On the morning of the 13th, she arrived in S City and headed straight to the hospital after leaving the airport. The old man was still lying there. As for Yu Xunhuan, he was no longer bedridden. He was getting married in a few days, and Su Yitong had dragged him off to rehearse.
It was also Yu Xunge's first time hearing that a wedding needed rehearsals.
When she arrived at the hospital, she stuffed two Minor Healing Potions into Yu Qingshan's hands.
Yu Qingshan was still staring blankly at the ceiling. Yi Qiuguo pried open his mouth and poured the potions in, but Yu Qingshan showed no reaction. Yu Xunge watched coldly, almost thinking the old man had become a vegetable.
She pulled Yi Qiuguo aside and quietly asked what had happened.
Yi Qiuguo stammered, not knowing how to explain. She had hidden this matter from her daughter for so many years; suddenly revealing it would truly hurt their relationship. So she only said that she did not know either.
Yu Xunge was not truly concerned. The main reason she had made this trip was to investigate their God-Bestowed Talents.
In her previous life, she had not possessed any appraisal tools. Everything she knew had either been observed by herself or told to her by others.
In her previous life, Yi Qiuguo had said that her God-Bestowed Talent was related to cooking. The food she made had a chance of increasing a person's attributes, though the chance was only 5%.
At the time, Yu Xunge had even said that Yi Qiuguo and Yu Xunhuan truly deserved to be mother and son—their God-Bestowed Talents were both related to cooking.
But looking at it now, Yi Qiuguo's God-Bestowed Talent was related to fire. The more she spoke, the greater the damage bonus her fire-related skills received. It reset every day.
Almost instantly, Yu Xunge understood why Yi Qiuguo had always called her home for meals in her previous life. Every time she returned, the food was already prepared. Those dishes tasted ordinary, but the ingredients were all extremely high-end. And since Yu Xunge was the sort of person who would return four or five parts of kindness for every ten parts she received, she always left something behind for Yi Qiuguo and Yu Qingshan after eating.
No wonder... This had all been to cooperate with Yu Xunhuan's God of Cooking Talent, hadn't it?
High-end ingredients guaranteed that a dish's rating would not be low, but an ordinary taste meant an average score. As long as the score did not exceed 80, it would not trigger a critical effect upon consumption. That way, she would never connect those dishes to Yu Xunhuan, much less suspect anything about attribute points.
So they could move her, making her repay her family's kindness, while ensuring she gained no real benefit from it. Not only that, but without realizing it, she had paid invisible fortune to Yu Xunhuan as the price of his cooking.
Thinking back, she had always suffered a run of bad luck after returning home for a meal. At the time, she had even thought she and her hometown were simply incompatible.
As for Yu Xunhuan, he had not completely lied to her. He had said that the beneficial effects of food he made would double after being consumed. They really had doubled when she ate it.
Yu Xunhuan had even often made his own original dishes especially for her, ensuring her consumption effects doubled every time. Yet after two years of eating them, she had never gained a single attribute point.
How brilliant. He had exploited the limits of every skill, earned her trust while plotting against her, and never let her gain even the slightest genuine benefit.
Yu Xunge admitted that she was hopeless at learning from him!
She was not surprised that Yu Xunhuan coveted her fortune. Her luck had always been good since childhood. Her initial Luck Value in the game had been 8, already higher than that of most people. Though she did not know why someone as lucky as her had still missed the game's closed beta...
Hm? She had missed the first closed beta because Liu Zhengliu had plotted against her.
But she had missed the second and third ones too... What had she been doing on June 6th and October 10th in her previous life?
Too much time had passed, so it was only natural that Yu Xunge could not remember clearly.
But those two dates were too special. Not only were they the closed beta dates, they were also close to Yu Xunhuan's engagement and wedding dates!
She quickly recalled a few things.
Though she could not remember exactly what she had done on those specific days, she could still recall events from that period. A few days after Yu Xunhuan's engagement, he had suddenly called her one morning and said he had used the Su Family's connections to find a project for her, asking her to meet the other party. She remembered that when the Su Family's driver picked her up that day, dawn had only just broken outside the car window.
Before Yu Xunhuan's wedding, he had called her over from time to time to accompany him to rehearsals. Later, he had even asked her to visit the wedding venue every day and keep an eye on things for him. Even though the Su Family's people were handling everything there, and she had no chance to interfere at all...
She remembered being incredibly annoyed during that period. It was bad enough that she had nothing to do at the venue, but every time she tried to play on her phone to pass the time, the Su Family's people would drag her off to inspect the decorations.
Standing in the hospital room's bathroom, Yu Xunge clenched her fists tightly.
So they had been plotting against her since that early?
Yu Xunge watched the water stream into the sink, and the hatred that had eased somewhat after she stole Yu Xunhuan's God of Cooking Talent surged back once more!
Why?
Why had they not only kept all this from her, but also made her miss those chances again and again?!!
She turned off the faucet and calmly looked at herself in the mirror.
Why should she waste time thinking about why her enemies had harmed her?
There was no need. No meaning!
She only needed to return every last thing to them!
Yu Xunge greeted Yu Qingshan, who was lying in bed, and left.
Yu Qingshan's talent was called Liar. Every lie he told increased his attack power by 0.1%, resetting each day. Not only that, he could also identify lies.
That was the same as what he had told her in her previous life. He had actually not lied about it.
But sometimes, the highest form of lie was the truth.
He did not need to fight anyway. How many lies had he told Yu Xunge? Where could she possibly verify them?
This whole family...
Yu Xunge walked out of the hospital and stood beneath the sunlight, yet she still felt a chill seeping out from the cracks in her bones.
How had she ended up being this family's biological daughter?
Forget it. Thinking about her own actions...
She was not much better.
They were all insidious, cunning creatures. Yu Qingshan was an old schemer, Yi Qiuguo was a foolish schemer, Yu Xunhuan was a little schemer, and she was a beautiful schemer.
And Yi Qiuguo was also an idiot.
They could just muddle along together in loving harmony!
On the 15th, Yu Xunge followed Yu Xunhuan to the place where he and Su Yitong were rehearsing their wedding. She watched Yu Xunhuan from afar. He was clearly smiling, as though no pain could be seen on his face—no despair, no anger, no grief.
Yet the longer Yu Xunge watched, the happier she became. The more successfully he suppressed his emotions, the better. Just like her: every time she smiled at Yu Xunhuan and the others, she would retaliate even more viciously afterward. She waited for the day he finally erupted.
After enjoying Yu Xunhuan's performance and mask to her satisfaction, she pulled Su Yitong into a corner and said mysteriously, "I have a wedding gift for you. It's something from the game. Where would be convenient to give it to you?"
Su Yitong grew curious upon hearing that. Things from the game were still quite rare at this point. She pulled Yu Xunge into the dressing room. Yu Xunge waved Yu Xunhuan over as well, then, once they were inside, took out the bed that made anyone who saw it blush.
The information of an ownerless game item could be learned with a single touch. Su Yitong thanked her without showing any emotion, but her eyes were gleaming.
Yu Xunhuan also breathed a sigh of relief. Though it was a little embarrassing, this thing... well, it had truly been delivered straight to his heart! He needed it—urgently!
After several days of gloom, Yu Xunge had brought him the only bit of good news he had received these past few days. Yu Xunhuan looked at Yu Xunge gratefully.
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