The Fake Heiress Turns Out to Be a True Tycoon! novel Chapter 389

Chapter 389: Chapter 389: The Living Soul of Another World

When Scarlett Jennings called the police, she reported attempted murder, but when they left, the police hadn’t provided a clear conclusion.

The old lady opened her mouth and firmly declared that her daughter-in-law would die tonight. Rather than calling it a curse, it seemed more like... foreknowledge.

Upon hearing Scarlett’s words, the old lady froze for a moment before putting on a deliberately vicious expression and said,

"What—what do you mean she’ll die tonight? I clearly said she deserves to die! Can’t I curse my own daughter-in-law?"

Scarlett stared at the old lady’s soul body, her expression unusually calm,

"You claim she’s your daughter-in-law, but her real mother-in-law is the one bedridden over there. Her living soul is intact. If you say she’s your daughter-in-law, does that mean you have two living souls?"

Scarlett was so perceptive that a flicker of panic flashed across the old lady’s face. She wanted to respond with a lie but hesitated, afraid that one wrong word would give Scarlett a chance to exploit her mistakes. Instinctively, she chose to stay silent.

Just by observing her reaction, Scarlett was certain something wasn’t right here.

Without hesitation, Scarlett swiftly pulled out a Yellow Talisman. Her voice was calm yet carried a hint of threat, "Speak."

The old lady cast a wary glance at the Yellow Talisman in Scarlett’s hand, but soon regained her composure and retorted, "I’m a living soul! You Masters aren’t allowed to harm living souls indiscriminately! Don’t try to scare me!"

Scarlett hadn’t expected the old lady to know even that much.

Narrowing her almond-shaped eyes slightly, Scarlett suddenly put the Yellow Talisman away, "You’re right."

Seeing this, the old lady’s eyes lit up with a hint of smugness. However, before her smugness could last a second, Scarlett called out slowly,

"Sophie Harper."

Sophie Harper had been standing by, watching the drama unfold. Hearing Scarlett call her, she immediately floated over, "Scarlett?"

"Your turn."

With that, Scarlett opened a gap in the barrier.

Sophie immediately understood her cue and slipped through the gap. Without a word, she launched into an enthusiastic beating of the old lady’s soul body.

The old lady hadn’t expected Scarlett to let a ghost attack her, and even less expected that despite being a soul body herself, the beating was agonizingly real. She wailed loudly while shouting,

"Ow! You can’t let a ghost hit me! Ow! This is against the rules... you’re breaking the rules!"

Scarlett stood her ground, her face calm and indifferent.

"I didn’t lay a hand on you."

It was the ghost who did the beating—what did it have to do with Scarlett Jennings?

Despite Sophie Harper’s ghost power being weaker than that of older ghosts, she was more than capable of pounding on a living soul. The old lady was so pained and overwhelmed that she could only cry out,

"Stop—stop hitting me! I’ll talk... I’ll talk!"

Scarlett, hearing this, gave Sophie a signal with her eyes. Sophie immediately stopped, but kept one hand gripping the old lady’s soul body, faking a menacing posture as she demanded,

"Speak!"

Shaking slightly, the old lady looked at Scarlett with a pitiful expression,

"I... I’m actually not from this world’s living souls."

The old lady’s opening confession was a bombshell. Scarlett’s eyes trembled slightly, but she held herself back and let the old lady continue uninterrupted.

The old lady began rambling,

"It’s that system... that system brought me here from my world. It said I could be reborn in this parallel world, so I was reborn into your grandmother’s body. That system told me that in seven days, I’d fully transform into your grandmother...

How could I not agree to that? Who would want to stay bedridden forever? My daughter-in-law back in my original world was ungrateful anyway. When she first married into the family, I taught her some rules, and during her postnatal month I didn’t take care of her or the baby.

After I had a stroke, she showed her true colors, always giving me attitude every day, feeding me plain food under the guise of it being good for my health—it was just a way to torture me! She stayed for only a year before starting to show my son a bad attitude, so she deserves to die! She should’ve died tonight."

Her original world’s timeline ran faster than this one, so she knew her daughter-in-law was going to die tonight, and it would be a disgraceful death.