"Are you purposely lying to me when you said that Georgia Lane saved you before?!"
Robert Simpson's mother was shocked. She asked in disbelief.
"Mom, why would I lie to you? Georgia doesn't even know about this. I discovered it myself."
"Even after learning about it, I didn't actually give up on the revenge against Georgia. However, Selena Holland accidentally told us something that we didn't know back then. Since Eden Lane was the one who drove at the beginning, do you think Eden would get off the car midway, then he asked Georgia to drive the car back? Do you think that this scenario is highly likely to happen? At least, they must have gone back together. I don't really believe that Georgia was alone in the car."
"You are only believing this possibility because you like her."
Maisie coldly sneered.
"You also know that I hate Georgia, so from my point of view, she could possibly do anything. Robert, what do you really feel for Georgia?"
Robert couldn't just admit that he cared for Georgia in front of his mother.
Once he saw that his mother's mood loosened up, Robert continued to break it down.
"Mom, once we find out the truth of last year's car accident, I will absolutely not stop you from dealing with Georgia. However, we shouldn't let the people from both sides use us. Whether it's the Lane family or Georgia who is using us, we should just wait and see from now."
"As for Georgia, I do feel a bit grateful for her because she saved me back then. I feel sympathetic for her. As for the others, you're just overthinking, mom."
Maisie's mood eased up a bit.
She really hated Georgia Lane. Even if Georgia turned out not to be the killer in her daughter's car accident, she still wouldn't like her.
Even Maisie didn't know why she hated her so much.
She would always unconsciously hate her whenever she saw Georgia.
"But what if you don't find out the truth? How will you deal with the Lane family or Georgia? Are you just going to let them live freely?"
Maisie asked mockingly.
"Mom, although I haven't dealt with Georgia yet and instead saved her, didn't I lock Travis Armstrong up already? Travis is Georgia's first love. Who knows? Maybe Georgia's still in love with him. Wouldn't this also torture her?"
"As for the Lane family, they must definitely be afraid of us dismissing the engagement right now, but I will not dismiss the engagement. Instead, I'll prepare the wedding with the Lane family. Then, at their happiest moment, when they think that they are about to succeed, and when everyone in D City think that Emma Lane will marry into the Simpson family, we'll call it off and ruin the wedding. By then, the Lane family will definitely hit the rock bottom."
Maisie looked more and more satisfied.
That was her son, firm and cruel.
"Okay, I'll remember what you said today, but you need to quickly send more people to investigate the truth back then. Don't delay it too much…I can ignore the matters regarding the Lane family and Georgia for now, but if you do something unacceptable, don't blame me for being ruthless by then."
Robert quickly and obediently responded.
"Don't worry, mom. I know what to do."
After sweet-talking his mother, Robert went back to his room.
He saw that he had a few missed calls on his phone. When he picked it up and looked, unexpectedly, it was Georgia who called.
Immediately, Robert realized that Georgia must have called because of Travis.
As soon as he thought of Travis, Robert's feelings became very complicated.
He admitted that he was being selfish when he sent Travis to the mental hospital. He really couldn't bear the sight of Georgia and that idiot got close together, even if it wasn't love between them.
However, Robert still felt that the sight was an eyesore.
Since Georgia already knew his ways, Robert didn't call Georgia back. He wanted Georgia to feel the pain of despair.
In the future, she would know that she could only survive and protect the ones she love by relying on him.
Robert knew very well that she didn't love him.
So he could only use other ways to keep her around him.
Georgia kept waiting for his phone call. She called numerous times, but Robert didn't answer her calls.
In the end, Georgia could only give up. She wanted to see if Robert would call her back.
She waited the whole night, but nobody called her back.
She sleepily waited until the next morning, but he still didn't call her back. At this moment, Georgia realized that Robert really planned on ignoring her.
Was this Robert's revenge?
But, why did he do that to Travis?
Georgia felt very sad. She would rather be the one to suffer than get the people around her in trouble.
After she woke up in the morning and washed up, Georgia tried to call Robert again, but still, no one answered.
It was almost time for work. Georgia video called Annie while waiting for the bus.
After chatting with Annie for a while, Annie suddenly asked doubtfully.
"Georgia, why are you not living with Vanessa right now? When I video called with Vanessa, I could feel that she was a little sad. Why don't you live together? That way, when we have a videocall, all three of us can talk together."
Through Annie's words, Georgia could hear that something was wrong with Vanessa, but she quickly explained to Annie.
"Annie, Vanessa lives in another place right now due to her work. She will come back soon…As for why Vanessa is sad, it must probably be because of the criticisms she got from her work. Don't worry, I'll ask her for you. Don't worry, Annie, just take good care of yourself in the hospital."
After talking to Annie, the bus came just in time. Georgia rode the bus to MU for her work.
As she sat in her seat and thought about Vanessa's situation, Georgia felt a little worried.
Vanessa only told Georgia that she was busy with her work, which was why she temporarily wouldn't live at home.
Too many things happened to Georgia these days, so she wasn't able to think whether or not Vanessa was telling the truth.
But she was sure that Alfred would take his revenge on Georgia after he came back. Something like that already happened at the wedding, so she knew that Alfred would definitely come after Vanessa.
However, because so much happened these two days, she was very busy. When she video called Vanessa, Vanessa didn't show any irregularity, so Georgia didn't ask her questions either.
However, from Annie's words, something had definitely happened to Vanessa, so Georgia called her.
At this moment, Vanessa already came to Alfred's company to work.
At first, she didn't want to work here, but Alfred forced her to do so.
Moreover, Alfred didn't even let Vanessa continue to work as a designer. He let Vanessa work as a cleaner on the chief executive's floor.
When her former colleagues saw Vanessa's desolate appearance now, they all murmured and whispered around.
Whenever they saw Vanessa in her cleaner uniform, those employees would all mockingly laugh at her.
Vanessa swept and mopped the floor with a broom, and silently endured the vicious and reckless curses from the people around her.
However, just when Vanessa went into one of the cubicles in the restroom to clean it up, she realized that she was locked from the inside.
She wanted to go out, but she couldn't even open the door.
Vanessa screamed, but no one noticed her.
Rachel Scott stood outside of the restroom and instructed her two followers.
"Lock her inside for the entire day and soak her in a few buckets of cold water. Help me 'take good care' of her…"
After she gave her orders, Rachel left.
The two followers who often stayed with Rachel were young ladies in their twenties and snobbish.
After Rachel left, they each got a bucket of water themselves, then set up a ladder and poured the water directly on Vanessa's head.
Vanessa didn't even have time to look up and see who was harassing her this time.
Due to the impact of the water, she closed her eyes and her body trembled from the coldness.
She didn't feel good after getting all wet. Vanessa took out her phone, but she soon realized that it wouldn't turn on because it had soaked in water, so she couldn't contact the people outside.
The restroom's door was also locked. Vanessa knocked hard and screamed loudly, but nobody responded to her or came in.
She didn't even know what happened.
Outside the restroom, the two women who had poured water on her a while ago put up a sign.
"Do not enter. Restroom under repair."
Thus, no one knew that Vanessa was locked inside afterward.
At this time, Georgia called Vanessa on her phone, but she couldn't be reached.
Georgia was a little worried, but it was almost time for her to go to work, so she could only go to MU and work first.
Georgia planned to go to Alfred's company during her lunch break and see what he was up to.
Professor Lee came early in the morning today and called Georgia, Aston Powell, and Ernie Lloyd to the office.
"Ernie Lloyd, the recent progress of Georgia Lane and Aston Powell's experiments was fast. I plan to let them jointly publish a dissertation and submit it to Nature afterward. What do you think?"
The progress of Georgia and Aston's experiments was indeed ready to be published as a dissertation. Also, this dissertation would definitely hit it big. It would definitely trigger a lot of discussion because their data were real and effective.
However, Ernie was worried about Georgia's reputation.
"Professor, if we let Georgia and Aston write and publish this dissertation together, it will stir up an uproar. Even our team and Aston's reputation will be damaged. More so, there would be a lot of people who would fabricate rumors and slanders such as that we are covering up for Georgia or giving her a chance to write."
Ernie was already sure of Georgia's ability, but her reputation was so bad that people would get scared by it.
"Then let Aston and Georgia each publish a dissertation, since their data and direction were a bit different. As for her reputation, aren't Percy Chow and some other people coming back? We can heat up the discussion among the public first to have their eyes on us. Then, when the time comes, Georgia will make better results and let Percy lose without even starting a fight. Don't you think this is better?"
Professor Lee made another suggestion.
Georgia was a little worried, while Ernie was a bit scared after hearing what the professor said.
"This is too big of a gamble. Then we must ensure that Georgia can make an exemplary result."
After he said that, Ernie looked at Georgia.
"What do you think of the professor's suggestion? Can you produce impressive results? I've actually read your experimental data. You are indeed very talented in this field; thus, you are fit to be a researcher. If you want to prove that you're innocent, then you must take the risk. I'm not biased against you, Georgia. I just want to ask you. Are you confident enough to do it?"