Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

Chapter 200

Chapter 200

Just as Madeleine received the news, it hit her like a gut punch. This year, the graduate funding at the college was overwhelmingly in favor of Edna's research team, with a staggering seventy percent allocated to them, leaving scraps for the rest. After covering all the miscellaneous expenses, what trickled down to her and her team might barely scratch twenty percent.

For years, due to a lack of breakthroughs in their experiments, they couldn't produce any significant papers.

No papers meant no academic achievements.

Gradually, their funding dwindled, and so did Madeleine's health. None of her students could rise to the occasion to carry the banner forward.

At this thought, Madeleine couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Just then, Edna, who lived across the hall, approached her with a smile.

"Ms. Payne, good afternoon. Just back from the lab? I heard your team had some new discoveries? Is it true?"

Madeleine remained silent.

"Oh, I guess that's a no then. You're always so busy running to the lab, but why are there no tangible outcomes? You know, I heard about the cut in your group's funding this year... Ah, the struggle of being broke, I've been there. I used to be so envious of you. It's just the wheel of fortune turning, and now it's my turn!" Edna added with a slight smile. "But, it seems it's going to be tough on you."

her chin slightly, straightening her cardigan: "A decade ago, our project's funding wasn't even a tenth of what we have now, yet the output of the entire Life Sciences Department was twice what it is

certain individuals directly impacts the academic atmosphere. That's why the

over the years. As a teacher, you should know how crucial it is to have

do you know I

won't help," sighed Edna. "You might as well retire

at her, a mix of pity and sadness

her research wasn't as dire as Edna made it out

whom the gods wish to

fail to

...

who had secured her

of

her greatest pleasure was cooking

and invited him to share a meal, though such opportunities were rare since he was always

brief encounters were

clothes or because the lab's

turned to months, Roseanne's life

had to wait for a man who no longer saw a place for her in his life; she didn't need to prepare his meals or manage the small details of his daily

such times, Roseanne cherished her