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?!"

Azura Loomis looked at her sallow complexion in the mirror, too angry to look further.

The system merely instructed her to quickly absorb Fortune Value from other target strategies for replenishment, then went into hibernation.

Although forcibly seizing control could absorb fortune, the method posed significant risks, and now her existence had been detected by Scarlett Jennings. Thus, it needed to maintain a low profile in the short term.

Unable to get a response from the system, Azura Loomis stamped her foot in frustration.

Soon, she regained her composure.

Fortunately, the wound had completely healed; the rest... she could just borrow some from Chase Jennings.

After all, his Goodwill Value was the highest among the Jennings Family.

Lucky she had the foresight to follow Chase Jennings to Tong City in advance.

Neither Azura Loomis nor the system paid attention to Hestia Knight, who served as a substitute.

She was just a living soul randomly selected from the system’s library.

...

At this moment, in a factory dormitory in a county far off in Peaceful Province.

Hestia Knight opened her eyes in bed, still groggy, with a sense of disorientation about what day it was.

While she was in a daze, she heard the familiar voice from the live-stream her roommate was watching on the bed opposite.

[... I’m doing well now, all thanks... ]

Ianthe Lawson’s voice came from her roommate’s phone, and Hestia Knight felt a sense of familiarity as she sat up and asked her roommate, "Are you watching ’Inspiration’?"

Her roommate, seeing her awake, couldn’t help but click her tongue, "Oh my, you’re finally awake! Hestia, that nap was too long; it’s already dark outside! You better order takeout, or you won’t survive the night shift."

Hestia Knight didn’t respond, just sat there dumbly for a moment and then said, "I think I had a dream."

She said, "I dreamed I became a celebrity."

But the dream was too vague, and she couldn’t recall what happened in it.

Her roommate just laughed, "Who doesn’t dream of becoming a big celebrity? I even dreamed of the world’s richest man’s son chasing after me."

She said, then giggled again, "But seriously, there was big news in today’s ’Inspiration’ live broadcast! You know Ianthe Lawson, right? It’s like she was possessed by a ghost, and oh, the ghost’s name was the same as yours!"

Hestia Knight heard this and pouted, thinking she wasn’t a ghost, "It’s just the same name; I wish it were really me."

If she became a celebrity, she would definitely wear lots of beautiful clothes, buy all kinds of pretty bags and jewelry, and surely handsome and wealthy men would seek her out.

She could also star in those Mary Sue female lead dramas where all the male leads would fall for her and circle around her.

Those actresses prettier than her wouldn’t stand a chance; they could only be her supporting characters.

Hestia Knight fantasized wildly, then sighed and pouted helplessly.

Alas, these could only be fantasies.

Resigning herself, she climbed out of bed to prepare for the night shift, cursing the unfairness of society in her heart again.

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Why were others lucky enough to become big celebrities while she had to work in a factory after graduating high school?

It was infuriating!

Elsewhere, in the film city.

Amidst the night, a black Maybach glided silently through the rain and stopped outside the film city.

A man in a suit stepped down from the car’s backseat, walking alone with an umbrella amidst the ancient city’s streets.

In the dim streets, unseen by anyone, the man was enveloped in layers of dazzling golden light.

It was as if a giant golden orb was walking through the darkness, step by step, slowly approaching a certain crew.