After Celeste and Nadine left, Wynn stood frozen in place for a long time, unable to snap out of it.It wasn't until Lilian, who was waiting in the restaurant, called to hurry her along that she finally came to her senses.She hung up, entered the restaurant, and seeing her pale expression, Lilian asked, "What's wrong? Are you feeling unwell?"Wynn shook her head. "No."Her tone was faint, as if all the strength had been drained from her. Her whole demeanor was distracted and listless, as if her soul had left her body. Something was clearly off.Lilian frowned in concern.…Not long after Celeste got home from dinner, she received a message from Trevor."There's an urgent matter in Glenmere. After returning to the country, I'll have to delay going back to Baumond by a few more days."Celeste read it and took a deep breath, feeling a wave of frustration.But given that she herself had missed their previous appointment just a couple of weeks ago, she had no grounds to lash out.
After reading the message, Celeste swiped the screen away without replying.That evening, Celeste went out for dinner with her family.When they arrived at the restaurant, she let her family go in first while she tried to find a parking spot.After parking the car, she got out with her bag in hand, not noticing that the car parked in the spot next to hers belonged to Wynn.Wynn had just finished a phone call. After hanging up, she spotted Celeste.As Celeste locked her car and was about to walk toward the restaurant, she suddenly heard someone call out, "Cece?"There was only one person who called her that—Zachary's wife, Nadine Yarborough.Celeste froze for a moment. When she turned around, sure enough, she saw Nadine not far away.Wynn had originally been about to get out of her car, but when she saw Nadine, she also froze in surprise.Nadine was not only a genius in the medical field, but also Zachary's wife. Although she kept a low profile and rarely appeared in the media,
After finishing her work and leaving the base, Celeste returned home and turned on her phone. It was then that she found out Trevor had replied to her message more than an hour after she had left for the base.His reply was a simple "Okay."Perhaps because he had failed to keep their original appointment, in the past half month, aside from that single reply, he hadn't called her even once.Instead, it was Jordyn who had called her around five times over the last ten days.Seeing this, Celeste simply sent Trevor a message. "I'm done with work. I'm available on Monday."After sending the message and waiting quite a while with no response, she didn't bother to wait further.As for the missed calls from Jordyn, Celeste figured she probably just missed her—there wasn't anything urgent.So, Celeste didn't return the call.It had been nearly half a month since she'd last visited Isabelle in the hospital.After taking a shower and having breakfast, she went to the hospital with her fa
By the time she finished her work and snapped out of it, Celeste suddenly realized that Caleb had already left his seat without her noticing.Afterward, Celeste worked day and night for several more days before everything was finally resolved.She slept for a full 24 hours before she started to feel significantly better. However, compared to before she entered the base, she still looked noticeably paler.That day, she had mostly just slept and hadn't eaten much at all. By evening, she started feeling hungry, and as she headed to the cafeteria to get some food, she ran into Caleb coming from the other dormitory wing.Caleb was slightly surprised to see her. "I thought you had already left the base."This mission had been a major one, so he could roughly guess when she had arrived. Now that the situation was successfully wrapped up, he assumed she'd left yesterday, having completed her task.Celeste shook her head. "There's still something I need to handle, so I have to stay a fe
Wynn paused her movements with her utensils when she heard Jeffrey's words.At that moment, Jeffrey continued, "Yes, I'm not joking. Whether it's her looks, her temperament, or her calm personality—she's exactly my type."And on top of that, she's so talented. It's like my ideal woman stepped into reality. I have no reason not to like her."Perhaps because he and Celeste were not officially divorced yet, and it wasn't appropriate to encourage other men to pursue her, Trevor simply smiled and said nothing in response to Jeffrey's words.Jeffrey had other matters to attend to, so they didn't talk much longer before ending the call.…After meeting Jeffrey, Celeste went home to rest for half the day.Before going to bed that night, she packed all the documents needed for her divorce the next day—her ID card, family record book, etc.—into her bag.After double-checking that nothing was missing, just as she was about to turn off the lights and sleep, Zachary suddenly called her."G
Trevor smiled and said, "Yes, I'm still very interested."Wynn also knew that Trevor had always liked YodaVision's Cuap programming language.Because of that, when she wanted to join YodaVision last year, Trevor was fully supportive. He believed that if she got in, she would have great potential for growth.Perhaps it was precisely because he admired and appreciated the developer behind Cuap that, even when dealing with Matthias—who always gave him the cold shoulder because of Celeste—Trevor simply laughed it off.Trevor then said candidly, "But I've offended Mr. Yoder before. He doesn't think very highly of me right now. If you want to work with him and ask me to help, it might just backfire."Hearing that, Jeffrey was a bit surprised, but he didn't press further. "Alright, I'll find someone else to help make the connection."Jeffrey's family business was in pharmaceutical R&D. Their company's AI model had long struggled to raise the success rate in antibody discovery.They had