Chasing the Unexpected (Nyla)

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On Monday morning at eight sharp, Nyla arrived punctually at Park Pharmaceuticals.

The HR completed her onboarding and showed her around the company, familiarizing her with the departments‘ locations. Afterward, she was escorted to the office of the R&D department manager.

The R&D manager, Genevieve Reeve, was a woman in her 40s with a neat short haircut. She was not one to smile easily, giving off a serious vibe.

“Have a seat,” she said after Nyla sat down. “I’ve reviewed your resume. You achieved quite a bit during your school days, but you haven’t been in the lab for the past few years. You’ll start as an assistant.”

“Okay.”

Genevieve approved of Nyla’s calm composure without any hint of dissatisfaction. She liked subordinates who were down–to–earth. So far, Nyla seemed reliable.

Genevieve stood up and addressed Nyla. “Let me introduce you to your colleagues.”

She led Nyla into the R&D department and raised her voice. “Everyone, hold on a moment. We have a new member in our department today. Nyla, please introduce yourself.”

Nyla stepped forward with a smile. “Hello, everyone. I’m Nyla Jayston, your new recruit in the R&D department. There’s a lot I may not be familiar with initially, so please guide me along the way.”

As soon as she finished speaking, a sudden exclamation came from her left. ‘Lucia! You added the wrong reagent!”

Nyla turned toward the voice and recognized the frantic woman tidying up the reagents. She was surprised to see Lucia there.

Lucia’s father, Clement Pollard, was the procurement manager at Harris Pharmaceuticals, where he and Harrison had developed a close friendship from their university days. As a result, the Jayston and Pollard families were quite close, and Nyla grew up alongside Lucia

However, after the Jaystons went bankrupt, the Pollards quickly distanced themselves, and Lucia even blocked Nyla.

Later, Nyla learned from Valarie that at a high school reunion, Lucia had claimed she never considered Nyla a friend and had only been nice to her because of her father’s job at Harris Pharmaceuticals

This revelation had made Nyla realize that not everyone who smiled at her genuinely liked her–some simply found her useful.

“What’s going on? Aren’t you usually the

with the wrong reagent in a hurry, Lucia looked guilty as she glanced at Genevieve. “I got

to chastise her, just reminding her

now. Brief her on the

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her head, concealing

a few more

Pharmaceuticals. I saw you from a distance at the company gate a few days ago. I couldn’t believe

disdain in Lucia’s eyes. She looked at Lucia Indifferently without responding to her

somewhat aggrieved. “Nyla, are you still blaming me for what happened before? When your father’s pharmaceutical factory had that incident… My family would have been affected too if I hadn’t distanced myself from you. You

they were all actually listening attentively. Given Lucia’s words and Nyla’s reaction, it seemed there was some past conflict between the two, and

want to engage in reminiscing

Pollard, I’m here to work, not to dwell on the past. Besides, you just added the wrong reagent, and the experiment needs to start over from scratch. If you don’t get a move on, the entire lab will have to

colleagues. She hadn’t.

intentionally softening her voice, Lucia said, “You just started today, and there isn’t any specific work for you to do yet. You can start by washing those reagent

Lucia pointed, a corner where there were 70-80 reagent bottles needing cleaning. It seemed like she had been assigned all the accumulated reagent

without saying a word. Once Nyla refused, she would go straight

surely start to dislike Nyla. This meant Lucia could easily

and simply walked toward the

was in her hands, she could do whatever she

worked straight through until 9.00 p.m., cleaning all

brush, she felt like

and took a shower before preparing to sleep. Just as

took a look. She recognized the profile picture–it was

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