Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge tested Phantom Shift, discovered her new Sharpshooter talent, and infected Yu Xunhuan with an incurable virus before the game’s arrival. She later knocked him out, destroyed Su and Liang’s remains, and went home, only then remembering she could have used Magic Missile.

• Yu Xunge used Phantom Shift to visit Yu Xunhuan’s hotel room, confirmed she could not steal from him, and left to wait outside the AIZ Disease Control Center.
• Yu Xunge discovered her Sharpshooter talent and its four powerful skills, then decided to practice with a bow or crossbow.
• Yu Xunge infected a man with an incurable virus, gave him a Basic Healing Potion, and later found Yu Xunhuan gone from his room.
• Yu Xunge returned at night, lowered Yu Xunhuan’s Luck, failed repeatedly to touch him, then used Knockout to put him to sleep.
• Yu Xunge burned Su and Liang’s remains with explosives by the sea and scattered the ashes into the water.
• Yu Xunge went home satisfied, then remembered she could have used Magic Missile.

Yu Xunge staged a demonstration of her supposed game encounter to convince her family that she might have a way to cure Yu Xunhuan. The healing potion failed, but she left them believing in her secret and concealed her real talent and intentions.

• Yu Xunge replaced the stolen treasures in Yu Qingshan's study with convincing fakes and fake gold bars.
• Yu Xunge gathered Yu Qingshan, Yi Qiuguo, and Yu Xunhuan at the hotel and claimed that items and abilities from a vanished game had appeared in the real world.
• Yu Xunge used a small pouch to produce oversized lunch boxes and a healing potion, which Yu Xunhuan drank without effect.
• Yu Xunge said she had drawn a talent that could change someone's luck, and offered to raise Yu Xunhuan's luck to its maximum value.
• Yu Xunge kept the pouch to herself, while Yu Xunhuan, Yu Qingshan, and Yi Qiuguo felt moved by her apparent honesty.
• Yu Xunge decided she would eliminate Yu Qingshan or Yi Qiuguo if either of them won a talent lottery.

Yu Xunge told her family about the game and helped Yu Xunhuan think through the danger surrounding Su Yitong. She continued secretly stealing attributes and training her profession skills, but ran out of herbs for Alchemy.

• Yu Xunge explained the game to Yu Qingshan, Yi Qiuguo, and Yu Xunhuan, and the family discussed preparing for possible chaos.
• Yu Xunhuan reported that someone had cut off Su Yitong's ear, and the family considered whether the Su Family's enemies had targeted him as well.
• Yu Xunge advised Yu Xunhuan to proceed with joining the Su Family despite his suspicions and worries.
• Yu Xunge used Disguise, invisibility, and Phantom Shift to visit the Su Family and House Liang, stealing 1 Intelligence from Su Yitong and 1 Strength from Liang Yuchuan over a month.
• Yu Xunge trained Alchemy, Engineering, Cooking, archery, and Fishing, but her Alchemy practice stalled when she used up her game-bought herbs.

Yu Xunge struggled to master advanced alchemy before restarting her beginner and intermediate recipes. At a dinner summoned by Su Yitong, Su Yitong investigated Yu Xunge and accepted Yu Xunhuan’s claim that Yu Xunge had trusted him with the game’s secret, while hiding her own closed-beta participation.

• Yu Xunge found advanced potion-making unpredictable and decided in July to relearn every beginner and intermediate recipe.
• Su Yitong summoned Yu Xunge to dinner with Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo, arriving later with Yu Xunhuan.
• Su Yitong used her B-rank investigation glasses on Yu Xunge and saw a character panel showing only 0.001% experience.
• Yu Xunhuan told Su Yitong that Yu Xunge had shared the game’s secret with him around the ninth or tenth, and that she had also invited Su Yitong to meet.
• Su Yitong believed Yu Xunhuan’s explanation and softened toward Yu Xunge, but kept her own closed-beta participation secret from him.

Yu Xunge worried that scouting items could expose her talents, so she made plans to search for the Han family's youngest woman and secretly stole attributes from Su Jinxuan. She left the night with increased Agility and Intelligence, still at level 0.

• Yu Xunhuan told Yu Xunge and Yu Qingshan that he suspected Su Yitong was a player because her missing ear had healed.
• Yu Xunge grew anxious that an S-rank scouting item could reveal her talents and decided to look for the Han family's youngest woman the next day.
• Unable to sleep, Yu Xunge turned into a goblin, made her daily coins, and went invisible to search the Su Family home.
• Seeing Su Jinxuan reminded Yu Xunge of how Yu Xunhuan had used her to draw fire during raids, and she suspected he had tried to provoke her into replacing Su Jinxuan.
• Yu Xunge used [Wheel of Fortune] to lower Su Jinxuan's Luck to 1, then repeatedly used [I Want This, This, and This] to steal 3 Agility and 1 Intelligence from him.

Yu Xunge stole attributes and equipment from Su Jinxuan and Liang Yuchuan, then flew to B City to investigate a possible player. She tried to find the Dark Market using Gun King’s directions but was thrown out after offering cash, and learned she needed two grams of gold.

• Yu Xunge stole 4 attribute points and a Constitution belt from Su Jinxuan, then stole a Constitution item from Liang Yuchuan.
• Yu Xunge fed the cats, drove to the airport, and told Yu Qingshan and the others she was going to Beijing to investigate a possible player.
• A young fan recognized Yu Xunge at the airport, and Yu Xunge chatted with her before boarding.
• Yu Xunge recalled how the Han siblings and others had mistreated her and decided to deal with the Han family.
• In B City, Yu Xunge followed Gun King’s directions to a McKen King to find the secret passage, but the attendant threw her out when she offered cash.
• Gun King told Yu Xunge that the passage required two grams of gold, and she regretted not being told earlier.

Yu Xunge infiltrated the Han family to steal Han Qianshan’s final Soros set piece, which combined with her other pieces into the S-rank item Soros’s Time. After escaping, she decided to prolong her revenge against Han Qianshan and Han Qianhai rather than kill them quickly.

• Yu Xunge rode an SF Express truck to the Han Family Manor and sneaked into Han Qianshan’s room.
• Yu Xunge lowered Han Qianshan’s luck, used her theft skill, and obtained the Soros Set: Top Hat.
• Yu Xunge combined the top hat with the Soros Set: Glasses and Soros Set: Mask to create the S-rank item Soros’s Time.
• Yu Xunge stole Constitution points from Han Qianhai until dawn, then left the manor and returned to the massage parlor.
• Yu Xunge considered how to torment Han Qianshan and Han Qianhai before killing them.

Yu Xunge damaged Ye Dong’s mutated figurine and repeatedly stole attributes and equipment from the Han siblings while staying in B City. After receiving her DNA test results, she returned to the airport, where Yu Xunhuan was waiting for her.

• Yu Xunge remembered Ye Dong’s powerful figurine and decided his past harassment did not deserve death, so she broke off its arms, removed its hair, and discarded the pieces.
• Yu Xunge watched Han Qianshan and Han Qianhai complain that their attributes and equipment had been stolen, then fainted Han Qianshan and continued stealing from the Han family each night.
• Yu Xunge learned that her disguised DNA was only 99.5% similar to her real DNA and concluded she would not need to wear a swim cap when using her disguise skill.
• After a week in B City, Yu Xunge arrived at the airport and found Yu Xunhuan waiting with a cold breakfast, looking tired from waiting for her.

Yu Xunge told Yu Xunhuan that their longtime friend Ye Dong might have a sound-related talent, then returned home to study alchemy and cooking. She retired from the entertainment industry and publicly explained her decision, leaving her focused on her new life out of the public eye.

• Yu Xunge told Yu Xunhuan that Ye Dong’s sudden improvement as a streamer might come from a voice-based talent, and left it to him to decide how to approach his friend.
• Yu Xunge planned to sell her villa and buy an apartment near a dungeon entrance, then began studying beginner and intermediate alchemy formulas at home.
• Yu Xunge practiced cooking for months, mastered hundreds of recipes, and made focus-boosting cookies to improve her studies.
• In August, Yu Xunge terminated her company contract and announced her retirement from the entertainment industry.
• Yu Xunge answered questions about her retirement, denying that she had been harmed, married into money, or left because of financial trouble.

Yu Xunge left the entertainment industry, moved into her remote large villa, and told her family she planned to find players and seek treatment for Yu Xunhuan. After selling her small villa, she guarded her money when Yu Qingshan tried to borrow it and offered to sell Yu Xunhuan the large villa for seventy million.

• Yu Xunge told Yu Qingshan, Yi Qiuguo, and Yu Xunhuan that she planned to sell her small villa and focus on finding players and a treatment for Yu Xunhuan.
• Yu Xunge hosted the family at her villa, and Yu Qingshan gave her five hundred thousand while Yi Qiuguo assured her she could always return home.
• Yu Xunge sold the small villa, moved her belongings and Meow Meow Inn to the large villa, and bought an apartment in the city center.
• Yu Qingshan noticed Yu Xunge's high WeChat step count and asked to borrow money, but she transferred him only 888 and refused to lend more.
• Yu Qingshan proposed buying Yu Xunge's large villa for Yu Xunhuan, and Yu Xunge offered it for seventy million, leaving Yu Qingshan to hurriedly deny that he expected it for free.

After Yu Xunge’s alchemy experience began improving, she stopped pushing herself so hard and focused on preparing for the game’s invasion. She spent most of her Harbor City funds acquiring antique bows, crossbows, and Meteorite Pistols, leaving her ready to see whether any would mutate into powerful equipment.

• Yu Xunge realized that watching alchemy videos increased her experience and resumed brewing Minor Potions with greater freedom.
• Yu Xunhuan moved into Yu Xunge’s villa complex, and Yu Xunge offered to buy appliances for his bare villa while keeping her suspicions to herself.
• Yu Xunge decided to spend her Harbor City funds on weapons rather than stockpile goods, since she did not want to profit from the coming disaster.
• Yu Xunge flew to Harbor City and hired a Broker to search for famous blades, bows, crossbows, and high-end firearms.
• Yu Xunge spent five hundred million Hong Kong dollars on twenty-one bows and twenty-seven crossbows, and she also bought two Meteorite Pistols.

Yu Xunge stockpiled weapons in Harbor City while continuing her Alchemy training, then returned to S City and warned Yu Xunhuan to stay alert for possible closed betas on special dates. She left after urging him not to slack off before the upcoming October 10 beta.

• Yu Xunge bought a pair of custom Meteorite Desert Eagles, commissioned thousands of rounds and other ammunition, and stockpiled dozens of weapons.
• Yu Xunge spent September acquiring weapons while practicing Alchemy, which increased her daily experience gain from five points to seven.
• Yu Xunge resolved to keep Yu Xunhuan from joining the third closed beta on October 10, before his October 18 wedding to Su Yitong.
• Yu Xunge returned to S City on October 1 and fed the cats at Meow Meow Inn.
• Yu Xunge visited the Yu Family villa on October 4 and warned Yu Xunhuan, Yu Qingshan, and Yi Qiuguo that special dates such as October 10 might bring another closed beta.
• Yu Xunhuan thanked Yu Xunge for the warning and escorted her back to her villa.

Yu Xunge raced back to S City to stop Yu Xunhuan from entering the third closed beta, but arrived too late and discovered his SS-rank [Food God] talent. She stole part of it, then deliberately killed her avatar to test the incomplete talent.

• Yu Xunge drove to Border City, then used hundreds of Phantom Shifts to return to S City despite severe exhaustion and a mysterious force diverting her route.
• Yu Xunge reached Yu Xunhuan’s secret room at 10:11 a.m. and saw him enter the game before she could stop him.
• Yu Xunge used [Wheel of Fortune] on Yu Xunhuan, planted her shadow in his shadow, and discovered that his God-given talent was [Food God] (SS Rank).
• Yu Xunge followed Yu Xunhuan’s avatar through Silvermoon City and successfully stole part of his talent, gaining [Food God] (SS Rank) (Incomplete).
• Yu Xunge left Silvermoon City, detonated explosives at her avatar’s feet, and received a death notification.

Yu Xunge discovered the abilities of her Food God talent and realized Yu Xunhuan had used one of its skills to transfer other people’s negative emotions onto her. She remained determined not to forgive those who had hurt her, then watched Yu Xunhuan exploit her altered Luck stat to gain fortune.

• Yu Xunge failed to steal Yu Xunhuan’s talent, gathered 10,000 gold from Goblins, and logged off before her disguise expired.
• Yu Xunge inspected her Food God talent and learned that its fourth skill transfers diners’ negative emotions to someone who trusts the cook, while its fifth skill claims unpaid diners’ fortune.
• Yu Xunge understood why Yu Xunhuan and his associates had treated her cruelly, but refused to forgive them for acting on their malice.
• Yu Xunge rested beneath her bed while monitoring Yu Xunhuan through the shadows.
• Yu Xunhuan cooked food for passersby, then gained money, equipment, and new professions as their fortune flowed to him.

With the third closed beta nearing its end, Yu Xunge exchanged her remaining resources for gold, completed Heqipa’s alchemy test, and spent almost everything preparing for the future. She logged out at 17:03 after dismissing the shadow in the treasure room.

• Yu Xunge exchanged gold in Silvermoon City and Bloodmoon City, then learned Bloodmoon City’s specialty recipes.
• Yu Xunge submitted twenty potions to Heqipa, completed her quest, and received Heqipa’s Alchemy Notes and a bindable Potion Bag after giving her gold.
• Yu Xunge bought a D-rank soft couch as Yu Xunhuan’s wedding gift and purchased fifty Binding Stones.
• Yu Xunge bought cooking recipes and the Explosive Arrow, Knockback Shot, and Soul Resistance skills, spending nearly all her gold.
• Yu Xunge spent her last 23 gold on herbs for advanced revealing potions, logged out, and dismissed the shadow in the treasure room.

Yu Xunge returned to Jiangcheng after the closed beta and learned that Yu Xunhuan had lost most of his God-given skills. While her parents praised her for helping them, she waited out her weakened state at a hotel near the police station, then left for home once her stats recovered.

• Yu Xunge used a chocolate cream puff to boost her Constitution, traveled to Jiangcheng in disguise, and bound the Soros Pocket Watch with a Binding Stone.
• Yu Xunge called Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo, heard their praise, and privately recalled how much she had sacrificed for them in her previous life.
• Yu Xunhuan discovered that only one of his five Thief God skills remained, smashed valuables throughout the Yu Family residence, and collapsed from exhaustion.
• Yi Qiuguo found Yu Xunhuan asleep amid the destruction, and Yu Qingshan fainted after seeing the ruined family vault.
• Yu Xunge told Yi Qiuguo to ask Yu Xunhuan to use any medicine he had, then stayed at a hotel across from the police station while her weakened state lasted.
• After her stats returned to normal on the afternoon of the 12th, Yu Xunge paid someone to drive her car to S City and flew home.

Yu Xunge discovered how her family had manipulated her luck and kept her from joining earlier closed betas, then brought a provocative game item to Yu Xunhuan and Su Yitong’s wedding rehearsal. She left Yu Xunhuan grateful, while quietly waiting for her revenge to unfold.

• Yu Xunge inspected Yi Qiuguo and Yu Qingshan’s talents and realized their cooking and family meals had been used to benefit Yu Xunhuan while costing her luck.
• Yu Xunge recalled being sent away and kept busy around the dates of earlier closed betas, and resolved to repay her family’s schemes.
• Yu Xunge visited Yu Xunhuan’s wedding rehearsal and watched him hide his distress behind a smile.
• Yu Xunge took Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan into a dressing room and gave them a game item: a bed that made people flush.
• Su Yitong accepted the gift with shining eyes, and Yu Xunhuan gratefully recognized it as something he desperately wanted.

Yu Xunge attended Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan’s wedding, secretly stole attributes from thirty-seven players, and returned home to cook at the Meow Meow Inn. The wedding went ahead as Yu Qingshan remained devastated by the loss of his family’s treasures and Yu Xunhuan’s talent rank.

• Yu Xunge visited Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan’s marital home, promised to maximize Su Yitong’s luck on the wedding day, and praised her gifts at dinner with the Yu Family.
• Yu Xunhuan waited for Su Yitong to collect him on the eighteenth while Yu Xunge and Yu Qingshan staged a brief wedding gatecrashing.
• Yu Xunge noticed Liang Yuchuan at the banquet, where House Liang attended while continuing to investigate who had attacked her.
• Yu Xunge used her pocket watch to steal attributes from thirty-seven players at the banquet, gaining 2 Constitution, 2 Strength, and 1 Intelligence.
• Yu Xunge took Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo home after the banquet, then added several dishes to the Meow Meow Inn.

Yu Xunge trained in combat and shooting while preparing for the game’s invasion, and her family began searching for ways to use divine talents and repair damaged items. The chapter ended with Yu Xunge realizing that she and her mother had forgotten to follow up on their family’s requests.

• Yu Xunge reviewed her unusually high level 0 attributes and decided to study combat, shooting, cooking, and her profession while keeping the coming invasion secret.
• Yu Xunge trained in combat each morning and archery each afternoon, quickly improving her accuracy while concealing the critical hit on every seventh shot.
• Yu Qingshan recovered enough to seal away the fragments and began asking around for players and ways to repair objects.
• Yu Xunge teased her mother, Yi Qiuguo, by asking Yu Xunhuan for money for a gun, and Yu Xunhuan sent both women five hundred thousand.
• Yu Xunhuan asked the women to investigate divine talents, while Yu Qingshan asked them to look for repair skills or items; a week later, both men got no response because the women had forgotten.

Yu Xunge chatted with her family about the expensive bed she had given Yu Xunhuan, then reflected on how her previous life’s apparent family happiness had deceived her. After training and noticing someone try to divine information about her, she dealt with Liu Zhengliu’s return and kept her unusual cooking practice discreet.

• Yu Xunge told Yu Xunhuan, Yu Qingshan, and Yi Qiuguo that the costly bed was her wedding gift, and Yu Xunhuan asked her to look for similar items.
• Yu Xunge remembered how her family had seemed loving in her previous life and realized she had been deceived into repeatedly wronging herself.
• Yu Xunge sensed someone trying to divine information about her, and Soros Pocket Watch blocked the attempt as she glimpsed a young man with a buzz cut.
• Yu Xunge rejected Liu Zhengliu’s request to return to the entertainment industry and used a [Wheel of Fortune] to reduce Liu Zhengliu’s Luck to 1.
• Yu Xunge avoided hiring a cooking teacher, relying on the detailed videos from her cooking skill, while more cats gathered in her villa’s backyard.