The raise of Maureen Smith and her Good Luck System
Chapter 117: Liam Williams and Richard Lincoln fight over Maureen Smith

Chapter 117: Liam Williams and Richard Lincoln fight over Maureen Smith

Although most of the students in the top class focused on their studies and competitions, they were also discussing the matter of Bianca.

Richard had been absent-minded for two days.

He pursed his lips, watching his phone in class for the first time.

He was hesitating over how to discuss the matter with Maureen.

His family and the Smith family had been close friends for generations, so he had known about the relationship between Bianca and Maureen for two years.

However, at that time, it was a scandal for the Smith family, and they did not wish to disclose it. In the past two years, he pretended not to know about it, but under Aunt Donald’s urging, he took extra care of Maureen.

His fingers pressed on the message box, but all he could send were red exclamation mark icons.

Only then did Richard realize that Maureen had cut off all contact with him completely.

As she said, if he no longer tried to interfere in her life, they could still be friends.

But if he used aunty Donald to contact Maureen again like last time, she would remove him from her friend list.

So, was it really impossible to return to the past? The phrase ’reluctance’ appeared for the first time in Richard’s life dictionary.

After class, Ethan started to chitter noisily next to him, "Richard, can you look up the IP, what kind of moron is this user 95835968 on the forum, insisting that Maureen doesn’t like you anymore?!"

"Only a few people know about this, right? How did he know? Or did he just make it up? It’s not over yet.

How can he decide what’s going on between you and Maureen?!"

"To battle with him, I have been ignoring Mr. Brown’s lecture all morning, it drives me nuts!" Richard cast Ethan an impatient glance and ignored him.

Ethan perceived Richard’s irritability and tactfully stopped digging into matters further.

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All the businesses in Niel’s family had received support from the Williams family, and being friends with Liam was like grabbing onto a gold mine.

So, his work has always been pretty efficient.

During lunch, he managed to meet concurrently a few individuals in charge of the school forum, and even sneakily followed Liam and Maureen to the cafeteria, snapping plenty of photos of the two together.

Thus, by the afternoon’s second class, a considerable number of students noticed that many of the discussions on the forum about the romantic tension between Maureen and Richard were completely deleted.

The situation was similar to a strict internet censorship, with posts disappearing without a trace.

Many bewildered students immediately grew disgruntled.

Was there any freedom of speech left?!

Those shipping the duo of Richard and Maureen felt as though their home was abruptly torn down.

The gossip, that made high school life entertaining, was now entirely gone.

Especially Ethan, who after fervently arguing in the morning, planned to continue confronting that dimwit in the afternoon.

But the thread where they almost broke into a fight was gone?

Just like that, gone? What on earth was going on?!

Upon noticing its absence, Ethan immediately sought out Richard. Richard also furrowed his brows.

On this side, right after praising Niel’s efficiency, Liam sneakily logged into his alternate account on the forum, behind the unsuspecting Maureen and against the wall corner.

Noticing the historical photos of Richard and Maureen cleaned out, he finally felt a bit relieved and gave Niel a thumbs up without looking back.

Then he started to find the new posts from Niel that had pictures of him and Maureen.

He smugly curled up the corners of his mouth, rubbing his face, trying to act normal so Little Mask wouldn’t notice. And then...

He expected to see a slew of comments like,

"Woah! What a godly couple!"

"Such a perfect match!"

"I ship this pair!" —— But what he saw was, "What the hell? The post with Richard is gone, and there are just these few back photos with the school bully?" Liam: ...

"Who dared to take these photos with the school bully?

Are they seeking death? You think the school bully has changed just because he dyed his hair black? Moreover, these back photos show no CP vibes whatsoever!"

Liam, veins protruding on his forehead: So these internet users have amazing eyesight to determine CP vibes even from back photos? Should we give you an award and send you to the moon so you can see if Earth and Mars have CP vibes?

"And the title is misleading!

Claiming to be a magical couple, I thought it was Richard and the school beauty, that’s why I clicked on it."

Liam: How can you misread this and click on it?

"That guy’s too tall and temperamental, not suitable for our fairy." Liam: How am I not suitable? I’m not that bad, am I?

"Agreed with the above comment. Moreover, he’s absolutely inconsiderate.

Why are there so many cult members now?"

Liam’s face had turned completely black: Who’s the one spouting this nonsense about a cult when my relationship with Little Mask was ordained by Heaven and Earth?

Liam forcefully held back his anger, straining to keep himself from lashing out at these people.

However, after taking deep breaths for three minutes, he couldn’t help it anymore.

Who on earth could endure this? These people must be blind, right?!

He began to furiously type on his phone.

Maureen had no idea what he was doing, only seeing that he hadn’t slept all day and, despite obvious dark circles under his eyes, appeared to be engrossed in the internet, and looked furious to boot.

It seemed like he was about to pick a fight with someone.

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Maureen felt like she had jinxed it.

The moment she thought Liam was looking to pick a fight, her last physical education class of the day was disrupted.

As she was lazily attempting a question in class, she heard one of Liam’s lackeys rush in.

He announced that a brawl had broken out during a basketball game between the boys of their international class and the top classes.

"Get the boys out there to help!" he demanded. Maureen quickly stood up: "Where is Liam?" "Boss—" The lackey stopped himself just in time and changed his wording, "Maureen, you better hurry and stop the fight.

Liam is currently laying the smackdown on Richard from the next class." Maureen: Maureen?

What the heck is that? Twenty minutes ago.

Both the top class and the international class had separate grounds, with the basketball court divided between the two by an iron fence.

But while Richard was playing basketball, he noticed Liam taking off his jacket to wipe off sweat from across the net; the white forearm that was revealed had a small black crystal hair tie around it.

Richard’s action abruptly halted in his hand, and his footsteps also stopped; his heart suddenly pounded in his chest.

He suddenly set down the basketball, directly lifted his foot, skirted round the net, and headed towards the opposite side, staring intensely at something on Liam’s wrist-- If he wasn’t mistaken, wasn’t that the object that once appeared in Maureen’s hair?

As he approached, Richard could discern that indeed, it was Maureen’s object.

Did Liam grab it himself? That school tyrant, capable of any wicked deed.

Or did Maureen gift it herself-- No, this was absolutely impossible.

Richard couldn’t describe his feelings at this moment; he only felt like the tense string of his rationality was on the verge of snapping.

Seeing him walk over like this, Ethan and Caleb, among others, fearing a conflict might happen, quickly followed him.

Once they walked over, the others, naturally, noticed Liam.

Liam, who had been dissatisfied with Richard for a while, had been holding back a rage driven by his rival in love; if not for the consideration of Maureen’s feelings, he would have gone to beat up Richard the day he came out of the school’s information department.

Now Richard dares to come over? Looking for death? Liam slammed the basketball on the ground, causing it to bounce three meters high.

He crossed his arms and stared at the approaching Richard, the squinted eyes filled with cold arrogance.

Seeing Richard staring at the object on his wrist, he deliberately moved his wrist to show off the item on his forearm to Richard, pulling up a smirk at the corner of his mouth, coldly saying,

"What’s the matter? Looking for a fight?"

Upon rolling up his sleeves, he immediately felt that Richard wasn’t worth showing off to.

So, after a bit of contemplation, he pulled his sleeve back down.

The gift from Maureen caught Richard’s attention multiple times, which left Liam feeling short-changed.

He was livid, "Stop staring or I’ll gouge out your eyes."

"Did you snatch this from Maureen?" Richard held back his fury,

"Bullying other girls is one thing, but what gives you the right to bully Maureen?

Even making her run errands and prepare desserts on your behalf?"

Niel also hurriedly came over with a bunch of his little followers.

Liam couldn’t be bothered to argue with Richard about this, but Niel couldn’t help but sneer in explanation,

"Don’t think you can be arrogant just because you’re in the advanced class.