Fake Daughter Is The Real Legend (Iris Sutton) novel Chapter 81

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At the same time, inside Capital University’s pharmaceutical research lab…

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Several researchers sat around a conference table discussing where they had gone wrong.

Most of the team members looked half–dead, sprawled across the table in exhaustion.

“If we can’t produce results soon,” someone muttered, “it’s going to be hard to explain things to Mr. Ares.”

Professor Joe was already agonizing over how to tell Ares Barclay that their research had made no progress whatsoever.

Suddenly, a student burst into the lab.

“Professor! Professor! You have to see this!”

Professor Joe remained composed.

“Could you lower your voice?” he said irritably. “What is it? Has the sky fallen?”

Panting heavily, the student shoved a tablet toward him.

“Professor! The drug we’ve been trying to develop…”

His voice trembled with disbelief.

“Another research institute beat us to it!”

Professor Joe froze. “…Which country?”

“The institute is domestic.”

The professor instantly lost his composure. He snatched the tablet away.

“What kind of joke is this?”

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Capital University housed the nation’s top talents.

How could another institute possibly outpace them?

But as soon as he saw the announcement posted on the institute’s official website…

He felt as though the remaining half of his hair had turned white.

Who?

Just who had done it?

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Other students crowded around the tablet as well.

“Zero Degrees? What kind of research institute is that? I’ve never even heard of it.”

“Wait, I think I know them,” someone said. “They’ve kind of popped up over the last couple of years. Quite a few new drugs were developed by them. They’re just really low–key and don’t do any publicity.”

“There are people like this in the country, and Capital University doesn’t even know about them?”

The group exchanged bewildered looks.

Professor Joe fell into thought.

“Is there any way we can contact them? Maybe arrange an academic exchange?”

Their recent projects had been plagued by setbacks.

What they desperately needed now was communication with a stronger laboratory.

And the hardest part to explain…

Was Ares Barclay.

He had invested so much money into their research.

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If they failed to produce results while someone else beat them to it, it would be a direct slap

in the face.

Thinking of that, Professor Joe sighed.

After carefully considering his wording, he finally sent Ares a message explaining the situation.

Then he waited anxiously for a reply.

Buzz.

His phone vibrated almost immediately.

He hurriedly opened it.

There was only one word.

[Okay.]

Professor Joe stared blankly at the screen.

“…Okay?”

What exactly did that mean?

Was Ares saying he didn’t care?

Was he planning to withdraw his investment?

Why only one word?

While Professor Joe spiraled into every possible interpretation…

Ares had simply responded casually.

What Professor Joe didn’t know was that Ares had invested in two research institutes simultaneously.

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The failure of Capital University’s lab surprised him, but it didn’t anger him.

Because all of his attention was currently focused elsewhere.

On Iris Noir’s research institute.

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A small side investment he’d made on a whim… had actually surpassed Capital University’s top laboratory?

Now, he was genuinely interested.

Even after succeeding, the other party seemed unsurprised.

There was no excitement in their messages.

In fact, they had calmly used the opportunity to ask him for additional funding.

That composed confidence reminded him of Iris.

She always seemed to have everything under control.

As though nothing in the world could truly shake her.

For reasons he couldn’t explain… she held an inexplicable attraction for him.

Meanwhile, over at Iris’s institute, the entire team had erupted into celebration.

“We finally did it!”

“After suffering for this long, Zero really came through!”

“I’m going home and sleeping for twelve hours!”

“One tiny mistake cost us two whole months! Are you kidding me?!”

Everyone let out enormous sighs of relief.

“Zero, come over here.”

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Xavier Hayes waved at her while holding up his phone.

Leaving the celebrating crowd behind, Iris walked over.

Xavier pulled over a chair and handed her the phone.

She had barely typed a simple Okay before they immediately sent over the address and proposed several meeting times, seemingly afraid she’d change her mind.

[To celebrate the experiment’s success, would you like to have dinner together?]

“Ethan, look! That girl has an amazing figure. Do you think she’s pretty from the front too?” {

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