The More You Steal, The Luckier You Get

She knew it. What kind of couple discusses private matters outside the bedroom?

The two of them ambled over and sat by the bed, their legs touching. Yu Xunge's mind was clear, not a ripple of emotion within her. Time to steal!

She stole four times in a row, and their health dropped to 16%.

The person on the bed had a face as yellow as parchment, while the one under the bed was as pale as if they'd been dead for three days.

She downed a potion. Afraid of making too much noise, she sipped it little by little.

Their health recovered to 76%.

Yu Xunge didn't stop chewing on the dried meat in her mouth.

She stole three more times.

Yu Xunge's mouth was practically splitting from smiling. She knew it! Last time she entered the game, she must have used up all her luck drawing a God-Bestowed Talent. She'd only succeeded a few times after hundreds of attempts in the game. Look at today! She'd only stolen a handful of times, not only getting 2 points of Luck but also an item!

[Soros Set - Mask (1/3)](A-rank): Upon use, this item allows you to disguise your character's status panel information. Once used, simply keep the item in your inventory to activate it. If the mask is lost, the disguise will fail. (Cannot be detected by items below A-rank. Note: For every additional piece of the Soros Set collected, the stealth level increases by 1.)

Seeing this item, Yu Xunge was ecstatic, even happier than when she'd gotten Luck points.

Items were different from equipment. Items had all sorts of strange effects; some worked just by being in the inventory, others required wearing them, and some even had bizarre conditions for activation. However, they didn't take up equipment slots, and some could be used in conjunction with equipment.

After the initial joy, a wave of lingering fear washed over her. This was a set. If there was a mask that could disguise the status panel, were there also parts like Soros's Eye or glasses for detection?

Yu Xunge took a steadying breath, waiting for the Minor Healing Potion's cooldown to end.

Fortunately, it was broad daylight, and the couple was just kissing, not doing anything else. Otherwise, she really would have dug a hole through the floor.

Perhaps everyone's luck for the day was fixed.

After stealing 2 points of Luck and an A-rank item, she lay hidden under the bed for an hour. When her health was low, she'd drink a potion or eat dried meat; when she had health, she'd steal.

At this moment, she truly understood the saying, "Love theft as you love life..."

Finally, she stole another point of Charisma.

Yu Xunge wasn't disappointed. Both Charisma and Luck were attributes that couldn't be increased with Attribute Points. The rarer, the better.

She didn't stop until the couple left the room. The family soon left together. Yu Xunge guessed they were going out to eat. She wondered if they'd called her. Anyway, her phone was turned off and stashed in her Game Inventory, so she'd just pretend she didn't know.

Crawling out from under the bed, her face pale and hair disheveled, Yu Xunge felt her current appearance would conservatively scare the life out of Yi Qiuguo, who had a weak heart.

She still had 16% health left and couldn't bear to use another potion.

Today, in order to steal Su Yitong's attributes and items/equipment, she'd drunk over twenty Minor Healing Potions and finished all twenty pounds of dried meat in her inventory. She felt like her face had gotten a whole size bigger.

Yu Xunge returned to her own bedroom and slept. She only woke up when the happy family of three had returned. She glanced at her talents; Armor Up! was already lit up. She first used her Disguise Skill to re-disguise herself as the previous burly man, changed her clothes, and then drank an Invisibility Potion before walking out of her bedroom, going downstairs, and out the door.

The door closed too loudly, so she left it slightly ajar, waiting for the people inside to discover it themselves.

Then, she headed straight for the stairs. By the time she reached the second floor, the potion had worn off, but her disguise was still active. Yu Xunge calmly walked out of the neighborhood carrying her toolbox.

Before Yu Xunge had even left the neighborhood, she'd used the Soros Mask to alter her player information.

Her current real stats were:

[Character]Yu Xunge (Level 0, 0.001%)
[God-Bestowed Talent]God of Thieves (S-rank)
[God-Bestowed Talent]Immortality (SS-rank) (Incomplete)
[Race]Human
[Racial Talent]Undead Will | Consume
[Health]: 100/100
[Mana]: 100/100
[Strength]: 5
[Constitution]: 7
[Intelligence]: 10
[Agility]: 12
[Luck]: 10 (Max)
[Charisma]: 10 (Max)
[Available Attribute Points]: 0

She couldn't be sure if others could see the specific skills of her talents, but she still made the changes.

Her disguised character panel was:

[Character]Yu Xunge (Level 0, 0.001%)
[God-Bestowed Talent]Broker (A-rank)
[Race]Human
[Racial Talent]Undead Will | Consume

[Health]:100/100

[Mana]:100/100

[Strength]:5

[Constitution]:7

[Intelligence]:7

[Agility]:7

[Luck]:5

[Charisma]:9

[Available Attribute Points]:0

Her stats had become extremely mediocre, but she hadn't changed her Charisma much. Reflecting now, even when disguised as a beggar during her escape, she seemed to have earned more money than others. A person's aura couldn't be hidden! Charming people were charming wherever they went.

Therefore, she didn't plan to make her Charisma stat too obvious. For now, she changed her Talent to the A-rank Broker, a very useful talent that wouldn't easily arouse suspicion in others.

If the God of Thieves talent were ever revealed, she would become public enemy number one among all players. No one would be willing to let someone who could steal their attribute values live.

She would modify it later after obtaining a more suitable God-Bestowed Talent through [Death Mimicry].

She placed the mask in the deepest part of her storage box. It would be her most precious item for a long time to come.

On her way home, Yu Xunge kept replaying her actions, wondering if she had any flaws. She meticulously recalled every detail from the day she was reborn on the 22nd.

The timing of her rebirth that day was too close to the game's internal testing. She hadn't had time to plan anything. Just getting home in time was difficult. If Yu Xunhuan knew the significance of that game, would he hate her?

She didn't care about Yu Xunhuan's hatred, but it was related to whether she could continue to hide within the factions of the male and female leads in the future. There were many opportunities that only the male and female leads could discover. Even if she couldn't ruin them, she could at least follow along and get a taste of it, making them lower their guard?

In the first two years after the Game Invasion in her previous life, Yu Xunhuan would occasionally take her to some secret realms and instances that were completely controlled by the Su, Han, and Liang families. She had indeed obtained many good things from Yu Xunhuan. Even though she now knew the locations of those instances, and could infiltrate those secret realms and instances using various potions and skills, many of the best items couldn't be obtained by a single person.

Especially some BOSSes that required the combined efforts of dozens or even hundreds of people to defeat...

Let her think... think about how Yu Qingshan and Yu Xunhuan had managed to win her trust over the years.

Yes, every time they profited from her, they would also "bleed" a little. For example, using the money she gave the family to buy a villa worth thirty million for her. Or when an instance appeared in the villa she gifted to Yu Xunhuan, he had taken her there too. But he claimed the instance had been taken by the Liang family, and he only had usage rights, allowing him to take her occasionally.

Even when the Su, Liang, and Han families jointly pursued her, he had risked his life several times to tip her off, allowing her to escape several minor crises.

Each time she avoided a crisis thanks to Yu Xunhuan's reminder, she would trust him a little more.

But now, looking back, her near-death experiences all happened after she had narrowly escaped a few minor crises...

So, should she give Yu Xunhuan a little taste of sweetness, a bait? After the Game Invasion, relying on her own strength and Yu Xunhuan's trust, she would have the opportunity to participate in some of the Su family's large-scale events and seize the chance to cause trouble.

There were also the two internal tests. This was actually the best opportunity. She could tell Yu Xunhuan this secret and then secretly thwart him. Throughout the entire process, she would only say a few words, which would earn his utmost trust while ensuring he gained nothing.

But wouldn't this allow Yu Xunhuan to make a comeback against the odds?

In fact, she knew the safest course of action was to kill Yu Xunhuan immediately, but she was truly unwilling!

When she used to read novels, she always mocked the protagonists for not directly killing their enemies first after being reborn. But now that it was happening to her, she understood. "A single sword strike to end all grudges"? Impossible. The immense hatred in her heart couldn't be resolved by simply killing Yu Xunhuan!

Sometimes, letting an enemy die quickly was a mercy to them.

She could let Liu Zhengliu get bogged down and temporarily put her aside, but she couldn't do that with Yu Xunhuan.

She didn't want to look forward; she wanted to look down. She wanted to crush Yu Xunhuan under her heel, making him only able to see the soles of her shoes, watching him suffer. Only by retaliating in kind could she quell the hatred in her heart!!

And his three women! And his five idiotic brothers!

If Yu Xunhuan died, she would still have to find them one by one!

More importantly, killing Yu Xunhuan was easy, but she couldn't fight the Su, Liang, and Han families alone. The best method was naturally to infiltrate them and make them fight amongst themselves.

But the more she thought about it, the more she felt that letting Yu Xunhuan participate in the internal testing early was too risky.

There had to be a way... Yu Xunhuan closed his eyes, trying hard to recall all the skills, items, equipment, or potions he had ever known.