Unknown Divorce Revelation Beyond Time (Charlene and Thorne) novel Chapter 403

Vesta was once again the star of the show, and the Spencers and the Hawkinses couldn’t have been more delighted.

Leah shot a smug look at Charlene.

Maureen was also beaming with pride for her daughter.

Charlene, on the other hand, as always, couldn’t have cared less. She didn’t even bother glancing Leah’s way.

She kept her head down, quietly sipping her tea, blending into the background and staying far away from the lively conversation between Vesta and Professor Mack. Vesta, meanwhile, was absolutely basking in the attention of so many respected experts in the field.

Watching all this, Dalton finally felt a sense of relief and satisfaction.

Just then, Kevitt Smith sent Vesta another message.

[PrimeStar is an incredible and innovative company. Not only is Stewart, the boss, impressive, but so many of their engineers are bursting with creativity. I’ll probably be heading over again soon—I’m hoping to have a real conversation with Stewart and some of his engineers next time.]

The NMI journal had a double-blind review system, so reviewers never knew who submitted the paper. Kevitt Smith had no clue who the author behind the work he’d raved about actually was.

Vesta glanced at the message, assuming Kevitt Smith was still bummed about missing a real chat with Stewart last time.

She was just about to type out a comforting reply when she overheard Professor Mack talking to one of his students: “You couldn’t help yourself, huh? Had to go check out the paper?”

“Yeah!” The student’s voice was practically shaking with excitement. “The core of this paper is that it boosts large language model long-text processing efficiency over tenfold! Engineers worldwide are pulling all-nighters just to study it. It’s already making waves overseas—and it just hit the top trending searches here, too. The best part? The paper was published by the PrimeStar team!”

Vesta froze, her fingers pausing over her phone. She looked up at Stewart.

Everyone else was staring too.

Maureen and the others were frowning.

Such a groundbreaking breakthrough, and it was Stewart’s team who came up with it.

Professor Mack looked at the name “Ross” on the paper and spoke slowly, “The first author is Ross—”

At that, Vesta, Dalton, Maureen, the Hawkinses, the Spencers—everyone—paused in surprise.

They already knew the paper was from the PrimeStar team. And Charlene just happened to be from PrimeStar.

Could it be—

No way.

Charlene? Seriously?

But Stewart spoke up. “Yes, Ross—as in Charlene Ross.”