Chasing the Unexpected (Nyla)

Chapter 228

Surprise flashed in Nyla’s eyes. Why would Damon suddenly invite her to dinner?

As she hesitated, another message from him appeared on her phone.

Damon: [I’ll be waiting in the parking lot at 6:30 p.m.]

It seemed he wasn’t giving her a chance to refuse.

Considering that he had helped persuade Richard to agree to her divorce from Clark, she felt she owed him a meal as a thank you.

Nyla replied with a simple “Okay“. She then put her phone away and focused on her experiment.

“Nyla, our recent experiments have been going really well. In a little while, we should be able to start testing on lab mice,” Melody said excitedly.

Nyla shook her head. “It’s not that simple. Before we move to trials, we need to go through countless experiments and trial and error to find the best solution. It can take years, even over a decade, for a drug to go from research to market.”

Melody looked shocked, momentarily pausing her work with the test tubes. “It takes that long?”

there can be many unpredictable factors that require constant adjustments,”

experimentation were often filled with repeated failures, and it was difficult to pinpoint why things weren’t working. The daily repetition

see.” Melody sighed, clearly disappointed. She had

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could take years. With her lively personality, such a slow–paced and demanding process was

tried to comfort her. “But don’t worry too much. Who knows? Maybe we’ll get incredibly lucky, and every experiment will succeed. In that case, we could move to trials

trying to comfort her, Melody forced

more. She knew that research could be tedious, and if Melody couldn’t stick it out, it might be better for her to find a different path sooner rather

evening, Nyla took the elevator

car was parked not far from the

getting in, she looked at him, her expression

Damon, let me treat you to dinner tonight,”

glanced at her with

about Clark’s affair,” Nyla replied. Damon raised an eyebrow, nodding with a hint of amusement. “Alright.” There was an unreadable emotion in his dark eyes

picked up a file to

distracting him. He found himself staring at the same line of text for several minutes before finally closing the

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