The raise of Maureen Smith and her Good Luck System
Chapter 124: Maureen is ranking 3rd in the school competition

Chapter 124: Maureen is ranking 3rd in the school competition

Although in the eyes of others, Maureen’s progress is incredibly rapid.

Within a short span of three to four months, she climbed from mediocrity in a regular class to the top twenty in this building.

And this time, it’s even more exaggerated, she is ranked third in the whole school and thirty-fifth in the province! However, perhaps only Maureen herself knows how much effort she has put in for this progress.

She didn’t talk about the decades of hard work she had done since childhood before coming to this city.

Anyways, that effort was reset to zero the moment she stepped into Bianca’s glamorous circle.

With just the past two years in the regular class, she fought tooth and nail for a chance to transfer classes, toiling day and night on her studies - she probably worked much harder than others.

After transferring classes, while she siphoned Liam’s energy for survival, she did not slacken her focus on her studies at all.

Because she was always working hard, always running, so when she finally saw a noticeable reward, she felt as if she had broken free from a long, cramped alley that saw no sunlight.

Excitement and grievance welled up in her heart and transformed into unspeakable elation.

When she initially accepted the system binding, she was treating a dead horse as a living horse to cure, she had no other choice.

If she didn’t accept the binding, she would have certainly met a miserable end like in her past life.

But it turned out that the system didn’t lie to her.

As long as she worked hard, everything would be rewarded, and fate could also be changed.

Just now, her eyes were actually heating up, so she turned around and hugged Liam, rubbing the bit of moisture accumulating in the corner of her eyes on his clothes. When she raised her head again, she was again the strong Maureen who ’never cried’.

The system spoke to Maureen in her mind: "I didn’t lie to you, right?

You can continue to work hard.

After the number of potted plants accumulates to five hundred, all the subsequent accumulation will be the female lead’s aura.

Then, you too can have the female lead’s halo."

Maureen didn’t think that far ahead, nor was her heart that broad.

She just wanted to accumulate 500 points first and completely shake off the negative aura.

After all, she could faintly sense the constraints of some negative aura during this prelim exam.

Although it’s a lot better than before, she couldn’t use her full strength yet.

The list of finalists could be viewed once logged in.

Therefore, in just ten or so minutes, the news had already spread throughout the building.

There were a total of nine finalists. Among them, unbelievably, Maureen from the international class was ranked third among these nine people, and thirty-fifth in the whole province! Not only were the students from the three classes completely astounded, but Teachers Miller and Teacher Brown in the office were also utterly shocked! From their perspective, a student who transferred from an ordinary class passed many hurdles and triumphed over others within three months, skyrocketing from a mediocre class to the summit of the province!

Without even the process of climbing up? Just rushing to the top directly?

How bewildering is that? However, no matter how unbelievable it seemed, that was what was unfolding before their eyes! Was it thanks to Professor Logan’s efforts?

Comparatively, to contenders like Richard who were sure to be nominated without a doubt, Maureen had caught everyone’s attention.

The rumors about the identity of the true and fake heiress had already been making waves lately, coupled with her obtaining third place in the entire school and having a mere five-points difference with Richard.

It was hard not to focus the conversation on her!

"Isn’t she a top student?" A female student from the Evergreen class exclaimed in shock: "She even had a quarrel with Noella during the concentrated study period, which could have upset her mood, but it didn’t affect her at all? Only affecting Noella and the others?"

Neither Noella nor Bianca was nominated.

The Evergreen class only had one male student nominated and it was quite embarrassing. But, a separate province-wide ranking was released for those who weren’t nominated.

Ordinarily, Bianca and Noella would rank around 130th and 300th in the entire province. However, Bianca’s performance fluctuated to 180th, and Noella’s performance dropped significantly, plummeting to over 800th in the province.

Due to Bianca’s absence, the class teacher Miller, had very seriously summoned Noella and two other students with significant drops in their performance to the office to discuss their reasons.

"She’s not just a top student.

She’s practically a genius student.

Look at her and Richard’s scores.

They’re only five points apart! Perhaps in one more year, she will surpass Richard."

"I wouldn’t say she could surpass the genius Richard. Richard has already participated in so many national competitions..."

"After all, I am stronger than you."

"No wonder Professor Logan made a special application for her back then.

I didn’t agree at that time, but now I completely accept it."

When twenty-one people went on to attend the training camp, everyone felt out of place seeing Maureen in their training team, except for Richard.

They all thought that she merely achieved good results in the monthly exam and obtained her spot by playing behind-the-scenes connections, but didn’t have much strength to play with.

However, now that the list of finalists has been released, the fact is right in front of us.

Maureen has been shortlisted, but the people who have mocked her have not been shortlisted.

With such clear evidence, how can anyone justify contradicting it? Everyone had no choice but to withdraw their prejudice, reluctantly resigned.

Ethan also made it to the finals.

This time he performed normally, ranking ninth in the whole school, incidentally the ninth qualifier, ranking eighty-third in the whole province.

For him, this result is enough to make him excited. But as he looked up at Maureen who was far above him, his excitement immediately felt like being heavily suppressed by a mountain, feeling a tremendous amount of pressure.

"It’s too surprising." Ethan looked at the list, unable to snap back to reality, said to Caleb: "Why does Maureen always surprise people?!"

The fact that she no longer likes Richard was surprising.

Her beauty was surprising.

Her sad and unknown past at the Smith’s family was also a surprise.

Not enough, her grades have suddenly skyrocketed, overtaking everyone on their school’s competitive team except for Richard and Mercy.

Over the past year, Ethan had been teasing Maureen, mostly from a condescending position.

Like Richard, they were all ’children of other people’ - superior in background, looks, grades - everything.

They had always had things go smoothly for them and had never experienced setbacks.

Among those chasing after Richard, Maureen was the one Richard cared about the most.

And so, they all loved using her to place bets.

During this process, Ethan did not deny that he had always been evaluating Maureen with a superior attitude.

However, he suddenly realized, what exactly could he feel superior about? Maureen was very beautiful - so beautiful it was undeniable, everyone acknowledged this dazzling fact.

Maureen’s family background was also very good.

Although she didn’t grow up in the Smith family, it wasn’t by her choice.

Maureen’s grades and intelligence had been validated.

She had already surpassed him.

This girl was far better than he was.

What qualifications did he have to judge her?

His previous joking behaviors and frivolous words, now seemed ignorant and shallow.

He resembled a greasy boy who was full of misplaced confidence.

A burning sensation inexplicably spread across Ethan’s face. Caleb glanced at Richard not too far away, and nudged Ethan’s arm, signaling him to lower his voice, "Stop talking."

A boy from another school competition team came over and whispered, "I wonder how Richard is feeling now, there’s only a five-point difference between him and Maureen...

I’m caught in a whirl of emotions, I didn’t even make the cut?

How did it get so bad?" As he spoke, he glanced over at the International Class next door, saying, "Maureen did so well, but she doesn’t seem to be coming over to share her joy with Richard.

Have they completely fallen out?" Ethan, lowering his voice, said, "The main thing is, nobody knew at the time that Maureen was both good-looking and parallel in grades.

Moreover, Richard might’ve—I mean, might’ve, perhaps, actually liked her then, he just didn’t know it himself.

If we knew earlier, wouldn’t we have encouraged him to be with her?

We wouldn’t be in the situation we are in now."

As Ethan said this, he felt very unsure, as he didn’t know how to face Richard recently.

He always felt that 80% of the reason for Richard’s heartbreak was because of him...

Just then, Richard happened to look up.

Ethan was startled, quickly turning his head away.

He touched his nose, feeling a wave of anxiety. "You just had to say it," Caleb said,

"During training, you kept saying Maureen was just being tsundere, and that Richard would be able to win her back, now look, things seem to be getting worse.

Can he really catch up?" Ethan: "..." Indeed, during training, Ethan was confident that Maureen could be won back.

But after the incident on the basketball court, Ethan wasn’t so sure anymore.

Plus, now Maureen’s grades had skyrocketed and everyone saw her excellence -- she seemed to be on par with Richard.

Then, why was he so sure that Richard could definitely win her over? So, Ethan became even more uncertain.

Just then, whether Richard heard his name being mentioned or not, his face looked incredibly stern as he walked towards them.

Ethan immediately panicked, grabbed his test paper, told Caleb he was going to visit the teacher’s office, and quickly made his escape.

Caleb and another boy remained, facing Richard’s cold gaze: "..."