The speaker may not have meant it, but the listener took it in.
Hudson could assume that Melissa invited him over to make a fool of him. Making a fool of yourself? Humiliating your fiancee might make you the laughingstock of everyone!
Noble children mature early. Hudson would rather believe that this was intentional self-value display.
Compared to the major nobility, what Koslow Family lacks the most isn't power, but knowledge and legacy.
For a thriving family, as long as resources are abundant, the speed of power increase would definitely not be slow.
But without a deep legacy, it's hopeless. Even if you want to steal it, you can't steal truly precious knowledge.
A magic self-destruct device is just child's play. Who doesn't have a few pitfalls in their important inheritances?
The efforts that the Major nobility puts into protecting their family's knowledge inheritance cannot be imagined by ordinary people.
If you can't steal, you have to trade.
