[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon":3,"chapter-the-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-the-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-chapter-1208":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Fake Heiress Turns out to Be a True Tycoon!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1893201,2516,"Chapter 1206: Extra Story: Ivan & Zaraiah 2","the-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-chapter-1208",1208,"\u003Cp>Gazing once more at the documents before him, Zaraiah remained silent for a long moment, then suddenly pulled out two of the documents, stood up, and vanished from the Underworld in a stride.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ghost Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ivan had just returned from the Underworld when he sensed a familiar presence entering the Ghost Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Frowning, Ivan gave the nearby wall a small kick,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s supposed to be a headquarters building, yet anyone can come in. What’s the point of having you here?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His kick was light, but the wall bulged outward, as if expressing a hint of grievance, and then the bulge receded and the wall turned hazy. In the next moment, the entire wall disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the wall vanished, Ivan saw Zaraiah standing on the other side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ivan sat straight down on a sofa beside and asked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why are you here again?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zaraiah seemed unaffected by his attitude, approached, and handed him the two documents,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I came to deliver these documents that I’ve processed for you first.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Previously, Scarlett Jennings had not been wrong in her observations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Indeed, half of the documents on Zaraiah’s desk were related to spiritual affairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Zaraiah was not unfamiliar with handling Ivan’s work, and was somewhat adept at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the past, Ivan had kept spiritual affairs and the Underworld very separate and wouldn’t ask Zaraiah unless necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps because Shu’e was once again suppressed back into the Misfortune Cave, easing an obsession of several thousand years, Ivan’s attitude had clearly softened, and Zaraiah’s visits increased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ivan looked at the documents in his hands but didn’t take them. He just snorted lightly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You, a dignified Lord Yama, handling such trivial deliveries?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, if you’re doing errands, making a special trip just to deliver two documents, isn’t that just trickery?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zaraiah didn’t get angry. He placed the documents on the coffee table in front of Ivan, his composure unbroken,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These are special cases of spiritual affairs applications, and I thought you might be anxious to have someone handle them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ivan narrowed his eyes and gave him a deep glance without further comment, casually picking up one of them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the touch of his finger on a special rune on the document, the document opened, and the contents projected automatically before Ivan’s eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was an application to adjust the year-end bonus payments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone knew that opening the global spiritual network forcefully and helping Samuel Chalmers build the canopy had left spiritual affairs somewhat destitute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was normal for those in charge below to want to adjust year-end awards to save costs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the problem was, there were still over a month left before the year-end bonus was to be distributed...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In terms of either content or urgency, it hardly qualified as \"urgent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ivan then looked at Zaraiah, his eyes hauntingly laden with questions, silent yet expressive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zaraiah had been Lord Yama for millennia; he certainly wouldn’t feel guilty over such petty matters. He replied, maintaining his composure,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Employee benefits are important; they concern whether the morale remains stable under these special circumstances.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ivan sneered, at least Zaraiah covered it up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then clicked open the other document.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just an ordinary spiritual affairs order application.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And such orders were the least conspicuous in spiritual affairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This one made it to the special application list because the applicant was an ordinary person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither a ghost cultivator nor a master, nor a member of the Demon Clan, just an ordinary person with no spiritual power whatsoever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet somehow, such a person managed to place an order with spiritual affairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the order content was quite peculiar—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This person was requesting spiritual affairs staff to help him kill a man named Emmett Atkins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the document opened, the orderer’s and Emmett Atkins’s information also appeared automatically in the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The person placing the order was Charlie Atkins, a twelve-year-old boy, a muggle with no inspiration whatsoever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the man he wanted help from spiritual affairs to kill was his father, also a muggle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No evil ghost at work, nor a need for spiritual affairs services.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a situation shouldn’t have reached Ivan’s side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet it did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is this taking my spiritual affairs for a dark web post with a hitman request?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ivan mused, seemingly intrigued, and casually called up the life information of Charlie Atkins. Zaraiah, watching his actions, only asked,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You intend to meddle in mortal affairs?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Requests to kill someone were something the Underworld received in the thousands daily, but unless the person became a ghost, the Underworld wouldn’t care.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those were the rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though spiritual affairs differed from the Underworld, Ivan, after all, came from the Underworld and typically wouldn’t bother with such requests.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet Ivan cast him a faint glance, his voice indifferent and unhurried,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am now a man of the mortal realm.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A single statement, albeit factual, inexplicably drew a line between the two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Making the gap between them glaringly apparent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Zaraiah momentarily silent, Ivan suddenly stood, intending to personally handle such a small matter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our spiritual affairs motto: once an order is placed, the mission is accomplished.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No matter the method employed to place the order, as long as there was an order, spiritual affairs would accept it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the trade Ivan was initially engaged in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Ivan with his own plans, Zaraiah said no more, lifting a foot as if intending to follow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ivan couldn’t help but turn to him, \"Are you really that free?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zaraiah replied,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If you’re going to kill, then bringing back the opponent’s soul is Underworld business.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing this, Ivan’s mouth twitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had he not also been Lord Yama, he might’ve almost believed this trickster’s nonsense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soul retrieval indeed belonged to the Underworld, but that was the job of minor ghost messengers below, since when would it require Lord Yama himself?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite the grumbling inside, noticing how clingy Zaraiah was being today, Ivan refrained from chasing him away. He merely cast a disdainful glance at Zaraiah’s Lord Yama attire,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Are you sure you want to dress like that and come with me?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing he had allowed it, Zaraiah’s eyes flickered slightly, his gaze landing on Ivan’s exquisite Tang suit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But before he could act, Ivan narrowed his eyes, his voice slightly dangerous,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Try copying my clothes, and you’re dead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So many years, yet still no sense of personal aesthetic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Emperor Fate, indeed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zaraiah took heed of his warning, didn’t insist, and simply raised his hand, watching as black mist rose at his feet, swirling upward and encasing his entire body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a mere second, the black mist dissipated, and Zaraiah, originally in dark ancient attire, had transformed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clad in a black suit, impeccably dressed, elegant and pleasing to the eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that commanding aura exuding danger, he emanated an impressive aura of solemn darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ivan’s gaze swept over his outfit quickly, eyebrow raising slightly, faintly approving, he beckoned with a finger,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Follow me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With those words and a snap of his fingers, a Ghost Gate emerged before them in the void.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching Ivan step into it, Zaraiah’s eyes softened slightly as he followed, stepping within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Passing through the Ghost Gate via the Underworld, the moment they stepped in, they were already outside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a shift in perspective, they found themselves at Charlie Atkins’s location.\u003C\u002Fp>",1213,"2026-06-10T07:19:05.091Z",1,"novelbin.me","6721d1d22b41fa01c22270cc899e90c75aefe742edbef8936b124b277750f5c1","the-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-chapter-1209","the-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-chapter-1207",1286,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-cover.jpg"]