Neither the Young Punk nor the Old Punk Would Do

Yu Xunge also made time to visit the Yu Family villa, leaving the latex mattress she had brought for Yi Qiuguo in the living room. Then she declined Yi Qiuguo's invitation to stay for dinner and headed straight to the gold shop.

Back when Yu Xunhuan had not become a player, she could naturally eat at the Yu Family's table. But now that Yu Xunhuan had... well... one-fifth of a Food God talent, she did not want to eat a single grain of rice from the Yu Family.

From that day on, whenever someone came looking for Yu Xunge to use [Wheel of Fortune], she accepted only gold. One million, converted at the current price of gold, came to roughly three jin and eight liang. She simply rounded it up and asked for four jin of gold.

Su Yitong: "..."

It was her first time hearing someone round up like that, and gold made her feel a little nauseous now.

Still, rich people did not care about that little bit of money.

After having their luck altered, many people were initially worried that they were borrowing luck from the future. They might be lucky now, but would they suffer bad luck later? Plenty of people had been watching from the sidelines. But as time passed, everyone realized there were no side effects. Even if their luck improved, it only meant that things went their way within a certain range. It would not let them achieve their goals without putting in any effort.

The effect was roughly like having a headwind turn into a tailwind while climbing toward the heavens.

Take that buzz-cut young man who had won the lottery. After scratching off a one-million-yuan prize for the first time that day, he immediately bought another ten tickets, but he never won again.

Not only had Yu Xunge's God-given skill failed to go unsold, more and more people came to buy it. Nobody needed it every day, after all. They simply wanted peace of mind and smooth sailing when something important came up, to experience the effortless feeling of everything going their way as if aided by a god. Wasn't that far more useful than money trees and feng shui ornaments?!

During that time, Yu Xunhuan, Yu Qingshan, and Yi Qiuguo also tried to pull strings and asked her to give them [Happy Again, Aren't You?], so they could experience the bliss of Luck 10.

Yu Xunge readily agreed to such a small matter.

There were only twenty-four hours in a day, and the skill had a six-hour cooldown after each use. Most of those powerful people—aside from those who needed to give birth in the middle of the night—wanted to be lucky during the daytime. Even if people liked to discuss business over dinner, they would need her blessing no later than before the evening meal.

She generally took only two orders a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. She could earn gold without affecting her classes, and her clients sent cars to pick her up and drop her off. After using [Wheel of Fortune], she could simply have the driver take her straight to class.

The eerie late-night hours could be left for the Yu Family.

Yu Xunhuan had no way to rush over at night. With his persona as a younger brother who adored his sister, he could not possibly make the utterly punchable request for his sister to come over at night, use a skill on him, and then go back.

But Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo, who lived in the same villa district, could!

During the first half of December, the two of them tirelessly took walks to Yu Xunge's villa every day, asking her to use the skill on one of them.

It was only a wave of her hand. Yu Xunge was not worried that a few hours of luck would let either of them defy fate.

Yi Qiuguo even said that Yu Xunge had become distant from them and had not registered their fingerprints for the villa.

Yu Xunge said that she had retired from the entertainment industry and could date now. Maybe she would bring boys home in the future, and it would be inconvenient.

Yi Qiuguo chuckled, wearing an expression that said she understood, and did not ask further. The next second, she nudged Yu Qingshan with her elbow. "Why don't we move back to Bauhinia Road for a while? Don't you always say you're afraid of disturbing the child?"

Was that an excuse I was supposed to hear?

Yu Xunge sent them out past the villa courtyard with a wrinkled expression, pretending not to see Yu Qingshan's bitter face.

The young punk would not do, and neither would the old punk.

Tch.

Through day after day of training, Yu Xunge had not only learned how to exert force more efficiently, but had also corrected many bad close-combat habits with her coach's help.

Her Strength attribute was now 10. Before, even when she gave it everything she had, she could only bring out six or seven points of strength. But now that she had learned proper techniques for exerting force, she could use at least ninety percent of it.

Although long-range attacks were her specialty, close-combat ability was also important. She could not become useless the moment someone got close. She had learned plenty of moves too: horizontal elbow, jumping elbow, cover elbow, heart-striking elbow, elbow strike, spinning butterfly elbow...

Yu Xunge only felt that she was terrifyingly strong now!

She had learned all the knowledge. The rest required long-term practice, so she switched teachers and began learning how to use daggers.

Likewise, she had learned all the relevant knowledge about archery. The rest depended on daily practice and insight. Yu Xunge began learning crossbow and firearm shooting techniques as well. What had happened in Sawatdika Country brought her floating heart back down to earth.

She had already stockpiled plenty of weapons. Rather than gamble on those elusive mutations with less than a one-in-ten-thousand chance, it was better to study properly.

But even so, everyone had a gambling streak.

Every day after class and dinner, Yu Xunge would stop by Antique Street for a look. The more broken-down something was, the more likely she was to buy it, bringing piles of junk home. Once, when she let Yi Qiuguo into her house to help tidy up, Yi Qiuguo saw that pile of rubbish that even Yu Xunge could not be bothered to put into her game inventory and said that Yu Xunge would definitely be scammed into buying health supplements when she got old.

The male lead had fallen through, the third female lead had been poisoned, and she had made her bet.

Everyone had a bright future ahead of them.

But one person looked like he was about to fall apart.

That day, Yu Xunge received a call from Yu Xunhuan, asking whether she had time that evening to help one of his friends adjust their Luck. He would pay her five jin of gold per use.

Why not? It was a business with no costs, and she would be taking money from Yu Xunhuan's pocket. Of course she agreed.

Still, she took precautions. Worried that Yu Xunhuan would say he wanted to treat her to dinner, she spoke first. "Business is business. There's no way I'm using this skill on your friend for free, but big sister will treat tonight. Open a good bottle of wine."

At a restaurant where the average bill was over ten thousand yuan per person, plus a bottle of wine worth over two hundred thousand, it all added up to only one jin of gold.

Yu Xunge smoothed her hair in the rearview mirror and nodded at her reflection. You really are generous!!

Then she turned the steering wheel and drove to the Yu Family villa, bringing Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo along. Though she did not know who Yu Xunhuan's friend was, she could guess with her toes that it was probably one of his brothers. She did not want to eat with them alone.

That idiotic little brother of hers acted like he was bringing his girlfriend home to meet the family. Every time he made a new friend, he loved bringing that friend home for dinner, then pointing at her, Yu Qingshan, and Yi Qiuguo and saying, "Let me introduce you to my family."

In reality, Yu Xunhuan brought at least two different brothers home for dinner every semester, and every one of them was tall, rich, and handsome.

Yu Xunge had always thought that he either had something wrong with his brain or was gay.

Later, she discovered that this was called wisdom!

Because every one of those brothers and friends had been moved to tears and given Yu Xunhuan a great deal of help.

Yu Xunge felt that Yu Xunhuan was difficult to explain. Perhaps his many benefactors were not due to luck alone.