Queen of Wild Cards novel Chapter 231

Her grandfather's social circle was undeniably extraordinary. Take her own masters, for example—they were entirely in a league of their own.

For an average person, receiving the true teachings of even one of them would be considered the blessing of a lifetime. Yet, she had been trained by several.

Sure, their teaching methods were a bit eccentric, but they worked, didn't they?

Otherwise, she wouldn't have graduated so flawlessly.

Julius lightly tapped her forehead. "Babe, false modesty is just a hidden form of pride. You call that 'learning a little bit'?

Take my legs as an example. Countless top-tier specialists, both domestic and international, declared them a lost cause. But you cured me. That's a level of skill most people couldn't even dream of achieving."

"That was just a coincidence. I happened to know how to treat your specific condition. You got lucky."

"Dr. Warren told me that your surgical precision is something only a veteran with twenty or thirty years of experience could pull off. He even quietly asked me how he could become your apprentice."

"Oh, I just got a lot of practice gutting fish when I used to help sell them at the market." Back then, her master would force her to perform "surgery" on the gutted fish with her eyes closed.

Out of her entire village, she was the absolute best at skinning, deboning, and filleting.

Julius pinched her cheek affectionately. "Stella, I looked into your background. All records of you vanish after your second year of middle school, and you didn't continue studying there. Where did you go after that?"

She let out a soft laugh. "After that? Well, I traveled everywhere with my masters." Those had been the happiest days of her life.

"How many masters do you actually have?"

She had said 'masters', plural.

"Five."

"Aside from medicine and martial arts, what else are you hiding from me?" He figured her medical skills came from one master, and her combat skills from another.

He had the rest of his life to unearth all of her secrets!

Stella's tone grew heavy. "Julius, if I told you that the perfume Gideon created contains traces of human remains, would you believe me?"

His heart skipped a beat at her words. It seemed the investigation he had been running for so long finally had a breakthrough.

Keeping his voice steady, he asked, "Tell me your thoughts. Why do you think this fragrance has corpse extracts in it?"

She paused, organizing her words carefully. "I have an extremely sensitive sense of smell. You might think this perfume smells incredible, but there's an underlying element of human corpse oil in it. Have you ever heard of the legend of the natural siren scent?"

"I have, but I don't know much about it. Tell me the details."

He hadn't just heard of it; he had researched it thoroughly. It was the exact reason he had attended the event earlier that day.

"Julius, tomorrow, I want you to use your authority as the CEO of Blackwood Group to request a meeting with that perfumer. Tell him you're interested in the fragrance. Bring me along as your executive secretary. I need to confirm one final thing before I give you the full picture."