His Secret Spoiled Wife (Lily and Alexander) novel Chapter 1276

Thompson pursed his lips, looking embarrassed.

“From what I know, Lily didn’t learn about herbal medicine, but she is a brilliant woman. Coupled with her plant exposure, I won’t be surprised if she has learned about it during that time.

“You don’t understand. Herbal medicine is a broad and profound subject. Even though I’ve studied it for decades, I’ve only scratched the surface—”

“Enough! You’re still rather proud of it, aren’t you? If you guys hadn’t been so useless, there wouldn’t be a need to get outside help.”

“Sir, I’ve shortlisted other candidates who are the country's top perfumers. Apart from them, I’ve also selected a few candidates from overseas as backups. Why don’t we…”

Upon knowing that Lily had decided to back out, Thompson immediately prepared a backup plan by selecting several well-known perfumers. ‘If she does back out, we could replace her. However…’

“Replace her? For what?” His employer scolded him. “You think there aren’t enough people who know about what we’re doing?”

Thompson kept quiet.

‘Indeed, what we’re doing is classified. Even the workers in the laboratory don’t know about the experiment's true purpose, let alone Lily. Everyone has their job scope, so not many, including Lily, know what the finished product will be for.’

‘However, if we replaced Lily, the risk of exposing our secret would be higher as another person would get involved. My boss is right in saying so.’

“So what do you think we should do?”