"Because it makes me look more like a villain," Chen Luo said.
"..." Cocolia didn't know whether Chen Luo was doing it on purpose, but he seemed to have insulted himself too.
"Why are you so determined to make yourself look more like a villain?"
"Because I need to put on a show in front of your daughter. If I look more like the villain, then you—the real villain—will seem more like you were bewitched by me. Oh, right, I need to put away this Crystal Ball too." After saying that, Chen Luo put away the Crystal Ball.
Because the Crystal Ball had also been shown to Bronya.
Then Chen Luo switched to tarot cards.
Chen Luo had quite a few strange props in his backpack, and tarot cards really did have divination effects.
But now that he thought about it, wouldn't the River Diagram and Luo Script be better?
"...Bronya is coming back?" Cocolia looked rather excited.
It was obvious that Cocolia cared deeply about her daughter Bronya, but Cocolia had been brainwashed by the New World too severely now.
"Don't get happy too soon."
"What do you mean?"
"Because Bronya won't be back until later. So there's no point in being happy now."
"..." Cocolia's suddenly suspended heart slowly settled back down.
Oh, I thought my daughter was going to break with me.
That scared me.
"So that's how it is. This is the truth about the Stellaron?" After reading the records concerning the Stellaron, Serval looked somewhat dejected.
Serval's former job had been researching the Stellaron, yet in the end, a scientific problem had lost out to politics.
"This proves that sometimes choosing the right path is more important than working hard. Like choosing a research topic," Chen Luo said.
If Serval had picked any other