The Traps of the Black Swan (Book 2)

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Mino could feel Mr. Wells worried for his wife but he was unbending. He could guess something must have happened in Mr. Wells's life that was making Mr. Wells behave that way.

As a professor, Mr. Wells would have seen thousands of students' lives rising and falling. As the head of the family, he probably had his problems. Those might have changed him, but those weren't the valid reasons to torture his family members.

"Mr. Wells, you have worked hard for your family." Mr. Wells wouldn't let his guard down just because of a single compliment. He was a person who never lowered to anybody or melted to the compliments.

Mino continued, "... But tell me something, how would you feel if you are being constantly controlled?"

Mr. Wells glared at Mino. He didn't feel obliged to listen or respond to Mino. The latter was an outsider and he wanted to keep him out of his family matters too.

Mino didn't bother either as he wasn't waiting for the response. He was bothering to speak because of Tia. Else he had no interest in other's life who wasn't related to him in any way. He already had a lot on his plate to work on instead of poking into somebody's life and family.

He continued, "Do you know what fears you the most? Society. You are afraid of people pointing at you and your family. That never lets you live peacefully and you won't let your family members live either."

Mr. Wells' face darkened hearing Mino. He indeed cared about how society looked at him and his family. He didn't counter him because as much as he got to know about Mino, it was better if he stayed away from Mino. Pissing him off was equal to calling the trouble on himself. He wasn't scared of Mino, rather he cared to protect his family name.

Mino knew he hit the bull's eyes but he wasn't an idiot to think that would open Mr. Wells's eyes. "You have seen the world, always made deep analysis, planned and managed everything for your family members, choosing what's best for them." Mino briefed everything as though he could read Mr. Wells like an open book.

The frowns slowly relaxed on Mr. Wells's face. He felt Mino understood him, nonetheless, he also knew Mino wasn't on his side. Yet, he listened to know what Mino was up to.

"Do you know what was your mistake?" Mino asked and noticed the man's face darken again, almost instantly.

Why couldn't he handle a critique?

Anyway, Mino didn't respond to the question he asked. He first chose to explain his mistake.  He chose how a lot of students in his class used to attend the course under the pressure of their parents, "Do you know? Out of 100 graduates, less than thirty-five succeed in their field, thirty will struggle in that field and the rest will not use their studies knowledge."

Unawarely, Mr. Wells nodded to Mino agreeing with his analysis, as that's what he was seeing his students doing in their life.

Mino continued, "You can't go to a musician and ask him to research medical science. You can't ask a scientist to become a fashion designer. If Steve Jobs's parents had forced him to become an athlete, you wouldn't be using an iPhone."

Mino shook his head to himself before continuing about the person who is near to them, "Forget about such people. If Ruby Jane had listened to her parents, she wouldn't have employed thousands of people." He meant to say, each person has to live their life, their potential might not be in what their parents choose for them.

As a professor and good listener, Mr. Wells understood what Mino was saying but he wasn't ready to accept it in reality. Hence Mino's words were still ineffective.

Tia silently heard Mino without making a noise. She was overjoyed to see Mino was putting so much effort, just for her when he could have ignored her father just like how he was ignoring her. She hadn't expected him to try and explain anything to her father. He was doing the better work which she and her sister would have failed to do.