The raise of Maureen Smith and her Good Luck System-Chapter 24 - ugly freak

What gave her the right to be selected?

Who knows what that mask, which she never took off, was hiding?

Just because her eyes were attractive didn’t mean she was truly beautiful, right?

If she was actually good-looking, wouldn’t she be showing off, like a peacock spreading its tail?

Who would constantly wear a mask because of a small wound?

Ann was almost driven by impulse to hire a water army to vote others up, dragging Maureen down, just to get her out of her sight.

But then, she had another thought—why not make a mistake out of it, and push Maureen to the top?

If she made it to the front, when the voting ended, the whole school, even people from other schools, would be curious about Maureen.

If they believed her to be very beautiful and Maureen had to take off her mask, only for the crowd to be utterly disappointed and scatter— wouldn’t that deeply wound Maureen’s pride?

Thinking about this, Ann decided to go for it.

Executing this plan was easy, she just needed to spend a few tens of thousands to outsource the voting.

While Ann was planning so, Elizabeth from the next school also noticed the beauty pageant at her school, and the soaring votes of Maureen.

Being intelligent, she immediately asked those around her to start voting for Maureen as well.

With both sides fuelling the fire, by Monday, Maureen’s votes had already shot up to second place.

Ann still wants to continue being friends with Bianca, so she didn’t dare to instruct anyone to push Maureen up to the first place.

So Maureen’s votes were just over two thousand nine hundred, trailing behind Bianca’s three thousand plus votes.

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Maureen had no idea about this.

She felt weird when people looked at her as she went to school on Monday.

In school, she wasn’t the only one wearing a mask.

Many students who had cold or nasal allergies would wear one too, and no one used to pay any extra attention to her mask.

She fit perfectly in with the crowd.

However, for some strange reason today, she caught the attention of many unfamiliar girls as she walked past them.

Their eyes seemed to be filled with curiosity along with a hint of puzzlement—”Is this it?

She was ranked second this year just because of this?”

Maureen held her composure till she reached her international class.

Seeing that Liam hadn’t arrived yet, for he was known for his late arrivals and early departures, she had grown accustomed to it.

Maureen went straight and sat at her desk.

Perhaps because the title of

“Liam’s deskmate”

was too famous, there were fewer people in the international class paying attention to her than outside, but there were still some who kept their gaze fixed on her.

“What on earth is going on?”

Maureen couldn’t help but grab a passing underling of Liam and ask.

Stammering, the underling said,

“You’ll know if you open that webpage of the school beauty contest.”

Confused, she picked up her phone.

While her phone’s internet speed was slow to load, a crowd of curious people had gathered outside the window of the international class.

Before class started, many students had come to watch the spectacle, even Elizabeth from their school.

Mixed voices came from the crowd,

“This year’s second-place holder from your school is ridiculous, isn’t she?”

Bianca, who was in the Evergreen class, frowning put her phone away.

Seeing Ann egging a group of people to go upstairs to the International class to watch the commotion.

Somehow, she had a bad feeling about it; she also promptly got up and followed them.

After Ann and her group of friends arrived outside the international class corridor, the noise from the crowd obviously became louder.

“More than 2,900 votes?

That’s such a lie, can you take off your mask and let us see?”

Niel just came upstairs, bag in hand, squeezing his way in.

Hearing it, he only felt a sense of imminent danger and hurriedly called Liam,

“Liam, hurry.

A crowd has gathered at our classroom door, insisting that the new student take off his mask.”

Before things could escalate further on the other end, Niel decided to hang up.

He yelled at the people clinging to the window trying to squeeze in: “Don’t you have your own class?

Why are you running over to our class to see our girls?

Get lost now!”

Once Niel spoke, a few of his minions immediately began to drive the crowd away.

When the school’s forum page finally loaded, Maureen finally figured out what was happening.

“…What the…?” Is this the so-called ‘criticizing out of love’?

She heard someone’s sarcastic voice from outside the corridor:

“What an ugly freak.”

Maureen caught a glimpse of Ann’s face.

She thought that voice sounded just like Ann.

Maureen was not one to stir up trouble, but she certainly wasn’t afraid of it.

How dare she call her an ugly freak?

How infuriating!

Which girl could keep from crying after being insulted as an ugly freak?

Suddenly, she stood up.

Niel didn’t know what she was going to do, only fearing that she might break into tears.

He quickly blocked the classroom door:

“Just wait a little longer, Liam will be here soon.”

Before he finished speaking, the people outside saw the transfer student leisurely taking off her mask.

There was a momentary silence in the air, almost deathly still.

Niel had no idea what just happened and was still stopping people at the door.

“She…

“How could she…”

Everyone was stunned, staring at Maureen, their thoughts seemingly sluggish.

Her eyes were clear and beautiful, reflecting the stars in the morning mist, her complexion was fair, stunning onlookers.

It was a beauty that was absolutely superior to Bianca and even Elizabeth.

Pure and flawless, so dazzling that people could only stare, unable to find words to describe her.

Maureen looked at Ann in the crowd and said coldly,

“If I am an ugly freak, then what are you?”