Calculations from Her Previous Life

She arrived in S City on the morning of the 13th and headed straight for the hospital after leaving the airport. The old man was still lying there. As for Yu Xunhuan, he was no longer bedridden. He was getting married in a few days, and Su Yitong had dragged him off to rehearse.

It was also Yu Xunge's first time hearing that a wedding required rehearsals.

When she reached the hospital, she stuffed two bottles of beginner healing potion into Yu Qingshan.

Yu Qingshan was still staring blankly at the ceiling. Yi Qiuguo pried open his mouth and poured the potion down his throat, but Yu Qingshan showed no reaction. Yu Xunge watched coldly, almost thinking the old man had become a vegetable.

She pulled Yi Qiuguo aside and quietly asked what had happened.

Yi Qiuguo hemmed and hawed, not knowing how to explain. They had hidden this from their daughter for so many years; bringing it up so suddenly would hurt their relationship. So she only said that she did not know either.

Yu Xunge was not genuinely concerned. The main reason she had come was to inspect their God-given talents.

In her previous life, she had not had any inspection tools. All the information she knew had either been observed by herself or voluntarily disclosed by others.

In her previous life, Yi Qiuguo had said that her God-given talent was related to cooking. Food she made had a chance of increasing people's attributes, though the probability was only 5%.

Back then, Yu Xunge had even said that Yi Qiuguo and Yu Xunhuan truly deserved to be mother and son, since both their God-given talents were related to cooking.

But now that she looked again, Yi Qiuguo's God-given talent was related to the fire element. The more she spoke, the greater the damage bonus to fire-related skills, resetting each day.

She understood almost instantly why Yi Qiuguo had always asked her to come home for meals in her previous life. Every time she went back, the food had already been prepared. The dishes tasted mediocre, but the ingredients had all been exceptionally high-grade. And Yu Xunge was the sort of person who, if someone treated her with ten parts kindness, would return at least four or five. So every time she finished eating, she would leave something behind for Yi Qiuguo and Yu Qingshan.

No wonder... This had all been meant to complement Yu Xunhuan's [Food God] talent, hadn't it?

High-grade ingredients guaranteed that a dish's rating would not be low. Yet mediocre flavor meant mediocre scores. As long as the score did not exceed 80, it would not trigger a critical consumption effect. That meant she would never connect those dishes to Yu Xunhuan, much less attribute points.

So they could move her, making her repay her family, while ensuring she never truly profited from it. Not only that, but without realizing it, she had been giving up intangible luck to Yu Xunhuan as payment for the meals.

Thinking back, she would always have a streak of bad luck after returning home for dinner. At the time, she had even thought she and her hometown were simply incompatible.

Meanwhile, Yu Xunhuan had not lied to her entirely. He had said his talent doubled the beneficial effects of food he made after it was eaten. The effects she received had indeed doubled.

Sometimes, Yu Xunhuan had even deliberately made his own original dishes just for her, guaranteeing that her consumption effects would double. Yet after eating them for two years, she had never gained a single attribute point.

How brilliant. He had exploited the limits of every skill, winning her trust while calculating against her, all without letting her gain any real benefit.

Yu Xunge had truly been schooled!

She was not surprised that Yu Xunhuan coveted her luck. Her luck had always been good ever since childhood. Her starting Luck stat in the game had been 8, already higher than most people's. Though she did not know why someone as lucky as her had still missed the game's closed beta...

Hm? She had missed the first closed beta because Liu Zhengliu had plotted against her.

But she had missed the second and third ones as well... What had she been doing on June 6th and October 10th in her previous life?

It had been too long ago. It was only natural that Yu Xunge could not remember clearly.

But those two dates were far too special. Not only were they the closed beta dates, they had also been close to Yu Xunhuan's engagement and wedding dates!

She quickly recalled a few things.

She might not remember exactly what she had done on specific dates, but she could still remember events from entire stretches of time. A few days after Yu Xunhuan's engagement, he had suddenly called her one morning and said he had used the Su Family's connections to find her a project, asking her to go meet the other party. She remembered that when the Su Family driver picked her up that day, dawn had only just broken outside the car window.

Before Yu Xunhuan's wedding, he would also call her over from time to time to accompany him during rehearsals. Later, he had even asked her to go to the wedding venue every day to keep an eye on things for him. Even though everyone there was from the Su Family and there was nothing for her to do at all...

And she remembered being incredibly annoyed during that period. It was one thing to have nothing to do while she was there, but every time she wanted to use her phone to pass the time, the Su Family members would pull her away to look over the decorations.

Yu Xunge stood in the hospital room's bathroom, clenching her fists tightly.

Had they been plotting against her from that early on?

Yu Xunge watched the water flow into the sink, and the hatred that had eased somewhat after she stole Yu Xunhuan's [Food God] talent came crashing back!

Why?

Not only had they kept all this from her, they had made her miss it again and again and again?!!

She turned off the faucet and calmly looked at herself in the mirror.

Why should she waste time wondering why her enemies had harmed her?

There was no need. No meaning!

She only needed to return everything to them, one by one!

Yu Xunge greeted Yu Qingshan, who was lying in bed, then left.

Yu Qingshan's talent was called [Liar]. Every lie he told increased his attack power by 0.1%, resetting each day. Not only that, he could also identify lies.

This was the same thing he had told her in her previous life. He had actually not lied.

But sometimes, the greatest lie was the truth.

He did not need to fight. How many lies had he told Yu Xunge? Where was she supposed to verify them?

This whole family...

Yu Xunge walked out of the hospital. Even standing beneath the sunlight, she still felt cold seeping out through the cracks in her bones.

How had she ended up being this family's biological daughter?

Forget it. Thinking about her own methods...

She was not much better.

They were all sinister, cunning creatures. Yu Qingshan was an old schemer, Yi Qiuguo was a foolish schemer, Yu Xunhuan was a little schemer, and she was a beautiful schemer.

And there was Yi Qiuguo, that foolish idiot.

They could all just muddle through life together in loving harmony!

On the 15th, Yu Xunge followed Yu Xunhuan to the place where he and Su Yitong were rehearsing their wedding. She watched Yu Xunhuan from afar. He was clearly smiling, as though there was not the slightest trace of pain on his face—no despair, no rage, no grief.

Yet the longer Yu Xunge watched, the happier she became. The better he suppressed his emotions, the better. Just like her: every time she smiled at Yu Xunhuan and the others, she would take her revenge even more viciously afterward. She was waiting for the day he exploded.

After enjoying Yu Xunhuan's performance and mask to her heart's content, she pulled Su Yitong into a corner and mysteriously told her, "I have a wedding gift for you. It's something from the game. Where would be convenient for me to give it to you?"

Su Yitong grew curious when she heard that. Things from the game were still very rare at this point. She pulled Yu Xunge into the dressing room. Yu Xunge beckoned Yu Xunhuan over as well, then once they were inside, she took out that bed that made people flush from head to toe.

The information of an ownerless game item could be known with a single touch. Su Yitong thanked her without showing any emotion, but her eyes were shining.

Yu Xunhuan also breathed a sigh of relief. Though it was a little awkward, this thing... well, it was exactly what he wanted! He needed it—desperately!

After several consecutive days of gloom, Yu Xunge had brought him the only bit of good news he had received in days. Yu Xunhuan looked at Yu Xunge gratefully.