Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

Chapter 201

Chapter 201

Roseanne had an idea brewing, but she knew she had to wait a bit longer...

Wait until her current contract expired before she could make her next move.

...

That day, as usual, Roseanne stepped out, planning a visit to the library.

Just as she left her apartment building, she bumped into Owen.

He had been engrossed in preparing for a new research project, pulling several all-nighters, and had just returned from his lab.

"Morning, Mr. Reynolds," Roseanne greeted him with a smile.

"You know, outside of class, you can just call me Owen," he replied with a hint of resignation.

"By the way, I wanted to ask for your opinion on something. Remember the project I told you about before? The one I never got to finish?"

Roseanne nodded. She remembered it well. That project aligned perfectly with her research interests. And...

She couldn't bear the idea of abandoning such a carefully selected and finely crafted project halfway; it seemed like such a waste.

"Have you made up your mind? Do you want to continue working on it?" Owen asked.

Without hesitation, Roseanne nodded: "Of course, I do! But... I don't have a lab right now, so I can't complete the data part, so it's not..."

back it up,

and the tools

offered after a pause, adding,

lacking in foundations, equipped with some of the

seemed too good to be true that such a windfall

I look like I'm joking?"

a second

please! Thank you so

slight smile, his eyes twinkling with

the eighth floor of the Academic Excellence

at a premium, which meant that slots

Owen's lab was unique, operating in direct partnership with corporations. Its funding

other words, Kingswell University merely provided the space, and in return, all of Owen's academic outputs were listed under the university's

achievements to the Department of Education, directly affecting the school's

financial

Because of its f

its

university's academic lifeline,

boasted some of the best maintenance, air conditioning, and heating systems in

asked to borrow space in Owen's lab, but he had never

pockets offered "substantial amounts" for

Roseanne to join

had no idea about the special "treatment" she was

was a genuinely

...

her first day at the lab, at 8 a.m., Roseanne arrived