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What Cayden wanted was really just an attempt to learn the core technology behind Infinite–CM.

Matthias shook hands with him and responded smoothly.

“Professor Sweeney, you flatter me. I’ve read your two papers on recurrent neural networks and attention mechanisms more than ten times–they’ve been a huge source of inspiration for me.

“It’s truly an honor to speak with you.“?

Cayden was naturally eager to talk to Matthias longer. But the conference opening ceremony was about to begin.

So, before they could continue the conversation, the staff came over to guide them to their seats.

After the event’s organizers gave their opening speeches, Cayden, Matthias, and other high–profile guests began giving keynote presentations.

Everyone in attendance was eager to build connections with Cayden and Matthias.

Once the first round of talks concluded, both of them were immediately surrounded by many parties, including corporate delegations.

Celeste, Beck, Kieran, and Jorge didn’t actually need to go up and crowd around them. So they simply stood on the sides and observed.

Trevor, too, didn’t need to join the crowd.

But he was with Wynn. So, he naturally ended up in the center of the scene.

After unscrewing a bottle cap, he handed the bottle of water to Wynn. That one small gesture instantly earned Wynn another wave of admiring stares from the women around her.

Many of the attending experts and entrepreneurs who knew about Trevor and Wynn’s relationship had previously been puzzled.

With his family background and personal achievements, why would he choose someone like Wynn as a girlfriend? Yes, she was beautiful and had decent academic credentials, but her family background was extremely modest by comparison.

But now, knowing she was Cayden’s student, everything seemed to make sense.

Before, people were polite to Wynn only out of respect for Trevor. Now, learning she was Cayden’s student, they treated her with far more enthusiasm.

Wynn saw all of it, of course–the envious glances from the women–the newfound respect from the business

elite.

She took the water from Trevor, took a light sip, and smiled silently.

Then, she looked toward the people left out on the side–Celeste, Jorge, and the others.

The fact that she was Cayden’s student had come as a genuine surprise to Jorge. The look in his eyes —full of amazement and admiration was impossible to hide.

Diynn wohted, obviously but she wasn’t surprised.

Then the locked over a Celeste.

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Her expression was calm and indifferent, as if none of this concerned her.

Wynn sneered inwardly.

Was Celeste truly unaffected? Or was she just pretending to be above it all?

After all, she was Cayden’s student now–a level Celeste could never reach. She could only look up at her from below.

Celeste caught the trace of disdain in her eyes. She didn’t know exactly what Wynn was thinking, but it wasn’t hard to guess.

She found it funny and shot her a cold, dismissive look in return.

Wynn thought she was just forcing herself to act unfazed.

She turned her gaze away from Celeste and looked at Beck and Kieran–only to find that Kieran was looking at Celeste.

It was as if Celeste was the only person in his eyes–he didn’t even notice her.

But Kieran was never someone who judged people by appearances.

And having seen how capable she was, there was no way he’d really fall for someone like Celeste.

So, seeing Kieran’s attention seemingly locked onto Celeste didn’t worry her in the slightest.

As for Beck, he was looking in her direction, visibly dazed.

Wynn smiled.

He had always known she was capable, but he probably hadn’t realized she was this exceptional.

Would he still like Celeste now?

Cayden genuinely did want to have a serious discussion with Matthias. But Matthias and the event organizers simply didn’t give him the opportunity.

At lunch, Matthias excused himself, saying he had another engagement, and left with Celeste and the others.

As Matthias and Celeste passed by Trevor and Wynn, Celeste kept her gaze straight ahead. And Trevor didn’t so much as glance in her direction–he remained fully focused on his conversation.

Cayden’s visit to Ceravelle officially ended on the second day of the International Artificial Intelligence Conference. He left disappointed that he hadn’t gotten the chance to dive deeper with Matthias.

But his disappointment didn’t last long.

Eight before leaving Ceravelle, he said to Wynn with visible excitement, “The latest issue of NMI received a submission with exceptionally high quality and a truly innovative perspective. The reviewers were all blown away. Once the issue is published, I’d love to have a chance to speak in depth with the author.”

Cayden was also a reviewer for one of Af’s top academic journals besides being a world–renowned professor.

As a reviewer, he was forbidden from disclosing any details or opinions about submitted manuscripts before official publication That included personal assessments.

But given his standing in the field, he didn’t think anyone would dare expose his minor breach of that

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confidentiality.

Wynn was intrigued by his praise and couldn’t help but feel curious and eager for the journal’s release.

Fortunately, the new issue of NMI was set to publish very soon.

And she also knew Cayden wouldn’t have told her this unless he held high hopes for her.

So, she replied, “I understand, Professor. Once the issue is out, I’ll be sure to study that paper thoroughly.”

Cayden nodded. “Good.”

After seeing him off at the airport, Wynn finally returned home.

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