The raise of Maureen Smith and her Good Luck System
Chapter 153: Bianca is Jealous of Maureen

Chapter 153: Bianca is Jealous of Maureen

He hadn’t shown up throughout the entire winter break, and when he did, he had grown even more slender.

Dressed in a black coat, carrying a robot with a broken leg, his face pale and looking silently cold.

Over the winter break, perhaps Richard had come to terms with certain matters.

Anyway, when Ethan and the others met him again, his gaze no longer uncontrollably rested on Maureen’s side from the international class as before.

When he ran into Maureen again at school, he displayed no expression, acted as if he did not recognize her, and just passed her by.

Sometimes, when he heard some gossip about Maureen and Liam, his pen would indeed uncontrollably leave a hideous and sharp, heavy mark on his textbook.

But it seemed like he was trying his best to control these emotions.

By the time Ethan looked over, his emotions had already dispersed like droplets fleeing into the ocean, disappearing without a trace.

Richard was the type to meticulously plan his life to the minute details.

Ethan and the others thought that this time should not be an exception.

Though he was not yet able to let go, he was indeed forcing himself to. So, everything was just a matter of time.

Apart from that, perhaps noticing the changes in Richard, Elizabeth from the neighboring school started hanging around Richard even more frequently.

It seemed like she jumped over the school wall to come over twice a day.

Ethan and the others: "....." Now, they dared not tease Elizabeth, for fear that if they drove Elizabeth away, another Maureen would emerge.

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Two weeks after the final, Maureen went to receive a prize, and briefly appeared on the local television.

Before, the TV station’s reporters always interviewed Richard, but this time they were interviewing a pretty young girl.

This was quite surprising.

They asked her to raise her provincial championship gold medal in front of the camera and share her reflections and study improvements methods.

This was Maureen’s first time in an interview recording studio, and she was rather nervous. She knew that Teacher Logan,Liam, and Niel were waiting outside for her, Josephine even sneaked in and was in the dressing room with a makeup bag ready to touch up her makeup.

Yet, she couldn’t help tightening her body.

"If I have to say some reflection, there’s a phrase that made a deep impression on me, ’The flowing water doesn’t compete, what it does is keep flowing incessantly.’

Things are often difficult," Maureen said, suppressing her nervousness.

For instance, the day she left the Smith family was a major turning point in her life.

For her previous life, it was an incredibly hard decision that was unthinkable.

Before she tested into that building from a regular class, she didn’t know how long she had been striving, constantly struggling against her own aura of negative luck.

She endured every exam-induced diarrhea, sudden hypoglycemia, and sudden loss of vision.

In trying to break free of her fate, she ran lap after lap on the track, a total of thirty laps.

When she finished, she couldn’t lift any part of her legs or arms, as if all the cells in her body had lost sensation.

Wasn’t Liam also facing difficulties?

Five years of tossing and turning, haunted by nightmares every night.

But he didn’t give up on himself, and neither did Maureen.

"But even the hardest tasks can be accomplished by someone,"

"Why can’t we be that someone who is able to do it?"

"Perhaps one, two, or three days of hard work might not yield any changes, but we mustn’t be discouraged, we cannot give up.

Just keep working hard, running towards the direction we want, and one day, something will subtly change, bringing us a new lease on life!"

Maureen finished speaking with a sigh.

She didn’t have this kind of experience speaking in public and felt that her speech was too old-fashioned.

Cliché to the point of redundancy.

Yet, the interviewing journalist was clapping.

Teacher Logan, not far away, also looked at her sentimentally, took off his glasses, and rubbed his eyes.

Maureen: Are they serious? Don’t they think what she said was empty talk?

Maureen didn’t know that compared to Richard’s indifferent comment of "Nothing, superior IQ", what she just said was enough for journalists to get a variety of materials.

Hence, the journalist’s excitement was imaginable.

And the photographer in front of the camera looked at Maureen, and excitedly stood up and said, "Pose a few more times for me, I’m taking more shots for the educational web version."

Maureen mentally facepalmed: Everyone is really too kind. ...

The news of Maureen winning the provincial finals spread like wildfire.

The Smith family is currently watching the broadcast of this interview on TV.

Mrs. Smith and Mr. Smith’s emotions were in turmoil, feeling like they were tightly squeezed by a large hand, causing unbearable pain in their hearts.

Underneath the camera lens, Maureen, with her black hair and fair complexion, looked dazzlingly stunning, captivating anyone who came across her.

Why did they ever think Maureen was inferior to Bianca in the past?

She was clearly a hidden gem, a pearl covered in dust which would sparkle brightly when meticulously cleaned.

However, they had failed to do their part— They almost stomped her into the mud.

She struggled on her own, wiping off the dust from herself bit by bit.

Now she shone brightly, without anyone knowing the tears and blood she swallowed.

Now that things have come to this point, Mrs. Smith finally realized what she had done wrong.

She regretted it from the bottom of her heart, feeling a pang of remorse that was too late to make up for.

Tears rolled down her cheeks.

Being the top student in the province was indeed a big deal.

Just like every year, this year, the name of Maureen, just like Richard’s before, was written on a large banner and hung at the school gate.

Everyone who went in or out of the school gates could see it.

People like Ann and Noella from the Evergreen Class saw it, their feelings mixed.

But this time, everyone in the Evergreen Class accepted the facts, no one was sarcastic anymore.

Maureen had proven herself through hard work and determination.

Bianca had a boyfriend and was still attending a closed-door training for a girl group in her company, preparing for an audition program scheduled for this August.

Thus, it has been over a month since she last attended school after the start of this semester.

People in the Evergreen class were all speculating whether she had decided to not take the route to university – was she planning to switch to art school instead?

With Bianca’s grades, even if she skipped school for six months, she could easily get into a first-tier university through the college entrance examination.

So, nobody bothered to worry about her situation.

Therefore, it was not until March, when spring started and Bianca came back to school to get the director’s signature, that she saw the banner hanging at the school gate.

A very bright red, with the words "Maureen" and "Province’s number one" crossing proudly and triumphantly, it stung Bianca’s eyes at a glance.

She stopped a student: "Did Maureen win first place in last year’s final competition?"

"Yes, didn’t you know?" The student looked at her strangely and said, "It caused a sensation when school just started last month; it even got on TV."

" Bianca clenched the leave report in her hand, her body slightly trembling.

She looked down at her knees, still not healed from an injury due to dance training.

She looked at the tiny wounds on her fingers caused by washing clothes and cooking.

Once again, she raised her head to look at that banner.

In that moment, hatred sprang up like a black spring, coursing wildly through her.

Her own fingers were becoming increasingly rough, yet Maureen was walking down a path blooming with flowers.

Her biological mother had been sent to prison, and her reputation was completely ruined.

Even if she becomes famous in the future, she would constantly worry about her past being dug up.

The company has even prepared steps for her to paint a tragic story.

On the contrary, Maureen lived under the sunshine, becoming the ’bullied’ true daughter of the Smith family.

Everyone in the Smith family anxiously awaited her return, yet she didn’t give them the time of day.

How unfair was this?

Her art school boyfriend, who accompanied her back to school, urged impatiently: "Hurry up, go in and get a signature from your headmaster, then we can play games."

That’s right. She has Liam, the pride of the Williams family, by her side.

Yet, she had this dummy by her side, who wanted nothing more than to play games and show his affection.

Bianca bit into her palm, her heart swelling with malice, nearly drawing blood.

"What are you spacing out for?" her art school boyfriend urged.

Then he saw Bianca turn her head to give him a glance.

That look in her eyes was a kind of gloominess he didn’t recognize.

It almost startled him.