Half Price

Little Yu Xunhuan had been cut in half just like that.

Yu Xunge raised her voice several notches. "How could a family like ours possibly offend someone with a gun?!"

That single sentence jolted the two of them awake. Even the groggy Yu Xunhuan furrowed his brow slightly, as though he were about to wake from a dream.

Yi Qiuguo froze for a moment before realization struck. Her eyes flew wide as she looked at Yu Qingshan and lowered her voice. "Could it be the Su Family?!"

Yu Qingshan shook his head and finally took a drag from his cigarette. "Hard to say."

Seeing that Yu Xunhuan had already awakened, Yu Xunge said, "Let's talk outside, so we don't wake Xunhuan."

Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo rose and followed Yu Xunge out of the hospital room. As she closed the door, she clearly saw Yu Xunhuan's hand clench into a fist.

Once they had stopped outside the room, Yu Xunge asked, "Does our Yu Family have any enemies?"

Yu Qingshan frowned. "Why do you ask?"

Yu Xunge said, "I just feel like this method of hurting someone is like they hate our entire Yu Family. Like they want the Yu Family line to end... Of course, it hasn't ended yet. As long as it's still here, there's hope, right? What did the doctor say?"

"He can still have children." Yu Qingshan took a puff of smoke, his tone weary with age. "I'll investigate this. Protect yourself, and it'd be best if you went back to live with the Yu Family for a while."

It sounded like the concern of a loving father, but Yu Xunge suspected he was hoping for an extra body to take a bullet when someone came seeking revenge. Still, she did not agree. "My brother is still going to marry into the Su Family, right?" This old fox had sent Yu Xunhuan to an illegal clinic at the first opportunity, clearly intending to keep it hidden. "It'd be too unusual for me to move back now. It might make Su Yitong suspicious."

It was an excellent excuse. Yu Qingshan readily took the out and stopped urging his daughter to return home.

After lingering for a while, Yu Xunge left on the excuse that she needed to go home and make soup.

She knew Yu Xunhuan was awake, but she truly did not want to keep acting. She was afraid she would burst out laughing halfway through speaking, so she hurried off.

Yu Qingshan and Yu Xunhuan truly were alike. After something happened, both of their first reactions were to hide it as quickly as possible, rather than consider the terrifying consequences if it were discovered after he married into the Su Family.

After Yu Xunhuan woke up, Yu Qingshan sent Yi Qiuguo away before the father and son began talking.

Yu Xunge, who had drunk an invisibility potion and returned, was not surprised by their behavior.

In fact, the reason she had never doubted whether she was Yu Qingshan's biological daughter was—well, after being reborn, she had found time to get a paternity test. She truly was his biological daughter—because neither Yu Qingshan nor Yu Xunhuan regarded women as people they could trust. No matter how gentle they appeared, they looked down on women.

The book made it sound amusing that he was marrying into the wife's family, but in the extra chapters, after the male lead's three sons respectively became the heads of the Su, Han, and Liang Families, they all changed their surnames back to Yu at the same time. The sheer satisfaction was off the charts.

Yi Qiuguo might have held a slightly higher position than her, but only slightly. Her greater purpose was to be used as a weapon by Yu Qingshan.

Yu Qingshan looked at Yu Xunhuan. "Do you have any ideas?"

Yu Xunhuan stared lifelessly at the ceiling. "Could it be one of Yu Xunge's enemies? Maybe she caused trouble outside."

Yu Qingshan sighed. "How many times have I taught you? Stay calm when you encounter a problem. Don't vent your anger. Only women do that. If it was trouble she caused, why wouldn't they target her?"

Yu Xunhuan began to suspect the other woman in the family. "Did Mom cause trouble with that temper of hers?"

Yu Qingshan shook his head. "I know all about her affairs."

Yu Xunhuan closed his eyes, his chest heaving violently. After a long while, he continued in a hoarse voice, "The Su Family doesn't agree to let me marry in?"

"Hard to say, but they had no need to resort to something this underhanded. If they had rejected us outright back then, we wouldn't have dared to pester them." After a pause, Yu Qingshan asked quietly, "Have you offended any women? Don't you know all sorts of questionable people through work?"

Yu Xunhuan began to think carefully. He was certain he had not offended anyone. He was friendly yet distant with everyone, and he had only drawn closer to Su Yitong after confirming her family background. He shook his head.

Yu Qingshan soothingly patted Yu Xunhuan's hand. "That vase has already been sold. Before the engagement, Dad will get the villa settled for you."

Yu Xunhuan asked again, "Does Yu Xunge really have no money left?"

Yu Qingshan said, "Probably. I found out that there was a murder at her company, and her agent got dragged into it. You know how much she trusts that Liu fellow. She probably hasn't been in the mood lately. Once she's feeling better, I'll find a way to make her go out and earn money again. Focus on recovering and don't worry about these things!"

Yu Xunhuan said without much hope, "In my condition..."

Yu Qingshan said, "The doctor said it won't affect your ability to have children."

Yu Xunge nearly laughed out loud.

Seeing that she would not hear anything useful, Yu Xunge regretfully left the hospital room.

She felt as though every thought in her mind had become clear.

Yes, this was the path of revenge!

She would make Yu Xunhuan live every second in pain and terror!

Marry into the Su Family? He was no longer even a whole man, and he still dared to marry Su Yitong? Hahaha.

She was not worried in the slightest about becoming enemies with the Su Family. She had reduced the male lead's luck to 1. He was now still an ordinary person, yet a top-ten dungeon assassin had fired seven shots and still failed to blow up little Yu Xunhuan. In the end, the assassin had taken a step back and only succeeded after cutting off half of it.

The Su Family dared to harm the male lead? They could just wait to go bankrupt.

Huh? Didn't that make her even more impressive in her previous life? With her luck at 1, she had been hunted by so many people for seven days before finally being caught...

Could she be the female lead?

Yu Xunge hummed a tune as she returned to the villa. It was not as if the game lacked spells capable of healing severed limbs. Su Yitong had known such a high-level spell in her previous life, but that had been during the third year after the game invaded. By then, humanity's highest level had reached level 25. Su Yitong had become famous because of that spell, because on all of Blue Star, only she could use it.

It did not matter. Yu Xunge had plenty of ways to ensure that Su Yitong would never even come into contact with it in this life.

As for Yu Xunhuan, he had a rough two years ahead of him.

He wouldn't buy a fake one to fool Su Yitong, would he? Hahaha.

After dealing with little Yu Xunhuan, Yu Xunge began making major purchases for the game's second closed beta.

Now that she had a backpack, she wanted to test whether she could bring real-world items into the game and sell them for gold coins.

Even if an item worth ten thousand RMB could only sell for one gold coin in the game, she would still profit!

Less than half a year after the game's invasion, that money would become worthless paper. Even if she exchanged it for gold, it would be better than paper. Although gold and gold coins were fundamentally different—the latter contained a trace of magic and could not be counterfeited—some nonhuman merchants who traveled between both worlds and cared only about making money, not racial honor, accepted gold.

The goblins in particular. Their hearts held nothing but money. Whether people fought to the death was none of their concern. They did every kind of business and could even exchange gold for gold coins. A single gold coin weighed less than 100 grams, yet goblin merchants demanded 300 grams of gold for one gold coin.

According to them, doing business on Blue Star came with high costs. They then listed all sorts of additional fees, such as battlefield allowances, travel expenses for business trips to Blue Star, potential funeral expenses, the costs goblins incurred to mint gold coins, and so on...

Gold currently cost around 500 per gram, with slight fluctuations. That meant it took the equivalent of 150,000 RMB to buy one gold coin, and that was while currency had not yet collapsed.

By the time goblin merchants appeared, currency had long since collapsed. Everyone traded with game currency. Forget using money to buy gold—after it became possible to exchange gold for gold coins through the goblins, gold was basically in a state where it had a price but no market.

But that was after the game invasion. Naturally, the current Yu Xunge would prepare in advance and exchange all the money in her hands for gold.