The raise of Maureen Smith and her Good Luck System-Chapter 38 - Take over

At the same time, some on the forum questioned,

“Isn’t this stealing from Bianca, not only the school beauty title but also the hosting rights?”

“Our school’s celebration video will be on TV!

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Let’s not just go by looks, anyway, should we choose someone with especially good grades?

How could a patchwork pillow transferred from an ordinary class be better than the former school beauty?”

However, someone from the ordinary class immediately retorted,

“The ordinary classes and your three classes never have the same test papers.

In other words, the two school beauties have never competed together.

Who gave you the nerve to assume that Maureen doesn’t have better grades than Bianca?

She has, after all, ranked third in the ordinary class.”

People from the top three classes have always looked down on others.

Someone from beneath immediately began to mock,

“You’re referring to those testing papers of the ordinary class, which are so simple, one could answer them perfectly even with your toes?

What’s so hard about ranking third?

Even with my eyes closed, I could achieve that.”

A quarrel then erupted.

Eventually, someone on a floor above settled the matter, “What’s all the fuss about?

Isn’t the monthly exam in October imminent?

Just wait and see their performance.” Maureen was stupefied, my gosh, what’s happening?

Whoever wants to be the host, be my guest!

She didn’t say she wanted to compete with Bianca!

However, she really has no choice but to participate in the October exam.

They said she was all shown with no substance, she wanted to see who really was.

Maureen rolled up her sleeves and returned to her class to work on more problems.

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Maureen really had no intention of being the host, but the Elite class was not pleased.

In the past years, the host of the school’s celebration was without a doubt from their class.

This year, why are most of the people in the forum leaning towards Maureen of the International class?

“Is Maureen worthy?

Don’t just focus on her looks, alright?”

Seeing Bianca lying down on her desk, Noella couldn’t help but defend her.

In just a few days, everything was being taken by Maureen.

Even the position of the school celebration host, which she held for two years, was at risk.

A male student replied,

“She is indeed very pretty.” Noella disdainfully said,

“You guys only care about looks, what else does she offer?

Even the top students from the ordinary class would rank at the bottom in our classes!

Not to mention Maureen only overperformed once, she’s usually among the lower ranks in her class!

Whereas, Bianca consistently ranks among the top twenty of our three classes in every examination.

Isn’t such a shining track record more positive when propagated by the host?”

Unable to retort, the male student reluctantly agreed,

“Yes, she may be pretty, but if she’s not smart, something seems to be missing.”

Bianca was outdone by Maureen in the campus beauty incident.

Bianca originally thought she could be indifferent to this, as she was always doted on by her family, she excelled academically and was also endowed with multiple talents – ballet and piano.

But it was a strange feeling – seeing those IDs that used to discuss her frequently on the forum, now one by one started to talk about Maureen from the international class instead, she couldn’t help but feel a subtle sense of jealousy.

On one hand, she told herself that this was temporary and that people were merely intrigued by the novelty and would shift their attention back to her soon.

On the other hand, she couldn’t help but start clicking on those posts about Maureen, and searched with the keywords “Maureen” and “pretty”, like being addicted.

She would attempt to find imperfections in Maureen’s photos, then convince herself that Maureen was nothing extraordinary after all.

Bianca also realized that she shouldn’t be in this state.

Just because she has lost once, does not mean she would always lose.

She would certainly regain wins in other aspects very soon.

She focused, ready to prepare for the October monthly exam.

Just as those people said, this would be the first time she and Maureen take the test together…

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The exam atmosphere arrived fast.

During the morning self-study on the day of the exam, when the Classroom teacher Mr.

Logan made his rounds, he noticed that Maureen, though transferred from the regular class, was earnest and diligent.

Just for this spirit and attitude, Mr.

Logan already had growing fondness for her.

He slightly regretted what he said yesterday morning, asking her not to attend the test.

However, despite his fondness for her, when Mr.

Logan thought of his performance bonus which would be drastically cut, he still felt a chill in his scalp and a heaviness in his heart.

Maureen’s ultimate goal was to break away from the fate of a supporting role, and get into the best university she could with her abilities.

Without the Smith family, she would then just be that Maureen who hailed from a small town in the north, and only a good university could change her destiny.

An ordinary October midterm might only be a trivial matter, but she still had to give it her all.

So engrossed in her revision was that she was oblivious to everything going on around her.

It was only when the examination papers were being handed out and the proctor asked everyone to move their chairs that she snapped out of her reverie.

This was her first exam since her rebirth at Maureen.

To say she wasn’t nervous would be a lie.

As she observed the fragile seedlings in her pot, she turned to Liam, who was absent-mindedly staring at her while one hand was holding a hedgehog mug and the other flipping through a book.

She said, “I’m a bit nervous.”

The moment she looked his way, Liam quickly averted his eyes.

Only after hearing her words did he pretend to have noticed her with an air of nonchalance.

“What can we do about it?”

Hearing her confide in her nervousness, Liam began to feel anxious too.

He took off his noise-cancelling headphones.

“It’s just an October midterm.

Now that you’re my underling, if you do poorly, who would even dare to criticize you?”

Maureen opened her hand, looking at him bemused.

Liam: ?

Maureen said, “Alright then, I will just be straightforward.

Can you give me your hand and hold mine for a few minutes?”

Scratch that.

Liam almost fell off his chair in surprise.

With a steady gaze, Maureen held out her slender, pale hands before him.

Liam glanced at her hands, then her face.

His cheeks immediately flushed a notable shade of red.

“If you want to hold hands, just say it.

Why do all these ‘I’m nervous’, ‘I need a bit of courage’ stories?”

Maureen was starting to wonder if Maureen had been reading too many cheap romance novels from street stalls.

“Right here?” Liam frowned, reluctantly getting ready to play his part, as if he had no interest in holding hands.

They were in a classroom with so many people, and it wasn’t even snowing or raining to create some sort of ambiance.

How unromantic could a first hand-holding be?

“Hurry up!” Maureen was getting impatient.

They only had fifteen minutes left until the start of the test.

“What’s the rush?” Liam grumbled as his heart thumped wildly, reluctantly extending his hand.

Glancing sideways, he caught Niel watching them.

With an expression that said, “Can’t help it, she’s just so clingy”, Liam wore a smug grin.

Niel: …

Who would have thought the moment Liam put out his hand, Maureen would impatiently seize both his hands.

Liam: …!

“For the next fifteen minutes, Liam was completely flustered.