The Fake Heiress Turns Out to Be a True Tycoon! novel Chapter 294

Chapter 294: Chapter 294: The Stolen Fortune

The sky had already turned dark without anyone noticing.

A light rain began to drizzle from the sky.

Inside the lounge, Scarlett Jennings listened to Ianthe Lawson talk about the origin of the doll, her gaze returning to the doll in her hands.

After examining it closely for a moment, she suddenly reached out and twisted the doll’s head off.

"Hiss!"

Scarlett Jennings’s sudden action left everyone present dumbfounded.

Ianthe Lawson instinctively covered her neck; for a moment, she inexplicably felt like her neck was about to be twisted off.

She saw Scarlett Jennings take out a craft knife from somewhere and scraped away at the back of the doll’s head, revealing a small, white, lumpy substance after a while.

Director Clark couldn’t help but get closer and ask, "What is this thing? It looks familiar?"

"It should be... human bone fragments," Scarlett Jennings said.

Everyone present gasped.

Director Clark immediately stepped back from the thing.

Ianthe Lawson’s face turned pale, her voice trembling slightly,

"Fragmented, fragmented bones, how can they be inside the doll..."

"A classmate of mine who also enjoys playing with dolls once told me that overseas, there are dolls specifically made with human bodies, and usually, items embedded with dead people’s remains are more easily used as mediums for evil techniques."

Scarlett Jennings said, looking at Ianthe Lawson, "Since this doll was specifically customized for you, it implies that they had their eyes on your body from the start, and also..."

Ianthe Lawson, seeing her pause, couldn’t help but tremblingly ask, "And what else?"

"And fortune."

Scarlett Jennings observed Ianthe Lawson’s face, noticing that the fortunes displayed in her Fate Palace were significantly weaker than when they first met in the morning.

Initially, she thought it was because the unexpected disaster had led to declining fortunes.

But recalling the unfinished words of Hestia Knight, she suddenly had another guess.

If Ianthe Lawson’s fortune hadn’t weakened due to the disaster but was instead surrendered to the system...

Then everything seemed to make sense.

The so-called system actually used its own energy to steal the fortune originally belonging to the original owner through a supposed reincarnation process.

Now that the system had disappeared, and Ianthe Lawson still hadn’t regained her fortune, it could only mean... the energy sealed within the jade token was merely a part of the system’s energy.

Similar systems might still exist elsewhere.

...

In Tong City,

Azura Loomis looked at the scar on her forehead in the mirror, which had vanished without a trace, and even the skin on her face had turned smooth and delicate. Finally, her brows and eyes showed signs of a smile.

"If I had known I could forcibly absorb fortune in this way, I wouldn’t have gone through so much trouble to increase my goodwill value."

Initially, her first target was Lucas Jennings, using a doll she had given him years ago, but somehow it failed that night and even aroused Donovan Jennings’s suspicion about the problem with her doll collection...

Fortunately, she hadn’t only sent out that one doll.

As a popular young starlet, even if she only absorbed a third of Ianthe Lawson’s fortune, it was enough to restore herself to her original state.

As Azura Loomis was thinking, she saw in the mirror that her smooth and delicate skin was starting to visibly darken again.

Her expression changed drastically, and she quickly asked the system what was going on.

In her mind, the system’s emotionless mechanical voice was colder than usual.

[System: The subsystem failed to seize control from Ianthe Lawson. The main system energy has suffered damage and requires borrowing part of the host’s fortune for emergency repairs.]

"How did it fail? You’ve taken away my fortune; what am I supposed to do?!"