The Fake Heiress Turns Out to Be a True Tycoon! novel Chapter 595

Chapter 595: Chapter 595: You Have Two Choices

Lyra Sterling was taken aback by Scarlett Jennings’s final words, visible panic flashing across her face,

"You... what are you talking about? I didn’t..."

She just helped to hold down the person, but she wasn’t the one who personally strangled the child.

Yet, facing Scarlett Jennings’s piercing eyes that seemed to see through everything, her heart pounded like a drum.

The disbelief and despair in Benson Woods’s eyes before he died, along with the vision of him turning into an Evil Ghost and lunging at her, seemed to flash repeatedly before her eyes.

Her back pressed firmly against a Buddhist table, as if angered by Scarlett Jennings’s gaze, she cried out unwillingly,

"Why?! He was born from me; his life was given by me! Even so... why should retribution fall on me?! I’m just retrieving what’s mine! How am I wrong?!"

"Though he is your child, from the time he was formed until he was born, he was already an independent being. No one has the right to casually handle another’s life, not even a mother."

Lyra Sterling was still unwilling to accept, muttering under her breath, "Why, I’ve suffered so much because of him..."

At this moment, Nathan White’s phone suddenly transmitted the cold yet furious voice of Benson’s father,

"Lyra Sterling, I never expected you would be so heartless to this extent...

I will file for divorce in court. If it was just betrayal, I could forgive you, but for what you did to our Benson, I will never forgive you!"

Had he not just heard it firsthand, he wouldn’t dare to imagine such a truth behind his son’s death.

She was the child’s mother; how could she be so ruthless as to kill him and even...

Upon hearing her husband’s words, Lyra Sterling belatedly realized that he had overheard everything, but it was too late to regret.

Benson’s father ignored her and thanked Scarlett Jennings and the others before asking for their location.

He wanted to come and see his child one last time with his own eyes.

Lyra Sterling heard he was coming and wasn’t anxious to leave; she wanted to try to save her marriage face-to-face.

However, she didn’t wait for her husband; instead, the police arrived first.

The police received a commission from the Security Bureau to bring in another culprit from the previous underage dismemberment case.

The Security Bureau and the police have always cooperated; the police would refer supernatural cases to the Security Bureau, and cases involving harm to humans would be handed over to the police by the Security Bureau.

Lyra Sterling was in a daze when she was taken away. When she realized what her fate would be, she finally began to fear, struggling until she begged for mercy.

Scarlett Jennings gave her one last look, seeing the karma she would have to endure in the future written on her face.

Besides the misdeeds of eight lifetimes, she was sentenced to almost thirty years in this life for conspiring to kill her child, even though she wasn’t the mastermind, due to the severity of the crime.

Once released, she lived her life sickly, unable to care for herself, surviving amidst garbage, her late years bleak and without peace.

...

Afterward, Benson’s father came over and cried in grief and repentance at his son now turned into an Evil Ghost.

When the child was born, he knew deep down about his wife’s dissatisfaction, but he just thought she was unhappy because their quality of life had worsened due to the child’s arrival.

So he worked tirelessly through the years, believing that as long as they were financially well-off, his wife would change for the better.

If he had handled everything patiently when he first noticed his wife’s issues, today’s tragedy might not have occurred.

In the end, he asked Scarlett Jennings what would become of his child in the future, but Scarlett Jennings didn’t answer his question; instead, she turned to the still-bound Benson Woods.

"You have two choices. One, as a cannibalistic Evil Ghost, I can vapourize your soul;

Two, I can help you remove your Resentful Aura, but you will need to bear the karma of eating humans on your own. According to Underworld laws, you will be thrown into the Misfortune Pond to cleanse your sins; the process will be painful, but if you endure, you will eventually be reborn and continue the cycle of reincarnation."

He did not commit matricide and thus won’t have to bear karmic retribution in the next life.

This is the choice Scarlett Jennings offered him, a chance for him to hold on to hope in this world, preventing him from choosing annihilation.

Yet if he ultimately chose dissolution, she would honour his decision.

Upon hearing Scarlett Jennings’s words, Benson’s father instinctively wanted to persuade Benson Woods to choose the second option, but Ashton Todd and the others beside him quickly stopped him.

This must be a choice made by Benson Woods himself; even a father does not have the right to decide for his child.

The boy, surrounded by Ghost Energy, clearly understood Scarlett Jennings’s words, and in his dazed gaze with a hint of numbness, he slowly lifted his eyes, first looking at Scarlett Jennings, then towards his father.

A trace of struggle appeared in the boy’s eyes, and after a long while, he finally made his decision.

He slowly raised one finger at Scarlett Jennings,

And then, amidst Scarlett Jennings’s solemn gaze and Benson’s father’s horrified gaze, he slowly raised another finger.

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