Fate Gear

Liu Zhengliu and Liu Hongsheng's case had reached a deadlock. Although the examination showed that Liu Hongsheng's cause of death was unrelated to the knife wound on his body or his fall from the building, countless people had seen him escape from Liu Zhengliu's grasp. The blood on Liu Zhengliu's hands and her fingerprints on the knife handle could not be denied.

Liu Zhengliu would not be getting out anytime soon. Worse still, Liu Hongsheng's wife had openly declared that she wanted Liu Zhengliu imprisoned. The incident had blown up far too much, and since it had happened beneath an entertainment company's building, it was already showing signs of spreading online after only a few days.

Her manager was gone, no one was keeping her in check, and the only project she had in hand had been snatched away by some resource-backed starlet. She was perfectly happy to be free.

The two biggest idiots in this company were dead or under investigation. In her previous life, those two had worked together to fabricate the dirt on her. The other executives had wanted to lend her a hand—why target one of their own artists when there were so many other people to target? Even if they had money to burn, that was not how they should burn it. But back then, she had only half a year left on her contract. Liu Zhengliu had said she wanted to terminate it and join another company, so those people had all fallen silent and allowed those two to do as they pleased.

Yu Xunge planned to slack off for half a year, wait for her contract to end, and leave the industry.

She had been extremely busy lately. Yesterday, she had spent all day considering what could both help her earn Yu Xunhuan's trust and keep him under control.

The first option she ruled out was altering memories. Even if she changed the memories Yu Xunhuan, Yu Qingshan, and Yi Qiuguo had of the twenty-second, the surveillance footage would not lie. Yu Xunhuan was extraordinarily suspicious by nature, cautious to his very bones. Once he became suspicious, he would definitely check the footage from that day. Once it contradicted the false memories, not only would she fail to gain Yu Xunhuan's trust, it would become irrefutable proof that she had deliberately plotted against him.

In her previous life, the Su Family, Han Family, and Liang Family had all sent people after her. The most troublesome ones were not actually from the Su Family. Although the Su Family had sent many people, as long as she evaded them, they were easy enough to handle. The real problem had been the people sent by the Liang Family. It was not merely because Liang Yuchuan was vicious by nature—someone in the Liang Family possessed an utterly, utterly disgusting talent!!!

Even now, thinking of that person made Yu Xunge's head spin and cold sweat break out, as though she had spent an entire day studying advanced calculus.

Fate Gear (B-rank)

Skill 1 *So Happy Now*: Select a target and activate the skill to turn their Fate Gear, altering their luck for the day. The alteration lasts 6 hours. Cooldown: 6 hours. (You may choose whether to hide the target's altered Fate Value from them.)

Skill 2 **Your Outfit Is Wrong, I Don't Like It**: Select a target and activate the skill to turn their Fate Gear, swapping the target's highest attribute with their lowest attribute. The swap lasts 1 hour. Cooldown: 6 hours.

It was only B-rank, but it was disgusting as hell!

Or rather, there was a reason it could still be rated B-rank despite having no offensive skills at all.

As long as that person saw her, she would have terrible luck for a full six hours.

More importantly, this kind of change to Luck Value was not displayed on the victim's status panel. The Luck Value she herself could see had always been 8.

Then, without warning, she would start having terrible luck.

She would run into dead ends while fleeing, be discovered at exactly the wrong time while disguised, choke halfway through drinking a healing potion, miss when casting magic, suffer a gun barrel explosion when firing, and even get zero critical hits with automatically tracking spells like Magic Missile. Her critical hit rate had been stacked to 77% at the time! Yet after firing sixty Magic Missiles, not a single one had landed a critical hit.

Was this a God's Gift? This was a curse bestowed by a god!

She had fled for an entire year without being caught, but less than seven days after that person arrived, she was captured alive because of this God's Gift.

But that raised a question: was that person a Beta Tester?

There had been three beta tests. The first supposedly had only a few hundred people log in. During the second, word spread from one person to another. Although the beta test had begun very suddenly, once people discovered it, news spread like wildfire, and anyone who knew about the game poured in. More than ten thousand people logged in. By the third beta test, several hundred thousand more people had created characters.

No matter what, Yu Xunge planned to find that person within the next few days. As long as he had participated in the beta test, she would kill him at the first opportunity!

Then she would see whether this skill could affect non-players. If it could, she would use it on Yu Xunhuan.

If Yu Xunhuan could still draw the SS-rank talent from her previous life with his Luck Value reduced to its absolute lowest, she would steal it on the spot and kill the male lead once and for all. Even if she spent her next life drowning in resentment, she would give Yu Xunhuan a quick death. If the male lead drew some garbage God's Gift instead, that would be even better.

That person would be easy to find. He was a driver for the Liang Family, and Yu Xunge knew where the Liang Family's old residence was—at one of the best locations in the villa district. After all, without enough power and wealth, how could someone qualify to be the female lead of a male-oriented webnovel?

She was in no hurry to visit the Liang Family. Instead, she began brewing potions at home again.

In addition to twenty bottles of Minor Phasing Potion, she made over fifty batches of Intermediate Invisibility Potion. Unlike Minor Invisibility Potion, which only provided five minutes of invisibility, this Intermediate Invisibility Potion lasted for fifteen minutes. However, its cooldown was also longer: twenty minutes after use.

She found a beef skewer recipe under Cooking (Beginner), made 297 beef skewers, and placed them in her backpack. One skewer could be gnawed on for a minute, slowly restoring 5 HP. It could both stockpile meat and train her cooking skill.

Her twenty-four-slot inventory was now filled with assorted junk, clothing, and weapons, while the six battered little bags held the food and potions she might need at any moment: Minor Healing Potion x99, Minor Mana Potion x99, Intermediate Invisibility Potion x57, Beef Skewer x99, Beef Skewer x99, Beef Skewer x99.

How could a woman fit to be the male lead's partner possibly not be a Beta Tester?

The world did not revolve around Yu Xunge, but it definitely revolved around the male and female leads.

Not only were the male and female leads Beta Testers, even the male lead's brothers were Beta Testers. Otherwise, were they worthy of calling themselves his brothers?!

Wonderful. She, the male lead's sister, was the only one who wasn't.

They were isolating her, were they!!

Yu Xunge's purpose in visiting the Liang Family this time was not only for Fate Gear, but also for the male lead's second girlfriend—Liang Yuchuan.

Each of the male lead's three beauties possessed an S-rank talent. His legal wife, Su Yitong, reportedly had a God's Gift related to healing. Later, she collected and learned all sorts of enhancement skills, becoming the strongest support. His second girlfriend, Liang Yuchuan, also possessed an S-rank God's Gift, one of only two S-rank talents publicly revealed among the top hundred rankings in the future.

Water God (S-rank)

Skill 1 **Where There Is Water, There Is Me**: You can turn into a droplet of water and merge into water.

Skill 2 **You're So Watery**: All water-related items and skills gain a 50% bonus.

Skill 3 **Vampire**: After use, there is a 20% chance of draining 1% of the target's HP.

Skill 4 **I, the Water God, Heal Up** (Passive): When you become a droplet of water or are in water, your injuries will slowly heal.

Yu Xunge coveted this talent, but she did not plan to steal it. If Yu Xunhuan could still draw an SS-rank talent with a Luck Value of only 1, she would immediately use this skill to steal his SS-rank talent and kill him. If Yu Xunhuan obtained an utterly ordinary talent, she would save Thief God's Theft, or a Robber's Theft to prevent him from turning the tables.

Furthermore, dying in the game world could refresh the cooldown of Thief God's Theft, or a Robber's Theft. As long as she did not use the skill, she could still use it twice after entering the game. Naturally, she could not waste it in reality.

She wanted to try stealing the items on Liang Yuchuan. She did not believe the female lead would lack good things.

Her fifty-million villa was in the same area as the Liang Family's villas, not far away. In her previous life, Yu Xunhuan had used the dungeon in that villa to get acquainted with the Liang Family.