Yu Xunge took time to make a trip to the Yu Family villa, leaving the latex mattress she had brought for Yi Qiuguo in the living room. Then she declined Yi Qiuguo's invitation to stay for dinner and headed straight for the gold shop.
Back when Yu Xunhuan had not yet become a player, she could naturally eat at the Yu Family's table. But now that Yu Xunhuan had... well... one-fifth of a God of Cooking Talent, she did not want to eat so much as a grain of rice from the Yu Family.
From that day on, whenever someone came looking for Yu Xunge to use Fate Gear, she accepted only gold. At the current price of gold, one million would be roughly three jin and eight liang. She simply rounded it up and asked for four jin of gold.
Su Yitong: "..."
That was the first time she had heard of someone rounding up like that. Besides, hearing the word "gold" now made her a little nauseous.
Still, rich people were not short on that bit of money.
After having their luck altered, many people had initially worried that they might be borrowing luck from their future. They might be lucky now, only to suffer bad luck later. Many had been watching and waiting, but as time passed, everyone realized there were no side effects. And even if their luck improved, it merely let them get what they wanted within a certain range. It would not allow them to achieve their goals without putting in any effort.
The effect was roughly like turning a headwind into a tailwind while someone was striving to climb to the heavens.
Take that buzz-cut young man who won the lottery. After scratching off one million for the first time that day, he immediately bought another ten tickets, but never won again.
Not only had Yu Xunge's God Bestowed Skill not gone unsold, more and more people came to buy it. Nobody needed it every day, after all. They simply wanted peace of mind when something important came up, wanted things to go smoothly, wanted to experience the sensation of everything falling into place as though they had divine help. Wasn't that far more useful than money trees and feng shui ornaments?!
During that time, Yu Xunhuan, Yu Qingshan, and Yi Qiuguo had also tried to pull strings and asked her to give them a So Happy Now so they could experience the bliss of Luck 10.
Yu Xunge readily agreed to such a small matter.
There were only twenty-four hours in a day, and the skill had a six-hour cooldown each time she used it. Most of those powerful and wealthy people—aside from those who needed to give birth in the middle of the night—wanted their luck boosted during the day. Even if people liked discussing business over meals, they would need her blessing by dinnertime at the latest.
She generally only took two orders a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. That way, she could earn gold without affecting her classes. Her clients sent cars to pick her up and take her back, and after using Fate Gear, she could simply have the driver take her to class.
The eerie late-night hours could be reserved for the Yu Family.
Yu Xunhuan could not make it over at night. With his persona as a younger brother who adored his sister, he could not very well make the murderous request that his sister come over at night, use a skill on him, and then go back home.
But Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo, who lived in the same villa complex, could!
During the first half of December, the two of them tirelessly took walks every day that somehow brought them to Yu Xunge's villa, where they asked her to use her skill on one of them.
It was just a wave of her hand. Yu Xunge was not worried that a few hours of luck would let either of them Defy Fate.
Yi Qiuguo even said that Yu Xunge had grown distant from them and had not registered either of their fingerprints for the villa.
Yu Xunge said that she had retired from the entertainment industry and could date now. She might bring boys home in the future, and it would be inconvenient.
Yi Qiuguo chuckled, wearing an expression that said she understood, and did not ask any more questions. The next second, she nudged Yu Qingshan with her elbow. "Why don't we go live over on Bauhinia Road for a while? Don't you always say you're afraid of disturbing the child?"
Yu Xunge: Was that an excuse I was supposed to hear?
Yu Xunge sent them out beyond the villa courtyard with a scrunched-up face, pretending not to see Yu Qingshan's bitter expression.
The Young Master would not do, and neither would the Old Master.
Tsk.
Through day after day of training, Yu Xunge had not only learned how to exert force more efficiently, but had also corrected many bad habits in close combat with her coach's help.
Her Strength attribute was now 10. Before, even when she went all out, she could only exert a strength of six or seven. But after learning proper techniques, she could now bring out at least ninety percent of her power.
Although she primarily fought at range, close-combat ability was equally important. She could not become useless the moment someone got close. She had learned plenty of moves too: horizontal elbows, jumping elbows, covering elbows, heart-piercing elbows, elbow strikes, turning butterfly elbows...
Yu Xunge only felt that she was terrifyingly strong now!
She had learned all the knowledge she could; what remained required long-term practice. So she switched instructors and began learning how to use daggers.
Likewise, she had learned all the knowledge related to bows and arrows. The rest depended on daily practice and insight. Yu Xunge then started learning shooting techniques for crossbows and firearms. What had happened in Thailand brought her floating heart back down to earth.
She had already stockpiled many weapons. Rather than gamble on those vague mutations with odds below one in ten thousand, she might as well study properly.
But saying that was one thing. Everyone had a gambler's streak.
Every day after class and dinner, Yu Xunge would drop by Antique Street on the way home. The more broken something looked, the more she bought it, hauling piles of junk home. Once, when she let Yi Qiuguo into the house to help clean up, Yi Qiuguo saw the heap of trash that even Yu Xunge herself could not be bothered to put into her Game Inventory and said that Yu Xunge would definitely get scammed into buying health supplements when she got old.
The male lead was gone, the third female lead was poisoned—she was taking the gamble.
Everyone had a bright future.
But one person looked as though he was about to shatter.
That day, Yu Xunge received a call from Yu Xunhuan. He asked whether she had time that evening to alter the Luck Value of one of his friends. He would pay her five jin of gold per use.
Why not? It was a costless business, and she would be getting money out of Yu Xunhuan. Of course she agreed.
Still, she guarded against one thing. Worried that Yu Xunhuan might say he wanted to treat her to dinner, she spoke first. "Business is business. There's no way I'm using this skill on your friend for free. But your sister will treat everyone tonight. We'll open a good bottle of wine."
At a restaurant where the per-person cost was over ten thousand, even with a bottle of wine worth over two hundred thousand, the total only came to one jin of gold.
Yu Xunge smoothed down her hair in the rearview mirror and nodded at her reflection. You really are generous!!
Then she turned the steering wheel and drove to the Yu Family villa, picking up Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo as well. She did not know who Yu Xunhuan's friend was, but she could guess with her toes that it was probably one of his buddies. She did not want to eat alone with them.
That idiot little brother acted like he was bringing his girlfriend home to meet the family. Every time he made a friend, he liked bringing that friend home for dinner, then pointing at her, Yu Qingshan, and Yi Qiuguo and saying, "Let me introduce you to my family."
In reality, Yu Xunhuan brought at least two different buddies home for dinner every semester, and every single one of them was handsome, rich, and tall.
Yu Xunge had always thought either there was something wrong with his brain, or he was gay.
Later, she realized this was called wisdom!
Because every one of those buddies had been moved to tears and given Yu Xunhuan a great deal of help.
Yu Xunge found Yu Xunhuan difficult to understand. Perhaps the many benefactors in his life were not due to luck alone.
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