His secret spoiled wife (Lily and Alexander)

Chapter 1247

Austin turned and saw Lily approaching.

"Professor Thompson." Lily greeted.

"You cjust at the right time. The team just finished a set of experiments, but it's still not right. Cand take a look at what

went wrong." Thompson was eager to bring Lily into the lab.

"Professor Thompson," Austin could not help but call out.

"Uh..." That made Thompson tilt his body sideways and raise his hand. " This is Austin Fike. | believe you two met yesterday. You

haven't visited the institute recently, so you might not know him. Austin just joined US not long ago, and he's the student of a

reputable teacher in this field!"

After a pause, he continued, "You two can chat since one of you is an expert in medicinal herbs while the other is an expert in

fragrances. I'm sure the two of you can create sparks and miracles through exchanging ideas."

Lily looked at Austin and nodded lightly as if yesterday's unpleasant incident did not happen. Then she smirked. "lI wonder who

Austin’s reputable teacher is?"

"Well..." Thompson did not know how to respond to that. Everyone in the industry implicitly understood that Austin was Dominic's

student. However, as it was something Dominic did not publicly announce, no one would mention it even though they all

understood it.

After all, Dominic kept his student a secret from the public for now. If he wanted it to stay that way, everyone would pretend they

knew nothing about it yet, although it was the opposite.

"His teacher is a respectable man, and he’s one of the pioneer researchers of medicinal herbs. Since he prefers to stay lowkey, I'll

not say too much about him," Thompson explained.

Austin, who was by Thompson's side, had his hands placed in front of him as he straightened his back. "My teacher doesn't care

about his fand likes to stay lowkey. | don't like using his nto get certain things for myself when working. After all, we're

doctors, and the most important thing is saving lives. We don't care for fame, popularity, and whatnot.

"Oh?" Lily tilted her head and said profoundly. "Mr. Fike, you don't want to talk about it, but everyone seems to know about it

already."

"Everyone is kinder todue to their respect for my teacher."

Austin would always put on airs in front of Lily, acting like a student who only chased knowledge for everyone's benefit. His entire

demeanor showed that he looked down on Lily.

Last night, Lily was quite angry, but she no longer felt that way. Getting angry over such a stubborn and old-fashioned hypocrite

was not worth it to her.

‘This man is just using Mr. Dominic's nto fool everyone for his benefit, so how dare he put on airs in front of me? It'd be

unfortunate to work with such a hypocrite.’

"Professor Thompson, what did you say went wrong earlier?" Lily asked the man, ignoring Austin and the act he put on.

Upon hearing Lily's question, Thompson suddenly becenergetic and motioned with his hands while explaining the situation to

Lily as he led her to the lab. "It's about the formula. The experiment was close to success when you were still around, right?

Still, there's a slight scent of medicinal herbs, so | got them to decrease the amount of it from 3 milliliters, and we've decreased it

several times over a few experiments.

"However, the problem now is that if we reduced the dosage used, it would reduce the effects of the medicine, but if we don't do

that, the medicinal herbs’ scent would be too potent. Would you advise we make samendments to the ingredients?"

"We don’t need to change the main ingredient because it’s the only ingredient with the closest scent to the medicinal herbs. Plus,

it's the easiest to mix with the other ingredients. We could work on the proportions, though," Lily said with determination.

They headed to the lab, with Austin following behind. He wanted to listen to the nonsense she could cup with as someone who

knew nothing about the field.

After washing and disinfecting their hands, they put on their masks and gloves before entering the lab.

There was a mixture of scents inside, which attacked the trio. The stench choked them even with their masks on. Lily could not

breathe and had to turn around for sfresh air.

‘What is this mess?" Thompson growled while waving.

"Professor Thompson, we conducted a few more experiments simultaneously because we're running out of time, so the scents kind

of got all mixed up," one of the employees stood up and replied nervously.

‘What nonsense is that?" His response made Thompson frown. "How are you going to differentiate the scents that way?"

He waved and motioned for them to stop whatever they were doing while Lily stayed silent. She understood what was going on.

Back then, they were rushing for progress as well. The institute's people kept urging her to return because they feared delaying

their process.

She understood they wanted results, but a new project like this would need more tto succeed. It was also usual for them to fail

and make mistakes along the way.

However, the institute was in a rush, as if they were chasing after the hands of the clock. Their aggressiveness in pursuing

research results differed from Lily's usual working style. However, she was determined to know what they were up to since she

decided to return and would not stop before getting the answers she wanted.

She looked down and glanced at the results, then picked up the ingredients and the medicinal herbs to weigh them before mixing

them and adding a few drops of essential oil.

"You..." When Thompson noticed Lily adding essential oil into the mixture, he was stunned and wanted to comment when he came

to his senses, but someone beat him to it.

“You're fooling around here!" Sneering, Austin said disdainfully. However, Lily ignored him, not even sparing him a glance as she

focused on the items in her hands.

Apart from those working on their tasks, the other researchers cover and earnestly watched. Since they had failed many

times, they had no hopes for it to succeed in just one try but since the research data Lily left behind was helpful, they had

expectations for Lily.

In other words, all the lab staff placed their hopes in Lily, except a certain someone.

"Professor Thompson, she’s just wasting the herbs! | think she should stop!" Austin could not help but voice his opinions, hoping to

stop Lily again, looking disappointed by her actions.

‘The medicinal herbs are different from those ingredients used in producing fragrances. We use these herbs to save lives instead of

being rich people's playthings! Seeing you waste these resources like this goes against how medical practitioners should act!"

"It's inevitable to waste singredients while conducting the experiments. We can only get better results and achieve better

things by doing so." One of the staff could not help but retort while watching Lily continue with the experiment.

When Austin noticed everyone's attention on Lily-who was doing something pointless and nonsensical, at least that was how it

appeared to him-he felt suffocated by anger.

‘Did she brainwash everyone or something? She's just a mere perfumer, someone who plays with fragrances only! How can she

compare to people in my field?’

Austin was confident that Lily's experiment would fail, so he gave up and stayed silent. Now, he was observing the changes in the

data every second while Lily kept adding essential oil to the mixture.

Tpassed, and Lily still stood there tirelessly while everyone waited for the result.

Soon, the mixture produced a small pot of light and the yellow liquid from the condensation process, and the texture appeared

crystal clear. The color looked much better than anything they had gotten and no longer looked as cloudy. Next, they were going to

test for the most important thing -the smell.

Lily used a dropper to extract a drop of the liquid onto the test paper and pulled down her mask as she moved closer to take a

whiff.