Adorably Stupid (?)

In the game, crafting a potion only required waiting for the progress bar to finish. But when she made potions in reality, she had to personally follow the instructional videos in her mind step by step. Sometimes, brewing a single advanced potion took over an hour—how to process the ingredients, how to control the temperature, when to stir, when to add the next herb...

Yet no matter how convinced she was that she had replicated every step exactly, it still displayed "Brewing Failed." Occasionally, even after a failure, she would gain an extra 1–2 experience points.

She had never studied this seriously even before the college entrance exams.

Engineering was the same. The advanced level of these two professions was a completely different world from the beginner and intermediate levels.

Beginner and intermediate levels were like Western medicine: precise and unambiguous. Once you learned the relevant knowledge and saw the data, as long as you studied carefully, no matter how difficult it was, the correct answer remained the correct answer. Once a disease had been diagnosed, even the King of Heaven himself couldn't make it another disease.

Advanced professions were like traditional Chinese medicine. Every doctor had a different answer. Sometimes their treatment plans were completely opposite, yet all of them could cure the patient. The relationships between herbs were impossible to explain clearly. Sometimes, the video itself differed every time she watched it. This time, the instructor added twenty grams of Demon Spirit Grass powder first. The next time, she only added eighteen grams. The time after that, she used a different herb because earlier she had accidentally added too much of another herb with a shake of her hand. But it didn't matter—switching herbs would produce the same effect once the two herbs were balanced together.

At first, Yu Xunge had wanted to curse while watching. It was far too imprecise and unprofessional. What the hell was this?

But later, Yu Xunge even forgot about grinding experience. Sometimes, she could watch the alchemy videos in her mind for an entire day and forget to practice engineering. She felt that undead female instructor in the videos was like an orchestra conductor, blending and commanding every medicinal property without being shackled by rigid formulas. Sometimes, minor mistakes could instead create wonderful surprises in her hands.

When July arrived, Yu Xunge completely stopped brewing advanced potions. She planned to relearn and brew every beginner and intermediate recipe from start to finish.

She could not help recalling an interview she had seen back then. The player in it had said with a solemn expression, "The professional skills we learned during the closed beta were the true treasure of the closed beta. The reason I can sew blue equipment and even purple equipment isn't talent—it's the sewing knowledge I learned from teachers of other races. Yes, he will always be my teacher. Even if we meet on the battlefield in the future and fight to the death, even if you call me a traitor, I will still say it: that person of another race is my teacher."

However, on July 1st, Su Yitong suddenly said she wanted to treat everyone in the Yu Family to dinner. When the eldest young lady treated people to a meal, it was not an invitation—it was a summons. Yu Xunge packed up and headed to the restaurant.

When she entered the private room, she was not the first to arrive. Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo were already seated inside.

Before coming, Yu Xunge had not only checked her character panel and placed all her equipment and items into her bag, but also stuffed both thirty-six-slot bags into Magician's Dentures. She now carried only a four-slot bag on her.

After waiting another half hour, the private room door was opened by a bodyguard, and Su Yitong, wearing a monocle, entered first.

Yu Xunge, Yu Qingshan, and Yi Qiuguo rose with smiles to greet her.

Su Yitong had changed her hairstyle. Her former long, straight black hair that exposed her ears had become a side-parted wavy style. Naturally, the heavy side sweep was meant to conceal the empty right side of her head. Perhaps because she had been in a bad mood lately, her expression no longer held its former elegance and composure. Instead, it was somewhat gloomy, echoing the darkness on Yu Xunhuan's face beside her.

This was hilarious. The male lead had become a nine-centimeter warrior, while the female lead had become One-Ear. Who would dare say they weren't a perfect match?!

Yu Xunge did not deliberately inspect Su Yitong's new glasses. They had to be an item. Otherwise, someone who had lost an ear would psychologically reject glasses that needed to hook over the ears. Taking them off and putting them back on each time would be psychological torture.

Even if it was just a monocle.

Su Yitong's glasses truly were an investigation-type item. Though they were not as good as the Soros Mask she had obtained before, they were still a B-rank item. Investigation equipment was inherently rare. Finding a B-rank item was already the reward earned by the Su Family's third branch after secretly gathering over a dozen people to participate in the closed beta together.

In truth, obtaining an A-rank item during the very first closed beta had been the real surprise. Her two older brothers... forget it. Better not mention the previous closed beta. Mentioning the closed beta made her think of her ear.

The moment she entered, she used her investigation skill on Yu Xunge. But all she saw was what Yu Xunge wanted her to see.

[Character] Yu Xunge (Level 0, 0.001%)

[Divinely Bestowed Talent] (Unable to investigate)

[Race] Human

[Racial Talent] Unable to investigate

[Health]: 100/100

[Mana]: 100/100

[Strength]: 5

[Constitution]: 7

[Intelligence]: 7

[Agility]: 7

[Luck]: ?

[Charm]: ?

How could Yu Xunge have known that Su Yitong's lousy glasses were so useless? Her whole series of smooth, cool maneuvers had been like putting on a performance for a blind man.

The moment Su Yitong saw the 0.001% experience, she believed more than half of what Yu Xunhuan had said.

Yu Xunge watched helplessly as Su Yitong's expression softened. Yu Xunhuan, beside her, blinked at her.

Yu Xunge: So gross!

Recently, neither Yu Xunhuan nor Su Yitong had been able to pry out any information through indirect inquiries. Yesterday, he had simply come clean and told her that he knew about the game because Yu Xunge had told him.

He had intended to stop there and had not planned to explain why Yu Xunge had not told Su Yitong. But unexpectedly, Su Yitong asked when Yu Xunge had told him, and Yu Xunhuan said it had been around the ninth or tenth.

Su Yitong's expression immediately eased. She said that on that day, Yu Xunge had messaged her and asked her to go to the hotel, saying she had something important to tell her and Yu Xunhuan. But Su Yitong had been busy at the time and had not gone—her ear was gone, and half the gold in her home had vanished. How could she have been in the mood to meet the older sister of a live-in son-in-law?

Yu Xunhuan immediately said, "Yes, she said she invited you. She only trusts the few of us in her family. Yitong, we're family, right?"

Because of this, Su Yitong no longer had any issue with Yu Xunge. Though she still felt deep down that Yu Xunge was a little foolish—how could she tell something like this to someone who had not yet married her younger brother?—when she put herself in Yu Xunge's shoes, she had only told her own family and trusted confidants as well. Thinking of it that way, she found Yu Xunge adorably stupid. Yu Xunge saw her as family.

Today, she had merely come to confirm whether this person was telling the truth. Although she had tested her a few months ago, she had not possessed an investigation item then.

Although she could not inspect Yu Xunge's divinely bestowed talent, her experience was only 0.001%. It seemed she really had not played much, just as she claimed.

However, Su Yitong did not tell Yu Xunhuan that she had participated in the closed beta. Either such matters were left unsaid, or if the other person heard about them from someone else first, it would inevitably hurt their relationship somewhat. Though she did not think much of Yu Xunhuan, there was no need to invite trouble.

As for whether Yu Xunhuan would one day discover that she had concealed something from him, the eldest young lady did not care. She truly liked Yu Xunhuan's face, but that was all.