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..."

data to back it up,

and the tools to conduct any

my lab," Owen offered after a pause, adding, "For

with some of the most

be true that such a windfall would come

like I'm

hesitated for only a second before nodding

please! Thank you so

into a slight smile, his eyes twinkling with

eighth floor of

at a premium, which

Owen's lab was unique, operating in direct partnership with corporations. Its funding came not from college approvals but

and in return, all of Owen's

to the Department of Education, directly affecting the school's ranking in

financial

Because of its f

and its

university's academic lifeline,

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

teams had asked to borrow space in

for shared access, but

inviting Roseanne to

special "treatment" she was receiving; all

a genuinely

...

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