The Good Girl's Revenge novel Chapter 525

"Who told you that?"

Meredith realized that Derek was teasing her again and couldn't help but push him aside, regardless of whether he had a cold or not.

Even if he had a cold, he was much more energetic than she was.

Derek saw that she seemed to be very embarrassed and angry, and her ears were all red, so he did not say anything more.

At this moment, Professor Lee finally came back.

When he saw Derek and the others, he looked a little embarrassed. He was an academic who was addicted to scientific research, but he didn't really know much about talking about business with people.

If it weren't for the fact that he needed money to upgrade the testing equipment, he wouldn't be running around to collect money at the cost of his dignity.

"Hello, Professor Lee, I'm Derek, and this is——"

He was about to say that this was his wife Meredith, but Meredith seemed to have read his mind and she said, "I'm Meredith."

Derek was interrupted, but he wasn't mad or something. He continued, "We're here to talk about our cooperation."

When Professor Lee heard this, he invited all three of them in.

Derek got straight to the point and directly said that his purpose for coming was to ask him to perform another operation for Penelope. In return, he was willing to sponsor the Research Center.

Professor Lee felt that this exchange was much better than the Smiths' request that asked him to do some research on health products, so after discussing the details, he agreed.

Derek didn't expect it to go so smoothly, so he asked Damian to prepare the contract immediately.

Meredith was relieved to learn that Professor Lee was willing to give surgery on Penelope.

They were waiting for the contract when Professor Lee's cell phone suddenly rang.

He picked up the phone and looked fine at first, but after a while, he became more and more depressed.

Finally, after hanging up the phone, he spoke to Derek dejectedly, "I'm sorry. I'm giving a second thought on this."

Derek could not help but frown, and Meredith became agitated. "Why?"

The Research Center was short of money, and they were willing to help him only under one simple condition. Wasn't this a win-win deal?

"It was the call from the Smiths. In the past, the Smiths was the main funder of the Research Center. They said if I sign the agreement with you and accept your funding, I won't be able to go back to Capital City to develop. In the future, the other institutes who are funded by them will no longer cooperate with us."

"I can't bear the consequences, so I'm sorry..."

Professor Lee was also very regretful, but the Smiths meant what they said, and he did not dare to offend them.

"Regardless of all these, you're a doctor. Can you go to J City for an operation? We can still give you hefty payment for that!"

Meredith was really in a hurry. She could not accept the fact that when she was about to succeed, but someone crashed her hope!

"Calm down, Meredith. You can't force him on this."

Derek did understand what was going on. He knew the Smiths called when they found out that he was here for help and threatened Professor Lee, whose Institute was originally funded by the Smiths.

In this way, Professor Lee probably didn't dare to have any cooperation with him.

"Let's go to the Smiths."

Derek looked at Meredith with a firm but gentle tone.

When she heard his voice, her worry eased and she nodded. "Okay, let's go to the Smiths."

They were all planning to settle the deal with Professor Lee before going to the Smiths, but little did they knew, they still couldn't get pass the Smiths.

Meredith couldn't help but wonder if it was fate that forced her to go to the Smiths and find out the truth.

"If the Smiths agrees, would you go to J City to operate on my friend?"

Professor Lee nodded. "Of course, I would."