended the stairs and went to the duty office to inform the duty teacher she was done.

The duty teacher was visibly surprised. "You're finished already?"

Typically, students conducting experiments outside class hours took at least an hour, if not several hours or even half a day.

It was his first time seeing someone leave in less than half an hour.

Mirabella nodded, then took the logbook placed aside and filled in her name in the last column.

The lab building had a detailed log for students using the equipment.

After leaving the lab building, Mirabella thought about the blood analysis data she

had just analyzed while heading back to her department.

The school's blood analysis equipment was not as sophisticated as the hospital's, only capable of basic lab values. After thinking it over, she took out her phone and sent Adler a message on Messenger to meet. swnovel

Adler saw Mirabella's message three hours later, just as he was leaving his lab,

his eyes sunken, with a dark stubble shadowing his chin.

Picking up his phone and seeing the message, he rubbed his bloodshot eyes in disbelief.

The top dog was actually initiating a meet-up.

All of Adler's fatigue and sleepiness vanished instantly, and he quickly replied to Mirabella with a tentative time.

After sending the message, he clutched his phone, not even bothering to change out of his work clothes, afraid of missing any follow-up messages.

By now, it was already past four in the afternoon. Mirabella had long since returned home. Upon receiving his message, she asked if he was available and, getting an affirmative reply, straightforwardly arranged to meet Adler near her place swnovel.net

Dinner was off the table.

When Adler received the address from Mirabella, despite it being a bit far from the research institute, it didn't matter. For a chance to meet the big shot, distance was no object.

A colleague, who like him had barely

rested over the past three days in the lab, saw Adler suddenly

energized as if injected with adrenaline and was somewhat startled. "Hey Adler, what's up? Got some good news?" swnovel

As Adler stood up from his chair and started taking off his work clothes, he boasted with a lifted chin, "Of course, someone asked me out for dinner."

His still-single colleague: "..."

Damn it!