[{"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-985":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},1892842,2516,"Chapter 983: The Abandoned Dragon Whelp","the-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-chapter-985",985,"\u003Cp>Simon heard her ask, and merely raised his eyebrows lightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, he wasn’t surprised that she would ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or rather, he had been waiting for her to ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Callum Yuan wasn’t in Capital Metropolitan from the beginning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the acting head of the Security Bureau, and being part of the Dragon Clan, Simon had long investigated the sudden appearance of the Half-Demon dragon offspring in Capital Metropolitan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He was born in a remote mountain village in the North Province.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a thousand years, the Demon Clan waned, and the Dragon Clan had not seen the birth of a dragon offspring for nearly a thousand years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In such circumstances, every newly born dragon offspring should be thoroughly protected, even if they are Half-Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Callum Yuan was an accident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Dragon Clan, due to their strength and scarcity, tends to develop an arrogant nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Simon was part of the Dragon Clan, he couldn’t guarantee that every dragon would be a good dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a dragon in the North Province who was domineering and self-centered, acting recklessly because no one restrained him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He happened to meet a beautiful woman in the mountains, and without considering her wishes, he humiliated her and took her for himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was during the Republic era; although women’s status had slightly improved, village women were still regarded as before, let alone a woman who lost her honor and had to bear a child alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She lost her honor and was forced to bear a child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman was condemned by the villagers and was driven to live alone in a wooden cabin near the foot of the mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Initially, she didn’t want to give birth to the child, but despite trying various methods, she couldn’t abort the child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The child was born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The child, carrying the aura of the Dragon Clan, naturally attracted the dragon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was initially delighted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, dragon offspring are scarce, yet he had a child born from a human.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t wait to take the child back to the clan and show off, even ignoring the woman’s pleas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But soon, he discovered that aside from a faint Dragon Energy at birth, the child’s appearance and Soul Breath were almost indistinguishable from humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, Half-Demons are born with Demon Clan features until they can control their demonic power to hide those features.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Callum Yuan was born looking human, and as the faint Dragon Energy dissipated, the dragon bloodline scent on him became so faint it was barely noticeable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dragon was displeased, but thinking it might be due to the Half-Demon Bloodline, he decided to raise the child and see.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite the woman’s sobbing pleas, he forcibly took the child, raising him for ten years, during which the child grew like any normal child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, he was just too normal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From appearance to aura, he was indistinguishable from ordinary humans, and even minor Demons could easily knock him down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dragon, unwilling to give up, tried harsh methods on the child to forcefully activate the dragon bloodline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The attempt failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was mocked by the elders of the clan and finally understood that this dragon offspring was a \"defective product.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Remembering the last trace of bloodline connection, he didn’t discard the child randomly but sent the near-death child back to the woman.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a dragon, ten years is a very brief time, a mere nap’s worth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But to humans, ten years is long enough to change many things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman had married, even had another child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had a normal child, and her feelings for the previous child had long been devoted to this child and her family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Callum Yuan, from birth, he was taken away, and only at ten years old was he sent back, dying; even though he was her first painstakingly conceived child, she found it hard to love him again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She couldn’t possibly raise him, and her current family didn’t allow her to raise him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman threw him back to the cabin at the foot of the mountain where he was left alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ten-year-old child survived there alone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He knew he had a father.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the father tortured him and discarded him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also knew he had a mother, but the mother didn’t want him either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t even have his own name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He grew up alone in that little cabin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Occasionally, someone would secretly leave a couple of buns for him at the cabin door; he knew it was from that \"mother.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The buns carried her aura.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She hadn’t completely abandoned him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she hadn’t accepted him either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ten-year-old Callum Yuan didn’t understand why.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At fifteen, Callum Yuan began to understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because he was different from others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The villagers were the first to notice this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though he lived far from the village, people still visited occasionally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Initially, the villagers had sympathy, disdain, and scorn for him, but as time passed, they began to feel fear and dislike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because they discovered he never grew up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether it was due to the dragon bloodline,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>or due to being distressed in the womb by his mother,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>or due to his father’s attempts to forcibly awaken the bloodline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any case, he had stopped growing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Village children grew up one by one, adults aged, but he remained the ten-year-old boy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The villagers disliked and feared him, called him a monster, wanting to drive him out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An elderly man with some knowledge said he had dwarfism, a disease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was just ill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had a disease called dwarfism.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn’t a monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some villagers accepted this explanation, and the attempts to drive him out or bully him somewhat eased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet many villagers still showed him disdain and dislike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially village children; they didn’t understand dwarfism; they only knew he was a monster that wouldn’t grow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman didn’t mind that he wouldn’t grow, occasionally visiting him secretly, leaving him something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, her husband and another child passed away; she packed her things and found him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He didn’t have much affection for her but ensured she wouldn’t be bullied by the villagers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lived in the village for thirty years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During this time, the elderly man died, the woman aged, yet only he remained the same ten-year-old child.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had long known he didn’t have dwarfism.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was, indeed, a monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, war erupted, and their village was affected by the flames of war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woman died in the artillery fire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite their truly spent time together being no more than ten years, despite not feeling he cared much for this mother.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Watching her die before his eyes, he still went mad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He went wild, slaughtering the dwarves who came to the village to rob and kill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was gravely injured, nearly dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He thought he would die, with his last strength, he dug a pit, first buried the woman, then dug another pit beside it, intended to bury himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he couldn’t die.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dragon bloodline was too strong; even as a Half-Demon, his robust body ensured he couldn’t be killed easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He survived and became a true monster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another thirty years passed; he wandered alone amidst the flames of war, then hid alone in the mountains after liberation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He never stayed long in one place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until he met Mr. Wen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That time, he was seriously injured while fighting a large serpent, almost swallowed, when Mr. Wen appeared and easily dealt with the Demon Serpent that had gained Spiritual Wisdom yet harmed people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And accidentally found him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A ten-year-old child, nearly a hundred-year-old Divine Soul.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took him back to Capital Metropolitan, helped him learn to control his demonic power, and gave him a new name.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He once asked him if he wanted to return to the Dragon Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Callum Yuan refused.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To him, both the dragon and the Dragon Clan behind were entities he despised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They destroyed the woman, and they destroyed him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Even if one day, I return as a dragon to the clan... it will only be when I am strong enough to trample that dragon beneath my feet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1349,"2026-06-10T07:18:51.365Z",1,"novelbin.me","88de5be63a2df70c87d867dc2ed67fbabce3d113e1cc4a11439559f4168e13dd","the-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-chapter-986","the-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-chapter-984",1286,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-fake-heiress-turns-out-to-be-a-true-tycoon-cover.jpg"]