"L-Lost?"
Lin Shiyu stared dumbfoundedly at the giant screen. The words Magic City University had turned gray, while Jiangcheng University burst into color.
She had imagined herself losing, but only to a top-tier university like Qingbei.
Now they had fallen in the quarterfinals, and she found it hard to accept.
Ever since Magic City University had been called a top-tier powerhouse, they had never achieved such a poor result.
Over the past three years, their worst result had been the semifinals, and that had only been because they encountered Qingbei early on. Otherwise, they had possessed the strength to contend for runner-up.
Yet now, they had arrived laden with glory, only to become a stepping stone on another team's path to legend.
Compared to Jiangcheng University's excited faces as they left the stage, Magic City University's side was deathly silent. Lin Shiyu especially felt much of her long-held pride shatter this time—and it had happened at the hands of a team she had never cared about at all...
She looked toward that team, her gaze lingering on Tang Enqi for a long time.
She remembered Coach mentioning that the team had a girl like herself, an undergraduate junior. At first, she had not cared in the slightest.
Only now did she suddenly recall that girl's name.
Of course, the team event had only shattered half of her pride. She still had the individual competition in two days, which was the field she truly took pride in.
But at that moment, she did not know that when the individual competition began shortly afterward, her first opponent would be someone named Xu Xinian.
Even now, she did not remember that name.
But it did not matter, because the person named Xu Xinian would become the shadow of her entire life.
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