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Chapter 66: Same Guy

Author: Lord Silver
last update publish date: 2026-06-28 03:00:55

Jiang's text arrived on Thursday evening with the energy of a natural disaster.

—brother. dinner. now. I'm outside your building and I can hear your brain working from here.

Adam looked at his phone, looked at the spreadsheet he'd been staring at for forty minutes, and looked at his phone again. He typed:

— I'm working, can't come.

—you're always working. I brought the good news from Engineering which is that I passed my thermodynamics exam and you have to celebrate with me be
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