"Mingyue, sometimes I wonder, is it all fate?"
"Fate?
That is bullshit, Alex.
Your life is carved by your own hands.
If, at that time, you had rejected Vesa or you had decided not to go to that research facility, would you have become a progenitor?
The same is true for me; there are so many things where just one difference would have made me end up somewhere else.
Our lives now are the culmination of our own personal choices.
I will never agree it's decided by fate."
"You are right."
"What is with you today?
Being so sentimental now."
"One of my family just reminded me how selfish I am, and I realize she is right."
"Oh, what did you do, Alex?"
Alex then told her what had happened with Olivia and what she had told him about her family.
"Family…
Alex, I don't know what to say about that.
You know my own family situation.
