Making Extra Cash with Fate Gear

The weather was nice today. For once, Yu Xunge did not go out to handle important business. Instead, she hired a cleaner to come over and give the house a thorough cleaning. While she was at it, she personally washed the Myriad Cat Slash cat bed. During that time, she not only checked whether the cleaner was a player, but also hid her shadow within the cleaner's shadow to keep watch.

After all, she had too many secrets now. If the woman had been sent by someone else and planted something like a surveillance camera in her home, she would be exposed.

Yu Xunge felt that the paranoia she had developed while fleeing for her life would never be cured in this lifetime. She doubted everyone who approached her, but she loved that paranoia to death. Her only regret was not buying a cleaning skill, so she would not have had to invite a stranger into her home.

Although she did not know what this cat bed would ultimately bring her, in her previous life, someone had used it to turn a pet hospital into a small faction. It was also an S-rank item. Yu Xunge had already made up her mind: once the Game Invasion began and the cat bed mutated, she would immediately bind it with a Binding Stone.

Just 100 gold, that was all.

When she put the cat bed out to dry, seven or eight cats were sprawled in the backyard, basking in the sun.

She had always been busy before. Even when she sat blankly in the backyard, she was usually sorting through her thoughts. She had never had the mind to observe these cats closely. She only had a vague impression that cats were always coming and going through the backyard, with none staying for long.

But today, she realized that she seemed to have seen two of them before... Either in August, or back when she had still lived in the thirty-million villa. In any case, she had definitely seen them.

One was a plump tabby with snow-white paws, and the other was a plump black-and-white cow cat.

She silently memorized the appearances of the two cats.

The cleaner spent the entire day tidying the house. Yu Xunge did not want too many people entering her home, so she had hired only one person, but the pay was generous. She offered ten thousand yuan to thoroughly clean and organize the entire villa. It was a big job, and many cleaners had rushed to take it. Working here for a day was better than working elsewhere for half a month.

Yu Xunge checked the place and found it truly spotless. She paid without hesitation and saw the cleaner out.

However, she declined the cleaner's request to add her on WeChat and did not mention hiring her again. She would definitely use someone else next time. Having the same person come over repeatedly made it too easy for someone to buy them off.

The experiences of her previous life were her most precious wealth.

Just after seeing the cleaner off, Yu Xunge received a message from Su Yitong on WeChat.

The young miss's time was precious, so she got straight to the point without even exchanging pleasantries. She asked whether Yu Xunge was willing to make money with her God Bestowed Skill. Every time Yu Xunge used her God-Bestowed Talent to do something for the Su Family, they would pay her one million.

Yu Xunge was not surprised that Su Yitong had come looking for her. When she had voluntarily offered to use that skill on Su Yitong's wedding day, she had intended to make money from it.

There was no reason to turn down easy money. The economy still had more than half a year before it collapsed. But she was unwilling to make enemies for the Su Family, and she was equally unwilling to become a thorn in someone else's side.

Yu Xunge: I only take jobs that raise someone's Luck Value to the maximum of 10. I do not take jobs that lower Luck to 1.

She did not even mention the intermediate values from 2 to 9. Wasn't the greatest use of this skill to harm people or help people? Who cared about those middling numbers?

Su Yitong understood what she meant as well. One million was far too cheap a price for a shield. She readily gave Yu Xunge a time and said she would send someone to pick her up that day.

Yu Xunge was not worried that Su Yitong was making an empty promise. The Su Family was reliable in this regard. The more they considered someone one of their own, the more readily they paid. Even if they intended to suppress someone in private afterward, that was another matter. But business was business. As long as someone did work for the Su Family, the Su Family would definitely provide compensation. They would not be so petty that people felt they could no longer earn anything after becoming one of the Su Family's own.

Yu Xunge deliberately cleared half a day for the appointment. At the agreed time, a Su Family car stopped outside Yu Xunge's villa complex. After getting in, Yu Xunge found Su Yitong there as well. During their conversation, she tactfully gave a warning in advance. "I can modify Luck Value, but luck is not fate. Many things cannot be changed through luck alone."

Su Yitong nodded. "Don't worry."

She herself had gone from Luck 10 to Luck 8, so she naturally understood the subtle difference. Her life had not changed dramatically because of it. Everything still went smoothly, just as she wished, but it was no longer quite as effortless as before. If she had to quantify it, whenever she wanted 1 before, she would end up getting 1.5 or even 2. Now, if she wanted 1, she would only get 1...

She wanted to convince herself it was all psychological, but once luck had been quantified into data, some things could no longer be denied.

Their destination was a private room in a restaurant. After pushing the door open, Yu Xunge remained calm, as though she neither knew nor cared who the people inside were. Even though, in her previous life, this woman had taken countless chances during their sparring sessions to stomp Yu Xunge's face beneath her feet and humiliate her.

Su Yitong pointed at a buzz-cut young man seated beside Liang Yuchuan and asked her to use Fate Gear on him.

Yu Xunge asked nothing and cared about nothing. She stretched out five fingers toward the young man, closed her eyes, and said a few seconds later, "Done."

The buzz-cut young man looked at the Luck on his status panel, now changed to 10, and gave Liang Yuchuan a slight nod.

Yu Xunge smiled and nodded at the others before preparing to leave. Su Yitong did not try to keep her. She stood at the private room's door and had someone send Yu Xunge home.

The transfer notification arrived the moment she got into the car.

And while in the car, Yu Xunge once again sensed someone divining information about her. It was still that buzz-cut young man.

She sneered inwardly. So the Liang family and the Su Family had joined forces?

The Liang family and the Su Family had indeed joined forces. Not long after Su Yitong's wedding, the two families held a secret discussion.

The Su Family was shocked that someone had actually infiltrated the Liang residence and cut off half of Liang Yuchuan's arm. The Liang family was even more shocked, because not only had the youngest daughter of the Su Family's third branch had an ear cut off, but a large quantity of gold bricks had also been stolen from the Su Family treasury.

This was awkward.

When the Liang family came over, no matter how rational they were, they still harbored a faint resentment deep down. Perhaps the Su Family had offended someone, and that person wanted to use the Liang family's hand to retaliate against the Su Family. That was why they had infiltrated the Liang residence and cut Liang Yuchuan's arm. But then—well, would you look at that—the Su Family was not doing any better.

The Su Family's feelings were equally complicated. Although Su Yitong had been injured, she had only lost an ear. Her hearing had been affected, but it was nowhere near as serious as losing half an arm. If she covered it up, no one would even notice that she was missing an ear. As for the gold bricks, it hurt, but the Su Family had vast resources. Losing that bit of stock would not seriously damage them.

Family shame should not be aired in public, but although the Liang family had come under the guise of discussion, if the Su Family could not provide an explanation, then based solely on Liang Yuchuan's claim that she had seen Su Yitong as the culprit, the Liang family could make trouble for the Su Family.

The two families looked at one another in silence.