SS Rank Drops to S Rank

After wishing the two newlyweds happiness, Yu Xunge said she was leaving. Not only did Su Yitong personally see her to the door, but she also had a Su Family driver take her home. Clearly, she was very pleased with the wedding gift and equally pleased by Yu Xunge's tact.

The next day, Su Yitong unexpectedly invited Yu Xunge to a new villa within the Su Family estate. It was the marital home she shared with Yu Xunhuan. Yu Xunge had previously assumed the villa belonged to another branch of the Su Family, never imagining it had been prepared for Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan.

The moment she stepped inside, pale blue light lit up beneath her feet. Not only that, she caught the scent of revealing potion, yet she could not find any mist anywhere. It seemed technology had been used for a complete upgrade.

Su Yitong explained, "Oh, don't mind it. It's pressure sensing. It won't hurt you."

Yu Xunge understood. She had spent all of September collecting weapons in Harbor City and had not visited the Su Family for a long time. The Su Family's main residence had probably been fitted with this stuff as well, and House Liang had most likely found all sorts of countermeasures too. She immediately decided that she would not visit the Su Family or House Liang for the time being.

After all, if there were sensors, there would naturally be corresponding capture devices.

After touring the marital home, Yu Xunge was kept for a meal before she left. Now she truly understood just how much Su Yitong liked that gift.

Before leaving, Yu Xunge told Su Yitong, "On the day you come to pick up the groom, I'll use my talent to set your luck to its maximum value! Don't worry!"

Su Yitong's expression stiffened for an instant at those words. Her luck had once been at the maximum value of 10, only to inexplicably drop to 8 later. At the time, she had suspected everyone. She had even gone to the Yu Family to probe whether Yu Xunge was a player and whether she possessed some God-given talent capable of cursing people.

But she quickly composed herself. With a wave of her hand, she had a Su Family driver take Yu Xunge home, while another car followed behind, filled with gifts for Yu Xunge.

When Yu Xunge went to the Yu Family villa for dinner that evening, she praised Su Yitong to the skies.

In the past, Yu Xunhuan would have definitely asked her to use the skill on him. As for whether that would put Yu Xunge, who had already promised Su Yitong, in a difficult position, that was none of his concern. But now, Yu Xunhuan had yet to recover from the blow of his God-given talent dropping from SS rank to S rank. The fact that he could force himself to attend the wedding rehearsal was already a sign of his resilience.

Yu Qingshan ate small bites of food as his mind wandered elsewhere, giving off the impression that his soul had already died.

Although Yi Qiuguo knew there were treasures in the house, Yu Qingshan had only taken her to see them once. She did not know how much those treasures were actually worth, so while she felt heartache, the blow she suffered was not too great. She was an easy woman to understand: as long as her husband, son, and daughter were well, she felt life was happy.

For a while, only the two women spoke at the table. The two grown men merely mechanically stuffed food into their mouths.

On the eighteenth, the day of the wedding, Yu Xunhuan sat in the master bedroom of his villa, waiting for Su Yitong to come collect the groom.

Yu Xunge and Yu Qingshan had specifically invited members of the Yu Family's other branches to help put on a show and block the Su Family members. After a token bit of wedding gatecrashing, they let them in.

After using the Wheel of Fortune, one could choose whether to conceal the target's luck value from them. When doing bad things, hiding it was one thing, but when raising someone's luck, of course she had to let them see it!

Besides, Yu Xunge had no intention of causing trouble on a day like this. As the male and female leads, even if Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan's luck values dropped to 1, they would not be too unlucky. Take Yu Xunhuan, for example: even with a luck value of 1, Gun King had fired seven shots without hitting little Yu Xunhuan once, and in the end could only cut off half of him. It was simply that unreasonable.

More people attended this wedding banquet than the last one. Yu Xunge even saw Liang Yuchuan, wearing a long black glove on her right hand that reached halfway up her upper arm. There was probably a prosthetic limb underneath it; otherwise, there would be no need to go to such lengths.

The way she looked at Su Yitong carried a cold, scrutinizing gaze.

The game's methods were endless. Although Liang Yuchuan had nearly been blinded by hatred at the time and had quickly matched those eyes to the youngest daughter of the Su Family's third branch, large families did not simply charge out and act on impulse. After Liang Yuchuan and the Liang Family members sat down to discuss it, everyone felt that something was wrong.

Leaving aside the fact that the Su Family and House Liang held no grudge against each other beyond a little business friction, there was no reason to forge such a blood feud. Even if Liang Yuchuan had offended Su Yitong at some point, if Su Yitong wanted to deal with Liang Yuchuan, why would she need to do it personally?

Even taking a step back, suppose Su Yitong had nothing better to do and insisted on handling something this major herself. But Su Yitong did not know Liang Yuchuan's abilities, so why would she only cut off Liang Yuchuan's arm, mercifully leave her alive, and then make eye contact with her?

If she had drunk two fewer glasses before going out, she would not have done something like that.

But rationality was rationality. Even with her eyes closed, Liang Yuchuan could not forget those eyes.

House Liang had still come today, not only to maintain the appearance of peace. The head of House Liang, Liang Yuchuan's uncle, intended to investigate for a while longer. If they still could not find the culprit, they would find an opportunity to have a proper talk with the Su Family's leadership about the matter.

Yu Xunge's gaze only skimmed over Liang Yuchuan, as though she were merely curious about today's guests. She focused on eating, smiled when she should smile, and applauded when she should applaud. She was simply an unremarkable relative of the live-in son-in-law. Even though people occasionally stole glances at her because her charm was maxed out, she remained quiet and never drew attention to herself.

Then... this utterly ordinary relative of the live-in son-in-law used the pocket watch's detection skill to steal from all thirty-seven players at the banquet.

They were all "old acquaintances" from her previous life.

The more she stole, the angrier she became. Nearly every one of them had clashed with her before. In the past, she had even wondered whether she was simply born to attract people's affection.

But now she understood. It was because Yu Xunhuan had been using her as a tank—the one who stood at the front to draw monsters' hatred and take their attacks.

By the end of the meal, Yu Xunge had stolen 2 points of Constitution, 2 points of Strength, and 1 point of Intelligence.

After the banquet, Yu Xunge tactfully took Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo home instead of going to disrupt the wedding night. When the Su Family did it, it was because they were close family members. If the Yu Family went along, it would be overstepping.

They had better not get involved.

Still, since they were in-laws, the Su Family sent a driver to take them home. On the way, Yu Qingshan, who had spent the entire day forcing a smile, could finally be himself. He leaned against the back seat and stared out the window in a depressed haze.

Yu Xunge asked him a few questions, but Yu Qingshan said nothing, so she considerately stopped asking.

After returning to her own villa, Yu Xunge added several dishes for the Meow Meow Inn in the backyard. Ever since gaining the Food God talent, she had inexplicably developed obsessive tendencies while cooking. If the vegetables were cut poorly, she would feel annoyed; if the heat was insufficient, she would grow irritated; if the finished dish received a low rating, she would feel like she was inadequate...