Stocking Up

By the end of dinner, Su Yitong still hadn't mentioned that she had become a player. She only promised to tell them as soon as she had any news, and asked Yu Xunge to notify her if she entered the game again. She still had to hurry back to set up the Su Family's defense system. Recently, one of her attributes had dropped by another point. Her brother said it might be temporary, that the game was unstable, but she didn't think so. Otherwise, why hadn't either of her two brothers lost any attribute points?

After seeing Su Yitong off to her car, Yu Xunhuan returned to the private room, his expression slightly cold.

Yu Xunge asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

Yu Xunhuan shook his head and said quietly, "She's definitely a player. She's hiding it from us."

Yu Qingshan asked, "How do you know? Do you have proof?"

Yu Xunhuan pressed his lips together. "Her ear was injured. Well, her entire right ear was gone. She still had it on the sixth, but when we met again on the fourteenth, she'd changed her hairstyle. There were no bandages and no medicine. She probably used something from the game. Doesn't that Healing Potion heal wounds after you drink it?"

Yu Xunge spread her hands. "I only had that one bottle. I gave it to you. I haven't tried it myself."

Yu Xunhuan sighed helplessly. "Why didn't you buy a few more bottles?" As he spoke, he sighed inwardly. He really had started treating Yu Xunge as one of his own.

I'll knock the hell out of you! Did you hear me?! I'll knock the hell out of you! Believe it or not, I'll find someone to cut off another half? Leave you with only 4.5 centimeters.

Yu Xunge kept smiling and angrily chugged a cup of cola.

After dealing with Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan, Yu Xunge wasn't in a hurry to return to the villa to study. The glasses Su Yitong had worn today had given her an immense sense of danger.

The Soros Mask could no longer make her feel safe. Although no item below S-rank could currently see through the information altered by the mask.

But what if? What if someone was lucky enough to get an S-rank detection item during the first closed beta?

Rationally, she knew it was impossible. The best detection item she had seen in her previous life had only been A-rank, the same grade as Soros's glasses. But she didn't dare gamble. Just thinking that someone might detect her talent made her restless.

Weren't detection items and equipment supposed to be rare? How had Liang Yuchuan gotten an A-rank one during the first closed beta, and then Su Yitong gotten another detection item of unknown grade during the second?

She didn't even dare imagine it. Someone used an S-rank detection item on her, and the next second, the glowing projection of her personal panel lit up above her head. One look, and the number of God-Bestowed Talents would nearly match the number of attributes.

Yu Xunge lay awake until the middle of the night. She couldn't sleep. She absolutely couldn't sleep.

She simply got up and started packing.

She decided to first find the male lead's third woman tomorrow and try her luck. The Soros Mask was with the main wife, the glasses were with the second woman, so maybe the final component was with the youngest one?

Naturally, she knew the male lead's youngest wife. She had only lost out because she appeared late, but her family's power was no weaker than the Su or Liang families. The Han family's influence was in B City. During the second year after the Game Invasion, the Han family had been driven out of B City by several other families joining forces, forcing them to retreat to S City, where they had long ago established a foothold.

She wanted to ask, was S City a junkyard? You could just retreat there whenever you wanted?

But it still wasn't daylight. Yu Xunge hadn't crafted today's gold coins since returning, so she simply transformed into a goblin and made her three coins for the day. Then she went invisible and slipped under Su Yitong's bed. Well, no one was there.

She searched around, then decided to forget it. Su Yitong's two brothers would do too. The Thief Leaves Nothing Empty.

She had become extremely bold lately. After discovering that the Su Family's Revealing Potion was only basic-grade, she would occasionally drink a high-grade Invisibility Potion and wander around the Su Family estate.

She turned onto the floor where the two brothers stayed. It wasn't as if she hadn't considered stealing from them before, but one was an overbearing CEO and the other was an athlete, so neither was usually home. Today, though, the second brother, Su Jinxuan, was here. This was the first time she had seen him at home since the second closed beta.

In her previous life, Su Jinxuan had taken the archer path. Before the Game Invasion, he had already been a top-tier competitive archer. After the gamification, he became one of the Su Family's strongest fighters in just a month.

How could a male lead who married into a family not have someone bully him? Su Jinxuan was the person in the Su Family who most enjoyed bullying the male lead. Every so often, he had to stomp on him.

Women's novels had horrible sisters-in-law. Stories about men marrying into families had horrible brothers-in-law.

Before the marriage, he could still maintain basic manners. After the marriage, everything about the male lead irritated him.

But the male lead had the female lead protecting him, so Su Jinxuan sometimes couldn't go too far. Then he would take it out on her instead.

Yu Xunge: What the hell? What did that have to do with her?!

Yu Xunhuan would occasionally bring Yu Xunge along to the Su Family's group raids, claiming it was to repay his sister, but now Yu Xunge increasingly felt that he had been pushing her out to draw fire for him.

When fighting monsters, Su Jinxuan would have her go ahead to lure them. Sometimes, his arrows would even miss their mark. They flew slowly, seemingly easy for anyone to dodge, but she would get injured by monsters while avoiding those arrows.

It wasn't as if she had no temper. In her previous life, after every group raid, she would tell Yu Xunhuan not to invite her next time. Even though the Su Family would distribute materials or equipment based on contributions after clearing dungeons, and many of those things were precious, it wasn't like she couldn't just spend more time getting them herself.

Whenever that happened, Yu Xunhuan would give her his share of the loot and apologize. He would say that he only wanted to help his sister, that he desperately wanted family by his side, and so on... Then he would complain about Su Jinxuan to her, even discussing Su Jinxuan's skills and personality, telling her to avoid him and the like...

Back then, Yu Xunge had only felt touched and helpless, but more than anything, she had been angry. You were suffering grievances yourself, and you wanted me to suffer them with you too? Were you the one who married into the family, or was I?

But after seeing through Yu Xunhuan's true nature and examining those strange actions again, she couldn't help suspecting that Yu Xunhuan might have been trying to stir up her hatred for Su Jinxuan, guiding her to impersonate him and replace him. Then, after realizing she hadn't followed his lead, he stopped bringing her to the Su Family's events.

Damn, could it be that the conflicts between her and the Liang family members and Han family members had also been provoked by Yu Xunhuan?

For fuck's sake, if that was really the case, why didn't you just tell me directly?!

She just didn't take the initiative to harm people. It wasn't like she had any moral bottom line. If he had told her and persuaded her, wouldn't she have agreed?!

Yu Xunge looked at Su Jinxuan on the bed, growing angrier the more she thought about it.

The Olympics were over anyway, and the next one was in 1980, so far away it might as well not exist. Yu Xunge didn't need to carry any heavy ideological burden as she got to work. First, she used Fate Gear on Su Jinxuan to change his Luck to 1, then she began repeatedly using I want this, this, and this.

She wasn't planning to sleep tonight anyway. After dealing with Su Jinxuan, she would go check on Liang Yuchuan, then head straight home, drive to the airport, and leave.

After stealing for over an hour, she had taken 3 points of Agility and 1 point of Intelligence from Su Jinxuan. Satisfied, she stopped.

Intelligence: 11+1

Agility: 18+3

Agility alone already matched that of a level 2 player who had put all their points into Agility.

But she was still only level 0.