Chapter 498

As soon as she said this, everyone was shocked. “Three days? Isn’t that too arrogant?”

“That’s right. We can all tell Mr. Chapman’s illness is not easy to treat. Even the most conservative treatment has to be through surgery. But she said he only needs to take a few portions of traditional medicine. She’s simply joking.” Initially, Wade and Benson did not dare to speak anymore. However, they immediately sneered when they heard Melody say she could cure it in three days.

Benson could not hold it in anymore and said, “Miss Fox, there has to be a limit even if you want to brag.”

Melody said calmly, “I’m not bragging. If Mr. Chapman still hasn’t recovered from his illness in three days after taking my medicine, you can come to me for an explanation.”

Benson found it even more funny. “Alright, I’ll believe you this time since you said so.”

Although he said that, Benson did not think Melody could cure Nickolas’s strange illness. ‘If Melody can cure Dad’s illness in three days, won’t all the famous doctors Dad had seen become a joke?’

Melody raised her eyebrows slightly and asked Nickolas, Mr. Chapman. If you’re willing to believe me, I’ll prescribe medicine for you now.”

Nickolas hesitated for a moment before making up his mind. “I believe you.”

Humans were afraid of death, and so was he.

If she couldn’t cure his illness, he would treat it as drinking three more days of medicine. If he recovered, everyone would be happy. He would have more time to teach Warner. That way, Warner could sit firmly after taking over.

“All right, pen and paper, please,” said Melody.

Nickolas gave the butler a look. The butler immediately understood and quickly brought over a pen and paper.

Melody began to prescribe without thinking. As she wrote,

she explained the prescription she had written. “My prescription requires a lot of notopterygium root. Notopterygium root can cure headaches, fever, vomiting, and arthralgia. Coupled with other traditional medicine materials that can remove the virus, even if it can’t cure your illness, it’s harmless to your body. You can rest assured.”

Nickolas nodded and said, “Most traditional medicine ingredients are indeed harmless. Don’t worry, I’ll go to the Herbathrive you work for tomorrow and get the medicine according to this prescription.”

Melody nodded. After handing the prescription to Warner, she stopped trying to steal the limelight and quietly retreated into the crowd.

The birthday party quickly continued.

Wade and Benson had ulterior motives and quickly found an excuse to leave.

Melody had already finished her business and wanted to leave as soon as possible, but Nickolas warmly asked her to stay and play for a while.

Helpless, she could only continue to stay in the hall.

She thought that no one would pay attention to an ugly woman like her. However, she was eye-catching wherever she went after the Morin and the prescription incidents. Occasionally, people would approach her with ulterior motives, hoping to get some useful information from her. Melody could answer most of the questions, but soon, two socialites from Insterimond came to her with ill intentions and asked, “Miss Fox, is it true that you’re married to Mr. Swanson?”

Melody did not know how to answer this question. She did not want everyone to know about this. After all, it was a marriage that was about to end. ‘Who would have thought Ulric would say it in front of everyone and forcefully tie me to Ken?’

However, it was one thing for Ulric to say it. But it was another for her to say it. The meaning was completely different.

After thinking about it, Melody could only stiffly find an excuse. “I’m sorry, my stomach suddenly feels a little uncomfortable. Excuse me.” With that, she turned and left the two of them.

However, Melody had just taken two steps when she heard the two socialites sneer and mock, “What did I say? How could my idol like such an ugly woman?”

“That’s right. Men only like beautiful women. Even if they registered their marriage as Mr. Ulric Swanson said, it must be for some reason.”

“You’re right. It’s just like how Mr. Chapman likes paintings. Perhaps Margaret also likes Halcyon paintings and wants my idol to marry her.”

“Huh, if that’s the reason, they’ll get a divorce soon. Ken isn’t the kind of person who can be manipulated. You still have a chance.”

“Then thank you for your blessings.”

Melody’s eyes darkened and she felt uncomfortable. This feeling was indescribable, but it was like a person who was extremely hungry and his stomach began to ache.

She calmed down and cursed herself for feeling uncomfortable because of such words. ‘They are right. Ken had indeed married me because Margaret wanted him to in the beginning. We did not even have a basic wedding. Our marriage doesn’t live up to its name. They’re also right about we’re getting a divorce soon.’

However, the more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she felt.

She scolded herself in her heart in frustration. ‘Melody, are you crazy? Wake up!’

Coincidentally, a servant passed by her with a tray of wine glasses. For some reason, Melody stopped the servant and said, “Please give me a glass.”

“Alright…” After the servant finished speaking, Melody had already taken a glass from the tray. She raised her head and finished the wine in the glass.

She didn’t like to drink and had only drunk it once or twice. This time, the wine didn’t have a bitter taste at all. Instead, it had a fragrant sweetness.

Melody grabbed another glass and downed it again.

The servant was shocked and said, “Miss Fox, this wine is-” The servant wanted to say it was specially made and was strong.

However, before the servant could finish his sentence, Melody had already left.

The servant hesitated but did not chase after Melody, thinking, ‘Perhaps Miss Fox’s alcohol tolerance is good. After all, she is a great painter even Mr. Chapman respects. Artists generally have good alcohol tolerance.’ With this thought in mind, the servant stopped caring about this matter and continued to deliver wine everywhere.

After Melody drank two glasses of mixed wine, she wanted to find a quiet place to wait for the birthday party to end, but Yannick blocked her way.

He said, “Melody.”

“What is it?”

“There’s something. I want to ask you if you’re interested.” “Go ahead.”

Yannick deliberated over his next words and said, “Here is the thing. The University of Insterimond wants to recruit some special talents this year. I thought… Melody, your education level is not high. Why don’t you sign up to participate? It can be considered as gilding yourself. It’s to prevent those who don’t like you from always attacking you with your education level.”

“University of Insterimond?” Melody hesitated before asking, “How do we do that?”

“You can sign up for any of their special talents. There are paintings and chess skills and so on. Anyway, there are many types. After signing up, you only need to be their student in name and represent the school to participate in

the competition occasionally. Then, you can obtain a graduation certificate from the University of Insterimond. Moreover, this graduation certificate is even more valuable than those who got into this school by taking the SAT.” Yannick explained.

Melody was interested.

Back then, she had only enrolled in a community college. One reason was that she did not want to be far from her teacher. The other reason was that the tuition fees for community colleges were very cheap. She did not want to burden her teacher, so she deliberately filled in the wrong answer sheet during the SAT.

Now, she needed to have a degree. It would be best if she had a university degree from the University of Insterimond, the number one university in Halcyon.