You call this the mastermind?

After not coming back for a long time, the house still looks the same.

Except for the eldest brother Robbie who was scolding the servants in the lawn-covered yard, there was no other change.

"This is the last time. I solemnly warn you. If there is another--"

The harsh words stopped before they were finished.

Looking at the black-haired boy who jumped off the carriage.

Robbie, a young man with black hair and a slightly anxious hairline, was stunned.

"Didn't you go on a trip, Melen?"

"It's nothing, so I came back early." The boy replied.

"But you seem to be a little different?"

"I'm still growing up, what's strange about this?"

Saying so, Melen looked at the pale-faced head maid next to his brother, and asked curiously: "What happened?"

"Nothing, just a little thing."

The young man shook his head and didn't intend to tell his brother about the maid's corruption.

Melen was not interested in this either. He nodded casually and pretended to go into the house.

As expected, his elder brother Robbie called him immediately.

"I have something to tell you."

After pulling Mellen to a corner, the young man put on a mysterious look.

"What's the matter?"

Mellen asked in a strange way.

Isn't it just a cousin who may not be related at all? What's so mysterious about it?

"Do you still remember Uncle James?"

"The one who died of syphilis, of course I remember."

His tone was very casual, and he seemed to have no respect, which surprised Robbie.

"...Aren't you on good terms?"

He always told me dirty jokes, Mellen thought, of course we have a good relationship.

But this kind of good relationship is not a real good relationship. In fact, Mellen was always wary of that uncle.

Because he felt that someone who could tell dirty jokes to a little boy who was less than ten years old at the time could not be a good person.

But Mellen didn't want to make up a story about a dead person, so she didn't explain it, but asked directly: "What happened?"

Robbie didn't hide it, and told Mellen about the marriage his parents had arranged for him and the woman's background.

So Mellen was a little speechless.

So, the surprise his mother mentioned in the letter a while ago was actually this?

How can this be called a surprise?

You are a feminist, but you are arranging marriages. It's outrageous!

But even though he thought so, Mellen didn't care much.

The parents who went out every now and then were very unreliable. Mellen didn't listen to them since he was a child, so he didn't care about the parents' orders and the matchmaker's words.

Relatively speaking, he was very curious about the cousin herself.

Because he really had never heard that his old uncle who died of syphilis had an illegitimate daughter.

"She was very tired after the long car ride, so she went to rest."

Brother Robbie said: "You may have to wait a while if you want to see your fiancée."

"But don't worry, there is absolutely no problem with her appearance. I can even say that this is the first time I have seen such a beautiful girl."

Whether she is pretty or not, she is not a real fiancée, so Mellen doesn't care much about it.

But this made him think of another thing.

"She won't say that she wants to live in our house?"

"What good things are you thinking about? How can you live in the man's house before getting engaged?"

Because he knew how beautiful the girl was, Robbie never thought that his brother would refuse.

He even subconsciously thought that this was a big happy event, even though the girl's status was relatively low and she was an illegitimate daughter.

"She mentioned before that she has some relatives and friends in Graham City, so she will leave after seeing you."

Merlen was relieved, "This is the best. I have to go to college far away next month, and I don't have time to care about her."

"Go to college?"

Robbie was surprised to hear this, "How come you are going to college when you haven't finished your primary education yet?"    …

There is no such thing as junior high school and high school in this world. Education before going to college is collectively called primary education.

And there is no standard for education level. Because there is no college entrance examination, whether you can get into college depends entirely on applying for a certain university and then taking the entrance examination.

The situation in the wizarding world is the same, so there is nothing wrong with calling wizard schools universities.

It's hard to say more about this kind of thing. Mellen made a few perfunctory remarks and fooled his cheap elder brother.

Then he ignored his desire to ask in depth and walked directly into the classical villa.

Since he was taking a nap, Mellen certainly gave up the idea of ​​meeting his cousin immediately.

It happened that the servant mentioned that he had several letters delivered during this period, so Melen planned to go to the study first.

There was nothing special about it. Among the letters, there were letters from the editor of the publishing house urging him to submit his manuscripts, letters from book fans through the publishing house, and letters from a theology teacher who had not seen Melen for a long time asking him why he did not go to school.

Of course, there were also letters from several pen pals he had contacted in the past.

Among them, the letter signed by Juliana made Melen raise his eyebrows unconsciously.

After opening the letter, he found that this was another letter involving company management, or company employee management issues.

Juliana always asked this kind of questions, but her brain was particularly stupid. She just couldn't turn around many very simple knowledge points.

Like a primary school student who is being tutored by his parents but can't learn.

"If you want your employees to respect you more, there is a relatively basic trick."

After reading the content of the letter, Mellen wrote a reply on the spot.

"In daily interactions, you should ask them to call you by your job title instead of your name. For example, call you manager, boss, teacher. In this way, when they greet you, they will subconsciously think more about the identities corresponding to these positions, but be careful..."

This time Mellen didn't curse.

Because after he heard that Kevin's mother was also called Julianna, he inexplicably felt that cursing his pen pal again was like cursing Kevin's mother in a roundabout way, which felt very awkward.

But I don't know if it was an illusion. When he put down the feather pen and began to dry the ink on the letter, he seemed to hear a rather disappointed sigh in his ears...

Mellen raised his head alertly and looked around, but found nothing unusual.

So he didn't care much.

The master-level breathing method made his physical fitness amazingly strong, which naturally included the strengthening of hearing.

If he didn't control it, he would always hear all kinds of trivial noises outside.

When walking on the city streets at night, he could even hear some noises that could corrupt children coming from the buildings on both sides.

It was really annoying.

"Some things are not good if they are too strong."

Thinking helplessly in his heart, Melen had nothing to do, so he was ready to practice a certain life-saving skill he had just acquired-

The inheritance of the professor of potion science has greatly increased his knowledge, but because of the limitation of his status level, he can only use a few wizard methods now, and can only digest them slowly.

The knight inheritance does not have this defect.

Relying on the master-level breathing method, Melen can now learn one of the top skills in the inheritance.

The light of the sun, this is the name of this life-saving skill, and the effect is probably absolute defense.

At least in memory, the leader of the Knights who used this skill several times has never been broken by the enemy.

This is also the secret of the so-called Dawn Knights, the top knight's unique skill that only the leader can learn.

However, because it is a simple memory, Melen cannot use skill points to get started, and can only practice by himself.

When this ability is included in the attribute column, he can try to upgrade it with skill points.

This is a relatively slow process. After all, it is a top-level ability, not as easy to learn as basic skills.

But Melen is a "full-level" body after all, so it is not difficult to learn this ability.

At least he thinks that he will be able to learn this ability in the next few days.

However, the practice of this ability requires a certain amount of space for activities, and the study is too narrow to be used.

But this practice scene cannot be seen by others, so Melen stepped towards his spacious bedroom.

As a result, he felt something was wrong as soon as he opened the bedroom door.

There is also a chapter below that belongs to this chapter, but because it is on the shelf, it is not good to update a large chapter of more than 4,000 words, so I split it into two chapters and posted it.