Only after she had maxed out the current experience for both Alchemy and Engineering did she finally stop grinding professional experience in peace.
She placed the cat bed in the yard outside the villa's entrance and put a portion of lightly seasoned meat beside it every day. Starting today, she was going to build a relationship with this cat bed.
In early April, Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan's marriage was finalized. The two families had a meal together, and as Yu Xunhuan's older sister, Yu Xunge naturally attended as well, maintaining a polite smile throughout.
The Su Family's upbringing could not exactly be called good, but it could not be called bad either. They had basic manners, but no respect.
After all, he was only a live-in son-in-law. To put it bluntly, Su Yitong only wanted Yu Xunhuan's good looks in her child's genes. It did not matter if her child was stupid, but it could not be ugly. They would sign all sorts of prenuptial agreements. The Su Family was enormous; even if the old couple and all three of their children died, Yu Xunhuan could never take control of the Su Family as a live-in son-in-law.
Yu Xunge had attended this meal in her previous life too. Back then, the Su Family had treated them coldly, and she had even felt sorry for Yu Xunhuan. Now, though, she focused on eating and kept smiling. After the meal, the Su Family members left, leaving only Su Yitong behind. Yu Xunge wanted to leave too, but Yu Xunhuan grabbed her.
Yu Xunhuan looked at Yu Xunge with concern and tested the waters. "Sis, are you unhappy about me getting married?"
Catching Su Yitong's strange expression from the corner of her eye, Yu Xunge almost wanted to ask whether she and Yu Xunhuan were enemies, or whether he thought female rivalry made him more charming. Was he trying to make Su Yitong feel threatened? Why was he being so petty?
She looked at that bastard Yu Xunhuan with surprise. "How could I be? Of course I'm happy."
Yu Xunhuan wore an expression that said, Stop pretending. "Then why have you recently..."
Yu Xunge gave a bitter smile. "I really am happy for you and Yitong. It's just that there have been some problems at my company recently. I'm afraid I might lose my job."
Yu Xunhuan still did not quite believe her, but Yu Xunge directly opened her banking app and held up the thirty million in savings for them to see. "Look. Wouldn't you be anxious if you saw that number?"
Yu Xunhuan's smile nearly fell apart. He wanted to say that she was only speaking out of anger and that he did not believe her, but Yu Xunge's expression was far too sincere.
But Su Yitong truly believed her. That amount was only a month's allowance to her. With only that much left, Yu Xunge really should be anxious. The suspicion that had just arisen in her heart completely vanished.
Yu Xunhuan saw Su Yitong's expression too. He knew that he would not be able to stir up Su Yitong's sympathy today. Forget it. There would be other chances. Smiling, he took out his phone and prepared to transfer money to Yu Xunge. "Sis, it's okay. I'll support you."
Yu Xunge was just about to smile when Su Yitong, beside them, pressed down Yu Xunhuan's hand. She took out her phone, asked for Yu Xunge's bank account number, and transferred twenty million to her. "This is some spending money from Xunhuan and me for Sis."
Yu Xunge immediately withdrew the smile she had been about to give Yu Xunhuan and smiled at Su Yitong instead. "I have photos of Yu Xunhuan from when he was little all the way up until now. I'll send them all to you later. Don't worry, once I send them, I'll delete my copies. From then on, you'll be the only person in the world with those photos!"
Su Yitong's smile became several degrees more genuine.
Possessiveness, huh? Female rivalry, huh? Treating me as part of your little play, huh?
Watching Yu Xunhuan's smile grow increasingly stiff, Yu Xunge greeted Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo, then waved goodbye in high spirits.
Only after maxing out her most important professions at their current level did Yu Xunge begin causing trouble again.
She had not heard anything about the Liang family members. After all, she and the Liang family members were not in the same social class. Even if the Su Family knew something, they would not tell the Yu Family.
She did not intend to wait any longer either. What Yu Xunhuan had tried to pull today had thoroughly disgusted her.
Yu Xunhuan had not been unemployed all these years. If he had no job at all, Su Yitong would not have taken an interest in him. He was a gaming streamer. He was handsome and skilled, with many fans, and donations alone brought him several hundred thousand a month.
He even had a dedicated small apartment that he used as a studio.
Yu Xunge did not plan to handle someone like Yu Xunhuan personally. During her escape in her previous life, she had met quite a few fellow fugitives. Following a method one of them had taught her, she used the Disguise Skill to find the city's other side. Fifty jin of gold in exchange for someone shooting Yu Xunhuan's dick off without taking his life was an extremely worthwhile deal.
The gold was from the batch she had taken from Yu Qingshan's study. Using Yu Qingshan's money to end Yu Qingshan's bloodline—wonderful.
Worried that the person she hired might lose to the protagonist's plot armor, Yu Xunge agreed on a time for the job when she paid him: the morning of April 5, after Yu Xunhuan left home. Preferably with few witnesses. She still expected Yu Xunhuan to marry into the Su Family.
On the night of April 4, Yu Xunge got up at six in the morning and returned to the Yu residence to retrieve three luxury handbags she had bought before. She also drank a Basic Invisibility Potion and a Basic Phasing Potion, passed through the walls into Yu Xunhuan's room, used Fate Gear on the person in the bed, and changed his Luck Value to 1.
Almost no one in the household knew that she had returned. But if anyone checked the surveillance footage in the neighborhood or elevator, they would see her arriving at six and leaving less than half an hour later carrying three designer bags.
At eight in the morning, just after selling the three bags to a secondhand shop near her home, she heard seven consecutive gunshots from across the street. Yu Xunge's hand froze. No way. Even with Luck Value at 1, he still couldn't hit him?
A while later, she received a Mission Failure message.
"Fuck, what the hell? Seven shots! Not a single one hit! He was just running around blindly, yet he dodged every one of them. That's fucking uncanny. Was this some kind of movie? I'm the Gun King, you understand what Gun King means?"
Was it too vicious? Even with Luck Value at 1, would the protagonist's plot armor still do everything it could to protect him? After all, the protagonist could escape death, suffer serious injuries, and endure hardships—but he couldn't exactly become a eunuch...
Yu Xunge sent another message. "Try using a knife. Don't be too vicious. Just cut off half."
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"Don't worry. The price won't change even if you only cut off half."
"How did he offend you?" the Gun King asked respectfully.
"Hurry up! Otherwise, I won't pay the remaining balance. Remember to take the cut-off part with you and destroy it."
Half an hour later, Yu Xunge received a call from Yi Qiuguo. The woman hysterically told her to hurry to the hospital, saying that her younger brother had gotten into trouble.
Yu Xunge's face beneath her mask was expressionless, but her voice was worried and panicked. "What happened?! What happened? Hello? Mom?"
Yu Qingshan took the phone. His voice was thick with exhaustion as he gave her an address.
This time, Yu Xunge was genuinely surprised. This was the black clinic run by another fellow fugitive she had known back then!
By the time she reached the clinic, Yu Xunhuan had already been out of surgery for quite a while.
In the dim, cramped hospital room, Yu Qingshan sat beside the bed smoking while Yi Qiuguo continued crying. When she saw Yu Xunge enter, she wanted to accuse her, but after thinking for a long time, she could not figure out how her son's dick getting half cut off could possibly be blamed on Yu Xunge.
After babbling incoherently for ages, she only managed to squeeze out one sentence. "Why did you take so long to get here?!"
Then she collapsed over the bedside and started crying again.
Yu Xunge's solemn expression carried grief; amid that grief was disbelief, and even a trace of dazed refusal to accept reality. She had brought out the acting skills of her entire life. "This can't be possible! Did he offend anyone?"
Yu Qingshan's mind had long since drifted elsewhere. The cigarette butt was nearly burning his fingers, yet he had not taken a single drag.
Yi Qiuguo shook her head through her sobs. "He's such a good boy. Who could he possibly have offended?"
Yu Xunge asked, "Can it be reattached?!"
Yi Qiuguo said, "That person had a gun! What kind of grudge was this? He missed at first, then immediately fired another seven shots! Later, he even used a knife! How utterly heartless! That beast..."
Nice!! Those fifty jin of gold had not been wasted!!!
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