Ch. 756..760: My Wife Is A Hacker Chapter 756-760

Chapter 756

Her father had told her that as long as she got this ignorant girl who did not know anything to let slip words of attractive-sounding profit, then she could convince the Riddle family to work with the McCarthy family.

However, Nicole could not even be bothered to play messenger as she simply just rejected her.

Joyce could not help but panic. “You’re declining to cooperate with us without even passing on the message? Do you have any idea how big the profits will be if we cooperate? It’ll be billions!”

Nicole frowned and did not expect it to be such a huge project.

So, it seems like the McCarthy family cannot shoulder this alone, so that’s why they are looking to cooperate with the Riddle Corporation.”

When Nicole thought of this, her smirk got even colder. “Ah, now I get it. However… this is simply because the McCarthy Corporation cannot shoulder such a huge project alone, but our Riddle Corporation is different. We can take on this project by ourselves. So why do we need to cooperate with you again?”

Joyce was stunned. “W-What did you say?”

This girl looks like she’s barely even twenty. How is she so shrewd?’

“You’ve heard what I said. We, Riddle Corporation, will not work with the McCarthy Corporation. If we want to, we can take on this project alone.” Nicole’s presence was so domineering, and her pride towered over everything.

Joyce was completely flabbergasted. She did not expect to be crushed by a high schooler like this!

She gritted her teeth and hissed, “You really think the Riddle Corporation is capable of taking on this project alone? You overestimate yourself!”

Even the McCarthy family dared not make such claims. She really doesn’t know anything at all.’

“Whether we can take on the project or not is none of your concern. As long as we have enough cash, any project is within our reach.”

Nicole smirked coldly. ‘If I’m not short of money, then the Riddle family is not short of money.

Seeing Nicole being so confident, Joyce was at a loss of words for a good while.

“Nothing else? I’ll be heading off then.” As she said that, Nicole took out a few bags from the car. She turned around and walked into the school with swagger.

Joyce glared at Nicole as she felt only humiliation

As a daughter of the McCarthy family. I’ve never been treated like this before! This girl, who gave her that confidence?

Joyce was miffed, but she was even more worried.

‘If the Riddle family does not work with us, that means that our family will not be able to secure this project, and when the time comes, it means a breakdown in cash flow…’

Gritting her teeth, Joyce thought of Martin. It looked like the only person she could seek help from was Martin

When Nicole got back to her room, she noticed that Lulu was not back yet, but June was around.

She saw that June was watching something on the phone with a silly lovestruck look on her face, not even noticing Nicole when she came in.

Nicole could not help but let out a cough. “Ahem!”

June immediately sprang up. “N-Nicole!”

When she got up, she did not forget to hide the phone, looking all suspicious, but her cheeks were flushed red.

Nicole raised her eyebrow and had an idea what was going on. She smirked playfully and said, “What are you doing?”

“N-Nothing.” June looked away nervously.

She dared not tell Nicole that she was watching a video of Samuel’s basketball match or that her heart almost stopped beating when she saw Samuel’s smile.

“Let me have a look.” Nicole put down the shopping bags and grabbed June’s phone. Sure enough, the video of Samuel’s basketball match was on the screen.

Nicole could not help but snort. “So, you’re being all lovestruck with my brother.”

She had long guessed that June liked Samuel. However, she just did not expect that June, the literal study freak during the weekdays, would be so lovestruck at Samuel’s video during the weekends.

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“I…” June bit her lips in embarrassment “Nicole, please don’t tell your brother…”

‘Or else I’ll really die from embarrassment.

“Don’t worry.” Nicole glanced at her. “Who do you take me for? I hate gossip the most.”

June nodded solemnly. “Yeah, I know. You’re not that sort of person.”

It was only then she somewhat relieved.

Nicole started to change, and as she changed, she suddenly recalled something. “The Wallace family in San Joto is quite an influential family. Are you going to Mr. Johnston Sr.’s banquet?” 3

June was slightly taken aback. “… I don’t know.”

Although she was a daughter of the Wallace family in San Joto, she focused mostly on her studies and did not ask about what was going on at home.

“My brother will be there.” All five of her brothers will be attending the banquet, and Samuel was naturally not an exception

After June got a tip from Nicole, her eyes lit up. “I’ll go too then!”

There was not much opportunity for her to get in touch with Samuel outside school, and she needed to seize this opportunity.

“Smart girl,” Nicole said as she winked at June. “Make sure to doll up. Let me know if you’re short of anything.”

June always seemed like she did not get much pocket money. The average daughters of rich families were not as thrifty as she was. Her sensibility pained Nicole so much that she was afraid that June was unwilling to spend money, so she added that reminder.

June could not help but be touched. “Nicole… thank you so much.”

Although she was the daughter of the Wallace family, ever since her stepmother married into the family, she rarely asked her family for money. Most of the time, her living expenses came from her own scholarship money and some allowances from her grandmother. If she was to attend a banquet, she really did not have all that much money.

“What are you thanking me for? Aren’t we friends?” Nicole teased. She had already long taken June and Lulu as her friends.

June did not expect Nicole to say something so earnest and was touched. “Nicole… You’re the best!”

As she said that, she hugged Nicole from the change, even though the latter was not done changing yet.

Nicole had just only slipped her t-shirt over her head, and the clothes were stuck on her shoulders when she was so awkwardly hugged. “Uh, let me go first. I’m not done dressing yet…”

‘This was really awkward.’ However, if it weren’t for her arms trapped by her shirt, she would have pushed June away

This was the first time Nicole had skin contact with a friend, and she was a little embarrassed.

June immediately let her go and said, “I’ll help you put on your shirt!”

As she said that, she pulled Nicole’s casual tee down,

After that, the two sat down to chat.

Although Nicole only spoke occasionally between exchanges, she would at times still laugh together with June.

The two were really relaxed.

Inside the hospital laboratory–

Joyce was seated in the cramped lab with an uncontrollable look of anxiety on her face.

She finally returned to the team at Martin’s grace, but she was still very nervous, worrying that she would be kicked out if she messed up again.

Ever since the incident, she dared not speak to Martin casually anymore, and she did not know how to approach him about the McCarthy family’s matter.

At this moment, Martin was cutting something on the lab bench with his hair messy. A sharpened pen was stuck on his ear as he could sense Joyce’s gaze from time to time, and an irritable look slowly appeared on his face.

He was unwilling to toss away the test tube in his hand. He carefully lifted it up as he looked at Joyce, his eyes cold and impatient.

“There’s no one here now. I’ll give you one last chance. Now, speak, what

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Martin really had enough of her always being like this.

When Joyce saw him looking at her and asking that question, she was so touched and wanted to say something. Yet, when she recalled that awkward situation that day, she quickly put that nonsense away and told him straightaway what was troubling her, “Martin, my family recently lost a bid for land near San Joto to the Riddle Corporation, and they’ve also taken a few of our projects recently. There’s a new recent project that we want to work on with the Riddle Corporation. My family has prepared well for it. Could you pass on a word to Mr. Wyance…?”

What the McCarthy family feared the most was if the Riddle Corporation asked first and got handed the project, then the McCarthy Corporation would be totally done for.

Martin glanced at her somewhat speechlessly. This sort of matter was the most boring of things in his eyes, and he did not expect Joyce to be out of sorts because of that.

He then said, “Don’t worry. I’ll let Dad know if the McCarthy Corporation really runs into trouble. Focus on the experiment and don’t get distracted again, or else…”

He gave Joyce a warning look, hinting that she should know what he meant.

Joyce understood what he meant as a look of surprise appeared on her face. She totally did not expect him to agree just like that. “Don’t worry, Martin. We’ve already at the final stage of our research. I’ll focus on it.”

Martin glanced at her, thinking to himself. ‘Oh, so you actually know that the research is at its final stage?’

However, in order to reassure her, he took off his glove and disinfected himself before leaving the lab. He stood by the door and gave his father a call.

The call only connected after a good while, and Martin said with some irritation, “Dad, what’s taking you so long to answer the call?”

A melodious voice came from the other end. “Martin? Your father is in a meeting right now. Just let me know if there’s anything.”

Martin frowned when he heard the voice. He almost wanted to immediately cut the line, but after pondering for a bit, he restrained himself. “Get my dad to call me back once he is done.”

After that, he pressed the red disconnect button on the phone screen.

Only then did he remember, ‘Isn’t Nicole from the Riddle family?

‘The McCarthy family actually wants to work with the Riddle family. I wonder if Nicole would agree or not.’

Thinking of this, he felt a little regretful. ‘I should not have straightaway agreed to Joyce on this.

‘After all, Dad did support the Riddle family for that piece of land. That shows that the Riddle family has an outstanding point.’

However, he had already given his word and could not go back on it. Thinking of this, he could not help but ruffle his messy hair, a look of hesitation appearing on his face.

However, after some pondering, he walked in and said to the anticipating Joyce, “Wait a bit, my dad is in a meeting. I’ll give him a call once he’s done.”

Joyce was a little disappointed, but she dared not say anything and only nodded. As long as Martin is willing to help me, it’s more than enough.’

Martin looked at Joyce and felt that she looked rather pitiful.

After all, he was somewhat responsible for the McCarthy family’s failure in losing the land bid. If he were to just let things be and allow the McCarthy Corporation to go bankrupt, it would rub against his conscience, so he could only give it a try.

Martin forced himself to stop thinking about it as he turned to look at the numbers on his instrument panel with tretful eyes

Joyce on the other hand, thought Martin was worried about the experiment’s results, so she stared at the instrument panel too, but her wandering eyes looked a little absentminded.

To her, her medical research was important, but her family matters were obviously much more important.

It was only when the McCarthy family found no help after searching around did she thicken her skin and look for Martin once again,

As long as they could get this project, they could recover the loss incurred in losing that plot of land.

But she knew her father had not put much effort into this cooperation proposal. He was instead trying to find someone to get an opportunity to speak with Mr. Wyance and get the latter to consider them once again

However, the McCarthy family did not know many people in San Joto, and their base was weak. Yet, they did not want to focus on their industry but instead hoped to get into places of wealth and power using connections, so their reputation in San Joto was just very average.

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It was because of that did her father remember that she knew Martin and wondered if he could help them cultivate a good impression before Mr. Wyance.

After all, it was said that the project’s internal scheduling had determined that the tender was to be done by the governor, so it was almost up to Mr. Wyance to decide who to give the tender to.

Thinking of this, Joyce subconsciously stirred the glass rod in the beaker. The experimental data was no longer in her mind, only her worries about her family.

After all, she could only continue to comfortably be a doctor if the McCarthy family was prosperous, and if they were to lose again in this tender, her quality of life would likely see a downgrade.

Thinking of this, a surge of emotion flashed across Joyce’s eyes as she subconsciously looked at Martin with an obvious pleading look on her face.

Martin, who was stern with her but still extended a helping hand, was her only hope.

When she thought of that, her eyes looking at Martin were like a greedy fisher who found the riches of the deep.

Martin was focused on the cell activity of the experiment and paid no attention to Joyce’s gaze.

He was very ambitious, and the purpose of this experiment would scare people witless.

Even the members of his own team had no idea what his ultimate goal was.

It was just that whenever he was just a step away, there would be a thin barrier standing between him and the level he wanted to achieve.

This was the closest he ever was to his dream, and success or failure all depended on this.

Martin did not stop personally adjusting the temperature of the biological solution in the test tube. His eyes were locked onto the numbers displayed on the instrument penal as he closed in on that threshold he had been dreaming of!

Yet just a second before it reached that threshold, all of the cells in the test tube suddenly stopped moving and then lost all activity one by one.

And the numbers on the instrument rapidly fell.

This was the Nth number of failures now, and Martin’s eyes were a little red from staying up late. He rubbed his rather pale face as he walked out with an unsteady step, not even bothering to take off his gloves.

He thought it would definitely be successful this time.

This was already his limit, yet he was still unable to keep the cells alive in that state, even after he had added his improved oxygenase as an auxiliary reagent. It was still useless.

Martin suddenly felt a little despair. He put his hand into his pocket and then pulled out a cigarette before lighting it up and bit it by the side of his mouth.

His team members originally wanted to come over to console him. Their ability to endure was far better than Martin’s as the latter had poured his heart and soul into this experiment, and every failure meant a complete rebuke of himself.

So far, the last attempt was the closest one to success.

It was just a tenth of a second away, and his new active enzyme invention would be successful.

Yet, they did not know that the active enzyme they thought they were researching was only a binding reagent Martin was using to assist with his experiment.

Upon seeing Martin pulling out a cigarette, the few people around him looked at each other and, with tacit understanding, did not move forward anymore.

Their team leader would only smoke when he was at his emotional limits.

No one dared to go piss him off at this juncture.

Martin seemed to be looking ahead but also seemed to be not looking at anything at all. His eyes were blank and unfocused.

He took a deep puff as he let out a rare look of exhaustion.

‘Do I have the right to chase after that miracle doctor?’

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Just as he was spacing out, Owen carefully leaned over and warned Martin as he looked at the latter’s sullen face.

“Chief, the cig is going to burn your fingers.”

Only then did Martin realize that. He immediately flicked the cigarette butt that almost burned his fingers onto the ground. He extinguished it before picking it up and tossing it into the nearby trash can.

His expression was very sullen, so Owen cautiously tried to comfort him. “Chief, don’t be too sad. We’ve failed so many times previously…”

This is just another of those attempts.’

As Owen saw Martin’s expression darken, he did not mention the latter half of the sentence.

Martin knew what he said was true, but the failure of the experiment sent his mood down into the abyss.

He irritably scratched his fluffy curly hair. In the end, he finally took a deep breath before he said softly,” I’ll be heading home for a bit.”

He wanted to go home to calm down and consider if he should be persisting on this path or not.

After all, he had encountered way too many bumps in the past six months. As he thought of this, Martin directly walked out of the lab.

Seeing that his expression had mellowed down somewhat, Joyce tossed the things in her hand over to her assistant and trotted over as she softly called out to Martin.

“Martin, wait for me!”

Martin suddenly stopped as he once again impatiently looked at Joyce, his tone somewhat unfriendly.

“What else do you want?”

Martin walked very fast, and it was tough for Joyce to keep up with him. Seeing that he finally stopped, she did not care about his attitude as she panted and said, “Let’s go home together. You and me.”

“WHAT?’ Martin frowned. “What did you say?”

Joyce looked at him as she recomposed her breathing. She smiled at Martin, “Go home, of course… Eh, Martin, wait for me!”

Martin was not in the mood to listen to her as he turned around and left in disgust.

Joyce’s voice chasing after him came from behind him, “Martin, wait for me!”

When Martin heard that she was chasing after him, his expression turned even more sullen as he immediately walked out of the hospital.

Joyce, even when she used all of her strength, could not keep up with Martin’s pace.

Seeing that Martin was walking farther and farther away, Joyce trembled in a fury.

After getting into his car, Martin recalled what Joyce told him as he irritably took out his phone and called that number again.

He was a man of his word. He would never break his promise.

The phone rang for a good while, but no one answered, and just as Martin was about to hang up, the call suddenly connected.

What came from the other side was still that gentle voice, “Martin, it’s me. What’s the matter?”

Martin remembered the last time he told Mr. Wyance to not hand over his phone to his stepmother, and the latter simply ignored him, and that made him so furious that he could not speak for a moment.