Chapter 335
Elara raised her hand and lightly tapped Rosalie’s check. The gesture instantly silenced Rosalie.
“Why you!” Rosalie’s teniper flared.
“Rosalie, why is the perfume you’re wearing attracting so many bugs? Ugh! There are black flies all over your hair!
Elara pretended to brush at Rosalie’s head. “There are so many bugs crawling on you! How terrifying!”
Hearing this, Rosalie immediately felt her scalp itch. She began patting her own hair and asked Paisley, “Are there bugs in my hair?”
Paisley nodded earnestly. “Yes!”
She also didn’t want to hear Rosalie criticize Merida anymore.
“Ahhh! Let’s go, let’s go!” Rosalie screamed, grabbing Paisley’s hand and dragging her toward their car.
Elara held out her hand to her daughter. “Let’s go.”
Merida said gloomily, “When the teacher gave me the costume, she told me I needed to lose weight.”
Elara took her daughter’s soft, chubby hand in hers. “Remember when I took you to the gym to check your body fat? Your body fat is actually on the lower side.
“The coach said you’re very healthy and naturally suited for sports. Merida, you’re not fat or overweight. As long as you eat well and exercise every day, your physique will surpass the other girls.”
Merida gripped her backpack strap with one hand and looked down. “But I’ll stand out too much. During rehearsals, I feel like I don’t fit in.”
Elara’s voice was gentle. “Have you ever thought that this might make you the most unique and outstanding one on stage?”
Merida stopped in her tracks, surprised by her mother’s words. She looked up at Elara with wide eyes.
Elara’s bright eyes curved into crescent moons as she winked at her daughter.
“The one who handled this poorly was the teacher who gave you the costume. She shouldn’t have made you feel like an outsider. Tonight, Mommy will call your homeroom teacher and get to the bottom of this.
“If you don’t like performing in Swan Lake, then we won’t do it. You have the right to quit, but don’t force yourself to change just to meet others‘ expectations.
“Merida, you have to believe in yourself. You have the ability to shine brightly, no matter where you are…”
Merida’s eyes grew warm, and she nodded at Elara. “If I don’t like it, then I won’t do it. There’s just no way I’ll fit into a smaller costume next month.”
She repeated Elara’s words, determined to etch her mother’s wisdom into her heart.
A few days later, the first rays of morning sunlight streamed through the floor–to–ceiling windows of the presidential suite at the Intercontinental Hotel like golden curtains, spilling across the luxurious king sized bed.
A woman lay face down on the pillow, sleeping soundly as the silk sheets draped over her waist.
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Chapter 335
Her phone, placed beside the pillow, began to vibrate. Priscilla furrowed her brows, letting out a soft, annoyed sigh from her red lips.
“Hand me the phone,” she murmured lazily with her eyes still closed.
The muscular man lying beside her sat up, answered the call, and held the phone to Priscilla’s ear.
“Ms. Price, something terrible has happened! The model framework Elara gave us–we’ve been running it nonstop on over eight thousand A100 GPUs, but the results are completely wrong! It’s unusable!
“Do you think Elara deliberately tricked us?”
Priscilla was instantly wide awake. Her eyes snapped open, sharp and cold, like a venomous snake ready to strike.
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