All Her Secrets

Branden escorted Catherine to the laboratory door. On their way, Marshall messaged Catherine. He was relieved when he was sure Catherine had set off and was almost at the lab.

As the car eased in, Catherine caught sight of Marshall standing by the stairs and smiled. "Professor Hartley's got an interesting character." Branden was always attentive to Catherine. He glanced out the window after hearing her words.

"Speople are just born for research!" Branden said.

Only ones like Marshall, who could endure, weren't bothered by fame, and devoted themselves entirely to their experiments, could scale the heights of science.

Catherine raised an eyebrow in agreement. "That's right." Branden gently ruffled her hair, and his voice softened as he replied, "My girl is too." Catherine's dedicated nature and genius mind destined her for an extraordinary life.

As the car halted, Catherine lightly pushed away Branden's hand and was ready to exit. She knew if she dawdled any longer, Marshall might rush up to tug the car door open himself.

Once Catherine got out, Branden gently grasped her arm and reminded her." Letknow when you're done." "Alright." After receiving Catherine's response, Branden reluctantly let go and watched her depart with Marshall.

Marshall hurried Catherine toward the lab without pause. The moment they stepped inside, without a nod to Patrick, Marshall guided her to the front of the lab bench.

Patrick, who had raised his hand in greeting, let it drop with a resigned smile.

Thankfully, he knew Marshall's temperament. Otherwise, he might have thought Marshall had an issue with him. He had a wry smile before following along to assess the situation. Marshall handed his calculations over to Catherine and asked her to find the possible glitches.

After Catherine glanced at the data, she didn't spot any glitches.

However, the outcwas undoubtedly incorrect.

machine. Let's

her command, Marshall immediately activated the machine and started the calculations anew. Halfway through, Catherine spoke up. Stop!" Though unsure of Catherine's intent,

"The machine's malfunctioning?" Marshall and Patrick almost simultaneously exclaimed, and their tones were filled with

Marshall found it hard to believe, let

that be? Catherine, are you sure?” Marshall asked

a fault with the machine." With Catherine's assurance, Marshall and Patrick promptly called the

was confirmed that the machine had an issue. There was a module

for the machine, Marshall hurried to Catherine's side and looked at her with

did you figure out the machine had a

and Patrick looked at

the deviation in the results, it had to be the machine. Professor Hartley, when I asked you to restart the machine earlier, it was to confirm if the problem

returning their research report, Catherine said, "The issue is with the machine. Your calculations were right, and you should eventually arrive at the

It was that

always thorough. When they found discrepancies, they'd repeatedly recalibrate,

was wrong, it

held the report and marveled at Catherine's

long, to miss an issue with

problem's root cause

they found the root cause. That meant the issue would