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

reagent in a hurry, Lucia looked guilty as she glanced at Genevieve. “I got distracted for a moment.

meticulously, so Genevieve didn’t continue to chastise her, just reminding her to be more

for now. Brief her on the lab protocols and

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concealing her underlying

giving a few

a fake smile. “Nyla, I didn’t expect you to work at Park Pharmaceuticals. I saw you from a distance at the company gate a few days ago. I couldn’t believe it was

Lucia Indifferently without responding to her

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 understand

be focused on their work, they were all actually listening attentively. Given Lucia’s words and Nyla’s reaction, it seemed there was some past conflict

didn’t want to engage in reminiscing with

and the experiment needs to start over from scratch. If you don’t get a move on, the entire lab will have to work overtime

her colleagues. She hadn’t. expected Nyla to

today, and there isn’t any specific work for you to do yet.

over where Lucia pointed, a corner where there were 70-80 reagent bottles needing cleaning.

watched Nyla look at those bottles without saying a word. Once Nyla refused, she would go straight

people who were both arrogant and incompetent, so she would surely start to dislike Nyla. This

didn’t say anything and simply walked toward the corner where the reagent bottles were piled

Nyla’s back, Lucia smirked. Now that Nyla was in her hands, she could do whatever she wanted. She would make Nyla regret

9.00 p.m.,

brush, she felt

before preparing to sleep. Just

when she took a look. She recognized

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