Stocking Up

By the end of dinner, Su Yitong still hadn't said that she was already a player. She only promised that she would tell them as soon as she had any news, and that Yu Xunge had to notify her if she entered the game again. She still had to hurry back to set up the Su Family's defense system. Recently, one of her attributes had dropped by another point. Her brother said it might only be temporary, that the game was unstable, but she didn't think so. Otherwise, why hadn't either of her brothers lost any attribute points?

After seeing Su Yitong into her car, Yu Xunhuan returned to the private room, his expression slightly cold.

Yu Xunge asked with concern, "What's wrong?"

Yu Xunhuan shook his head and said quietly, "She's definitely a player. She's hiding it from us."

Yu Qingshan asked, "How can you tell? Do you have proof?"

Yu Xunhuan pressed his lips together. "Her ear was injured. Um, her entire right ear was gone. She still had it on the sixth, but when we met again on the fourteenth, she'd changed her hairstyle. There were no bandages, and she hadn't applied any medicine. She probably used something from the game. Doesn't that healing potion close wounds after you drink it?"

Yu Xunge spread her hands. "I only had one bottle. I gave it to you. I haven't drunk one myself."

Yu Xunhuan sighed helplessly. "Why didn't you buy a few more?" As he spoke, he sighed inwardly. He really had started treating Yu Xunge as one of his own.

Shameless bastard... Yu Xunge kept smiling as she angrily downed a glass of cola.

After dealing with Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan, Yu Xunge didn't rush back to the villa to study. The glasses Su Yitong had worn today had given her an intense sense of crisis.

The Soros Mask could no longer make her feel safe. Although no item below S-rank could currently see through the information altered by the mask.

But what if? What if someone was lucky enough to get an S-rank scouting item during the first closed beta?

Rationally, she knew it was impossible. In her previous life, the best scouting item she had ever seen was only A-rank, the same rank as Soros Glasses. But she didn't dare gamble on it. The thought that someone might uncover her talent made her too restless to sit still.

Weren't scouting items and equipment supposed to be rare? How had Liang Yuchuan gotten an A-rank one in the first closed beta, while Su Yitong got another scouting item of unknown rank in the second?

She didn't even dare imagine someone using an S-rank scouting item on her. The next second, her personal status panel would light up above her head. One look, and they'd see that the number of her God-given talents was nearly catching up to her attributes.

Yu Xunge lay awake until the middle of the night. She couldn't sleep. She just couldn't sleep.

She simply got up and began packing.

She decided that tomorrow, she would first try looking for the male lead's third woman. The Soros Mask was with the official wife, the glasses were with the second woman, so perhaps the final component was with the youngest one?

Naturally, she knew the male lead's youngest wife. She had only lost out by appearing later, but her family's power was no weaker than the Su Family's or House Liang's. The Han family's power was in B City. In the second year after the game's invasion, the Han family had been driven out of B City by several other families joining forces, forcing them to retreat to S City, where they had laid plans long ago.

She had wanted to ask: Was S City a junkyard? You could just retreat there whenever you felt like it?

But it still wasn't dawn. Since returning, Yu Xunge hadn't made today's coins yet, so she turned into a goblin and created her three coins for the day. Then she went invisible and slipped beneath Su Yitong's bed. Well, no one was there.

She searched around, then decided to forget it. Su Yitong's two brothers would do as well. A thief never left empty-handed.

She had been especially bold lately. After discovering that the Su Family's revealing potion was only beginner-grade, she would occasionally drink an advanced invisibility potion and wander around the Su Family's home.

She turned into the floor where the two brothers stayed. It wasn't as though she had never considered stealing from them before, but one was a domineering CEO and the other was an athlete. Neither was usually home. Today, though, the second brother, Su Jinxuan, was here. This was the first time she had seen him at home since the second closed beta.

In her previous life, Su Jinxuan had taken the archer path. Before the game's invasion, he had already been a top-tier competitive archer. After the gamification, he became one of the Su Family's strongest fighters in barely a month.

How could a live-in son-in-law male lead not have someone bullying him? Su Jinxuan was the person in the Su Family who most enjoyed picking on the male lead. Every now and then, he just had to step on him.

Female-oriented novels had awful sisters-in-law; live-in son-in-law novels had awful brothers-in-law.

Before the marriage, he could maintain basic courtesy. After the marriage, everything about the man irritated him.

But the male lead had the female lead protecting him, so Su Jinxuan sometimes couldn't go too far. Instead, he took it out on her.

Yu Xunge: What kind of psycho was he? What did that have to do with her?!

Yu Xunhuan would occasionally bring Yu Xunge along to the Su Family's group raids, supposedly to repay his sister. But now, Yu Xunge increasingly felt that he had been pushing her out to draw fire for him.

When fighting monsters, Su Jinxuan would make her go ahead to lure them. Sometimes, his arrows would even miss their mark. They flew slowly enough that anyone could seemingly dodge them with ease, yet she would be injured by monsters while dodging those arrows.

It wasn't as if she had no temper. In her previous life, after every group raid, she would tell Yu Xunhuan not to invite her next time. Even though the Su Family distributed materials and equipment according to contribution after clearing dungeons, and many of those items were precious, she could simply spend more time obtaining them herself.

Whenever that happened, Yu Xunhuan would give her his share of the spoils and apologize. He would say that he only wanted to help his sister, that he wanted so badly to have family by his side, and so on... Then he would complain to her about Su Jinxuan, even discussing Su Jinxuan's skills and personality and telling her to avoid him...

At the time, Yu Xunge had found it both touching and helpless, but she had been even angrier. You were being wronged, and now you wanted me to suffer along with you? Were you the one marrying into the family, or was I?

But now that she had seen through Yu Xunhuan's true nature and examined those strange behaviors more closely, she couldn't help suspecting that Yu Xunhuan might have been trying to stir up her hatred for Su Jinxuan, guiding her to Impersonation Su Jinxuan and replace him. Later, when he realized she hadn't acted according to his guidance, he stopped inviting her to the Su Family's activities.

Damn... Could the conflicts between me and the Liang family and the Han family have been stirred up by Yu Xunhuan too?

For fuck's sake, if that was really the case, couldn't you have just told me directly?!

She simply didn't take the initiative to harm people, but that didn't mean she had any moral bottom line. If he had explained it and persuaded her, wouldn't she have agreed?!

Yu Xunge looked at Su Jinxuan in bed, growing angrier the more she thought about it.

The Olympics were over anyway. The next Olympics wouldn't be until 1980, so far away it was practically irrelevant. Yu Xunge didn't need to carry any heavy psychological burden when she made her move. First, she used [Wheel of Fortune] on Su Jinxuan and changed his Luck to 1. Then she repeatedly used [I Want This, This, and This].

She had no intention of sleeping tonight anyway. After dealing with Su Jinxuan, she would go check on Liang Yuchuan, then head straight home, drive to the airport, and leave.

After stealing for over an hour, she had taken 3 Agility and 1 Intelligence from Su Jinxuan. Satisfied, she stopped.

[Intelligence]: 11+1

[Agility]: 18+3

Agility alone already rivaled that of a level 2 player who had put all their points into Agility.

Yet she was still only level 0.