How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Chapter 554

"Teams are assigned randomly by the system, right?" Maurice looked over, raising an eyebrow. "It's fine. There's an individual round coming up. If your personal score's high enough, it won't matter."

Sylvie frowned in silence. She understood the logic.

It all counted toward the individual score, sure, but...

Elodie had lucked out, ending up on a team with Watts and Lily, and they'd slid right into first place.

"Team ranking doesn't affect your personal score. Elodie just got lucky, that's all," Selma said, clearly reading Sylvie's mind. She wasn't thrilled with Elodie either,

but she kept her feelings to herself.

That comment lingered in the air.

Alexander turned his head, unable to suppress a laugh. "Everyone standing here is at the top of their field. If Ms. Fielding really wants to compare individual skills, I doubt she can outshine them all. What's there to complain about?"

As soon as he said it out loud, it was clear-he was calling her out.

Sylvie's expression faltered, irritation flickering across her face at Alexander's bluntness.

She glanced around, relieved to see none of the other team members were nearby.

Alexander saw right through her and scoffed, turning to walk away toward Elodie.

Jarrod glanced in a certain direction before looking at Sylvie. He said calmly, "Focus on tomorrow."

a headache coming on. She

ended, the two

a cold look, her eyes full of biting sarcasm. Without a word, she turned

was still speaking with

Elodie, scratched his nose,

he hurried

past, Maurice wouldn't

algorithm optimization under pressure. The day after would be code implementation—a

took the top spot, your code would actually be considered

good rest in her room, then

didn't slack off for a

left her

next morning, even more

eyes on her-even Elodie felt

"Do your best. The judges want to meet

bit and managed a dry joke. "Meeting the judges

up to them?"

her a glare and waved her

a moment to greet the

she turned to get ready, she ran into

gave her a cool

"Today's the individnet

No hiding behind