Revenge is best served cold

Chapter 241 Advancing to the Semifinals

After returning from the mall, I threw myself back into my interior design work. That same day, I submitted my design draft.

A week later, the preliminary results were announced on the competition's website -both Elsa and I had made the cut.

At the time, I was in the studio with Levi. When he saw Elsa's design, he couldn't help but scoff. "This is seriously bad. She probably won't make it past the semifinals."

I pulled up her submission and nodded in full agreement. Though her design was polished and complete, it lacked any originality. The organizers had likely passed her based on completion alone.

I scanned through the other selected works. A few designs bore a striking resemblance to the one Elsa had won with in my past life.

With her skill level, making it this far was already pure luck. Yet she had undeniably taken home an award last time. That alone made it clear that something shady was going on behind the scenes.

The organizers gathered all the semifinalists into a group chat. To be cautious, I joined with a secondary account.

The moment I got in, I took note of the social media profiles of those designers whose work had looked suspiciously familiar.

Just then, a new message popped up.

entered the

exchange pleasantries, she dropped a selfie in the group chat. After making sure people had seen it, she quickly

already

Never thought you'd be interested

for dreams, and money is for life. Why not have

"Oops, sorry, I sent a selfie by mistake.

her that it was no problem. In fact, they even

sent an emoji in

fell into complete silence. Then, chaos erupted after a

Is this LunaGlo's

for ages?

are we supposed to compete if

her message could even register, it was drowned out

dropping a selfie. And yet, all it

lightly. "That... I

the name Shirley still carried some weight, but I hadn't realized just how much. Just as I was mulling it over, a