Not just Yu Xunge—Yi Qiuguo and Yu Qingshan were used to it too. Every time, Yu Qingshan would bring out some liquor he had just bought and say, "This is a fine wine Uncle's always been reluctant to drink. Since you're Xunhuan's friend, Uncle will treat you like half a son. Come, let's have a drink, the three of us!"
He did not even change the glasses or the lines.
When they reached the private room, sure enough, it was Ye Dong, whom Yu Xunge had briefly met in B City not long ago.
Only, he looked haggard, as though he were about to fall apart.
His eyes lit up when he saw Yu Xunge, but his spirits quickly sank again. He had been unbelievably unlucky lately. He had not won a single game, and even favorable matches somehow ended in defeat because of all sorts of accidents. His scam involving his fans had blown up, the people he had offended in B City had come looking for him, and even when he hid at home and did nothing, he would choke while eating...
After everyone sat down, Yu Xunhuan looked even more anxious than Ye Dong, the person involved. He directly pulled out a small five-pound gold brick and handed it to Yu Xunge. "Sis, help my friend. He's been way too unlucky lately."
Yu Xunge did not refuse. She was worried Yu Xunhuan would seize the opening and take the gold brick back the moment she said she did not need it, without even going through the usual polite back-and-forth. Dodging Yi Qiuguo's frequent elbow jabs, Yu Xunge directly pocketed the gold brick before using her skill on Ye Dong.
How could someone who hung around the male lead have low luck?
Yu Xunge understood as soon as she thought about it. He had probably eaten Yu Xunhuan's cooking without paying for it.
For other people, a Dine and Dash meant eating without paying. Yu Xunhuan's Dine and Dash meant the tyrant secretly cooked for you and was terrified you might pay!
And paying for her to alter Ye Dong's Luck Value was the sweetener he offered Ye Dong—a timely helping hand that would make Ye Dong trust and appreciate him even more.
Tsk. He had used this same routine on her in her previous life.
But seeing Yu Xunhuan scheme against the brother who had once been as close to him as his own hands and feet, Yu Xunge only felt that she had made the right choice in coming today. She might even be able to eat two extra bowls of rice.
Yu Xunge decisively adjusted Ye Dong's luck to 10, letting him properly experience the charm of So Happy Now. Judging by Yu Xunhuan's manner, Ye Dong would probably become a frequent customer of this business in the future.
Even after the Game Invasion, she would still need to make money with this skill.
Would they not need So Happy Now when opening treasure chests after defeating bosses?
Yu Xunhuan, Yu Xunge, and even Su Yitong all had maxed-out luck, but of the three of them, two were the male and female leads, while the other had only risen from 8 to 10 through later development.
Most ordinary people had a Luck Value of 5. Yu Xunge had altered so many people's Luck Values recently and checked plenty of information through the Soros Pocket Watch. Even many accomplished big shots she had previously only seen on television had Luck Values of merely 7. Of course, that was understandable. Those who reached the top of the pyramid relied on their minds, family backgrounds, social skills, and hard work. Luck was merely the icing on the cake.
But opening treasure chests in games had nothing to do with intelligence, strength, family background, or appearance. It depended entirely on luck.
In her previous life, the Liang Family had kept Liang Hui's God-Bestowed Talent tightly concealed. They had very likely even specially prepared an item to hide his God-Bestowed Talent, which was why no one had managed to uncover it.
After all, even she had heard that the Liang Family had an exceptionally high chance of getting good items after clearing dungeons. Unlike other families, even the Su Family only had Su Yitong consistently open good items from chests. Once a dungeon run began, outsiders could not enter, and it was impossible to have the young miss come over to open the chests after the dungeon had been cleared.
The Liang Family had relied on its extraordinarily high chest drop rate to develop to only slightly below the Su Family, though no one knew why.
Only after Liang Hui had repeatedly used Fate Gear on her did Yu Xunge infer the effect of his God-Bestowed Talent Skill from her own experiences. When Liang Hui finally caught her, she asked him to confirm it. Seeing that she had already guessed most of his God-Bestowed Talent, Liang Hui admitted it. After all, she would soon be dead.
Come to think of it, Miss Liang had truly spared no expense to capture her, only for the Su Family to steal the prize in the end.
Yu Xunge had already decided to use this God Bestowed Skill to benefit the players of S City! As long as she controlled it properly, she could earn money four times a day. Successful people did not stay up late working, but players stayed up late gaming!
She still needed to think over the pricing. It could not remain this cheap, but it could not be excessive either. If she provoked jealousy, she could easily be ganged up on and killed.
Throughout the meal, Yu Xunge was lost in thought, refining her plan to make money with Fate Gear in her head.
Yu Xunge's attitude toward Ye Dong at the table was cold, but Ye Dong did not dare say much. Although he had not yet felt the wonders of Luck 10, Yu Xunge was also a player. Who knew whether he might need her God-Bestowed Talent in the future? No matter how dissatisfied he was, he held it in, at most muttering to himself that this woman was not sensible enough.
Yu Xunge did not care what Ye Dong thought. It was true that she wanted to turn him into a customer, but he was the one asking her for business, not the other way around. She was not short on customers.
Yu Xunhuan found nothing wrong with Yu Xunge's attitude either. Was this not better? Her attitude only highlighted how good a brother he was to Ye Dong.
It was already very late when they got home, but Yu Xunge still spent another hour preparing food for the cats in the backyard.
The weather was turning colder, and there were more and more cats in the backyard. She had simply commissioned a small pet villa to place there, then put the cat beds inside. The wooden house's floor was covered in heating pads. With so many cats, since they had come all this way, she could not possibly watch the strong ones sleep in beds while the weak ones could only freeze outside.
The backyard faucet had also been replaced with a sensor-operated one that would release water whenever a cat passed by.
Other than that, there was really nothing more she could do. Mm.
Squatting before the floor-to-ceiling window between the backyard and the villa, Yu Xunge wagged a finger at a Calico Cat outside that kept patting the door and window with its paw pads, trying to get in. "Don't even think about it."
—"Meow~"
"Impossible."
She rose coldly and left.
Over the past few days, Yu Xunge had been constantly renovating the cats' backyard. She bought some cat toys and climbing frames, then installed an automatically retractable canopy above. It could shield them from rain on rainy days without preventing them from basking in the sun when it was out.
She blamed her behavior on worrying that the cat beds might fail to mutate, which was why she was being so proactive and enthusiastic. It definitely was not because the cats had conquered her.
While keeping busy, she considered how to price Fate Gear after the Game Invasion. The more she thought about it, the more she felt her paranoia was acting up again. The more she considered Fate Gear, the more she felt its danger was no less than that of role-playing.
There was a reason why a God-Bestowed Talent that could only alter Luck Value and swap another person's attributes had been rated B.
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