Rebirth of the Villainous Female Boss Chapter 1227

Chapter 1227: Chapter 1199: Fear Comes from the Unknown Chapter 1227: Chapter 1199: Fear Comes from the Unknown “Kiara!” Kiara's mother came back holding a pot of soup, also carrying several charms, and handed them to Edward Wheeler as soon as she entered.

“Hurry, take them outside to the neighborhood and burn them–Eh, do we have guests at home?” Kiara's mother noticed Yuzo Joel, nodded politely, and then turned to instruct Edward Wheeler again.

“Hurry up and take them out to burn along the north side of the neighborhood.”

“What's this?” Edward Wheeler looked at the pile wrapped in yellow paper somewhat speechlessly.

“They're Soul-Collecting Charms, I had to beg someone for a long time to draw them, our Kiara must have been scared today, hurry up and burn them. Oh, and take a bottle of alcohol down too, pour some on the road, burn some more yellow paper to sacrifice to the wandering spirits or whatever, and finally put up the incense.”

Yuzo Joel just watched as Kiara's mother spilled the beans nonstop.

“That… Mum, in our Family Residential Area, isn't it inappropriate to be burning these things?” Edward Wheeler said tactfully.

Let alone that he himself didn't believe in burning paper and such, as a company president leading the way in conducting superstitious activities right at the entrance of the residence, wasn't that improper?

If Dad saw this, wouldn't he nag me all day long?

“Why wouldn't it be appropriate? No matter what neighborhood this is, when someone is spooked, you have to summon their soul back! If you don't, and they get scared silly, what am I to do if it delays my granddaughter… girl? I asked around, and it has to be the male head of the household who burns these. Otherwise, I would have done it myself and come back.”

Kiara rubbed her temples, “Mum, can you not be so superstitious all the time?”

“What do you mean superstitious? Mum's doing this all for you! You think this is easy to find? I waited in line for ages! Hurry up and burn them, they said not burning them is not good for Kiara, and it's not good for the baby either if you don't burn them!” Kiara's mother scolded her daughter while looking at Yuzo Joel.

“Little brother, are you a colleague of my son-in-law? Why do you look familiar to me?”

“I have a common face; everyone feels I look familiar,” Yuzo Joel said with a beaming smile.

Kiara's mother tilted her head and thought for a long time but couldn't remember, “Really? I feel like I've seen you somewhere…”

“I'm Kiara's PhD Advisor. Today I came to discuss homework with her. We'll be seeing each other often in the future.”

“Oh my! You're her teacher? Has my daughter been giving you any trouble?”

Kiara's mother didn't understand what a PhD Advisor was and habitually exchanged polite pleasantries knowing he was a teacher.

“She's quite smart. Having such an intelligent student is my good fortune, you're so lucky to have such a wonderful daughter.”

“Isn't that the truth!” Kiara's mother loved to hear her daughter praised and promptly sat on the sofa to start boasting.

“My daughter is top-notch in both character and academics, and she's especially filial. All our neighbors envy me, you know–”
“Mum, aren't you watching TV?” Kiara interrupted, embarrassed by her mother's extensive praises.

“It's fine, let your mother speak, I'd like to know more about you too,” Yuzo Joel said.

Hearing Yuzo Joel's words, Kiara's mother instantly perked up, thinking he was inquiring like during a primary school home visit, and launched into a full-scale bragging mode about her daughter.

“My daughter has been smart since she was little, always among the top three in her grade. If it weren't for falling ill during the college entrance exam, she would have been the top scholar–Edward, don't just stand there, go burn that paper!”

Yuzo Joel glanced at Kiara's mother and then at Kiara, a smile on his lips but calculation in his eyes.

“Kiara, you go with him. It's like solving a doubt for your mother. I'll do a simple 'treatment' for her here, absolutely no psychological shadow will be left.”

“Alright.” Kiara trusted Yuzo Joel's words without question and got up to go outside with Mario Yuno.

Kiara and Mario Yuno went downstairs, and Kiara complained.

“About my mom, I try to ignore it, but when she looks at me with those pitiful eyes, it really tugs at the heartstrings. But look at her, meddling with these things every day, her head is just too superstitious!”

Mario Yuno found a wind-sheltered spot with no one around and patted Beautiful Lady's head, “Go on, take a breather. If someone comes, call me!”

“Woof!”

Kiara watched him seriously take out a lighter, ready to burn the paper, and was speechless.

“My mom is uneducated, but you too? How did you earn those two master's degrees? I'm going to find Gildan Yount to make sure he gives you a good lecture on opposing superstition!”

“Who let our mom say that not burning it would be bad for you, even saying that not burning it would cause trouble with having children… If she'd said not burning it would harm me, I honestly wouldn't burn it.”

Mario Yuno muttered, was it easy for him? A vice president like him reduced to burning paper and having to do it sneakily to boot!

“Tch, it's just how these feudal superstitions capture the fear in people like you, a few threats and you believe them!” Kiara didn't believe a bit of it. Burning paper, offering wine and the like, all sounded like trickery to her.

“It's not that I believe it, it just feels wrong to gamble with both you and the baby.” Mario Yuno always doted on Kiara, and now that Kiara had a baby, he couldn't stand to hear anything negative.

“That's what I'm talking about. Some shamans these days just love to scare people with threats like, if you don't believe, you'll have years of bad luck, or if you don't do this, your whole family will die–”
“Hey, isn't that the Tiger over there?” Mario Yuno, too, couldn't bear to hear these extreme words and had learned Kiara's poor skills in changing the subject, pointing to the sky and saying.

Kiara pushed him with a laugh, “You're so silly!”

Unpleasant words make everyone uncomfortable, but most people would rather believe than not.

In fact, some superstitions exploit people's psychological weaknesses. Everyone wants to avoid misfortune and seek good fortune. If it's said that disbelief will lead to some kind of retribution, most people will be afraid. Even if they don't believe, they won't dare to speak ill of it. The retribution is always pushed to the afterlife or the future – an unseen realm that casts a shadow over people's hearts now.

“Do you know the 'chain letter' that was especially popular a few years ago? It was a letter with some small money attached, claiming that misfortune would fall upon those who didn't pass it on within a few days.”

As soon as Kiara mentioned it, Mario Yuno nodded, “Right, we even formed a special squad. I organized the kids from the family residential area to search everywhere, we collected the money and threw away the letters, and in the end, we had quite a sum.”

Back then, that money was a fortune! Everyone bought snacks and had a celebration banquet.

“That letter exploited people's weaknesses–luck, death, the afterlife–all unknown worlds to us. We're always fearful of the unknown. Throw in a little money to catch the eye, play on greed to scare people, and a simple unlucky letter could contain so much psychology. So psychology is not far from us. Often it's the swindlers and bad people who know more about psychological weaknesses than the ordinary person. Camden, why do you think the old workplace organization insisted on taking you to witness executions during training?”

“To break the fear of death in us. It was scary because we had never seen it. Without seeing, one imagines much, but after seeing, it turns out to be no big deal, and one becomes calm.”

Chapter end

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