Chapter 240

These days, Gillian was too afraid to go out. She had been locking herself in her room and spending her days and nights in a daze.

Occasionally, when the phone rang, it would startle her.

Jarron asked her what was wrong, but she did not say anything. She just looked at the sky with a blank expression.

After a while, the phone rang again.

Gillian glanced at the caller ID. It was Yvonne.

Due to her inner turmoil, she was hesitant to answer the call.

After the phone rang for a long time, she carefully reached out and picked it up. “Hello…”

She had only said one word when Yvonne streamed angrily at her from the other end. “Gillian, you’re fucking messing with me! You gave me some incomplete prescriptions and made a fool out of me in front of the vice president. You even implicated Jack.”

Yvonne was so angry that her body kept trembling.

“Well, Gillian Dale, you’re quite something.

“You handed me a bunch of incomplete prescriptions, and this garbage was posted on the Internet more than ten years ago.

“It could be found with a simple search online.

“Online?” Gillian was perplexed.

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“Cut your pretense!” Yvonne’s jaw tightened. “Don’t tell me you haven’t seen Olivia’s blog. Even if you haven’t, many people have reposted it online. The prescriptions you gave me were published by her on the Internet over ten years ago.”

“Impossible!” Gillian exclaimed and hurriedly hung up the phone to search for Olivia’s blog.

As expected, it had been posted more than a decade ago.

Gillian was dumbfounded.

She called Olivia’s number in a hurry, but no one answered the phone.

give up. From morning until evening, she had been persistently calling Olivia hundreds of

call

come out of the laboratory when she saw that there

knitted her brows and picked it

as if she had gone insane. “Those are the Smith family’s secret prescriptions. How could you publish them just like

“Not this again.”

sighed and said. “Who told you the Smith family has

When has Grandpa ever said that the

a busy day with no time for lunch, Olivia was too tired to keep her emotions in check. “Can you think about what a normal person will think? What era are you from? Do you

Please use your brain. If the

didn’t they apply for a patent and make it available to the public? Why keep it? For a

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frustrated

asked her multiple times about the secret prescriptions. She had explained over and over again that

just wouldn’t believe

exactly is going on in

mumbled, “Grandpa told

would be cured very quickly after eating something. Her grandfather told her that

also the strategy book. Her grandfather had said that Olivia studied

hearing Gillian’s words, Olivia fell silent for

she finally spoke, “Grandpa also said that if you don’t sleep, the baboons will eat you. He also said that Cinderella has glass slippers and that Tooth Fairy will visit you while you’re sleeping if you place

to coax children. Gillian was almost 30 years old, so how could she not differentiate

jealousy, only choosing to believe what benefited her. Gillian pinched the tassel charm on the phone and asked “Then what about seared salmon with herbed couscous? If there’s no secret

her lips into a self–mocking smile. “You’d rather believe that there’s a fictitious formula than accept

because

instead of saying more about the dish, Olivia only asked calmly, “If there was a secret recipe,

care of yourself,” and decisively hung up

world, no amount of family affection can withstand this kind

up the phone, Olivia went to the cafeteria

Over in Mala.

a daze and slumped on the bed

everything was fake and

secret recipe? And I can’t understand and learn the complicated miraculous

did I come to

to

so stubborn and paranoid, she would

aside the Smith family’s assets, just

held her in high regard and specially requested her

did not

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