Short Is Cute Too

Little Yu Xunhuan—snap—lost half of it!

But it was fine. Short was cute too.

Yu Xunge's voice rose several notches. "How could a family like ours possibly offend someone with a gun?!"

That single sentence jolted the two of them awake. Even the groggy Yu Xunhuan furrowed his brows slightly, as though he were about to wake from a dream.

Yi Qiuguo froze for a moment before realization struck. Her eyes widened as she looked at Yu Qingshan and lowered her voice. "Was it the Su Family?!"

Yu Qingshan shook his head and finally took a drag from his cigarette. "Hard to say."

Seeing that Yu Xunhuan was already awake, Yu Xunge said, "Let's talk outside, so we don't wake Xunhuan."

Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo got up at her words and followed Yu Xunge out of the hospital room. As the door closed, she clearly saw Yu Xunhuan's hand curl into a fist.

Once they stopped outside the room, Yu Xunge asked, "Does our Yu Family have any enemies?"

Yu Qingshan frowned. "Why do you ask?"

Yu Xunge said, "I just feel like this method of hurting someone seems like they hate the entire Yu Family, like they want our line to die out... Of course, it hasn't. As long as he's still alive, there's hope, right? What did the doctor say?"

"He can still have children." Yu Qingshan took a drag of his cigarette and said in a weathered tone, "I'll investigate this. Protect yourself, and it'd be best if you moved back to the Yu Family home for a while."

It sounded like the concern of a loving father, but Yu Xunge suspected he just wanted another human shield in case someone came seeking revenge. Still, she did not agree. "My little brother still has to marry into the Su Family, right?" This old fox had sent Yu Xunhuan to an illegal clinic immediately, clearly intending to hide it. "It would be too unusual for me to move back now. It might make Su Yitong suspicious."

That was a good reason, and Yu Qingshan promptly took the out without urging his daughter to return home.

After staying for a while, Yu Xunge left on the excuse that she needed to go home and make soup.

She knew Yu Xunhuan was awake, but she truly did not want to keep acting. She was afraid she would burst out laughing halfway through speaking, so she hurried off.

Yu Qingshan and Yu Xunhuan really were alike. After something happened, both of their first reactions were to conceal it, rather than consider how terrifying the consequences would be if the Su Family discovered it after the marriage.

After Yu Xunhuan woke up, Yu Qingshan sent Yi Qiuguo away before the father and son began talking.

Yu Xunge, who had drunk an Invisibility Potion and returned, was not surprised by their behavior.

In fact, the reason she had never doubted whether she was Yu Qingshan's biological daughter was—well, she had found time to get a paternity test after being reborn, and she really was his biological daughter—because neither Yu Qingshan nor Yu Xunhuan considered women trustworthy. No matter how gentle they acted, they looked down on women.

The book made it sound amusing that he was marrying into the family, but in the side stories, after the male lead's three sons respectively became the heads of the Su, Han, and Liang Families, they changed their surnames back to Yu at the same time. That was peak satisfying poison.

Yi Qiuguo might have ranked slightly higher than Yu Xunge, but only slightly. Her greater use was as a weapon Yu Qingshan could wield.

Yu Qingshan looked at Yu Xunhuan. "Do you have any thoughts?"

Yu Xunhuan stared at the ceiling with dead eyes. "Could it have been Yu Xunge's enemy? Maybe she caused trouble outside."

Yu Qingshan sighed. "How many times have I taught you? Stay calm when you run into problems. Don't vent your anger. Venting anger is what women do. If she caused the trouble, why would they attack you instead?"

Yu Xunhuan began suspecting the other woman in the household. "Could Mom's temper have gotten her into trouble?"

Yu Qingshan shook his head. "I know everything about her affairs."

Yu Xunhuan closed his eyes, his chest heaving violently. After a long time, he continued hoarsely, "Did the Su Family disagree with me marrying into their family?"

"Hard to say, but they had no need to resort to such underhanded tactics. If they had rejected us outright back then, we wouldn't have dared pester them." After a pause, Yu Qingshan asked softly, "Have you offended any women? Don't you know a lot of messy people through work?"

Yu Xunhuan began thinking carefully. He was sure he had not offended anyone. He was friendly yet distant with everyone, and he had only deliberately drawn closer to Su Yitong after confirming her family background. He shook his head.

Yu Qingshan reassuringly patted Yu Xunhuan's hand. "That vase has already been sold. Before the engagement, Dad will get the villa settled for you."

Yu Xunhuan asked again, "Does Yu Xunge really have no money left?"

Yu Qingshan said, "Probably. I found out there was a murder at her company, and her manager got dragged into it. You know how much she trusts that Liu fellow. She probably hasn't had the heart for anything lately. Once she feels better, I'll find a way to make her go out and earn money again. Focus on recovering and don't worry about this!"

Yu Xunhuan said without much hope, "In my condition..."

Yu Qingshan said, "The doctor said it won't affect your ability to have children. Being shorter is fine. What matters in this sort of thing is technique!"

Yu Xunge nearly laughed out loud.

Seeing that she could not hear anything useful, Yu Xunge regretfully left the hospital room.

Once she learned that Yu Xunhuan had lost a section, she felt as though all her thoughts had suddenly become clear.

Yes, this was the path of revenge!

She wanted Yu Xunhuan to live every second in pain and terror!

Marry into the Su Family? He was not even a whole man anymore, yet he still dared to marry Su Yitong. Hahaha.

She wanted to see what Yu Xunhuan could possibly do now...

She was not worried about becoming enemies with the Su Family at all. She had reduced the male lead's Luck Value to 1. He was now still an ordinary person, yet even a top-ten dungeon assassin had fired seven shots without being able to blow up little Yu Xunhuan. In the end, the assassin had taken a step back and only succeeded after cutting off half of it.

The Su Family dared harm the male lead? They could just wait to go bankrupt.

Huh? Then wasn't she even more amazing in her previous life? With a Luck Value of 1, she had been hunted by so many people for seven days before being caught...

Could she be the female lead?

Yu Xunge returned to the villa humming a tune. It was not as though there were no spells in the game that could heal severed limbs. This kind of high-level spell was something Su Yitong had learned in the third year after the Game Invasion in her previous life. By then, humanity's highest level had reached level 25. Su Yitong had become famous because of that spell, since she was the only one on all of Blue Star who could use it.

It was fine. Yu Xunge had plenty of ways to ensure Su Yitong would never even come into contact with it in this life.

As for Yu Xunhuan, he had two miserable years ahead of him.

He wouldn't buy a fake one to fool Su Yitong, would he? Hahaha.

After dealing with little Yu Xunhuan, Yu Xunge began making major purchases for the game's second closed beta.

Now that she had a backpack, she wanted to see whether items from reality could be brought into the game and sold for gold coins.

Even if something worth ten thousand RMB could only sell for one gold coin in the game, she would still profit!

In less than half a year after the Game Invasion, this money would become waste paper. Even if she exchanged it for gold, gold was better than waste paper. Although gold and gold coins were fundamentally different—the latter contained a trace of magic and could not be counterfeited—some foreign merchants who traveled between both sides and only cared about profit rather than racial honor accepted gold.

The goblins in particular. They had nothing but money in their hearts. Whether people fought to the death was none of their business. They did every kind of trade, and they could even exchange gold for gold coins. One gold coin weighed less than 100 grams, but goblin merchants required 300 grams of gold for one gold coin.

According to them, coming to Blue Star to do business was extremely costly. They then listed all kinds of surcharges, such as battlefield allowances, travel expenses for business trips to Blue Star, possible funeral expenses, the cost goblins paid to mint gold coins, and so on...

The current price of gold was around 500 per gram, fluctuating slightly. In other words, it took one hundred and fifty thousand RMB to buy a single gold coin, but that was only before the currency collapsed.

By the time goblin merchants appeared, currency had long since collapsed. Everyone traded with in-game currency. Forget using currency to buy gold—after gold could be exchanged for gold coins through goblins, gold was basically in a state of having a price but no market.

But that was after the Game Invasion. Naturally, the current Yu Xunge would prepare in advance and exchange all the money in her hands for gold.