Yu Xunge sat meditating with her back against her bedroom door. She waited until three in the morning before hearing movement outside, and immediately linked to Blinkered Flowerfinch's vision.
After waiting a while, she saw Yu Qingshan appear at the study door. First, he twisted the middle of one of the desk legs. Then he stood on a chair and fumbled around atop the bookcase for a while. Finally, he removed all the books from the third shelf and fiddled with a corner of it.
At that, the bookcase split open to either side, revealing an entrance wide enough for one person to pass through.
A while later, Yu Qingshan emerged carrying a vase.
After reversing the previous steps, the bookcase closed again. He carefully returned every book to its original place.
As soon as Yu Qingshan returned to his room, Yu Xunge got up. There were no cameras elsewhere in the Yu residence, but she did not know whether there would be any in the treasure room. To be safe, she changed clothes, put on gloves, and used Disguise Skill to turn herself into Yu Xunhuan before lightly entering the study.
As long as she knew the location and the order of the mechanisms, she could eventually figure it out. Before long, the bookcase opened.
Yu Xunge quickly stepped inside, leaving Blinkered Flowerfinch at the entrance to keep watch. It would call out at the first sign of movement.
After walking two meters, she reached another room. This was probably the secret room converted from the storage room next door. There was no door in this room; it seemed to have been deliberately sealed off, leaving only the passage to the study. The room was about the same size as the study and was piled full of wooden crates.
She had seen these wooden crates in her previous life. By then, she had already become a wanted criminal and had spent nearly half a year on the run, enduring the elements. Yet Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo had been busy moving the treasures they had accumulated over their lifetimes into the living room, preparing to transfer them the next day to the new villa Yu Xunhuan had bought for them. Their faces had been full of joy and pride.
Yu Xunge took out the matching cardboard boxes she had prepared beforehand, packed the contents of the wooden crates into them, then pressed her hand against the boxes. With a thought, she stacked them inside her Spatial Pack, leaving only empty wooden crates scattered across the floor.
After finishing everything, she closed the secret room and returned to her bedroom in satisfaction. She changed clothes, removed her disguise, and lay down smiling.
At last, she could get a good night's sleep.
On the twenty-sixth, Yu Xunge got up early and went out for a run to exercise.
She had to be present when Su Yitong came over today.
Because Su Yitong was also a Beta Tester. As the official wife of the male lead who married into the family, how could she possibly be lacking?
Though Yu Xunge still could not understand why a wealthy young lady would download a game with no promotion whatsoever in the middle of the night...
She could only guess that perhaps Yu Xunhuan had been playing at the time, so Su Yitong downloaded it to play with her boyfriend? Or perhaps, as the female lead, she naturally possessed great fortune?
During that time, the company called to inform her that the role she had played for less than three days had been given to someone else. Yu Xunge did not care. Compared to the entertainment industry, she had more important matters to handle.
At eleven in the morning, Yu Xunhuan brought Su Yitong over.
Yu Xunge had long hidden the hatred in her heart. She could even smile when she saw Su Yitong. She impressed herself.
But that was all. She could not bring herself to say anything fawning. Even though her younger brother had always said in her previous life that he had a difficult time in the Su Family, she could not bring herself to curry favor with the Su Family for his sake. She was not the one marrying into their family!
When Su Yitong had visited in her previous life, Yu Xunge had been upset over Liu Hongsheng. Who knew what Su Yitong had made of that? It was probably because she had been so distracted that day that when Yu Xunhuan led Su Yitong to believe she harbored improper feelings for her younger brother, Su Yitong had believed it so easily.
Today, Yu Xunge wore a smile of blessing throughout the entire visit. She even tried to steal from Su Yitong during the toast.
Good. Although she had failed to steal anything, the skill had definitely activated. She could clearly tell the difference between being unable to use it and having it fail.
It seemed Su Yitong was already a player.
Yu Xunge stole from her three more times, reducing her own HP to forty percent before stopping. One attempt succeeded.
When the system showed that the theft had succeeded, Yu Xunge only checked what she had stolen while lowering her head to shovel food into her mouth.
One point of Luck Value!!
Su Yitong had been a healer in her previous life. Yu Xunge had assumed the attribute she could steal today would most likely be Intelligence, but she had not expected Su Yitong's highest attribute to be Luck Value, which could not be allocated through stat points. And Luck Value could be stolen too?!
Perhaps at first, Yu Xunge had only used the skill at the cost of her HP to spite her enemy. But now she made up her mind. Even if she had to drink potions, she would keep stealing from Su Yitong until there was no more Luck Value left to steal!
This was extremely rare. No, it could even be said that this might be her only chance to steal Luck Value.
Luck Value was already difficult to raise as the highest value on one's attribute panel. Once everyone began leveling up and receiving stat points, with five stat points per level, anyone who casually put points into their best attribute would make this situation virtually impossible.
But that was exactly why she could not rush. The Su Family was beyond her current ability to contend with. Although, due to Thief God's passive effect, even if she stole something from Su Yitong now, Su Yitong would only remember losing it a day later.
But the Su Family was too powerful. In the future, she would not only steal from Su Yitong, but also from Yu Xunhuan and his group of brothers. If Yu Xunge were present for a long time the day before something went missing each time, and occasionally slipped away for a while as well—to drink Healing Potions—it would be an obvious flaw that could easily arouse suspicion.
Naturally, she had to start paying attention to such matters from her very first theft. Yu Xunge never believed in luck.
Thus, over the next hour, Yu Xunge acted as a good-luck mascot, occasionally offering a few blessings. Soon, after the meal ended and the group sat down to chat, Yu Xunge had Blinkered Flowerfinch use her backup phone to call her main phone. Then she pretended she needed to leave for work and departed.
She took the elevator downstairs and openly drove out of the residential complex under the cameras' watch.
Half an hour later, after restoring her HP by chewing jerky, Yu Xunge used Disguise Skill to become a burly middle-aged man. She returned to the complex, then took the stairs back to the floor where the Yu residence was located.
Through Blinkered Flowerfinch, which she had left in the Yu residence, she saw that no one was on the first floor. The group had no idea how they had so many secrets to discuss, but they were talking in the study.
Through Blinkered Flowerfinch, she could only vaguely make out words such as "Yu Family," "Su Family," and "marrying into the family."
There were no cameras in the hallway, but every apartment's security door now came with one.
Yu Xunge took a Minor Invisibility Potion from her backpack and drank it. This potion could only make someone invisible for five minutes and had a seven-minute cooldown, so she had to keep track of the time while using it.
After drinking the potion, not only did her body turn invisible, but the items she had been carrying when she drank it became invisible as well. She walked over, took out her invisible key, and opened the Yu residence's front door.
The door opened a crack as if pushed by the wind, then slowly closed again.
Yu Xunge timed it carefully as she walked to the study. They had not even shut the door.
Yu Qingshan sat behind the desk, while Yi Qiuguo and the others sat on several sofas. Relaxed smiles were on all their faces.
Yu Xunge softly moved to Su Yitong's side. At the moment Yu Xunhuan raised an arm to wrap it around her shoulders, Yu Xunge began stealing without pause!
She stole four times in a row, until her face turned pale and her HP dropped to twenty percent. She swallowed a Minor Healing Potion, restoring her HP to eighty percent, and continued!
Then she stole three more times in succession!
Success! Yu Xunge took a look, and wild joy surged through her heart. It was Luck Value again!
Was this what they meant by getting luckier the more you stole?!
Yu Xunge had been silently counting the time. There were still two minutes before the invisibility wore off, so she gently retreated from the room, entered Yu Xunhuan's bedroom, pulled aside the bedsheet hanging by the bed, and hid beneath it.
Her Luck Value on her personal panel had now reached ten. Two additional words appeared after it—maximum value.
Not long after Yu Xunge lay down, the Invisibility Potion wore off. She quietly waited for the Minor Healing Potion's cooldown to end while chewing jerky to rapidly restore her HP. Thanks to the meat, she could recover five HP per minute.
Five minutes later, when the potion's cooldown ended, her HP had already recovered to forty-five percent.
Yu Xunge did not rush to drink it. Instead, she continued eating the jerky in her pack. Only while her level was low could she steal so freely. Once her level became high and her HP reached several thousand, every additional theft from the same target would deduct a percentage of her HP. A Minor Healing Potion restored only sixty HP. At that point, she would need Intermediate Healing Potions, Advanced Healing Potions, or even Super Healing Potions to recover quickly, and the cost of each additional theft would become extremely expensive.
Just as her HP recovered to ninety-six percent, the bedroom door opened, followed by voices.
It was Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan.
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