Arius knew what she meant. It's true that we need to have faith in everything we do. Without faith, we can never succeed in anything.
“You can leave first. I want to be alone for a while,” said Sophie.
“Sure.”
After Arius went downstairs, Sophie was alone on the top floor.
She took out her phone and called Tristan.
“What are you doing?”
“Nothing much. How about you? Are you running out of ideas?”
“Yes.”
“Sophie, you have tried your best. All these have nothing to do with you. There's no need to pressurize yourself.”
“I know.”
“Are you missing me? Do you want me to come over?” If nothing could be done, then it would be better not to do anything.
“It's all right. There's no need for you to come here.”
Even if he did, there was nothing much he could do to help.
“But, I want to see you. You want to see me, too, right?” Otherwise, she would not have phoned him.
“Yes.”
It was true. That was why she gave him a call.
“But, there's really no need for you to come over. I'm going back to work now. Once I'm done, I'll go over and look for you.”
“Okay.”
Tristan did not force her, knowing that she was a very responsible person. If she took over certain responsibilities, she would not give up so easily.
Sophie then returned to the laboratory.
That was the first time she ran out of ideas.
After Arius returned to the laboratory, he began a new experiment. Unfortunately, it still failed in the end.
That made him feel very lousy.
When Barney saw Arius' expression, he knew what the result was.
Barney went over and patted his shoulders.
“Don't worry. Everything takes time.”
No matter how capable a person might be, there was no way one could foresee the future.
It would be normal for anyone to fail several times before he or she could achieve success.
Sophie also joined them.
“Dr. Smith, please don't worry about us. We know what we should do.” After all, that was supposed to be a team effort.
The problem was no one from the International Medical Association wanted to collaborate with them.
They did not trust them anymore.
That was the cause of the current problem.
“Dr. Smith, I think we should redistribute our workload.” Since no one from the International Medical Association was able to trust them, they would have to have faith in themselves.
“Fine. What do you suggest, then? We'll go along with your idea.”
Barney had always trusted Sophie very much.
He would support her no matter what decisions she made.
Sophie handed the two men a piece of paper each.
“I have already listed the work that needs to be done. Just follow according to this list.”
Right now, she had no confidence that it would work.
The only thing they could do was give it a shot.
“Sure, no problem. I'll do my best to cooperate with you.” At that instant, Arius had run out of ideas.
He found Sophie's way of distributing the workload to be very reasonable.
“I'm fine with it too. From now on, let's continue with our work, then!”
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