Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

But Madeleine was overseas attending an academic summit and hadn't returned yet, so Roseanne's team was without their mentor present.

And, just their luck, they were scheduled to present right after Edna's group.

Carlson stood up, detailing the academic progress they'd made that month. The highlight was Sybil, as the lead author, publishing an article in a highly respected scientific journal.

At this point, Carlson paused, seemingly overwhelmed.

The audience was momentarily puzzled, then quickly caught on that this might be their cue to applaud.

Soon, a thunderous round of applause filled the room.

Carlson was speechless.

The university and department leaders on stage were grinning from ear to ear. Especially Babur, whose smile was so wide it was almost comical.

Edna straightened up in her chair, a small smile playing on her lips.

Amidst the applause, Sybil stood up, saying, "Thank you, everyone. But the person who truly deserves my gratitude is my mentor-Ms. Edna! Her professional guidance and patience have been invaluable."

The applause resumed, even louder this time.

acknowledged the gesture

quietly took his

goodness! Sybil spends her days either out exploring or just chilling, sometimes even skips classes. Yet,

the lab. Does writing a paper

him, "didn't you mention last time you'd finished a paper and were about to

it?" Arkle asked, eyes filled with

of having

sending it

"I'm not submitting it."

lost in his daydreams, took a moment to process, "...Not submitting it?! What

How could he just decide not to submit? Carlson's expression was unreadable: "There was an issue with the direction of the experiment. All the data needs to be

a significant discrepancy shouldn't have been

Carlson's grim expression, Arkle felt a pit in his stomach and dared not ask

"Alright, who's up next? Let's keep this moving! We don't want to waste

space, self-funded the purchase of a CPRT

sneered, "Seems pretty basic. Well, I guess if you don't have any significant findings to report, there's not

Roseanne remained silent.

a fact, and there