Title: Transmigrated as the Doomed Fake Heiress: The System Demands I Slap Faces!
CHAPTER 5: THE TRUTH HALO
"Just the legs?" I repeated, my voice echoing in the paralyzed ballroom. My fingers tightened around Lu Qingshan's freezing, pale hand. "Master Lu, you're being far too merciful. A snake doesn't stop biting just because you break its tail. You have to pull out its fangs."
Lu Qingshan’s pitch-black eyes shimmered with a dark, terrifying amusement. The corner of his mouth twitched upward—a microscopic gesture that made the temperature in the room plummet even further.
"As my wife commands," he murmured, his raspy voice sending a delicious shiver down my spine.
He didn't even need to give a verbal order. The captain of his tactical team drew a matte-black collapsible steel baton from his belt. With a sickeningly practiced, casual motion, he brought it down on Gu Chen’s left kneecap.
CRACK!
Gu Chen, who had just begun to regain consciousness, let out a bloodcurdling, inhuman shriek. He thrashed on the broken glass, clutching his shattered leg. The elite socialites in the room screamed, covering their eyes, backing as far away as the marble walls would allow.
"Wait! Stop! Please, Master Lu, have mercy!"
A pathetic, wavering voice broke through the chaos. Father Su threw himself forward, sliding on his knees across the ruined buffet debris. He was sweating profusely, his expensive tuxedo stained with spilled wine and caviar. Mother Su scrambled right behind him, her face a mask of desperate, opportunistic terror.
"Master Lu!" Father Su groveled, keeping his head bowed so low his forehead practically touched the floor. "There has been a terrible misunderstanding! We had no idea Xia-Xia was your esteemed wife! If we had known, we would have built a shrine for her! We are her parents! We raised her! We are your in-laws!"
Mother Su looked up at me, tears streaming down her surgically tightened face. "Xia-Xia, my sweet daughter! We were only testing you tonight! We wanted to see if Gu Chen was truly worthy of you! We never meant any of this! You know how much your mother loves you, right? Tell your husband to spare us!"
I stared down at the two people who had tortured the original host for fifteen years. The sheer, unadulterated audacity of their hypocrisy made my blood boil all over again.
System, I commanded coldly in my mind. I want them exposed. Completely. Irrevocably. Give me something that will make them dig their own graves right here, right now.
[DING! Processing Host's request...] [Purchasing 'Absolute Truth Halo (Area of Effect: 10 Meters)' for 4,000 Points. For the next three minutes, any target within the halo will completely lose their psychological filters and confess their deepest, darkest secrets when questioned. Activating now!]
A faint, invisible ripple of golden energy pulsed from my body, washing over the groveling Su parents. Their eyes instantly dilated, taking on a glassy, unfocused sheen.
I stepped out from behind Lu Qingshan's wheelchair, my ruined, blood-stained designer gown trailing behind me like a warrior's cape.
"You love me, Mother?" I asked, my voice dripping with lethal sweetness. "Is that why you forced me to undergo weekly blood transfusions for Su Rou's leukemia?"
Under the effect of the Truth Halo, Mother Su's mouth opened on its own. She tried to clamp her hands over her lips, but the compulsion was absolute.
"Leukemia?" Mother Su barked out a hysterical, ugly laugh. "Rou-Rou never had leukemia! She just has a rare, mild form of anemia that makes her tired! But your blood type is the legendary, ultra-rare 'Golden Blood'—Rh-null! Do you know how much billionaires on the black market pay for a single pint of that? We kept you heavily sedated and harvested your blood to fund the Su Group's massive gambling debts! You were our personal ATM, you stupid, naive little piggy!"
The ballroom erupted into absolute, pandemonium. "Good god!" "They were harvesting her blood to pay off gambling debts?!" "They faked the biological daughter's cancer?! Monsters! Absolute monsters!"
Father Su’s face turned violently red, but he too was caught in the System's invisible snare.
"Shut up, you idiot woman!" Father Su screamed at his wife, before clapping his hands over his own mouth. But the words kept spilling out. "If the board finds out we’re bankrupt and that we've been laundering cartel money through the charity foundation, we'll be executed! Why are you saying this out loud?!"
I smiled. A true, genuine smile. I looked around at the dozen reporters who, despite their terror of Lu Qingshan, were currently live-streaming the entire confession on their phones.
"Cartel money?" I gasped in mock horror. "My, my, Father. I think you're going to need a very good lawyer. Though, considering you're now public enemies of the Lu Family, I doubt anyone in this hemisphere will represent you."
[DING! EPIC FACE-SLAP! The Su Family is permanently destroyed. Their net worth is plummeting in real-time. Reward: 15,000 Points!]
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