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Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil Just a matter of time! - 3
3 “I have something to discuss with you. When will you have time?” Jina was straight forward with her words. Though Chan had no idea what that was about, he still said, “Fine. But I won’t be free until evening. If it’s urgent, how about we talk on the way to the office?” “Okay. I will wait for you at the bus stop.” Jina said and walked downstairs. Chan hesitated for a moment and then went to have breakfast. Food was something Chan never wanted to miss. So he always tried to eat in time. As agreed, Jina was waiting for Chan at the bus stop. When the bus came they both got in. Jina sat at the last row and invited Chan to sit with her. Jina was sitting at the window seat and her hair was flying in the wind on to her face. In the morning sunlight Chan found that beautiful, but without any expression he sat next to her. “What’s going on between you and Ameya?” Jina asked without any delay. The question took Chan by surprise. “How did you know?” Chan asked in reply. “That’
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil The First times
Chan got off at the city hub and walked to the Lilac Works. On the way to the office he stopped to watch a huge building under construction. It was the tallest in the city and was under the final finishing works. It was rumored that the whole building was of a single corporation, but which, no one had any idea. Chan looked at the construction for a moment and then went to the office. Everything was normally running in the office, when Anna, secretary of Chairman Shaw ran over to Chan. Chan had admiration for Anna, who always wore an office suit, and a professional attitude. She was very diligent at her works and a good colleague too. So no matter what the task was going to be, Chan would comply at Anna’s request. “Are you busy now? If not, can you do me a favor?” Anna asked Chan in a pleading voice. Chan nodded at Anna, without much reaction. “Master Ahn has informed that he will be coming back in a few days. He will be accompanied by some business partners, so we need to prepare a
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil Mistaken Identity
Chan was still recovering and days went by slowly in the Lilac mansion. He had his own room and Anaya and her mother’s maids took care of him meticulously. Lian Shaw informed Chan, that it was because of his fractured rib that Anaya wasn’t sleeping with him in his room, in afraid of hurting him. Everything went by smoothly and Chan enjoyed the king like treatment from everyone. In the blink of an eye, he became the young master of the Shaw family. The care and love from everyone made his recovery faster too.The mail notifications made Chan wake up from his memories. He kept back the envelope and photo back into his bag. Anna had sent her share of files. Other departments are going to take their time in preparing. Since the inspection was over, Chan wasn’t having any other immediate work other than what Anna had given him. So he went to get a cup of coffee from the café across their office. But to his surprise he saw Jina there.Jina had a meeting with Ron Hailey and both of them were
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil The story behind
Except Jina, everyone was in utter shock. Jina kept looking at Chan and asked, “So, you are saying that, you aren’t Neil Lichen, but his assistant. According to you, it was us, who mistook you as Chan and it was our mistake to not look into who you really are.” Jina walked from behind the sofa and stood in front of Chan and continued, “Then explain why you were the one in the car that night Neil was meant to come to the Ochre city? And please explain why you had Neil’s identity card with your photo in it? Who are you in real? And who are you trying to fool?” Jina questioned him without any leeway and turned to sit at the single sofa nearby waiting for Chan to reply. It was then Shen Shaw grabbed on what on Jina had said. Whatever Jina said was true. He had seen his face in photographs before. How can they be so stupid to mistake someone else as Neil? After all Neil Lichen of Lichen Consortium was not some unknown person. Everyone knew how successful and powerful the young master of Li
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil The Blame Game
Shen Shaw stammered upon speaking. He cleared his throat again and said to everyone, “I don’t remember seeing two cards that night. All I saw was of Neil’s. How can I mistake Neil’s and Chan’s photo and mistake him as Neil? I also don’t know how this happened.” Jina found that Shen Shaw’s words can’t bring a clear picture to the troubles present. She thought about the things again to find out where the loophole was. Clearly, someone was lying or someone did a blunder. It was then Chan spoke to Shen Shaw, “Of course, you wouldn’t have seen both cards. Neil’s card was in my pocket and my card was in the bag. You must have seen Neil’s card and mistook me as Neil. But then again, you all must have seen Neil’s pictures before. How can you not recognize between me and him?” Chan’s words made sense. Now everyone looked at Shen Shaw. Shen Shaw felt guilty and looked around to find an excuse for himself. In the dark night and tensed situation, he would have made the mistake. He started to bl
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil The Wedding Scam
In Shen Shaw’s study, Lian Shaw and Anaya were staring at Shen Shaw with an urge to beat him up. Shen Shaw was thinking of a way to escape from his wife’s wrath as he knew it was him to blame now, for the blunder that happened. “Why are you not saying anything Shen? How are we going to solve this now? Do you have any idea, what kind of a mess you brought on our daughter? Will you open your mouth and say anything before I lose my patience completely?” Lian Shaw shouted at Shen Shaw after closing the door of the study room. “What should I say now? I did what you asked me to do. How can you just blame me for everything? I also didn’t know it wasn’t Neil. Even you and Anaya couldn’t recognize. Since it was your plan from the starting, why don’t you itself suggest a solution?” Shen Shaw passed the ball to Lian Shaw. Anaya, who was already brimming with anger on her own stupidity shouted, hearing her parents fight, “Will you two just shut up? I must have been momentarily stupid for believ
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil Jina Shaw not a Shaw
It was going to be a year since all these happened. Everyone had their hopes on Neil and his return, but that never happened. There was no news about him or his family during this time period. Gradually Anaya lost her patience and since then she had been trying to oust Chan from her life. Chan was now sitting in the rooftop garden sipping his coffee slowly. The cold was stronger here than at the road. But he enjoyed the moment and the view from here. As he went through all the things that had happened in the last one year, he felt astonished and disappointed at the same time. Chan had seen many things that kept him rewire his thoughts about people, especially the Shaws. “Humans are also animals and animals are governed by survival instincts. So am I.” Chan remembered what Jina had told about herself. In the past year, Chan also saw how different Jina was. ‘A lonely soul, in the middle of a crowd.’ For Chan that was Jina. He was still worried about what Jina was up to. Meeting Ron Ha
Last Updated : 2024-10-29Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil Unwanted Guests
For the next two days Chan avoided Jina at all costs. He wanted to see a flustered Jina and was enjoying seeing her searching for him everywhere. But on the third day, to his surprise Jina showed no interest in looking for Chan and this made him upset. This also made Chan to decide to meet Jina that day itself. So he fixed an appointment with her late in that evening, in the Lilac mansion itself, for avoiding any doubts. He had it all planned, but that’s when something unexpected happened. As Chan was getting ready to leave the office, he saw Anna running around with some files in a rush. It was already time for her to leave, but she doesn’t seem to care about that at all. There wasn’t anything urgent pending, so what made her busy, unknowing to Chan, made him suspicious. Chan brought a cup of coffee for Anna and enquired, “You don’t seem to be leaving any time soon. What came up all of a sudden?” Anna took the coffee from him and said, “Oh, I was craving for some sugar. You are the
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Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil Arson at Live - On
Chan excused Mr. P and drove the car by himself. He brought Jina to the hill famous for sightseeing. It was already evening and Chan planned to see the sunset at the hilltop. It had twelve hair pin bends and Chan was careful to not make Jina nauseous during the whole travel.Jina was silent all along the journey. Her mind was filled with the reports of fire that occurred at her mother’s laboratory. She was abroad doing her research during this time and by the time she came back, everything was destroyed.Live – On was her parents’ company that produced drugs. Under its research wing, her mother, Jie Hain was developing new drug from Curcumin that could treat cancer patients. From the reports that Chan had given, the experiments were in the last stage and the patients who had volunteered for the human trials were the ones who died in the fire.The whole lab was caught fire two times. First was minor, only laboratory was included, but the second time, it engulfed the whole building. Eve
Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil Land Deal
“What the hell do you mean?” Leo Sun shouted at Chan.“I mean what I said. I told you I will settle the scores personally. So here I am, taking over your precious company. If you don’t know to behave, then I will snatch everything you have.” Chan replied arrogantly.“We had the deal with Lichen Consortium. Then why are you acting as if you own everything? I want to meet Neil Lichen this instant. We will talk about this with him.” Duo Sun said with determination. He was not ready to give up his rights on his company, just like that.Chan laughed and nodded his head, pitying on the foolishness of Duo and Leo Sun.“Can you take care of the rest, Mr. P?” Chan asked Mr. P, so that he could leave with Jina.Mr. P said, “Yes, Boss. You may leave now.”Chan nodded and took Jina’s hand and made his leave. On the way out, he paused to warn Leo, “Jina is my woman. If you dare touch her again, I will make sure that you aren’t alive for the next day. Take this as your last warning.”More than Leo,
Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil Acquisition
By the time Jina woke up, Chan had already ordered breakfast for both of them. She sat up and saw Chan already dressed in his usual style and checking his laptop. He seemed busy. But under the morning sunlight, he had an irresistible charm. The way he occasionally picked up his coffee cup, noted something on his files and adjusted his sleeves, were really eye pleasing. Jina was lost in the scene she saw first after opening her eyes. Chan noticed Jina’s expression and smiled at her. That was remarkable. Jina had never seen Chan this pleasant or attractive before. She was awed by his smile with an opened mouth. “Are you still dreaming?” Chan asked while typing in something in his laptop. He was busy with his works, but was still meticulous about everything related to Jina. “No… Good morning…,” Jina said with an awkward smile. “Hm… morning, if you say so. But it’s already ten o’clock. I have work and you are coming with me. So hurry and get ready,” Chan replied without even raising h
Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil In a room
Jina took three days leave and gave Merin and Siwan off for the same days. They also had worked really hard. To repeat experiments from its reports and getting the same results in such a short time was not an easy task at all. So she asked them to relax before starting the next set of experiments.Jina took half the day to clean the house, which had been pending for some time now. Chan was doing enough by maintaining it tidily, considering how a chairman of a business empire was already cooking for both of them after his job. So Jina did all her undone works and then packed her bag for the trip. Chan had said that he will come to pick up in the afternoon, so she waited for his arrival.As planned, Chan came to pick her up along with Mr. P. The three of them took Chan’s car and Tim Tim and another two guards followed in another. It was a five hour trip to the said town.Jina spend some time by watching how the landscapes changed. From tall gray buildings, green trees became more visibl
Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil Tour Plan
“What will happen to them, now?” Jina asked while tagging along Chan.“I told them that I am leaving, didn’t I? It’s not my problem anymore,” Chan replied Jina nonchalantly.Jina realized that sometimes Chan is a very unreasonable and petty person and nodded her head in agreement.As for Anaya and Leo, of course they couldn’t see Neil and had to return in disappointment and it repeated for a couple of days.Chan remembered what Leo had said about settling scores. Chan was actually occupied with their business and Jina, that he forgot about Leo’s case. Now that he made another issue, Chan wasn’t going to let him roam free.Chan called Mr. P to look into Leo Sun’s family business. Leo’s father Duo Sun was running a super market chain, in and out the Ochre city. Chan specifically told Mr. P to enquire about their present conditions and market stability. He had already decided on the safest and easiest way to teach him a lesson. Moreover, it will let everyone else know that the Lichen Con
Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil Confrontation with Anaya
Jina realized what Chan had said, only after reaching the cafeteria. By then Chan had pulled a chair for Jina and went to order two drinks and pastries. Every employee at the cafeteria was now looking at Jina in envy. Their boss had brought his wife for snacks and was going to eat with her. They realized the meaning of Anna’s words now - ‘Boss is sensitive to matters related to his wife.’When Jina looked around, she saw the envious admiration in other’s eyes and felt uncomfortable. On seeing Chan return with food, she said in a low voice, “Everyone is looking at us. Shall we leave?”Chan laughed lightly on hearing her. “Why? Are we doing something shameful here?” he asked in a teasing tone.“But… they…” Jina tried to make him realize what she was saying.“Sh… Don’t talk while eating. Have you never learnt any table manners?” Chan said as he kept his finger on her lips to stop her from complaining.Chan and Jina’s cute interactions were really heartbreaking for the female employees pr
Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil First Day At Work
Jina looked at Chan leaving and then turned to greet her new colleagues. She was extremely happy to have her own laboratory to work with. The only problem was that it was right under Chan’s nose. She understood that Chan was keeping a close tab on everything.“Nice to meet you guys,” Jina greeted her assistants.“Welcome ma’am,” the two replied in unison.“Oh…please don’t call me ma’am. I am your colleague here. Let’s get along like that. I am more comfortable that way.” Jina said awkwardly on hearing them call her ma’am. Last time Anna also called her ma’am and it made her feel isolated.“But you are our boss’s wife and our superior. We can’t ignore the rules. Moreover this is comfortable for us.” The guy in them said. He was tall and young; a handsome nerd, from the looks of it.The other was a skinny girl with glasses. She gave an aura of a bookish and silent person. Both were fresh researchers in the same field and Mr. P had personally recruited them both from top universities.Ji
Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil Curcumin
Jina opened the file which Chan had given her. It contained the details of experiments her mother conducted before the tragedy occurred in her laboratory. As Chan suspected, this could be the reason for why doom befell on her family. Jina studied everything written in that, very carefully.Jina’s mother, Jie Hain was a pioneer in pharmaceutical research. Her father Feng Hain and brother Jian run their pharmaceutical company ‘Live On’. The company had successfully launched many drugs at much cheaper rates, especially life-saving drugs under Jie Hain’s contributions. Her researches were mainly focused in developing cancer treatment drugs at a cheaper and much efficient manner, that too with minimal side effects.Curcumin – which is extracted from Curcuma longa or turmeric was the focus of Jie Hain’s research. Curcumin was found to have unique anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties. It aids in increasing immunity and faster healing. Jie Hain was researching on its further benefits
Symbiosis: Growth of Lichens in Ochre soil New Role
When Chan came back from the office, Jina was in the courtyard. So he directly went to change clothes without calling her.Jina was folding the washed clothes and arranging Chan’s dry cleaned suits. She took everything together and walked into Chan’s room without seeing that Chan was changing his shirt. The clothes obscured her vision and she bumped into Chan who hadn’t finished changing.The suits’ hanger scratched Chan’s ears and got stuck in his collar. Jina dropped everything at once and stood there looking at Chan, without knowing what to do.“Will you untie this?” Chan asked Jina while trying to remove the hanger from his collar.“Ah… I’m sorry…sorry… I didn’t see you. I will remove it now,” said Jina and she stood on her toes to untangle his collar and hanger.She was trying to keep her distance from him while tip toeing and removing the hanger at the same time. All the balancing failed when she took the suits out and slipped on the clothes she had dropped.Chan grabbed Jina by
