A Replacement Bride

"What's the rush? I'm figuring things out for you to avoid being troubled by such a simple topic. I

wouldn't want you to suffer hair loss from worrying about this. More importantly, it's such a waste of Lab

7's resources. Furthermore, the loss incurred would be quite substantial for the country too."

"You—" Rita clenched her teeth in anger upon noticing Katherine's arrogance and with a furious glare,

she attempted to move forward.

Katherine had only pressed a pen against Rita's shoulders but for some inexplicable reason, Rita found

herself unable to move a single inch.

"You annoying woman! Y-You'd better let go of me!"

At that instance, Rita was about to blow a gasket, but she could only lash out with her words.

Katherine lifted a well-sculpted brow and did not bother to correct Rita's rudeness. She didn't even

have to exert force as she shoved Rita to the ground by using the pen's tip.

"Ouch!" Rita tried to maintain her balance but failed and fell to the ground. At that point, she winced in

pain.

Just as she fell to the ground on her bottom, Katherine had swiftly finished writing the final sentence of

the content and she casually tossed it to the woman on the floor.

"You!" Rita scrambled to get up quite awkwardly and her eyes looked molten-red from anger. She was

just about to scrunch up the piece of paper tossed to her when she noticed Katherine's lazy smile.

"Are you quite sure that you won't take a look? I've written down some groundbreaking achievements

regarding the E1 reagent."

As soon as Katherine mentioned that, everyone's jaw dropped. Even Howard had a look of disbelief on

his face.

At that point, Rita froze in her act but soon enough, she frowned and scoffed derisively.

"Stop bullsh*tting us! We've conducted three years of research without any conclusive outcome, yet

here you are just randomly scribbling on a piece of paper and then boasting about some

groundbreaking achievement! Do you take us as fools?"

Katherine remained exceptionally calm and continued to stare at Rita patiently.

"Well, I don't know how foolish the others are, but you…"

As Katherine spoke, she lifted a hand to tap her temple with her slender fingers before expressing

nonchalantly, "You're a bit off here so I guess you must be quite foolish."

Rita nearly blew a fuse upon hearing Katherine's words. The former clenched her teeth and was about

to crush that piece of paper in her hand. It was quite fortunate that Howard stepped forward and

snatched the paper from Rita's hand.

"Professor Walt!" Rita had an incredulous look on her face upon seeing Howard study the paper's

content.

Howard's eyes became as wide as saucers in just a minute, and there was a surprised and excited

look in his gaze.

"So that's how it is! I can't believe that's how it should be! Why didn't I realize this?!"

As soon as Howard finished his sentence, the other researchers who were engrossed in the drama

unfolding crowded around Howard to retrieve the paper from his hand as they passed it around and

studied it.

Subsequently, everyone was in shock, especially the team members in Rita's research unit. They were

elated and yet in disbelief. None of them could tear their eyes away from the piece of paper.

Meanwhile, Rita's expression turned uglier than ever upon seeing their reaction. Even a fool could tell

what was going on right now.

This woman has solved the issue in my research topic! How can that be possible?! Isn't she just a

pretty face who had to pull strings to get in here?! How can she possibly be so capable?!

Just then, Rita couldn't quite swallow her pride to go over and find out what was written on the piece of

paper. She remained frozen in place as her body stiffened. There was a beaten expression on her face,

and she wished so badly to be able to leave this place right away without anyone realizing it. She felt

utterly humiliated.

At the same time, Howard finally realized the capability of this woman in front of him, and he

immediately regretted his bad attitude from before.

"Look… Miss Cornell. I-It was just a misunderstanding from before, so please don't take it personally."

At that moment, he had no other option but to let go of his pride and apologize to her.

His logical mind overcame his pride, and he finally realized that Marcus hadn't just randomly brought

Katherine into this laboratory. She was actually of crucial value to them.

It was likely that her research topic contained some extremely critical content too.

Initially, Howard had assumed that she would be incapable of achieving anything, so even if she

complained to Marcus about being treated badly, Howard could still come up with an excuse for her

incompetence.

However, things were quite different right now.

If she complained about today's matter to Marcus, then Howard would be relinquished of his professor

position and his role as the person in charge of Lab 7.

At the thought of that, Howard broke into a cold sweat and quickly tried to appease Katherine in hopes

that he could smooth over his rude behavior from before.

"Miss Cornell, please rest assured that I will make the arrangements for every single thing you're after.

There won't be any issues at all. I'll give you priority to obtain even the rarest reagents. You've traveled

all the way to get here, so you must be exhausted. Why don't you go over to the lounge to take a rest?

I'll make the necessary arrangements as soon as possible and once everything is sorted, I'll inform you

immediately!"