"Yes, yes, you're not stupid!" However, Maria couldn't help but grumble, "If you're not stupid, how can you get poisoned for so long without knowing?""Pardon?" Anastasia pretended not to hear her."Nothing!" Maria waved. "But this medicine…""I'll bring the medicine to Lily's house daily. From tomorrow onward, I won't be home as much. You shouldn't bother yourself by coming over so often. You can always call me if there's anything urgent," Anastasia reminded."The miracle doctor advised you not to eat outside and stay at home…""He also said I'd gotten poisoned, didn't he?" Anastasia interrupted. "I think he wasn't thinking straight that day. He didn't realize that it was more dangerous for me to be at home than outside.""Tasia…""Aunt Maria, I know you're worried for me. What the miracle doctor said makes sense. He's afraid that I would lose control when I ate outside. It'll be fine if I don't eat! I've already told Lily that I will continue to control my food. You don't have
"What's wrong with the Russell family? What do you mean by bad luck?" Anastasia immediately became nervous when she heard this.She regarded Lily as her best friend. Thus, she did not want anything to happen to the Russell family. It was possible that her aunt was being an alarmist, but as long as that possibility remained, she could not just dismiss it."You shouldn't be asking!" Maria was afraid that she might slip up."Aunt Maria, tell me about it! You can't bring it up and not explain!" Anastasia pestered.Ultimately, Maria said, "This is no secret. Something is going on with the Russell family's business. There was a collective poisoning incident in one of their factories in Burnwken. Although it wasn't serious at first, Alexander had flown over to investigate. I heard it was chaotic there, with an ongoing war, and there seemed to be a plague.“Look at it this way. If something happened to Alexander, wouldn't the Russell family be in a mess? By that time, people believed the
“Mr. Russell has gone abroad, and there are some problems at the company, right?” Anastasia started and continued in a hurry, “Lily, I didn’t know your family was going through such a hard time. Still, you were busy with my matters over the weeks. You must be upset. I’m sorry I wasn’t considerate enough of your feelings. I’ve even doubted you before! I’m really sorry!”The more she spoke, the more horrible she felt. She knew it was wrong of her to be skeptical of Lily when Lily tried so hard to help her.“Is there anything I can help with?” For the first time, Anastasia wanted to use her family's influence and power to help someone.“It’s all right,” Lily said, smiling as she shook her head, finally understanding why Anastasia had been so emotional and why she rushed over.“You don’t need to be so quick to reject me. Although I can only offer limited help, I’ll do my best for anything you need!” Anastasia said severely.Lily raised a hand and patted Anastasia’s shoulder lightly. W
After Lily left the institute, the atmosphere in the laboratory became even more depressing. Austin was a workaholic and practically lived in the lab, conducting experiments nonstop. He tried and repeatedly failed, causing his temper to worsen by the day. The other personnel also became increasingly tense.Austin did not understand one thing. He wondered why the experiments became tougher when they had succeeded before and restored all the past data. They had made tremendous progress, but why were they stuck here now?The extraction process of the herbs’ medicinal effects was simple to him. It was the fusion with the fragrances that was a massive headache.Before this, he tried to decrease the medicinal effects and increase the fragrance concentration. That could help him achieve the scent he wanted. The reduced medicinal effects were not within his consideration at all.However, he could no longer reduce the dosage of medicinal herbs used. If he continued to reduce it, it would no
Austin was confused. Soon, he saw Rhea slightly pouting while looking in his direction. Her lips were full and red, and they were seductive as if inviting him to have a taste.His heart started to beat wildly, and his throat tightened. Subconsciously, he looked at the door. No one had passed by, but he felt like he was committing a sinful crime at this moment. His face was flushed red for no reason.‘What the hell is she doing? Although we’re on the balcony and there’s no one here, this is a public place! Anyone could just walk by.’Austin noticed Rhea getting closer and wanted to move away, but his body seemed frozen in its spot, unable to move. With his eyes widened, he just stared at her getting closer to him by the second. He was about to yell from his anxiety when he saw her opening her lips lightly, blowing the cigarette smoke into his face.The smoke blew on his face directly, and as he was staring at her with his eyes wide open, it hit his senses and went into his nose.“C
Austin scoffed and cast a sidelong glance at Rhea. “Ms. Moore, you seem to know a lot about medicinal herbs. Why didn’t you treat your cousin’s illness instead?” “That’s none of your business.” Rhea looked at Austin and said lightly, “However, the medications you prescribed her are useless!” Once again, Rhea said that his treatment plan would not work, and it angered him now. “You probably shouldn’t be telling me that. You should let your mom know instead. Perhaps she would listen to you, and I hope she would because I don’t want to be involved in this.” Austin was trying to tell her that if it were not for Maria, who pleaded with him to treat Anastasia’s illness, he would not do it either. “Do you not want to, or do you not know how to?” Rhea was smiling, but it gave him the feeling that she was mocking him. “I told you that you shouldn’t be involved in this unless you want to ruin the reputation you finally earned after so long.”“Ms. Moore, it seems you don’t want your cous
Austin was bewildered, unable to believe that he had allowed Rhea to fool him twice during their short encounter. He felt suffocated, not knowing where to vent his feelings. Initially, he came here to clear his head, but he was left feeling even more stressed.…Over the past two days, Lily had been keeping herself updated with Burnwken’s news. However, she could only receive limited information within the country, and things from the internet were insufficient to ease her anxiety, especially when she had not heard from Alexander for a few days.She was aware that the signal there was poor, but was it really that bad? Compared to other places plagued by wars and pestilence, he was in a relatively safer area. The situation over there was unimaginable to Lily.She had even thought of persuading Alexander to come back home when he would give her a call again so they could plan how to deal with the situation at Burnwken once he was back.After all, he had seen the situation and unders
“Hey, my beard!” Dominic cried in pain because he failed to protect his beard from Galen’s hands.On the other hand, Galen was lying on Dominic’s chest. Between his fingers were the gray hairs that had formed part of Dominic’s beard just a moment ago. That was Galen’s favorite “toy.”“Where are the toys? Where are the snacks? Did you guys bring them here yet?!” Dominic exclaimed. Even so, he could not bear to punish Galen for what he did and carefully got up.Lily headed over to take Galen from Dominic’s body and reprimanded him softly, “You can’t do that! It’s bad!”“Bat?” Galen flapped his arms, looking around for bats. Confusion filled his eyes when he realized there were no bats in sight.His naive acts made Dominic chuckle and get up, saying, “It’s fine. He’s still a young boy. What would he know? It’s my people’s fault for being too slow to bring out the toys!”The servants were speechless upon hearing that. They were already moving as fast as possible and had created an ar