Recaps

Yu Xunge infiltrated the Han family manor to steal Han Qianshan’s attributes and complete the Soros set, which merged into an S-rank pocket watch. After escaping, she considered how to torment Han Qianshan and Han Qianhai in revenge.

• Yu Xunge rode an SF Express truck to the Han family manor and found Han Qianshan.
• Yu Xunge reduced Han Qianshan’s Luck, stole attributes, and obtained the Soros Hat, completing the set.
• The Soros set merged into Soros’s Time, an S-rank pocket watch with disguise, inspection, concealment, and teleportation skills.
• Yu Xunge stole Constitution from Han Qianshan and Han Qianhai, then used Phantom Shift to return to the massage parlor.
• Yu Xunge realized Yu Xunhuan’s timing during her past enslavement seemed suspicious and decided she wanted to torment the Han siblings before killing them.

Yu Xunge told Yu Xunhuan about Ye Dong’s voice-related talent and then focused on learning alchemy and cooking while preparing to leave her old life behind. After retiring from entertainment, she denied online rumors and explained that she simply wanted to rest and live on her savings.

• Yu Xunge told Yu Xunhuan that Ye Dong’s sudden gaming improvement might come from a voice-related God-Bestowed Talent, and left him to handle the friendship himself.
• Yu Xunge returned home alone and began studying beginner and intermediate alchemy formulas, watching the Undead Female Mentor’s videos repeatedly.
• Yu Xunge practiced cooking for the stray cats and discovered that some of her dishes and cookies could improve focus or grant other short-lived buffs.
• In August, Yu Xunge terminated her entertainment contract and announced her retirement, suspecting that staying out of public view was safer.
• Yu Xunge answered online speculation by denying that she had been harmed or had a wealthy partner, and said she had enough savings to live as she wished.

After quitting the entertainment industry, Yu Xunge moved into her remote large villa and bought a small apartment in the city, telling her family she had sold the villa to fund her search for a cure for Yu Xunhuan. When Yu Qingshan tried to borrow money and asked her to sell the large villa to Yu Xunhuan, she demanded seventy million, leaving him unable to pressure her into giving it away.

• Yu Xunge told Yu Qingshan, Yi Qiuguo, and Yu Xunhuan that she planned to sell her small villa and use the money to find players who might cure Yu Xunhuan.
• Yu Xunge cooked for the family and reassured them that she had enough savings to live on; Yu Qingshan gave her fifty thousand in pocket money, while Yi Qiuguo offered her a room at home.
• Yu Xunge sold her small villa in mid-August, moved to her large villa with the Meow Meow Hostel, and bought a small house in the city center.
• Yu Qingshan realized from Yu Xunge's high WeChat step count that she had moved and asked to borrow money; Yu Xunge refused, saying she needed funds in case she found someone who could cure Yu Xunhuan.
• Yu Qingshan asked Yu Xunge to sell her large villa to Yu Xunhuan, and she agreed only for seventy million; Yu Qingshan denied expecting her to give it away and ended the call.

Yu Xunge stockpiled rare firearms and other weapons in Hong Kong City, then returned to S City and warned Yu Xunhuan to keep his phone with him on possible closed-beta dates. She planned to use Phantom Shift to establish an alibi and ensure he missed the third closed beta.

• Yu Xunge bought a pair of meteorite Desert Eagles and commissioned large quantities of ammunition, arrows, and crossbow bolts.
• Yu Xunge continued raising her Alchemy skill while spending September acquiring and storing weapons.
• Yu Xunge returned to S City on October 1 and spent time feeding the cats at Meow Meow Hostel.
• Yu Xunge decided to establish an alibi before the October 10 closed beta and considered using Phantom Shift to travel.
• Yu Xunge visited the Yu Family villa and warned Yu Xunhuan to keep his phone with him on October 10 and other likely closed-beta dates.
• Yu Xunhuan thanked Yu Xunge and escorted her back to her villa.

Yu Xunge raced back to S City to stop Yu Xunhuan from entering the game, but arrived too late and discovered his Food God talent. She stole part of it before killing her avatar, leaving her to face the consequences of taking an incomplete talent.

• Yu Xunge drove to Jiang City, then began hundreds of exhausting Phantom Shifts toward S City, fighting the force that kept pushing her off course.
• After suffering the Weakness status, Yu Xunge reached S City and searched Yu Xunhuan’s room and the Yu Family home before finding him entering the game in a secret room.
• Yu Xunge used Fate Gear on Yu Xunhuan, placed her shadow with him, and discovered through its perspective that his God-Bestowed Talent was Food God (SS-rank).
• Yu Xunge disguised herself as a Blood Elf, followed Yu Xunhuan into Silvermoon City, and used Thief God's Theft on his avatar.
• Yu Xunge successfully stole two of Yu Xunhuan’s five Food God skills, leaving the talent incomplete, then detonated explosives beneath her avatar and died.

Yu Xunge escaped Silvermoon City while severely weakened, exchanged with goblins for 10,000 gold, and discovered that Food God’s fourth skill had caused people in her past life to direct their negative feelings toward her. She rested while watching Yu Xunhuan use his cooking to siphon other people’s fortune and recover from her alteration of his Luck Value.

• Yu Xunge failed to steal Yu Xunhuan’s talent because its rank was too high, then traded with goblins for 10,000 gold and logged out near the city wall.
• Yu Xunge opened her Character Panel and discovered Food God’s skills, including one that transferred diners’ negative emotions to someone who trusted her.
• Yu Xunge realized that Yu Xunhuan’s skill had helped make his women and brothers hostile toward her in her previous life, but she refused to forgive them for their actions.
• Yu Xunge drank a health potion, put on a cooldown-reducing necklace, crawled under her bed to rest, and watched Yu Xunhuan through her shadow.
• Yu Xunhuan cooked low-level food for passersby, gained gold and Green Gear from their fortune, and used his proceeds to learn Jewelry Processing and Alchemy.

With the third closed beta nearing its end, Yu Xunge spent her remaining time gathering gold, completing Hechipa’s alchemy test, and buying skills and items for her future plans. She logged off at 17:03 after spending nearly all her money and dismissing the shadow in the treasure room.

• Yu Xunge collected gold from goblins, learned Blood Moon City recipes, and completed Hechipa’s quest by submitting twenty different potions.
• Hechipa rewarded Yu Xunge with her alchemy notes and a bindable potion bag after taking 3,000 gold from her.
• Yu Xunge bought a Joyful Witch’s Bed as a wedding gift for Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan, then purchased fifty Binding Stones and every available cooking recipe she had not learned.
• Yu Xunge bought Explosive Arrow, Push Shot, and the S-rank Soul Resistance skill, leaving herself with 23 gold.
• Yu Xunge spent her last 23 gold on herbs for advanced Revealing Potions, logged off, and dismissed the shadow in the treasure room.

After the closed beta ended, Yu Xunge checked on her family and learned that Yu Xunhuan had lost most of his God-Bestowed Talent. She stayed near a police station until her weakened state ended, while her family dealt with the destruction he had caused.

• Yu Xunge used food buffs, traveled to Xinjiang, and bound the Soros Pocket Watch with a Binding Stone.
• Yu Xunge called Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo, who praised her, while she remembered how they had mistreated her in her previous life.
• Yu Xunhuan discovered that four of his five skills had turned gray, smashed valuables throughout the Yu Family estate, and fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Yu Qingshan fainted after seeing his ruined treasure vault, and Yi Qiuguo called Yu Xunge to report that both Yu Xunhuan and Yu Qingshan had been hospitalized.
• Yu Xunge offered medicine for Yu Xunhuan, stayed in a hotel opposite a police station while reading Hechipa's Alchemy Notes, and left after her weakened state ended on the afternoon of the 12th.

Yu Xunge uncovered how her family had used their talents and schemes to exploit her luck and keep her from joining the game’s closed betas. She watched Yu Xunhuan rehearse his wedding and gave him and Su Yitong an unexpected game item, while secretly waiting for his carefully suppressed emotions to break.

• Yu Xunge gave Yu Qingshan Minor Healing Potions and learned that Yi Qiuguo’s fire-related talent had helped Yu Xunhuan exploit her through food.
• Yu Xunge realized Yu Xunhuan and the others had arranged distractions around the closed beta dates, then resolved to repay them for their schemes.
• Yu Xunge learned that Yu Qingshan’s Liar talent and ability to identify lies matched what he had told her before.
• Yu Xunge watched Yu Xunhuan rehearse his wedding to Su Yitong and took satisfaction in seeing him suppress his emotions.
• Yu Xunge led Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan into a dressing room and gave them a blush-inducing bed from the game, earning Yu Xunhuan’s gratitude.

Yu Xunge attended Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan’s wedding, secretly stealing stats from the players at the banquet while keeping a low profile. She returned home afterward and cooked for Meow Meow Hostel, while Yu Qingshan remained despondent over the family’s losses.

• Yu Xunge visited Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan’s new villa, noticed its upgraded security, and promised to maximize Su Yitong’s Fate on the wedding day.
• Yu Xunge praised Su Yitong’s gifts at dinner, while Yu Xunhuan struggled with his God-Bestowed Talent dropping from SS-rank to SB-rank and Yu Qingshan remained withdrawn.
• On the wedding day, Yu Xunge and Yu Qingshan helped manage the guests as the Su Family came to collect Yu Xunhuan.
• Liang Yuchuan attended the wedding with her right arm concealed, and the Liang Family continued to suspect that the Su Family was connected to her injury.
• Yu Xunge used her pocket watch’s Probe skill to steal stats from thirty-seven players at the banquet, gaining 2 Constitution, 2 Strength, and 1 Intelligence.
• After the wedding, Yu Xunge took her parents home and added several dishes to Meow Meow Hostel’s menu.

Yu Xunge trained in combat and archery while preparing for the coming Game Invasion, and her family adjusted to their new fortunes and problems. The chapter ended with Yu Xunge realizing she and her mother had forgotten to look into the requests from Yu Xunhuan and Yu Qingshan.

• Yu Xunge reviewed her attributes and planned to study fighting, shooting, cooking, and her profession before the Game Invasion.
• Yu Xunge trained in combat and archery, quickly improving her accuracy while deliberately hiding her guaranteed critical hit on every seventh strike.
• Yu Qingshan sealed away the fragments and began asking around for players and ways to repair objects.
• Yi Qiuguo asked Yu Xunge for money for a bag, so Yu Xunge tagged Yu Xunhuan and asked him for money for a gun.
• Yu Xunhuan transferred money to Yu Xunge and Yi Qiuguo and asked them to investigate God-Bestowed Talents, while Yu Qingshan paid them to seek repair methods.
• Yu Xunge and Yi Qiuguo forgot both requests, and Yu Xunge scolded herself in the group chat.

Yu Xunge chatted with her family about the expensive bed she had given Yu Xunhuan, then reflected on how her memories of her previous life had distorted her view of them. After resuming shooting practice, she sensed someone trying to divine information about her and later dealt with Liu Zhengliu, while keeping her training and daily life low-key.

• Yu Xunge told Yu Qingshan, Yi Qiuguo, and Yu Xunhuan that the bed was a costly wedding gift, and Yu Xunhuan thanked her and asked her to buy similar items in the future.
• Yu Xunge remembered the affection her family had shown her and realized how her past life's betrayal had made her misjudge them.
• Yu Xunge returned to shooting practice and sensed a young man with a buzz cut trying to divine information about her, but her Soros Pocket Watch blocked him.
• Yu Xunge went to a restaurant, where her striking presence drew attention from other diners and passersby.
• Liu Zhengliu asked Yu Xunge to work with her again, but Yu Xunge confirmed she was not a player, rejected her, and used a Fate Gear to reduce her Luck Value to 1.
• Yu Xunge avoided taking cooking lessons and continued practicing combat and shooting while stray cats began gathering in her villa's backyard.

Yu Xunge used Fate Gear for the Su Family and received payment, while sensing that the man whose Luck she changed was divining information about her. The Liang and Su families had secretly joined forces after both were attacked, but they remained wary of each other over the incidents.

• Yu Xunge hired a cleaner, watched her carefully, and memorized two cats she recognized from before.
• Su Yitong offered Yu Xunge one million yuan per job, and Yu Xunge agreed to help only by raising Luck to 10 or lowering it to 1.
• Su Yitong brought Yu Xunge to a restaurant, where Yu Xunge raised a buzz-cut young man's Luck to 10 with Fate Gear.
• Yu Xunge received her payment and sensed the buzz-cut young man divining information about her, suspecting the Liang family and the Su Family had joined forces.
• The Liang family and the Su Family recalled the attacks on Liang Yuchuan and Su Yitong and the theft of gold bricks, then faced each other in silence.

Yu Xunge built a reputation and fortune by selling Luck buffs while the Su and Liang Families continued searching for the person behind their injuries. As the third closed beta ended, she planned to buy back the costume that had once helped launch her acting career, hoping it might mutate after the Game Invasion.

• Liang Yuchuan and Su Yitong concluded that someone with grudges against both families had framed them, and their relatives began investigating while the younger generation searched for clues.
• Su Yitong asked Yu Xunge to buff a diviner's Luck Value, but the attempt revealed nothing; the diviner instead won a lottery on the way home.
• Yu Xunge began using her Luck skill for wealthy clients, openly keeping to her rule that she would only give people good luck.
• As the third closed beta ended, Yu Xunge saved money for a trip to Thailand and decided to buy back the black costume from her breakout drama.
• Yu Xunge recalled that the costume had mutated into an exceptional Little Blue Outfit after someone else bought it in her previous life.

Yu Xunge bought back the black outfit from her first filming role and discussed money and game weapons with her family. When Yu Xunhuan invited her to dinner, she fled to Thailand, leaving him to face Su Yitong’s questions about his God-Bestowed Talent alone.

• Yu Xunge paid a fan one hundred and fifty thousand yuan for the black outfit and brought it home.
• Yu Xunge refused Happy Autumn Fruit and Depressed Green Mountain’s requests for spending money, then asked whether they wanted weapons.
• Yu Xunhuan invited Yu Xunge to dinner while Su Yitong was away, but Yu Xunge booked a flight to Thailand and sent him her airport location.
• Yu Xunhuan recalled telling Su Yitong that his SS-rank God-Bestowed Talent was sealed, while keeping the skill he could still use secret.

Yu Xunge traveled to Thailand in disguise to search for sinister, historically significant items, hoping they might prove useful after the Game Invasion. After finding only dubious junk, she abandoned the plan and returned home, deciding to spend her remaining money on gold.

• Yu Xunhuan felt relieved that Yu Xunge had fled and decided to cook for Ye Dong using the ingredients he had bought.
• Yu Xunge disguised herself as a bald man in Thailand and paid a tour guide to find sinister items with long histories or stories.
• The guide showed Yu Xunge several supposedly cursed objects, including a Polaroid, a bloodstained Buddha amulet, a wolf fang, a veil, and a piece of durian shell.
• Yu Xunge paid 2,500 U.S. dollars for the items despite doubting the guide's stories, then abandoned her search and returned home less than a week later.
• Yu Xunge decided to use her remaining money to buy gold, reasoning that money would lose value after the Game Invasion.

Yu Xunge kept selling Fate Gear for gold while training in close combat and weapons, and she continued gambling on strange antiques. She agreed to boost the luck of one of Yu Xunhuan’s friends and invited her family to join them for dinner, reflecting on how Yu Xunhuan’s friendships had earned him many benefactors.

• Yu Xunge left Yi Qiuguo a latex mattress, refused dinner at the Yu Family villa, and began charging clients four jin of gold for Fate Gear.
• Yu Xunge used So Happy Now for wealthy clients and, during late-night visits, for Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo, while refusing to let either of them move into her villa.
• Yu Xunge improved her close-combat skills, switched to dagger training, and began learning to use crossbows and firearms.
• Yu Xunge kept buying broken antiques from Antique Street despite Yi Qiuguo warning that she would be easy to scam when she got old.
• Yu Xunhuan asked Yu Xunge to alter a friend’s Luck Value for five jin of gold, and she agreed while offering to pay for dinner herself.
• Yu Xunge picked up Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo before meeting Yu Xunhuan and his friend, and thought about how Yu Xunhuan’s introductions had won him help from many benefactors.

Yu Xunge adjusted Ye Dong’s Luck Value and considered how to turn Fate Gear into a business after the Game Invasion. She ended the chapter still wary of the skill’s risks as she continued caring for the cats in her backyard.

• Yu Xunhuan gave Yu Xunge a gold brick and asked her to help Ye Dong, who had been suffering a streak of bad luck.
• Yu Xunge raised Ye Dong’s Luck Value to 10 and realized Yu Xunhuan was using the favor to gain Ye Dong’s trust.
• Yu Xunge reflected on Liang Hui’s Fate Gear and planned to offer her luck-altering skill to players in S City after the Game Invasion.
• Yu Xunge returned home late and expanded the cats’ backyard shelter with heated beds, water, toys, climbing frames, and a retractable canopy.
• Yu Xunge continued weighing how to price Fate Gear and suspected its power carried risks comparable to role-playing.

Yu Xunge negotiated with Zhao Shuying and Wu Qingbai, who came on behalf of the state to secure access to her Fate Gear talent. Their refusal to explain why they needed it led her to suspect that the authorities had found a way to enter the game.

• After considering the value of her talent and the need to balance powerful factions, Yu Xunge invited two players who said they had played with her on October 10 into her villa.
• Zhao Shuying introduced herself and Wu Qingbai as representatives of the state, and Yu Xunge proposed selling them three of her four daily Fate Gear uses for three gold each.
• Wu Qingbai mentioned that the income would be taxed at 45%, prompting Yu Xunge to end the discussion while Zhao Shuying told him to stop talking.
• Zhao Shuying and Wu Qingbai tried to bargain down Yu Xunge's price, but they refused to explain why they needed her talent so badly.
• Yu Xunge guessed that the authorities' interest might be connected to the game and wondered whether they had found a way to enter it after the closed beta ended.

Yu Xunge learned that Zhao Shuying and Wu Qingbai could send her into the game, but they required payment in Fate Gear quotas for their services. She considered the costly trip to Gloom City and its dangers as she weighed whether to accept their terms.

• Yu Xunge asked Zhao Shuying and Wu Qingbai whether they could enter the game, then refused to join their organization because she wanted to remain independent.
• Zhao Shuying gave Yu Xunge a Skill Storage Stone, and Yu Xunge used So Happy Now to charge it before asking about the crystals’ cost.
• Zhao Shuying revealed that their group could send Yu Xunge’s real body through a portal to a house in Gloom City, Undead City, where death was real.
• Zhao Shuying explained that leaving Gloom City required additional disguises and that each portal trip cost fifty Fate Gear skill crystals, which her group would provide.

Yu Xunge agreed to travel to another world with Zhao Shuying and Wu Qingbai, taking on a large debt for the required crystals and signing a confidentiality agreement. As she prepared to leave, Su Yitong learned the authorities had requisitioned Yu Xunge’s Luck 10 skill but soon dismissed the matter.

• Yu Xunge negotiated the costs of crossing over, escaping the city, and returning, then signed a loan contract and confidentiality agreement with Zhao Shuying and Wu Qingbai.
• Yu Xunge investigated Zhao Shuying and Wu Qingbai, prepared her home and family for her absence, and traveled to the library where the teleportation gate would open.
• A military officer briefed the gathered players on commands, cooperation, loan repayments, and the confidentiality agreement before they crossed over.
• Su Yitong learned that the authorities had requisitioned Yu Xunge’s Luck 10 skill and asked Yu Xunhuan whether Yu Xunge was being paid.
• Su Yitong accepted that Yu Xunge was away on official business and abandoned her idea of bringing Yu Xunge into the Su Family.

Yu Xunge entered the portal expecting to be transformed into an animal and discovered the service came with a catch: the others were turned into cockroaches. After reaching a hidden base outside Gloom City, she learned that its operators offered a wide range of paid services to newcomers.

• Yu Xunge entered the portal and found the Short-haired Woman and a uniformed man waiting with a box full of cockroaches.
• The Short-haired Woman agreed to let Yu Xunge transform herself after explaining that the five-crystal charge covered her escort out of the city.
• Yu Xunge became a Cow Cat and waited with a black dog while the other players were transformed and escorted outside.
• The uniformed man led Yu Xunge and the others past low-level creatures to a hidden base inside a massive tree near Gloom City.
• The Short-haired Woman explained that newcomers could repay their loans at the base or continue cooperating with her group, and Yu Xunge examined their extensive price list.

Yu Xunge left the Treehouse Outpost to explore Gloom City, make a translator, and buy useful skills before deciding to level up. She ended the chapter facing a level 2 Bone Wolf in the wilderness.

• Yu Xunge paid 2 silver coins for a night at the Treehouse Outpost and received a Teleportation Stone and a costly pickup water ball from the man with glasses.
• Yu Xunge entered Gloom City disguised as a Cow Cat and found that her wanted poster still hung on the city wall.
• Yu Xunge made 3 gold coins in the goblin district, crafted a translator, and learned that the goblins had little money left to trade.
• Yu Xunge bought Clean and Renew and Water Creation skill books at the Auction House, then left the city to level up.
• Yu Xunge traveled away from Gloom City and the Treehouse Outpost and encountered a level 2 Bone Wolf.

Yu Xunge spent the day leveling in the forest, using her high Luck and combat skills to earn experience and equipment. She returned to the Treehouse Outpost at night, where she chose to pay for another stay with coins rather than trade away a valuable Fate Gear skill crystal.

• Yu Xunge hunted Bone Wolves for two hours, raising her experience from 0.001% to 0.268% and finding a Bone Bracer that increased Constitution by 1.
• Yu Xunge practiced against the monsters until her moving-target shooting improved, then pushed deeper into the forest to fight stronger, level 3 monsters.
• At 9 p.m., Yu Xunge arrived at the Treehouse Outpost and asked Xing Minglang whether the outpost bought translators; he told her it did not buy items.
• Xing Minglang offered Yu Xunge a month of free lodging, meals, and daily treatment in exchange for a skill crystal, but she paid two silver coins instead.
• After farming for ten hours, Yu Xunge had earned three pieces of equipment and reflected that her Luck 10 made her drops far better than they had been in her previous life.

Yu Xunge joined a late-night gathering to exchange information, then headed into the woods at dawn to hunt stronger monsters and practice hitting their vital points. She killed a level 4 Venomous Spider, gained experience and new boots, and decided she wanted to hunt even higher-level monsters.

• Yu Xunge brought steak noodles to a gathering with Xing Minglang and other players, where they exchanged information about dangerous hunting grounds.
• Yu Xunge left at six the next morning to search the woods for level 4 to 6 monsters and train her aim with a bow.
• Yu Xunge followed spider silk and killed a level 4 Venomous Spider with arrows and Magic Missiles.
• Yu Xunge found Silk Spider Boots with Intelligence and movement-speed bonuses and equipped them.
• Yu Xunge noted that stronger monsters granted experience faster and decided to seek out even higher-level prey.