Han Family

Yu Xunge had no intention of killing Su Jinxuan. After all, Su Jinxuan would later die at the male lead's hands. He liked Liang Yuchuan, so didn't that mean he had to die?

Not only that, before his death, he caused the male lead plenty of trouble—framing him, exploiting him, sneering at him, stealing his things, and so on. He was practically the gender-swapped sister-in-law from a female-oriented webnovel...

After stealing 4 attribute points, Yu Xunge immediately started searching Su Jinxuan for equipment.

She actually found something: a common cloth belt that gave +1 Constitution when worn. It wasn't that she looked down on such a small bonus; the belt was just too filthy... It looked as though a butcher had worn it while slaughtering pigs for ten years, soaking it through with lard before letting it dry in the wind.

It was a cloth belt, yet when pulled out, it was stiff as leather.

Forget it. She couldn't get carried away. She tossed the belt into her backpack. It could sell for at least a few dozen silver coins.

After leaving the Su Family, Yu Xunge hurried over to Liang Yuchuan's walk-in closet. The Liang family had recently installed Revealing Potion spray devices as well, but like the Su Family's, they only used beginner-grade Revealing Potions.

After all, spraying potions across an entire estate every day consumed an astonishing amount. Where could they get so many intermediate potions?

Liang Yuchuan had been having a terrible time lately. Knowing that modern technology could not heal her hand and unwilling to use a prosthetic, she had been desperately searching for players. She had even made quite a few Liang family confidants join the game.

At the same time, she suspected Liang Hui might be involved. Otherwise, why had Liang Hui died on the very day her hand was severed? With Soros Glasses, she naturally knew he was a player too; she simply had never exposed it.

However, after sending people to investigate everyone Liang Hui had met recently, she found nothing.

With no progress in the matter, during the second closed beta, she discovered that her game character was missing a forearm as well. Liang Yuchuan's mental state had become terrifying lately. Apart from her family, almost no one dared approach her.

After stealing for over an hour, Liang Yuchuan finally dropped something too: +1 Constitution.

Yu Xunge immediately returned to her villa. After downing a huge cup of coffee, she prepared three large bowls of meat dishes and placed them in front of the cat bed. After patting the three little cat heads inside, she left the villa and drove herself to the airport.

Though she could have used Phantom Shift directly to reach the airport, as long as she was not doing anything bad, she would pretend she did not have that skill whenever she did anything, so that anyone trying to trace her movements would find something.

At the airport, she told Yu Qingshan and the others that she was going to Beijing. She had found information on the forum about someone who was likely a player, so she was going to look into it.

Yu Qingshan and the others believed her completely.

While waiting to board, she had her eyes closed as she watched, in her mind, a video of the undead female instructor brewing beginner potions.

A cautious voice sounded beside her. It belonged to a young girl, who asked whether she was Yu Xunge.

Yu Xunge froze for a moment. The faces of all kinds of enemies and companions from her previous life flashed through her mind, but none matched.

Her prolonged silence made the girl panic slightly. Thinking she had upset Yu Xunge, she apologized, "I'm sorry, I disturbed you. I'm sorry! I didn't mean to... I just couldn't help myself. It's been so long since I heard any news about you."

Ah... a fan?

What a distant thing... such pure, clumsy affection.

Yu Xunge pulled down her mask and chatted with the girl for a few moments. She even bought her a coffee. But having seen all manner of bizarre God-given talents, she refused to give an autograph.

Even after boarding the plane, Yu Xunge was still thinking about it.

The troubles of the entertainment industry felt like they had happened centuries ago. Even Liu Zhengliu sending her to a dead man's bed now seemed like child's play in retrospect.

Han Qianshan and Han Qianhai had nearly gotten her into an otherworldly race's bed, too.

Though Su Yitong was bad as well, most of her methods involved using power to crush others. She did not resort to underhanded tricks. She would make others steal Yu Xunge's resources, buy up every available piece of material on the market as soon as she learned Yu Xunge urgently needed it, forcibly take her high-level quest items, and so on.

Liang Yuchuan was vicious. When she hated someone, she preferred using her hands over her mouth. There was no beating around the bush. To her, directly harming someone's body was far more effective than any psychological torment. Her motto in life was: tormenting the heart was nothing compared to tormenting the body.

But the Han family siblings were both sinister and poisonous. They acted all warm and friendly on the surface, while their methods were utterly despicable. They had even once tried to contract her as their slave...

Every last one of them was seriously sick in the head.

Yu Xunhuan was a live-in son-in-law to three families, so was she the heroine of some abuse novel passed around among three families?

She had never understood why those three women, instead of fighting each other with all that spare time, chose to take their frustrations out on her.

And not just them. Even the male lead's male friends were the same.

She suspected Yu Xunhuan had done something in the middle... but she had no proof.

She could no longer remember the details of the book she had seen on the verge of death. But even if she could, its contents had been whitewashed.

The book was not important. Her feelings were what mattered. The Han family siblings needed to be properly "looked after."

Standing in B City, Yu Xunge called Gun King and asked if he knew how to get to B City's secret passage.

Gun King said, "First, go to XX Bank, then head north for XX kilometers. There's a McKen King there. Go in and say you want the Crazy Wednesday set meal. If he says they don't have it, say you want a two-yuan ice cream cone. Then say you don't want the cone—you want the ice cream put in a cup. He'll take you there."

Yu Xunge said, "..."

Yu Xunge asked, "Why did the secret passage in S City only require finding the right bar's back door?"

Gun King said, "Ah, because the place you entered back then wasn't the real Dark Market."

Yu Xunge clutched her pig brain in disbelief. "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!" She had even hired a hitman in there to chop someone up! And it still was not the Dark Market?

Gun King said, "Well, it was a coincidence that you even ran into me then. I happened to go upstairs to buy coffee. If you want to find S City's secret passage, you have to go to XX Café and say you want a two-liter black coffee. When he says they don't have cups that big, say you brought your own beans. When he tells you to take out the beans, give him a one-gram gold bean. Then he'll let you in."

Yu Xunge was silent for a long time before sighing. "People in the capital really are more sincere."

Gun King said, "Mm. I'll wait for your call."

Then he hung up.

Why was he making it sound vaguely flirtatious? Yu Xunge sneered. Who would call you?

A few minutes later, Yu Xunge was squatting by the curb, calling Gun King.

She practically wanted a drink to drown her sorrows.

Gun King asked, "What's up? Couldn't get in?"

Yu Xunge looked at the McKen King across the street. "Yeah. He led me to a door, and then we just stared at each other. I'm sensible, of course I'm sensible! So I immediately pulled out a wad of cash and gave it to him, but he wouldn't take it. He even threw me out."

Gun King said, "They don't take cash either. They only accept gold. You need two grams."

Yu Xunge asked, "Why didn't you say that earlier?"

Gun King said, "So you could experience the capital's sincerity."

Yu Xunge said, "..."