How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue novel Chapter 395

She hadn’t suspected Seymour right away, mostly because he only had access to a small fragment of the code—not the critical part. The real trouble began when Terrence managed to get his hands on a rough technical outline in addition to that snippet of code from Seymour. Combined, the two pieces were enough to cause real damage.

It was only after the police interrogation that she learned more details.

According to the investigation, Seymour explained that Terrence had likely taken the code he’d provided, pieced it together with information gleaned during Neural Intelligence’s collaboration with TerraCore Technologies, and managed to deduce a sliver of technical logic—just a fraction of the bigger picture.

By reverse engineering what little he had, Terrence managed to reconstruct about three percent of her overall technical proposal.

That was enough for him to orchestrate this entire self-directed farce.

Elodie knew Terrence was undeniably talented—just deeply unscrupulous.

Most engineers wouldn’t have managed such a feat.

Still, what he’d uncovered was nothing more than the fringes of her technological framework. He never got anywhere near the core. Terrence likely knew that himself, but even the periphery was enough for blackmail.

The police investigation revealed that Terrence had pulled something similar two years ago, extorting nearly seven million dollars in compensation—a true parasite in the academic world.

So this was just a repeat performance?

Only this time, he clearly underestimated her. Terrence had no idea she’d completed a detailed version of that technical proposal five years ago, back when her focus was on Project U.N2. Later, after she married Jarrod, she’d put the whole thing on hold.

Terrence probably assumed that if she’d developed the plan that long ago, there was no reason it would only now be seeing the light of day; he must’ve thought it was a recent invention. That miscalculation ended up costing him.

By the time VistaLink Technologies reported the case, Terrence—ever the veteran—had already made a quick getaway.

Had Sylvie really known nothing about his background?

Clearly, she’d been played by a seasoned con artist.