Chapter 452: The Key to the Deadlock and an Unexpected Reunion

The sterile white light of the laboratory flickered across the complex molecular diagrams on Olivia Xia’s screen. Each helix and bond represented a link in the chain that was slowly, inexorably poisoning her mother. The analysis was complete, but the results were a dead end—a compound so obscure it had no match in any modern toxicological database. It was an elegant, cruel ghost from the past, engineered to kill without a trace. Her fingers hovered over the keyboard, a deep-seated reluctance...