The Value of [Wheel of Fortune]

Even Yu Xunge aside, Yi Qiuguo and Yu Qingshan had grown used to it. Every time, Yu Qingshan would bring out some wine he had supposedly just bought and say it was a fine bottle Uncle had always been reluctant to drink. Since you're Xunhuan's friend, Uncle will treat you like half a son. Come on, let's have a drink, the three of us!

He did not even bother changing the cups or the lines.

When they arrived at the private room, sure enough, it was Ye Dong—the same person Yu Xunge had met unilaterally in B City not long ago.

But he looked haggard, as though he were about to fall apart.

His eyes lit up briefly when he saw Yu Xunge, but his spirits quickly sank again. He had been unbelievably unlucky lately. He had not won a single game, and even winning matches would somehow be lost to all kinds of accidents. The matter of deceiving his fans had blown up, the people he had offended in B City had come looking for him, and even if he hid at home and did nothing, he would choke while eating...

After everyone sat down, Yu Xunhuan seemed even more anxious than Ye Dong, the person involved. He directly took out a small five-jin gold brick and handed it to Yu Xunge. "Sis, help my friend. He's been way too unlucky lately."

Yu Xunge did not refuse. She was worried Yu Xunhuan would seize the opportunity to back down, not even going through the usual polite back-and-forth. If she said she did not need it, he might take the gold brick back. Dodging Yi Qiuguo's frequent elbow jabs, Yu Xunge directly pocketed the gold brick and then used her skill on Ye Dong.

How could someone hanging around the male lead have low luck?

As soon as Yu Xunge thought about it, she understood. He had probably eaten food Yu Xunhuan made without paying for it.

Other people's dine-and-dashes meant eating without paying. Yu Xunhuan's dine-and-dash meant the tyrant secretly cooking for you, terrified that you might pay!

And paying for her to alter Ye Dong's luck was the favor he was giving Ye Dong—helping him in his hour of need, making Ye Dong trust and appreciate him even more.

Tch. He had used this same routine on her in her previous life.

But seeing Yu Xunhuan scheme against the brother who had once been as close to him as family, Yu Xunge only felt that she had made the right choice coming today. She could probably eat two extra bowls of rice.

Yu Xunge swiftly adjusted Ye Dong's luck to 10, letting him properly experience the charm of [Happy Again, Aren't You?]. Judging by Yu Xunhuan's attitude, Ye Dong would probably become a frequent customer of hers in the future.

Even after the game invasion, she would have to rely on this skill to make money.

Would people not need [Happy Again, Aren't You?] when opening treasure chests after defeating bosses?

Yu Xunhuan, Yu Xunge, and even Su Yitong all had maxed-out luck, but of the three of them, two were the male and female leads, while the other had only developed from 8 to 10 through her own efforts.

Most ordinary people were at 5. Yu Xunge had altered the luck of so many people recently and used the Soros Pocket Watch to view plenty of information. Even many big shots who had achieved fame and success, people she could previously only see on television, had luck values of merely 7. Of course, that was understandable. For those who stood at the top of the pyramid, what they relied on was their brains, family background, emotional intelligence, and hard work. Luck was merely the icing on the cake.

But opening treasure chests in a game had nothing to do with intelligence, strength, family background, or appearance. That was purely a matter of luck.

In her previous life, House Liang had kept Liang Hui's God-given talent tightly under wraps. They had very likely even deliberately prepared an item for Liang Hui to conceal his God-given talent, which was why no one had managed to uncover it.

Because even she had heard that House Liang had an exceptionally high chance of getting good items after clearing dungeons. Unlike other families—even the Su Family, where only Su Yitong could consistently get good items when opening chests. Once a dungeon run began, outsiders could not enter, and it was impossible to summon the young lady over to open the chests after the dungeon had been cleared.

With their extraordinarily high drop rate, House Liang had developed to a point only slightly behind the Su Family. No one knew why.

Yu Xunge had only inferred the effect of Liang Hui's God-given talent skill from her own experiences after he repeatedly used [Wheel of Fortune] on her. When Liang Hui finally captured her, she questioned him about it. Seeing that she had already guessed most of the details of his God-given talent, Liang Hui admitted it. After all, she would soon be dead.

Thinking about it, the eldest young lady of House Liang had truly paid a steep price to capture her, only for the Su Family to steal the prize in the end.

Yu Xunge had already decided to use this God-given skill to benefit the players of S City! As long as she controlled it properly, she could make money four times a day. Successful people did not stay up late working, but players would stay up late gaming!

She just needed to think more about the pricing. It could not be as cheap as it was now, but it could not be too outrageous either. Making people jealous too easily could get her focused down and killed.

Yu Xunge spent the entire meal lost in thought, refining her plan to make money with [Wheel of Fortune].

Yu Xunge was quite cold toward Ye Dong at the table, but Ye Dong did not dare say much. Although he had yet to experience the appeal of luck 10, Yu Xunge was also a player. There was no telling whether he might need her God-given talent in the future. No matter how dissatisfied he was, he would endure it, at most muttering inwardly that this woman did not know how to behave.

Yu Xunge did not care what Ye Dong thought. It was true that she wanted to develop Ye Dong into a customer, but he was the one asking her for help, not the other way around. She did not lack customers.

Yu Xunhuan was even less likely to think there was anything wrong with Yu Xunge's attitude. Wasn't this better? Yu Xunge's coldness would only make him, her brother, seem all the better to Ye Dong.

By the time she got home, it was already late, but Yu Xunge still spent another hour preparing food for the cats in the backyard.

The weather was getting colder, and more and more cats were gathering in the backyard. She had simply commissioned a small pet villa for the yard and placed the cat beds inside. The wooden house's floor was covered with heating pads. Since there were so many cats, and they had already come, she could not just watch the strong ones sleep in beds while the weak ones froze outside.

She had also replaced the backyard faucet with a sensor-operated one that would release water whenever a cat passed by.

Other than that, there was really nothing more she could do. Mm.

Squatting by the floor-to-ceiling window between the backyard and the villa, Yu Xunge wagged a finger at a calico cat outside that kept patting the door and windows with its little paw pads, trying to get in. "Don't even think about it."

—"Meow~"

"Impossible."

She coldly stood up and left.

For the past few days, Yu Xunge had been fixing up the cats' backyard. She bought some cat toys and climbing frames, then installed a retractable canopy overhead. It could keep out the rain on rainy days while not preventing the cats from sunbathing when the sun was out.

She attributed her enthusiasm and initiative to worrying that the cat beds might not mutate. It definitely was not because she had been conquered by cats.

While keeping busy, she considered how to price [Wheel of Fortune] after the game invasion. The more she thought about it, the more she felt her paranoia was acting up again. The more she considered [Wheel of Fortune], the more she felt that its danger was no better than [Impersonation].

There was a reason such a God-given talent, capable only of changing luck values and swapping a target's attributes, had been rated B.