Costume

Liang Yuchuan and Su Yitong both looked grim, their moods wretched to the extreme. Without saying a word, they both felt humiliated!

It was not only because their bodies were now maimed, but also because the culprit had clearly been toying with them like monkeys. Using such a crude frame-up, they had made the two victims meet face-to-face and the two families recount their experiences. That person was probably quite pleased with themselves.

The Liang Family had recently been focusing on the game's development. Every member of the Liang Family had entered the game, and after the closed beta ended, they had also been searching everywhere for information on players, trying to find those with God-Bestowed Talents related to divination. The evidence had already vanished, so they could only seek help from the mysterious side. Yet not long ago, when they had finally found someone, they discovered that person could not divine anything at all.

Now that the two families had sat down and talked, they had come to one conclusion: the culprit must have been someone who held grudges against both the Su and Liang Families. As for the driver the Liang Family had lost, he was most likely a minor character who had cooperated with the culprit before being silenced.

The elders thus began investigating people who had simultaneously held grudges against both the Su and Liang Families, while the younger generation worked together to use God-Bestowed Talents to search for clues.

That was how Su Yitong came to Yu Xunge, asking her to give the player with the divination God-Bestowed Talent a Luck buff, just to see whether it might help.

But the result was obvious. They still came up empty-handed.

Although the buzz-cut young man had failed to divine anything, his ordinarily mediocre luck had been unbelievably good that day. On his way home, he had passed a lottery shop, bought a ticket, and actually won. The matter was immediately reported to Liang Yuchuan, and once Liang Yuchuan knew, she naturally told Su Yitong during their chats as well. She wanted to inquire about Yu Xunge anyway. This God-Bestowed Talent was quite decent and would surely come in handy someday.

Liang Yuchuan had actually known about this talent long ago. Back when she had Soros's Eye, after the first closed beta ended, she had examined everyone in the Liang Family and naturally discovered the God-Bestowed Talent of the driver, Liang Hui. She simply had not made it public at the time. She had only informed the family head about the game while observing whether Liang Hui would develop any improper thoughts after gaining such a fortuitous encounter. Before she could test him further, he died.

Yet even after hearing Yu Xunge mention a God-Bestowed Talent with the same name and ability, Liang Yuchuan did not suspect anything.

After all, it was merely a B-rank talent, and its owner had only become a player during the second closed beta. In Liang Yuchuan's view, it was like the settings in some games: after the owner of a God-Bestowed Talent died, the Fate Gear would return to the card pool to be drawn again by someone else. Or perhaps such low-rank talents simply were not unique to begin with.

Not everyone could be a heaven-blessed prodigy like her and draw an S-rank God-Bestowed Talent. Out of nearly a thousand players in the entire Liang Family, she was still the only one with an S-rank talent.

Most importantly, the Liang Family had long since confirmed one thing: God-Bestowed Talents could not be stolen by killing their owners.

That was why she never connected an insignificant person she had never met, like Yu Xunge, to her family's affairs.

That evening, Yu Xunge received a message from Su Yitong: "Let's work together more often in the future~"

Yu Xunge was not at all surprised by Su Yitong's reaction. One million for six hours of luck was truly not expensive.

The next day, she headed out with the money, rented a small yacht, and went out to sea. The ocean was a perfect place to escape using Phantom Shift. Its safety and concealment rivaled a safehouse. Not only did she not need to worry about being seen, but if she killed someone in the future, she could directly shift there to wash away the evidence before returning.

After that, Su Yitong would come to her from time to time and ask her to use her skill on someone. Naturally, Yu Xunge did not hide it when she used her skill on these people. She practically wanted to grab a loudspeaker and shout, "I changed your Luck Value to 10!!!"

Over time, her reputation spread through wealthy circles, but so did Yu Xunge's rule: she would only give people good luck and would never bring them bad luck.

In truth, she could have claimed that her skill could only raise a person's Luck Value. But that would have made it too "flawless" and "harmless," which would easily arouse suspicion. Besides, she would need to use this skill to modify monsters' Luck Values when running dungeons in the future, so she had never intended to conceal it from the start.

Yu Xunge's rule did indeed extinguish much of people's malicious intent. On top of that, some had privately approached her, and even offers as high as twenty million had failed to make her break her rule. In time, everyone believed it and simply thought she was clever, tactful, and cautious.

More importantly, she could still be considered half a member of the Su Family. She was not someone they could casually touch.

Yu Xunge had never expected that the skill that had killed her in her previous life could make her money in this one.

As the third closed beta ended, Yu Xunge no longer worried about others discovering that she was a player. The Su Family and those who needed her God-Bestowed Talent would protect her.

Her God-Bestowed Talent was not particularly threatening, but it was unique enough that, like divination, it might be useful someday. Moreover, she did not keep it hidden and openly ran this business. Anyone could find her whenever they needed her. Even if they needed cannon fodder, it would not be her turn to be pushed out.

More importantly, there were plenty of players with no background. There was no need to go to great lengths to capture someone who had dealings with the major families.

Yu Xunge was making money far faster than she had as a celebrity. When trading with people, she only wanted cash. Even though any one of those people could gather weapons more easily than she could, she would rather go through the trouble of buying them herself after receiving the money.

What if they mutated later? It was like buying a lottery ticket. Someone owed her two dollars, and she asked them to buy her a lottery ticket as repayment. Then it ended up winning the jackpot!

People would not think Yu Xunge had been farsighted. They would only think Yu Xunge had stolen their good fortune. If they discovered that a weapon they had traded to her had mutated after the Game Invasion, then if it was ordinary, fine. But if it had decent attributes, they might even demand that she return it.

Yu Xunge felt that if it were her, she would probably be furious to death.

Every day, she now set aside two to three hours to use this skill for extra income, saving all the money in preparation for another trip to Thailand at the end of November. There were plenty of bizarre things there, and she wanted to get some and stockpile them in the hopes that they would mutate.

But before that, she planned to buy back one of her old costumes.

When she had first debuted, she had played a supporting role as a female secret guard hopelessly in love with the male protagonist in a drama. It had only thirty-six episodes, and in thirty-five of them, she wore black clothes and black boots. It had been a low-budget historical drama, but it unexpectedly became a minor hit. She had also risen to fame because of it, gradually climbing from a newcomer to a third-tier celebrity.

Popular dramas often sold the protagonists' costumes to recoup costs. This outfit had been bought by one of her fans back then. In her previous life, after all sorts of damaging scandals were "exposed" about her, that fan had been heartbroken and stopped supporting her, then sold the outfit. After the Game Invasion, the outfit that someone else had bought mutated into an exceptional Little Blue Outfit.