Chapter 21: The Ambitious One (2) (Teaser)

“You want me to leave?” Young-Joon asked again.

“Yes. There’s no reason for a talented person like you to rot here.”

Cheon Ji-Myung grinned. Bae Sun-Mi and Park Dong-Hyun also nodded slightly.

Park Dong-Hyun added, “Actually, I also thought about the same thing. Doctor Ryu, to be honest, our team will get berated again after you leave, but we’re okay since we’re used to it. We don’t want to weigh you down.”

“I agree. I only saw you for the first time today, but I really don’t think you should stay here if you were really the one who made the iPSCs,” Bae Sun-Mi added.

Young-Joon did not say anything and just fiddled with his glass.

“What’s your dream, Doctor Ryu?” Cheon Ji-Myung asked.

“My dream?”

“Is it a little weird to ask this?”

“No, not at all. My dream… Is to save more people by curing more diseases.”

Cheon Ji-Myung chuckled. “What an innocent dream.”

“Like a true scientist,” Koh Soon-Yeol said as he drank his Sprite.

“But we’ve forgotten all about that passion,” Cheon Ji-Myung said.

“Our only dreams, like me or Lead Bae Sun-Mi here, is just to make sure our kids grow up nicely and make sure they get married.”

“To be honest, Doctor Ryu, I think you’re too good to stay at A-Gen, let alone our team,” Park Dong-Hyun added.

“But where else could I go?” Young-Joon asked.

“Hm.”

“All the smaller pharmaceutical companies are under A-Gen’s umbrella. Realistically, they lack the infrastructure. I can’t set all that up and grow the company. Look at the iPSCs made. At A-Gen, I can get genes or viruses in a day if I request to buy it, right? It would have taken one or two weeks if I did it at a smaller company because they wouldn’t have a good enough supply chain.”

“That is true.”

“And I have...

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