The Fake Heiress Turns Out to Be a True Tycoon! novel Chapter 403

Chapter 403: Chapter 403: Cry Again and You’ll Be Beaten to Death

Ezra Wright was a freelancer who barely socialized and hardly ever left home. Occasionally, a friend would stop by to bring him some food.

The couple on the 20th floor had run into him in the elevator twice, but after some disputes, gossip started circulating.

"1803 is just an unemployed freeloader, living off some guy and sitting at home all day. No wonder he’s always nitpicking about whether the upstairs neighbors are bothering him. Such a freak."

Since Ezra had left the neighborhood group chat, these rumors spread even more brazenly among the members.

Although it was only in the group chat, Ezra could feel the rejection and hostility from the people around him.

When he learned about the rumors circulating in the chat, his mental state completely collapsed. Coupled with the fact that he’d been staying up for several nights in a row, busy working on illustrations, Ezra accidentally succumbed to sudden death.

"I was living my life just fine! They were the ones causing disturbances. The police and the neighborhood committee wouldn’t do a thing, and I couldn’t fight back while I was alive. So what’s wrong with seeking revenge after death? Boohoohoo..."

Ezra spoke as he started sobbing, hiding his face in his hands.

A thirty-year-old man, crying like a child.

Ashton Todd and Nathan White couldn’t bear watching him like this.

They both turned toward Scarlett Jennings.

Scarlett Jennings: ...

Why are they all staring at her?

It wasn’t like she was the one who made him cry.

Thinking this, she eventually softened her tone and said gently,

"Don’t cry anymore."

But Ezra wasn’t moved and kept sobbing and whining.

Scarlett added, "You’re already dead. There’s no point crying."

Ezra cried even harder.

Scarlett finally lost her patience and snapped, "Cry any more, and I’ll beat you to death."

Ezra’s crying stopped instantly.

Ashton Todd and Nathan White glanced at Scarlett Jennings with expressions that became even more difficult to describe.

Scarlett ignored them entirely.

She turned toward Ezra, saying,

"Living people’s every wicked deed comes with karmic consequences. They disturbed the neighborhood and slandered you, so your revenge is them paying their karmic debt. But anything beyond that isn’t acceptable.

You’re a new ghost. If you obsess over the thrill of revenge, you’ll soon lose yourself. If you veer into becoming an evil ghost, forget about ever being reincarnated."

Hearing this, Ezra lowered his head in disappointment but still whispered,

"I... I want to be reincarnated."

Though he hadn’t been a particularly good person while alive, he wasn’t inherently bad either.

When he was being targeted and punished, he’d considered all sorts of ways to retaliate, but they were just idle thoughts he never acted on.

Watching those two families upstairs being driven to their wit’s end over the past few days, he’d felt a while of satisfaction.

But as Scarlett pointed out, amid the satisfaction, a lingering sense of... incompleteness gradually emerged.

He felt he could make them suffer even more.

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Should he... let it go?

Ezra struggled internally, mostly reluctant to let go. Before he could decide, Scarlett pulled out her phone and said, "I’ll give you just one night to settle your karma completely. After tonight, you’re out."

Ezra’s eyes suddenly lit up.

Nathan shot Scarlett a look, his expression filled with hesitation.

This... doesn’t seem to follow protocol.