Wheel of Fortune

Liu Zhengliu and Liu Hongsheng's case had reached a deadlock. Although tests showed that Liu Hongsheng's cause of death was unrelated to the knife wound on his body or his fall from the building, too many people had seen him escape from Liu Zhengliu's grasp. The blood on Liu Zhengliu's hands and her fingerprints on the knife handle were indisputable.

Liu Zhengliu would not be getting out anytime soon. What was more, Liu Hongsheng's wife had openly declared that she wanted Liu Zhengliu sent to prison. The incident had grown too big, and it had happened beneath an entertainment company's building. In just a few days, it was already showing signs of blowing up online.

Her manager was gone, no one was managing her anymore, and the only role she had in hand had been snatched away by someone backed by resources. She was more than happy to be free.

The two biggest idiots in that company, one was dead and the other was under investigation. In her previous life, those two had worked together to create all the dirt on her. The other executives had wanted to lend her a hand—who went after their own artist instead of anyone else? Even if they had too much money, that was not how they should burn it. But at the time, she had only half a year left on her contract. Liu Zhengliu said she wanted to terminate it and switch companies, so those people fell silent and let the two of them do as they pleased.

Yu Xunge planned to slack off for half a year, wait for her contract to end, and leave the entertainment industry.

She had been busy lately. Yesterday, she had spent the whole day thinking about what could both earn Yu Xunhuan's trust and keep him in check.

The first thing she ruled out was altering memories. Even if she altered Yu Xunhuan's memories, or even Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo's memories of the twenty-second, the surveillance footage could not be faked. Yu Xunhuan was exceedingly suspicious by nature, cautious to the bone. Once he became suspicious, he would definitely check the surveillance footage from that day. If it conflicted with his false memories, not only would she fail to gain Yu Xunhuan's trust, it would become ironclad proof that she had deliberately schemed against him.

In her previous life, the Su Family, Han family, and House Liang had all sent people after her. The most troublesome of them had not actually been the Su Family. Although the Su Family had sent many people, they were easy enough to handle as long as she avoided them. The truly difficult ones were the people House Liang sent. It was not only because Liang Yuchuan was vicious by nature, but because someone in House Liang possessed an utterly, utterly disgusting talent!!!

Even now, thinking of that person made Yu Xunge's head spin and cold sweat break out, as if she had spent an entire day studying advanced mathematics.

[Wheel of Fortune] (B-rank)

[Skill 1] Happy Again, Aren't You?: Select a target and use the skill to spin their Wheel of Fortune, altering the target's luck for the day. Duration: 6 hours. Cooldown: 6 hours. (You may choose whether to hide the target's altered fortune value from them.)

[Skill 2] Your Outfit Is Wrong, I Don't Like It: Select a target and use the skill to spin their Wheel of Fortune, swapping the target's highest attribute and lowest attribute. Duration: 1 hour. Cooldown: 6 hours.

It was only B-rank, but it was disgusting as hell!

Or rather, there was a reason it could still be rated B-rank despite having no offensive skills at all.

As long as that person saw her, she would have terrible luck for a full six hours.

More importantly, this change in luck did not appear on the victim's status panel. The luck value she could see for herself had always been 8.

Then, all of a sudden, she would start having terrible luck.

If she ran, she would end up in a dead end. If she used Disguise, she would happen to be discovered. Even drinking a health potion, she would choke halfway through. Her magic would miss, her guns would explode in the chamber, and even auto-targeting spells like Magic Missile could land zero critical hits. Her critical hit rate had been stacked to 77% at the time! Yet after firing sixty Magic Missiles, not one had critically hit.

Was that a divine talent? That was a curse bestowed by the gods!

She had evaded capture for an entire year, but less than seven days after that person arrived, she had been captured alive—all because of that divine talent.

But here was the question: was that person a closed beta player?

There had been three closed betas. The first supposedly had only a few hundred players log in. During the second, word spread from one person to another. Although the beta had begun suddenly, once people discovered it, the news spread from ten to a hundred. Everyone who knew about the game flooded in, and over ten thousand people logged in. By the third closed beta, hundreds of thousands more had created characters.

No matter what, Yu Xunge planned to find that person in the next few days. If he had participated in the closed beta, she would kill him immediately!

Then she would see whether this skill could affect non-players. If it could, she would use it on Yu Xunhuan when the time came.

If Yu Xunhuan could still draw the SS-rank talent from her previous life while his luck was at rock bottom, she would steal it on the spot and kill the male lead once and for all. Even if she spent her next life full of unwillingness, she would give Yu Xunhuan a quick death. If the male lead got some trash divine talent instead, that would be even better.

That man would be easy to find. He was House Liang's driver, and Yu Xunge knew where the Liang family's old residence was. It was located in one of the best spots in the villa district. After all, without enough power and wealth, how could one qualify to be the female lead in a male-oriented novel?

She did not hurry to House Liang. Instead, she stayed home and started brewing potions again.

Besides twenty bottles of Minor Phasing Potion, she made more than fifty bottles of Intermediate Invisibility Potion. Unlike Minor Invisibility Potion, which only granted five minutes of invisibility, this Medium Invisibility Potion lasted a full fifteen minutes, though its cooldown was longer as well: twenty minutes after use.

She found a beef skewer recipe in [Cooking] (Beginner), made 297 beef skewers, and put them in her backpack. One skewer could be chewed on for a minute, slowly restoring 5 HP. It let her stockpile meat while practicing her cooking skill.

Her twenty-four-slot inventory was now filled with assorted junk, clothes, and weapons. The six shabby little bags held the food and potions she might need at any time: Minor Healing Potion x99, Minor Mana Potion x99, Intermediate Invisibility Potion x57, Beef Skewer x99, Beef Skewer x99, Beef Skewer x99.

How could a woman qualified to be the male lead's love interest possibly not be a closed beta player?

The world did not revolve around Yu Xunge, but it definitely revolved around the male and female leads.

Not only were the male and female leads closed beta players, the male lead's brothers were too. Otherwise, were they even worthy of calling the male lead their brother?!

Wonderful. She, the male lead's sister, was the only one who was not.

They were isolating her, were they!!

Yu Xunge's purpose in going to House Liang this time was not only for the Wheel of Fortune, but also for the male lead's second girlfriend—Liang Yuchuan.

Each of the male lead's three beauties possessed an S-rank talent. His legal wife, Su Yitong, reportedly had a divine talent related to healing. Later, she collected and learned all kinds of buff skills, becoming known as the strongest support. His second girlfriend, Liang Yuchuan, also had an S-rank divine talent, one of only two S-rank talents publicly revealed among the top hundred rankings in the future.

[Water God] (S-rank)

[Skill 1] Wherever There's Water, I'm There: You can transform into a water droplet and merge into water.

[Skill 2] You're So Watery: All water-related items and skills receive a 50% boost.

[Skill 3] Vampire: After use, there is a 20% chance to drain 1% of the opponent's HP.

[Skill 4] I, the Water God, Heal (Passive): When you transform into a water droplet or are in water, your injuries will slowly heal.

Yu Xunge coveted this talent, but she did not plan to steal it. If Yu Xunhuan could still draw an SS-rank talent while his luck was only 1, she would decisively use this skill to steal his SS-rank talent and kill him. If Yu Xunhuan gained an utterly ordinary talent, she would also keep [Thief God's Theft, or a Robber's Theft] in reserve to prevent him from making a comeback.

Besides, dying in the game world could reset the cooldown of [Thief God's Theft, or a Robber's Theft]. As long as she did not use this skill, she could still use it twice after entering the game. Naturally, she could not waste it in reality.

She wanted to try stealing an item from Liang Yuchuan. She refused to believe the female lead would not have anything good on her.

Her fifty-million villa was in the same area as the Liang family's villas, not far away. In her previous life, Yu Xunhuan had used the dungeon in that villa to get involved with House Liang.