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..."

up,

materials and the tools to

use my lab," Owen offered

in recent years, wasn't lacking in foundations, equipped with some of the most advanced instruments and equipment available globally. "Really?" Roseanne's eyes widened in

true that such a windfall would come

like

hesitated for only a

please! Thank you

curled into a slight smile, his eyes twinkling with

lab was on the eighth floor of the Academic

space at Kingswell University was at a premium, which

direct partnership with corporations. Its funding came not from college

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

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

financial

Because of its f

and its grip on

university's academic lifeline,

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

asked to borrow space in Owen's lab, but

pockets offered "substantial amounts" for shared access, but he refused them all,

inviting Roseanne to join and offering

the special "treatment" she

was a

...

first day at the lab, at 8 a.m.,