You call this the mastermind?

The light coming in from the window is fresh and thorough, making the elegantly decorated restaurant look spotless.

The "family" sitting around an exquisite square dining table are like three puppets at this moment, sitting in their respective positions, motionless, with different expressions on their faces.

After the blond girl finished saying that, she carefully glanced at her mother's stunned expression, and then lowered her head, as if she had done something wrong.

After the initial surprise, Mellen looked at her teacher with a "confused" look, as if asking, what on earth were those things her daughter said?

Faced with his gaze, Mrs. Chelsea's face was stiff.

In her understanding, even if her students have some sense of what happened before, they cannot know it too clearly.

It is even more impossible to know that she can have some kind of snake-like "energy storage" ability.

So the words themselves shouldn't make him think too much.

But he doesn't know this, but his daughter Alyssa seems to know about it?

Moreover, she actually judged that if she lost those things, she would die...

The madam really wanted to know why her daughter made such a judgment.

She wanted to know even more, how did Alyssa know all this?

But if you ask these questions in front of Melen, it is obviously not appropriate...

Then, as her mind was spinning, Mrs. Chelsea suddenly regained her composure, looked at the blond girl, and said in her usual tone:

"My mother is very touched that you can consider it. But some situations are not as bad as you think. And even so, there is no need for you to keep this kind of thing in your heart and make others worry in vain."

She is diverting attention.

In other words, shift the focus of the problem to Alyssa——

Which is more important, family affection or love?

Different people have different opinions.

But if the love here has changed and cannot continue, then when faced with a choice, it is a natural choice to completely give up love and go all out to maintain family ties.

In other words, in the face of her mother's life crisis, Alyssa no longer has any extra thought to obsess over some of her past thoughts——

At least that's the explanation she's giving now.

This argument is quite reasonable when you think about it, and Madam seems to completely believe it.

But when she stood up to leave first, she gave Mellen a look while her daughter wasn't paying attention.

Then Meren understood that she did not believe Alyssa's explanation.

In other words, I don’t completely believe it.

But after the girl gave this explanation, she couldn't continue to ask.

So she wanted to call Meren out to continue discussing the matter.

But Mellen didn't follow up honestly this time.

After watching the teacher's back and leaving the restaurant, he stopped Alyssa, who was also about to leave, and said, "I have something to ask you, can we talk?"

"What else do you want?"

The girl looked at Melen quietly, as if she completely regarded Melen as an elder.

"Of course it's about your mother's physical condition."

Mellen said as he motioned for the other person to sit down, "Why do you have that judgment?"

"Because now I can feel how my blood is flowing in my mother's body."

After sitting down opposite Melen honestly, the girl said with a worried look on her face: "If it weren't for those things of yours, she wouldn't be able to stop their erosion at all."

Her words had already exposed the "secret" that the lady was ashamed of.

But in fact, this secret has been exposed long before Madam herself knew it. "But as you just heard, your mother didn't think her situation would be so bad."

Mellen asked: "Do you think her judgment is correct?"

"Mom is just too confident sometimes."

The girl replied in a low voice, "She always thinks that things will not be out of control, but she is always in a hurry due to various accidents."

"That makes sense."

Meren seemed to agree: "For example, she almost died trying to protect you before."

The girl looked startled when she heard this, then bit her lower lip and said nothing.

"But as a mother, it's actually normal for her to react like this."

Mellen continued: "I once knew a person who traveled here and there for more than 40 years to find her missing son, but what she finally found was news of her son's death. So she couldn't bear the blow and committed suicide."

The girl was stunned for a moment, but remained silent about it.

Seeing this, Meren added: "The other one was even worse. Her daughter died of illness. As a result, she went crazy. When she saw other people's children, she wanted to snatch them. She was silly and stupid all day long. She was in her thirties. They are as old as fifty or sixty, and they are always bullied by homeless people and have had many abortions.”

The girl still didn't speak.

Meren then added: "In comparison, the third person I know is not bad. She gave birth to another one after her son died."

"Because one child died before, I raised the second child like a treasure. As a result, I raised the child to be very naughty. Every day I either ask for money from the family, or he gets into trouble and needs to be dealt with by the family."

"His mother didn't discipline him either, firstly because she couldn't bear it, and secondly because she couldn't control him. Once she did, her son would beat and scold her without any regard for her dignity as a mother."

"But what's interesting is that if outsiders can't see it and say a few words about her son, she will have objections to them. She looks like a masochist..."

At this point, Melen said meaningfully: "Do you think this kind of person deserves it?"

"You are worthy of being a writer."

The girl replied faintly, "You can make up so many stories casually."

"Then why do you think I can say such things casually?"

Melen did not deny it, but said: "Practice makes perfect? ​​Or have you seen it too much?"

Alyssa was silent again.

But unlike before, this time there was some hesitation on her face.

Seeing this, Melen lowered his voice and said: "Are you afraid of causing trouble to your mother, so you want to run away from home?"

"You——"

The girl suddenly raised her head, her eyes full of astonishment.

"Your blood is very special, and it contains some secrets. This may attract hostility from some people in the future?"

Merlen seemed to be asking, but in fact he said firmly: "But because of your mother's health problems, you are worried about her, so you want to do something before leaving?"

"Am I right?"

Alyssa did not respond, but looked at him with complicated eyes, as if she didn't understand why her plan was so easily guessed.

But Mellen didn't want to explain this, but said thoughtfully: "You should feel guilty, because you realize what your mother's physical condition is like, and why this condition is caused."

"So you blame yourself and regret it? Even think you are a burden?"