"Why didn't you tell me?" Ross said, "So that's why you want to continue the experiment?"
Yasmin nodded. "At first, I thought I would be dying soon. I even considered choosing a successor among your brothers. But then, one day, Fred suddenly told me that he found a way to achieve immortality, and we could set up a lab to research it."
Her eyes began to light up. She still remembered it was a cloudy day, and she felt depressed. Her body also felt sore due to the weather. As the pain tormented her and the fear of death neared, Fred appeared to tell her the good news.
She did not believe it initially, but Fred said the experiment had worked before and showed her an ancient text with strange symbols and characters. He said experts had translated it and confirmed that it contained a formula for immortality.
He then began to paint her a wonderful picture of what would happen if the experiment succeeded, and she was hooked.
At that moment, the sun shone through the parting clouds, and everything suddenly seemed bright. From that day on, Yasmin no longer felt desperate. She looked forward to the experiment and permitted Fred to do whatever he needed to do.
She had also given him whatever financial resources he needed. She later discovered that Fred had been conducting other experiments behind her back and did some terrible things in her name.
However, Yasmin tolerated his behavior for the experiment’s sake. Still, she felt uneasy and began to raise her guard against him in secret, not expecting him to betray her. Moreover, his betrayal was unforgivable.
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