Her tears only fueled his anger.


    He became absolutely furious.


    Through her tears, she said, "Sebastian, you never once treated me as your wife. If you had, for even a moment, you never would have sided with the Scotts to humiliate me."


    "There''s no future for us. Whether it''s the three-year agreement or the two-year separation, the time is almost up. Then I''ll be filing for divorce."


    "I won''t get entangled with you again, and I certainly won''t give you another chance to hurt me."


    She, Natalie, was going to thrive on her own.


    Growing up is pretty straightforward—it happens every time you meet someone whopletely turns your worldview upside down. You just keep on growing.


    Sebastian knew he had gone too far before, but nothing he could say now would make her believe him.


    His tone softened slightly. "Stop crying. I''m not here to hurt you. I came to talk about a partnership on the project."


    Natalie looked at him, stunned. He didn''t seem to be joking. "You''ve seen my proposal?"


    Sebastian replied, "Yes. The property I bought was intended for a hospital, and for developing artificial intelligence."


    His gaze suddenly filled with awe. His long fingers gently brushed her delicate cheek. "Natalie, I had no idea you were so brilliant. To think you could develop an Al diagnostic system."


    At his words, Natalie managed a smile. "It wasn''t just me. It''s the result of my senior colleague and his entire team working day and night."


    She recalled the years of development, the countless days and nights they faced technical hurdles but never once thought of giving up.


    "In the beginning, almost no one believed in the project. They thought it was impossible to achieve. But we were convinced that Al diagnostics could change the future of medicine." Her voice was cool and steady.


    "What was the biggest difficulty you faced during development?" Sebastian asked, curious. He had been away so often, and all that time, she had been doing this.


    He was only now realizing how much he had overlooked.


    He''d always thought of her as just some unrefined girl from the countryside. His own perspective had been far too narrow.


    He thought for a moment, then said, "Data uracy and security must have been your biggest challenges. Medical data is extremely sensitive; the slightest error could have disastrous consequences. And for the Alto urately diagnose various conditions it needs to b? trained on vast amounts of precise data."


    Sebastian knew their research wasn''t fully mature yet.


    Listening to him, Natalie knew he had read her proposal carefully.


    "My senior colleague was abroad, while I was here, coborating with several well-known hospitals to acquire arge volume of real ca?è data. We established strict data management and encryption


    protocols, constantly optimizing the algorithms to improve diagnostic uracy."


    Sebastian leaned against the wall, watching her. When she talked about work, she exuded a cool,posed confidence he had never seen before. "So, what''s the next step?"


    Natalie moved further into the room


    and sat on the sofa. "We n to expand the application of the Al diagnostic system, not just formon illnesses, but forplex and rare diseases as well. We want more patients to benefit from this technology."


    Sebastian saw the confident light in her eyes and believed that in the near future, she and her team would work more wonders in the medical field.


    Sebastian sat down beside her, ncing at her with a smile. "Natalie, how many other things have you been hiding from me?"