[{"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-493":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},1892431,2516,"Chapter 491: 491: My Real Name Is Zhou Yaya","the-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-chapter-493",493,"\u003Cp>Chapter 491: Chapter 491: My Real Name Is Zhou Yaya\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even at the previous costume party, Ava Zimmerman never once voluntarily removed the mask from her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, this was the first time Scarlett Jennings saw her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Contrary to her expectations, Ava Zimmerman hadn’t completely merged her features with Azura Loomis’s; she had only merged the skin of her cheeks at most.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was obvious that the process had just begun, so it didn’t look very distinct yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even now, Ava Zimmerman’s face was still marked with various scar tissue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were mottled, spread across most of her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sight was truly of nightmare-inducing caliber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scarlett Jennings didn’t show much shock in her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if she had to say, the circle of scar tissue around Ava Zimmerman’s mouth concerned her more than the scars etched into her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ava’s lips were somewhat small, clearly her own, yet a circle of minute scar tissue lingered around them, like…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scarlett Jennings thought of a possibility but couldn’t help voicing her question,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s the deal with the circle around your mouth?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ava Zimmerman originally removed her mask to see if Scarlett Jennings would have a special reaction; she didn’t expect Scarlett to ask about the scar on her lips instead of being shocked at her facial scars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her eyes trembled slightly, but it was momentary, quickly reined in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Covered in scars, her face slowly twisted into a sinister smile as she pointed to the edge of her lips and countered,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wouldn’t you guess what kind of scar this is? What kind of wound leaves such a mark?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course, that kind, stitched repeatedly with needles, leaves such scars.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scarlett Jennings’s almond eyes darkened slightly but did not interrupt; she just quietly waited for Ava to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ava Zimmerman clearly had no intention of hiding. Her gaze was fixed unwaveringly on Scarlett Jennings as she spoke slowly again,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You know, my real name isn’t Ava Zimmerman.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My original name was Ya Ya… as in mute.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My parents hoped I would be mute; since I was aware, that was my name.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You might have guessed my ability, in your Mystical Sect, they seem to call it Power of Word Spirit? But where I come from, it’s called a jinx, only the bad works, not the good.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But the words I spoke always came true; when my parents first learned of my ability, they tested it by making me say things they hoped would materialize — like becoming millionaires or having their illnesses vanish…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But I was too young then, utterly incapable of fulfilling their outrageous demands, so I merely made them millionaires and restored my mother’s postpartum damage…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it fell short of their expectations, my parents were still happy, even calling me their treasure more than once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as their desires grew, which I simply couldn’t fulfill, they began to scold me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, they figured out a pattern — by not using the power continually, the effect of the Word Spirit becomes stronger over time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So they began forbidding me to speak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every time I spoke, I’d face harsh reprimands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eventually, Dad and Mom would even prick my mouth with needles to make me understand I shouldn’t speak carelessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such was my circumstance until Mom’s second pregnancy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dad pointed at her belly, asking me to say the child inside would be a boy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t understand why they wanted a boy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I complied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought as long as it made them happy, they’d treat me well too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, Mom gave birth to a boy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It ended up making life harder for me, despite my having a brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only when they needed money or had a wish they wanted granted would they treat me with a little tenderness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, as my brother grew, he mimicked our parents, occasionally smashing bowls over me; if I dodged, he’d start crying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our parents would then come and beat me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My brother demanded to ride a horse, and I’d obediently crawl on the ground to let him ride on my back, even if my palms and knees were bleeding, I’d continue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My brother wanted to keep a dog, and so I was treated like a dog and locked in a cage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then my brother imitated people who mistreated dogs, poking me all over with sticks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ava Zimmerman dared not resent her parents, but she resented that brother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, it was her doing that he came into this world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So one day, she turned her Power of Word Spirit onto him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mom will strangle you to death.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That night, Mom had a nightmare, nearly strangling my brother in her sleep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was so close.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My brother survived but suffered brain damage due to lack of oxygen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Our parents were furious when they learned the truth; they beat me half to death, even stitched my lips shut with needles to stop me from speaking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had to eat liquid food through the gaps created by the stitches; if they loosened, they’d stitch them back…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Having needles pierce through flesh is extremely painful.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ava Zimmerman touched the scar at her mouth’s corner, her eyes filled with hatred; no matter how many years passed, when she thought of it, she felt a dull pain at her lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Later, I became truly mute; until years later, one day, I secretly cut the stitches on my mouth…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ava Zimmerman looked at Scarlett Jennings, speaking slowly word by word,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I let them die in a fire.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My life was like an ordeal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought with them gone, I could start over, but my face was burned and the wounds infected — resulting in irreparable scars turning me into a monster everyone wanted to crush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one loved me; instead, everyone stepped on me, just like you once did.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ava Zimmerman said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Scarlett Jennings, I once thought we were the same.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The same giftedness, but devoid of any affection or love from the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You were abandoned by your foster parents; they used you, raising you as a tool for Isolde Garrison…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even after you broke free from that home and returned to the so-called elite family, they still favored the outsider, Azura Loomis, repeatedly ignoring you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We should have been the same.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They could have been allies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With their abilities, they could have avenged society.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Scarlett Jennings disappointed her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She abandoned her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So now, she would abandon her too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You know, though I overused my Power of Word Spirit once, making it difficult for me to speak, once I changed my voice, my power returned to its peak.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ava Zimmerman said, looking at Scarlett Jennings, her gaze dangerous, slowly opening her mouth,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For instance, right now… your tendons will be severed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scarlett Jennings’s eyes trembled because, at the very moment Ava’s words fell, the ceiling light suddenly shattered without warning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fragments of the bulb directly shot toward Scarlett Jennings’s wrist…\u003C\u002Fp>",1153,"2026-06-10T07:18:23.778Z",1,"novelbin.me","11ac0096724520c91f18eeca08ee37be2c0bbc3c432878e2dbee1c471a1a3818","the-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-chapter-332","the-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-chapter-331",1286,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-cover.jpg"]