The Fake Heiress Turns Out to Be a True Tycoon!-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.

The old lady thought it was well-deserved—after all, who mistreats the elderly?

She also knew that after her daughter-in-law died, her son would soon marry someone else—a college student from the local area, whose family was apparently fairly wealthy.

But according to the old lady, the girl’s family didn’t care about her; they only cared about giving her money.

Her son happened to work in the same place as the girl. One time, he cooked some porridge for her when she was sick, and the girl fell for him. After learning of her son’s misfortunes following the wife’s death, the girl often stepped in to help out at home, and their relationship blossomed through these frequent encounters.

The girl’s family initially objected to the relationship. However, the girl acted with determination, even stealing her household registration papers to marry the old lady’s son.

Thinking about these events, the old lady felt proud. It showed just how capable her son was.

She was satisfied with the girl.

Even if she was a bit foolish, foolish people were easier to control.

Her family was wealthy, and as long as they didn’t want to see the girl suffer, they’d continually support her son’s family. That would ease her son’s burden, and perhaps they could move out of the old neighborhood and into a larger home.

Unfortunately, just as she was enjoying manipulating the new girl, she was selected by the system.

Still, the old lady didn’t hesitate. Between controlling her son’s wife and being able to move freely, she chose mobility.

But the system turned out to be terribly unreliable.

Not only had she been struck down, but now she couldn’t return to her original body and was being controlled by a young girl...

To make matters worse, in this world, the daughter-in-law hadn’t died, so her son couldn’t swap wives. This made her furious.

After listening to the old lady’s lengthy rant about everything she knew, Scarlett realized the situation was even more complicated than she had anticipated.

Another world.

This was something she never saw coming.

How did the Evil God System possess such capabilities—bringing living souls from another world?

And then there was her master.

Could her master also be from another world?

Could this explain why she couldn’t detect a single trace of spiritual power?

Various thoughts collided inside Scarlett’s mind, leaving her momentarily without a solution.

Although the soul body of the old lady had acquired some knowledge from the system, she didn’t know much. To truly understand the concept of parallel worlds or find people from the other world, the key seemed to lie in the system itself.

Unfortunately, the system was gone.

Scarlett collected her thoughts, pushing the distractions aside, before turning her attention back to the old lady in front of her. Suddenly, she spoke,

"You claim your daughter-in-law mistreated you just because she didn’t let you eat lavish meals or occasionally gave you attitude. Beyond that, did she ever deny you food and drink, leave you unattended with filth all over you, or secretly insult or beat you when your son wasn’t around?"

The old lady only caught the latter part of her words and immediately widened her eyes, "She wouldn’t dare?!"

Scarlett laughed softly.

"So, it turns out her only fault was her bad attitude. She looked after you properly, and yet you think she deserves to die for that?"

The old lady responded matter-of-factly,

"She’s a daughter-in-law. How dare she show her mother-in-law attitude? That’s enough reason for her to die! Besides, tending to me while I was ill—that was her duty, wasn’t it?!"

Sophie Harper: ...

What kind of feudal-era demon granny was this? She could rival the worst elders from Sophie’s clan.

The old lady continued her tirade,

"A woman like her doesn’t stay home properly to care for her mother-in-law and husband, but instead keeps thinking about running off to work. If she hadn’t always been out and about, that man wouldn’t have targeted her tonight. Maybe it’s because she flirted with him that he came after her. Otherwise, why would the killer target her specifically?"

Scarlett finally had enough of her nonsense, "Sophie Harper, make her shut up."

Sophie Harper: "Got it!"