The raise of Maureen Smith and her Good Luck System-Chapter 44 - Who is the owner of this exam paper

“Eh?” Maureen froze for a moment and quickly caught on that the Donald family, having rapidly acquired wealth, would have entered the circles of the Smith and Lincoln families.

Therefore, it wasn’t surprising that the news about their return home reached Richard.

She hurriedly shook her head, “No need, really.

I appreciate your concern, but I can pick them up myself.”

Richard’s brow instantly furrowed, “Why?” Maureen asked, “What do you mean ‘why’?

What if they mistake you for my boyfriend?”

“Richard was puzzled by Maureen’s recent behavior, just as he was puzzled as to why she didn’t want people to make such a misunderstanding— A confusing irritation churned within him that he couldn’t shake off.

Bearing his tolerance till the bitter end, he blurted out, “Isn’t that what you want?”

Maureen finally understood.

So Richard still assumed she liked him.

Although it felt inappropriate to discuss this matter in front of so many people, since Richard had brought it up, she decided to clarify things then and there.

Why should they spend additional time arranging to meet in an outdoor cafe?

Her previous pursuit of Richard had been rather impulsive after all.

He never reciprocated the feelings, so presumably he didn’t take it to heart.

“I don’t like you anymore.”

Looking at Richard, Maureen said seriously,

“My previous affection for you probably stemmed from the fact you had helped me.

But we were young then, so don’t take what happened too heart.

” Maureen couldn’t have made it clearer.

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“….” “….” “….” The air at the entrance of the corridor fell into deathly stillness, as if only the sound of wind remained.

Ethan was stunned, his mouth agape.

Richard just watched Maureen, word by word, utter the four words ‘no longer like’, his face turning as rigid and ugly as a plaster statue.

A vague feeling of pain arose within his heart.

His friends from the school competition team behind him dared not draw a breath as they saw his expression.

Although Richard had had inklings of this for some time now, he had never dared to believe it.

Unexpectedly, before he could convince himself, she had said it out loud.

Richard didn’t know whether to praise Maureen for her decisiveness or what.

In his memory, whatever she wanted to do, whatever decision she made, she never hesitated.

Her decisiveness made his previous pursuit seem like a joke.

Richard had originally thought that if Maureen no longer appeared in his field of vision, he would heave a sigh of relief and save himself a lot of time dealing with her.

But at this moment, instead of feeling relieved, he experienced a rush of dull pain, as if a mountain had collapsed onto him.

The feeling of having completely lost something was never so clear…

Richard’s face was exceedingly ugly as he coldly stared at Maureen.

Maureen guessed that she must have embarrassed him, so she said awkwardly,

“Is that it then?

Goodbye, I have to go to class.”

Without waiting to see Richard’s and his teammates’ reactions, Maureen quickly left.

…

They watched Maureen’s retreating figure for a few seconds.

Ethan still couldn’t believe it, “Is she joking?

Just saying she doesn’t like him and that’s it?

Who could stop liking someone without going through any transitional period?

Or is she trying to provoke you?”

Richard’s head was buzzing, unable to process what Ethan had just said.

How did things get to this point?!

He even started to recall, on the day when she abruptly started to avoid him, had he done anything?

But no, Richard couldn’t come up with anything.

On that specific day when she seemed to give up on him, it was a day as usual with fine weather.

And that was what made Richard’s stomach churn with discomfort.

Ethan said, “But just now when Liam bent down to tie her shoelaces, she reflexively stepped back.

So, it doesn’t look like she’s fallen for someone else, right?”

“I need some alone time,” Richard shook him off, turned and walked away.

“Richard, we have an experiment later and it’s graded!”

A male member from the school’s competition team hurriedly said.

Ethan quickly caught up and asked, “Do you like her?

You didn’t happen to fall for her, did you?

If you don’t have feelings for Maureen, there’s no need to fuss about it, right?”

Richard stopped on the stairs, the words almost jumped out from his throat, “I don’t like her.” Ethan said, “Right.”

Richard told himself that it didn’t matter if she didn’t like him.

It wasn’t a big deal.

There were so many people giving him love letters every day.

He would not miss one.

Even if he admired her, they could still be friends – she just didn’t like him anymore.

But at this moment, Richard was still upset and speechless.

Everything had gone beyond his control.

He didn’t care about any damn experiments at all.

He walked downstairs and coldly said, “Don’t follow me.”

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Meanwhile, in the office, several teachers were huddled together, examining a test paper with surprise.

“The last big question requires the use of linear functional analysis.

I specifically set this question to create a mark difference.

The knowledge scope far exceeds that of high school contests.

What gratifies me is that the answers of seven students had a clear path of thinking, among which three individuals even answered every step correctly, indicating their extensive knowledge.” said Teacher Brown, the math teacher and headteacher of the gold medal class.

“This one is Richard’s, I’ve been familiar with his handwriting for two to three years.”

He raised a test paper on his left, a look of pride in his eyes, and then raised another test paper on his right: “This one is Richard’s from our class—”

They were such excellent students that even their handwriting was familiar to these teachers.

“So the question is, who does this test paper on the desk belong to?”

Teacher Brown said, “I have never seen this student’s handwriting before!”