Chapter 734

Everyone also began speculating that the reason Zachary was attending the award ceremony this time was because of Celeste.

Otherwise, why would Zachary, who had almost never participated in events like this before, suddenly decide to attend?

“Looks like Celeste is really valued by Mr. Newman.”

“Of course. I heard Mr. Newman is even going to mentor her personally.”

“She’s got a genius boyfriend like Matthias and Mr. Newman as her mentor. How lucky is Celeste? I wouldn’t be surprised, no matter how many papers she publishes in the future, with those two backing her.”

“Exactly, I’m so jealous. But honestly, I’ve always felt something strange. Why is Celeste the one publishing papers all the time? Why don’t we ever see Mr. Yoder publishing anything? He’s Mr. Newman’s student.”

“Right? I think so too. It really doesn’t make sense! You can’t say that Mr. Yoder no longer needs to prove himself through publishing academic papers just because he’s already so successful, can you?”

“Um, is it possible that Celeste actually isn’t that capable, and Mr. Yoder is just trying to promote his girlfriend? You know what I mean…”

What this netizen was implying was that the papers Celeste published were not actually written by her at all, and that the real author was Matthias. He was simply using his work to elevate Celeste’s reputation.

Academic fraud was no small matter. Because people had their doubts, many professionals in the field had specifically paid attention to Celeste before. However, the conclusion in the end was that she genuinely did possess real talent and expertise.

But having genuine ability did not necessarily prove the papers were written by her personally. After all, if Celeste didn’t have any talent, Matthias would never dare to take such a risk.

Besides, as many netizens pointed out, even if Celeste had no real talent, she would have learned something by now after being with Matthias for so long and receiving guidance from someone as influential as Zachary.

Discussion surrounding the topic intensified online for some time.

As Celeste rarely went online, she didn’t know about these discussions.

Matthias, however, occasionally browsed the Internet and happened to see some of the comments. He told Celeste about them.

However, neither of them cared much about such matters. Both of them were busy with their own work.

The next day, she attended the International Artificial Intelligence Technology Conference together” with Matthias, Kieran, and several engineers from their company.

The grand event focused on cutting-edge academic and technological developments, covering topics such as embodied

intelligence and large language

models subjects Celeste and Matthias were both deeply interested in.

Many corporations and scholars would be attending the event.

Celeste and her team arrived neither too early nor too late.

The venue was already lively when they arrived. And Celeste and Matthias were occupied for quite a while exchanging greetings with’s people.

However, after finishing their conversations and preparing to take a short break, they spotted Wynn and Trevor.

It wasn’t particularly surprising to see them. But one of the engineers beside them noticed another family face.

“Quentin?”

Celeste and Matthias both paused.

Noticing the strange look on Matthias’s face, Celeste followed his gaze and saw someone who looked vaguely familiar. “He is?”

“Quentin Yallop.”

Matthias leaned closer and whispered into her ear, “When you first returned to the company two years ago, Wynn…”

He did not continue because he knew she had recalled who Quentin was from her expression.

And she indeed had.

Quentin had noticed them as well.