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

event ended, the two groups ran into each

full of biting sarcasm. Without a word, she turned and

still speaking

looked at Elodie, scratched his nose, and

that, he hurried

oddly distant. In the past, Maurice wouldn't have bothered with

hardware algorithm optimization under pressure. The day after would be code implementation—a live test of each

your code

a good rest in her room, then went right back

slack off for

Alexander left

morning, even more people

eyes on her-even Elodie

your best. The judges want to meet you.

a dry joke.

up to

and waved

Still, she found a moment

she turned to get ready, she ran into

gave her

"Today's the individnet

hiding behind team r