You call this the mastermind?

Arthur's fiancée Martha is a petite woman.

She has a pretty face and wears a light red slim dress. She is very dignified and doesn't look like a scheming person at all.

However, it was this person who made Arthur, a promising half-blood wizard, suffer all kinds of ridicule, depressed, and even regarded hooking up with the enemy's mother as the only means of revenge.

Therefore, when Arthur saw the person clearly, his expression was so tense that it was even a little distorted.

But then, his face returned to calm, or pretended to be calm.

"Serious disaster?"

He sneered, "Is it more serious than what I encountered?"

"Disasters will cause a large number of deaths..."

Martha answered in a low voice, and her eyes were very complicated when she looked at Arthur, as if she was guilty, painful, and even a little aggrieved.

However, since the woman in front of him openly threw herself into Jim's arms and kissed him at school, Arthur no longer believed in any of this woman's words and deeds.

"Ms. Elena from Roland Dessert Shop often asks me why I haven't seen you in the past few months."

He lowered his eyes and his tone returned to normal.

"In the ready-made clothing store on the corner, the boss of the dress I customized for you has been sold to someone else at a low price. The boss thought I was playing a trick on him and scolded me before selling it."

"Teacher Edward was seriously ill a while ago. I thought about it for a long time but couldn't think of any condolences to send. In the end, I had to buy some apples."

"The Chihuahua dog that Tom raised died, and he cried for several days in a row. He also told me that he missed Sister Martha and hoped that Sister Martha would go to see him when she came back. If she didn't have time, could she write a letter..."

Arthur seemed to be talking about some trivial things, but it was extremely harsh to Martha's ears, making her face pale unconsciously.

Because if there was no such thing, these trivial things were actually her life.

But now, all these words turned into sharp knives, stabbing into her heart fiercely.

How sweet all this was in the past, how sharp these knives are now!

Arthur didn't understand this at first.

So this is actually a basic conversation skill that Mellen taught him before. By saying some keywords or even some key paragraphs, the corresponding scene will naturally appear in the mind of the person he is talking to.

Meaningless scenes are useless, but if this scene is meaningful or even special to the person he is talking to, then the corresponding emotions will naturally be aroused.

Then, when such emotions accumulate to a certain extent, it will be easy to manipulate the other party's thoughts and decisions.

However, Mellen's purpose of giving it to Arthur was to pick up rich women, but he never thought that Arthur would use it to hit his "ex-girlfriend" so roughly.

The effect was actually quite good, which surprised Arthur secretly.

Unfortunately, although her face became paler and paler, the woman named Martha never responded.

Her final expression became indifferent.

"Leave here quickly while no one is paying attention to you, or it will be too late."

Martha whispered, looking at Arthur reluctantly, and turned away.

"Pretentious bitch."

Arthur sneered.

However, although he despised his ex-fiancée so much, he didn't look away until her back disappeared in the crowd.

Then he suddenly lost the desire to continue looking for the target person.

So he carried a bottle of rum and came to a sofa in the corner of the banquet hall, sitting there and drinking alone.

No one noticed the depressed young wizard.

A sudden masked ball made many young people very excited. They gathered in groups of three or five, chattering about topics of interest to each other.

It turned a ball into an anonymous dating place.

So the noise and silence, excitement and depression... Although they were in the same place, the two sides seemed to be standing in two different worlds.

Until an elegant voice sounded, breaking the dull atmosphere in the corner.

"This kind of rum needs to be held in the mouth for at least ten seconds to release its true taste. Drinking it like you do is a waste."

The voice was pleasant, but there was an inexplicable hardness. Along with the voice, there was also a faint fragrance of violets, which made Arthur look up at the person who came.

This sight made him unconsciously startled.

The person who came wore a white lady's veil hat and covered her face with a purple fox mask decorated with lace. When she sat on the sofa opposite, a pair of watery emerald green eyes were staring at Arthur with interest.

But this is not the point.

The point is that from her smooth chin and plump lips, she looks like his enemy Jim.

Is it the target?

Arthur is a little uncertain about this.

He didn't know what Jim's mother looked like, but he had heard that she was an ordinary-looking woman.

But this person, even if you only look at her chin and lips, doesn't seem to be ordinary...

However, a woman who looks like Jim, who else could it be but his mother?

"Maybe the rumor is wrong..."

"That's right, with Jim's looks, how could his mother be an ordinary-looking woman?"

There are a lot of knowledge points to remember these two days, so Arthur completely forgot that Mellen once said something to him.

That is, people like Jim's mother, even if they admire someone, are unlikely to take the initiative to chat with him.

So Arthur, who thought he was really favored by fate, was a little excited.

But he had experienced a blow that ordinary people might never experience in their lives, so he seemed to be calm.

"If a person is in a bad mood, then all those so-called wine tasting methods will become shit."

He answered in a low voice.     Because he drank a little too much, he was not as nervous as when he first entered the banquet hall, and his mind was particularly active.

Mellen had told him before that a vicissitudes of life man is very attractive to girls, and sometimes, middle-aged women are actually girls, but most people will subconsciously ignore this.

Arthur is very vicissitudes now, not pretending, after all, he just met the vicious fiancée, which made him feel a little boring in everything he does now.

And Mellen also said that although a lady with a good family education would find it difficult to accept a person swearing.

But if the lady is a middle-aged woman and her life has not changed much in recent years, then they will actually be more eager for some unexpected excitement.

Therefore, it is more attractive to let your words and deeds be full of wildness and ignore the so-called rules and etiquette than to be well-behaved - people have seen the latter a lot.

Arthur didn't know whether it would be more attractive, but after the visitor sat on the sofa opposite, he crossed his legs directly, obviously not intending to leave.

Moreover, from this action, she was obviously not a lady who followed the rules.

"Well said."

The lady who didn't look like a lady raised her lips and said with a smile: "But if you are in a bad mood, I suggest you drink a stronger wine than this, otherwise you will only feel more depressed the more you drink."

While speaking, she picked up a silver wine glass on the table and poured herself a glass of wine, but did not drink it. Instead, she casually played with her fingers on the glass.

Her fingers were very white, and her nails were painted with a light pink, which contrasted with the textured wine glass, making it difficult to look away.

At the same time, the pair of moist emerald green eyes kept circling around Arthur with interest, as if they were very interested in him.

She is really a charming woman...

Arthur's eyes were unconsciously a little dazed, and then he lowered his head and pursed his lips.

"I really hope to drink the Dragon Flame Wine of the Northern Empire, but unfortunately I can't afford it."

He did not hide his gaffe, nor did he hide the fact that he was "at the bottom of the wizard society."

Mellen said that only the strong can completely conquer the heart of a "rich woman", but if you are not a strong person, then positioning yourself as a weak person is also a shortcut to being conquered by a rich woman.

However, he said that the premise of this situation is to arouse the interest of the rich woman in some aspects, otherwise, even if you pretend to be weak, it is no different from other weak people, but it will be looked down upon.

Arthur felt that he should have aroused the interest of the lady opposite, so he naturally spoke according to Mellen's teachings.

"Since the owner of the manor didn't provide dragon flame, I'm not interested in anything else."

"So, you like this silver rum very much?"

"Not really, I just asked the waiter for a bottle of the most stocked wine here."

"Is that so..."

The lady nodded thoughtfully, and then suddenly changed the subject.

"By the way, I haven't asked you what your name is yet?"

"Arthur, a half-blood."

Arthur answered without hiding anything.

Merlen said that even if you can get in touch with the target, it will definitely take several repeated contacts to have "results", and you can't expect any progress in the first meeting.

During this period, it is actually very easy for the other party to check his information. Lying now will only greatly reduce the target's impression of him later.

So there is no need to hide it at all.

Although mentioning your name when you meet for the first time may make the other party think of what Jim did.

But when the status gap between the two sides is large to a certain extent, this kind of conflict between children will not actually make the other party hostile.

Because it is completely unqualified.

After the rich woman who took the initiative saw that Arthur had completely failed in her son's affairs and even had his fiancée robbed, she would have a sense of complete control over him and think that Arthur would not pose any threat to her.

On the contrary, if the rich woman was someone who wanted to break her dull life and had a little interest in Arthur, then this matter would bring her a strange stimulation.

According to Mellen, this is called a sense of betrayal.

"Arthur?"

The other party was obviously stunned when he heard this, and then he did not show any alienated attitude, but looked at Arthur more carefully.

As his eyes flickered, it seemed... suddenly became very excited?

"Are you the Arthur who endured it while his fiancée was robbed by someone in an extremely humiliating way?"

"If you want to laugh, feel free to do so."

Arthur replied expressionlessly, "There are hundreds of people who laugh at me, and you are not the only one."

"I just want to know..."

The lady smiled and said, "How do you feel when you see your fiancée fall into the arms of the enemy?"

"The feeling of hopelessness in life."

Arthur replied slightly annoyed, "Are you satisfied?"

He was really a little angry, because he felt that the other party was now just exposing his scars for fun, rather than being interested in this issue.

In other words, Jim's mother in front of him did not seem to be a normal person!

"Very satisfied."

Jim's mother, who was considered to be an abnormal person, smiled even more.

"But if you are willing to accompany me to visit the back garden here, I think I will be more satisfied."

This statement was completely unexpected, and it was completely beyond Mellen's previous statements.

Arthur was stunned when he heard this.