Chapter 399 - 388: New Problem
’If a tutoring center had a student like her, wouldn’t they already be plastering it all over their ads?’
Amanda Rhodes felt her son tugging at her clothes and glanced back with a frown. "This is grown-up business. Stay out of it!"
The moment she finished speaking, her expression changed again.
Amanda Rhodes broke into such a wide smile that her whole face crinkled up.
"Oh, by the way, Chloe. You’re doing so well at Emberfall University, you must know a lot of the professors, right? Could you ask one of the teachers you’re close with to tutor my son?"
Chloe Sinclair tilted her head and asked earnestly, "Aunt, do you have the money for that?"
Sure enough, Amanda Rhodes’s expression changed, and she slapped her thigh.
"We’re all family. It’s tacky to talk about money."
Chloe Sinclair: "..."
’I’ve met shameless people before, but never anyone *this* shameless!’
Taking a deep breath, Chloe Sinclair decided to spare her aunt some dignity. "Aunt, my professors are all leading experts in the country. Their days are mostly spent on research and teaching. A tutor from a prep center would be more than enough for Ash’s schoolwork."
"Besides, even if a professor were willing to tutor him, they would still expect to be paid."
’They’re not family. Does she expect them to do it for free? Not even compensation for their time and effort?’
’And we’re talking about a member of the national academy tutoring him, no less.’
’A music professor makes 150,000 just for tutoring a student for half a month.’
’How could Amanda Rhodes’s family possibly afford that?’
Sure enough, when Amanda Rhodes didn’t get her way, her pleasant facade vanished instantly.
She was about to say something, but she immediately shut her mouth when she saw several of Chloe’s brothers coming downstairs.
"Hmph. We’re all relatives, and you won’t even do a little favor!"
Gabriel Sinclair let out a dry laugh. "Aunt, if we weren’t family, we never would have lent you that million."
Amanda Rhodes’s husband was a truck driver. They weren’t wealthy by any means, but he brought in twenty to thirty thousand a month, which was more than enough to live comfortably.
Last year, Amanda Rhodes had wanted to buy her husband a new truck, so she’d borrowed a million from the family.
A year had passed, and Amanda Rhodes hadn’t said a word about paying it back.
So, the moment the million was brought up, Amanda Rhodes instantly fell silent.
Any other relatives on the sidelines who had been harboring similar ideas instantly dismissed them.
The Sinclair Family was wealthy and generous, and almost all of these relatives owed them money to some degree.
Standing to the side, all Chloe Sinclair wanted to do was scoff.
She had no desire to entertain these so-called relatives any longer.
In her past life, when her family had fallen on hard times, not a single one of these relatives had been willing to help.
They all came flocking when there was money to be had, but they ran faster than anyone the moment the money was gone.
Once she was upstairs, Chloe Sinclair entered the God of Study System to begin her research.
After she had studied several books, Eight suddenly asked, "Master, do you have any leads yet?"
Chloe Sinclair paused, then shook her head, only to nod a moment later.
Hearing this, Eight’s large blue eyes flickered, and its voice grew higher in pitch. "You have a concrete plan?"
"Yeah, but it’s a little risky. I want to look into it more."
Current clinical drugs can offer temporary suppression, but ultimately, their effectiveness is limited and varies from person to person.
Most of these clinical drugs are hormonal, capable of effectively neutralizing the toxic effects of lymphocytes and killing large numbers of tumor cells.
If the disease can’t be brought under control, there’s a high risk of side effects like tumor lysis syndrome.
In that case, the patient still ends up suffering.
"Beyond effective treatment, I believe we should be focusing more on prevention, on complete eradication."
The goal shouldn’t just be to treat the disease after it appears, but to make leukemia vanish from the human body entirely.
After listening, Eight summed it up succinctly: "Very difficult."