In the creation of novels, characters choose hidden methods to harm others without being noticed, which can increase the suspense and complexity of the plot. The following are some common methods and techniques for your reference： ### 1. **Psychological manipulation** -**Gaslight effect**: By distorting facts, denying reality, or creating chaos, the character makes the victim doubt his memory and judgment, which eventually leads to psychological collapse. -**Emotional manipulation**: Taking advantage of the victim's emotional weaknesses, such as guilt, fear, or dependence, to gradually weaken their psychological defenses. ### 2. **Chronic toxicity** -**Poisoning**: The character can slowly add trace amounts of poison to the victim's food, drinks, or daily necessities to make him gradually weak or sick, and it is not easy to detect. -**Drug abuse**: By manipulating the victim's drug dose or replacing drugs, his health gradually deteriorates. ### 3. **Social destruction** -**Spreading rumors**: The character can secretly spread rumors about the victim, destroy his reputation, interpersonal relationships, or career, and leave him isolated and helpless. -**Provoking separation**: Creating contradictions between the victim and others, causing them to lose the support of friends or allies. ### 4. **Technical means** -**Hacking attack**: The character can steal or tamper with information by invading the victim's electronic device, causing financial or psychological harm. -**Monitoring and tracking**: Use hidden monitoring methods to track the victim's every move and create psychological pressure. ### 5. **Environmental traps** -**Create accidents**: The character can carefully design seemingly accidental accidents, such as slips, car accidents, or electrical malfunctions, causing the victim to be injured or killed. -**Destroy the necessities of life**: For example, destroy the victim's car brakes, household appliances, etc., so that they fail at a critical moment. ### 6. **Economic control** -**Financial destruction**: The character can plunge the victim into economic hardship by falsifying documents, manipulating investments, or creating debt traps. -**Workplace suppression**: Secretly obstructing the victim's promotion or project progress in the workplace, frustrating his career. ### 7. **Use of third parties** -**Murder with a knife**: The character can incite or manipulate other people to take action against the victim, while he remains hidden. -**Anonymous threats**: Intimidate victims through anonymous letters, phone calls, or online messages to make them live in fear. ### 8. **Mental torture** -**Hallucinations**: The character can use drugs, hypnosis, or other means to make the victim hallucinate or delusional, and gradually lose his mind. -**Psychological cues**: Through repeated cues or symbols, the victim develops a specific fear or behavior pattern. ### 9. **Natural elements** -**Use of natural phenomena**: Characters can use weather, animals, or other natural factors to harm their victims, such as luring them into dangerous areas. - **Biological weapons**: Use insects, bacteria, or other biological means to make the victim sick or die. ### 10. **Time delay damage** -**Long-term plan**: The character can make a long-term plan and gradually implement the damage. Each step seems insignificant, but it eventually accumulates into fatal consequences. ### Creative suggestion： -**Motivation and character**: The character's concealed harming behavior should be consistent with his motivation, personality and background to increase credibility. -**Foreshadowing and clues**: Foreshadowing in the story, so that readers have a feeling of dawning when the truth is revealed. -**Perspective selection**: Through multi-perspective narratives, it can show the careful planning of the perpetrator and the gradual collapse of the victim to enhance the drama. Through these methods, you can design complex and hidden means of harm for the characters in the novel, promote the development of the plot and increase the tension of the story.