Chapter 4

On the day of the industry competition, Wendell's company booth was surrounded by people.

Despite the collective departure of the core team, he was still surrounded by people thanks to his past reputation.

When our team entered the venue, we only heard more whispers.

"A tiny company like that actually dares to show up here?" someone said.

"Bringing so many people. Are they afraid of embarrassing themselves?" another echoed.

Derek, behind me, was fuming and about to confront them, but I stopped him.

I led them to sit in the seats directly facing the stage.

When Wendell took the stage,…