After All the Hurt, She Chose Herself novel Chapter 333

It’s amazing how much energy a person has when they’re plotting something devious.

Raphael drove Aria directly to the research institute.

Ivy was just leaving, followed by a group of people.

They were all foreigners.

Aria didn't recognize any of them, except for Ivy and Alden.

Raphael leaned closer to Aria and whispered, "I've already told Dr. Reaves about this, and he supports it. Right now, he's just giving them a tour. After the contract is signed, we'll move them straight to the branch."

Aria suppressed a smile and nodded. "Don't worry, I won't give anything away!"

When Alden saw them approaching, he introduced them to HM's representative. "This is Aria, Dawn's representative."

"Hello, hello. I am Charlie."

The middle-aged man saw Aria and greeted her with a thick, stumbling accent.

Aria shook his hand. "Hello."

Alden said, "Aria, this is the director of HM. He's here to collaborate with our institute."

Aria nodded quickly. "It's an honor!"

"Mr. Reaves, Charlie is here for the Dawn project, so after we begin our collaboration, I hope both sides can be completely transparent," Ivy said, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. She glanced quickly at the silent Raphael before adding, "Raphael, all these years, I've also been conducting research on genetic diseases. I hope I can help you, just like Dawn."

Raphael's expression didn't change; he just gave a perfunctory nod.

"Ms. Aria, so young and accomplished," Charlie said, taking out his phone. "Can I… add you as a contact? I would like to be friends… with Ms. Aria."

Charlie's English was poor, his sentences choppy and halting.

"It's because of Charlie."

Samuel showed Aria the active computer screen. "The other side wants to collaborate, so they sent over their research data from the last three years. I'm here checking its authenticity. Good timing, you can take a look too."

"It's hard to tell what's real and what's fake with this kind of thing. You really need to run experiments to verify it."

Despite saying that, Aria leaned in for a closer look.

She didn't know a great deal about genetic diseases, but after resigning from Evercrest Prosperity Holdings, she had collected all the academic journals published by authoritative research institutes in recent years. Her theoretical knowledge was decent.

"It seems HM has been taking genetic disease research very seriously these past few years," Aria commented, pointing to a specific data set.

"This is from an experiment in an authoritative journal published by Lysandria three years ago. The Marquen Realm actually repeated it over a hundred times. Their conclusion is the same as Lysandria's."

Samuel nodded. "That's right. I did a data comparison and found that most of the data HM sent us has already been published by other countries. They've sent very little of their own original research."