The Yu Family's Assets

Why had she always trusted Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo so much? Because in the year she entered the entertainment industry, the two of them got into a minor car accident and spent nearly half a month in the hospital. She did not make it there until the third day, while Yu Xunhuan had been caring for them at their bedside the entire time. She had felt guilty and blamed herself, but that was also the day they handed over all their savings—five million yuan—to her.

"Accidents come too fast. Your father and mother don't know how much longer we'll live, so some things are better made clear early. We're giving all the family's money to you. From now on, you'll be the pillar of this family."

"Your brother will have to get married someday. If the money ends up in his hands, once he has a wife, who knows whose side he'll be on? You'll have plenty of grievances to suffer then. We'll only feel at ease if the money stays with you. If your brother behaves, give him a little. If he doesn't, we'll keep it and spend it ourselves."

Yi Qiuguo still wore her usual stingy expression, but her words carried an intimate warmth. "Don't blame your mother for being frugal all the time. Look, isn't all the money we saved being given to you? Has your mother ever lied to you? You're the most obedient one. Even though I always like to scold you, you're the one I love most."

What a grand performance.

Yu Xunge believed she had already shown enough restraint. Otherwise, she would not have given away only half of what she had earned over the years.

She had even often wondered whether she was too cold-blooded. Her family trusted her enough to give her everything, yet she had always held something back.

Until the third year after the game's invasion, when the Su Family hunted her down until she had nowhere left to run. Following the principle that the most dangerous place was the safest, she hid at the Yu Family home for a day. It was also that day that she discovered the Yu Family's secret room.

How ridiculous. The large luxury apartment in the city center—she had thought it was already impressive enough that the Yu Family could afford to buy two units and combine them. She never expected the neighboring unit on the same floor to belong to the Yu Family as well. It was specifically used to store the Yu Family's treasures. The storage room in that unit connected directly to their study and was used as a secret room.

There were three hundred jin of gold bars inside alone, along with thirteen boxes of antiques, calligraphy, paintings, and collectibles, plus seven boxes of jewelry.

The Yu Family truly did not have much cash. Yu Qingshan was a branch member of the Yu Family in B City and had no right to participate in the family business. On the surface, he was merely an ordinary professor, but the family's true wealth was the collection of treasures his father had received from the main Yu Family when the family split apart.

Those three hundred jin of gold alone were worth more than seventy million yuan... not to mention all those antiques, calligraphy, paintings, and collectibles.

Yet they had told her that five million was everything the family had, that they had given it all to her because she was the only one they trusted.

Yu Xunge pressed a hand over her aching chest and told herself not to rush, not to blame herself. She was not that stupid. They were simply too good at this.

But the more she thought about it, the harder her tears fell.

She knew that from then on, for the rest of her life, she would never be able to trust anyone again.

They had destroyed her ability to trust.

Even those closest to her could betray her. Even the sweet words of those closest to her were wrapped in poison. What she had believed was unreserved devotion had all been calculation. How could she dare trust anyone else?

Yu Xunge opened her eyes and let out a long breath. She could not wait any longer. If she did not get those things tonight, she was afraid she would not be able to sleep.

It was only the twenty-fifth, yet Yu Xunge felt busier than a dog.

She drove out directly, bought several of the largest cardboard boxes from an SF Express station, and hauled them home.

After assembling the boxes at home and stacking them inside her backpack slots, she openly drove to the Yu Family home. By then, the news that Liu Hongsheng had been forced to jump from a building by Liu Zhengliu had already spread through the work group chat. After exchanging a few simple words with Yu Qingshan and the others, she pretended to be in a bad mood and returned to her room.

Yi Qiuguo hesitated to speak. When Yu Xunge was halfway up the stairs, she finally could not hold it in any longer and called her back down, telling her that Yu Xunhuan would be bringing his girlfriend home to visit tomorrow. His girlfriend was even the youngest daughter of the Su Family.

Yu Xunge put on a surprised expression, then asked, "You've been dating in secret? Not bad. But the Su Family? Which Su Family?"

Yi Qiuguo smiled at the mention of them. "You know Su Baige, right? That movie emperor. Their Su Family. Su Baige is their eldest, and the second son, Su Jinxuan, was the archery champion at the last Olympics. Your brother's girlfriend is the Su Family's youngest daughter, Su Yitong. They've been together for nearly half a year, and he says he wants to bring her home for us to meet."

Yu Xunge smiled. "That's wonderful! You have to make a good impression."

As Yu Xunhuan watched Yu Xunge smile so brightly, his brows drew together slightly.

When Yu Xunge caught the look in Yu Xunhuan's eyes, she felt like vomiting. She did not understand why the Yu Xunhuan in the book had viewed her as a possessive older sister with twisted feelings for him. She believed she had never done anything inappropriate.

She attributed it to the author needing to kill off a character who genuinely treated the male lead well while still claiming the moral high ground. The author could only write her like a lunatic, so that the male lead could "have no choice" but to "painfully" kill her, then make use of her corpse by stripping away her talent and giving it to someone who needed it more, helping the male lead achieve his goals.

But that was from the book's perspective.

For her, the person involved, at the moment of her death, she had stripped away the mist and seen through the essence beneath the hypocritical embellishments of those literary tricks.

He wanted her talent, so she had to die.

The stains forced upon her were nothing more than a way to make the male lead seem "pure and flawless."

But now that she thought about it, Yu Xunhuan did not actually believe she saw him as her possession, did he? Who was the real pervert here?

Suppressing her disgust, Yu Xunge echoed Yi Qiuguo a few times, but did not mention buying a house at all.

Still, she was curious. "I know Su Baige. His family must be very wealthy, right? Would they be satisfied with our family?"

Yu Xunge asked sincerely. She did not even need to act. Even after dying once, she still did not understand it. Su Baige was a well-known rich second-generation heir in the industry, and the Su Family had assets of at least several billion yuan. They could accept Yu Xunhuan as their brother-in-law?

Yi Qiuguo's expression stiffened, and her voice lowered. "That's why, since you already have a house, could you buy one for your brother too? Just to keep up appearances for the wedding. After the wedding, we'll transfer it back under your name."

In her previous life, they had not even needed to bring it up themselves. Yu Xunge held back a laugh and spread her hands helplessly. "I'm out of money. A friend said there was a great project that could make a lot after investing in it. The reason I came back a few days ago to drink with my brother and celebrate was because of that. Once I make money, we can buy villas if we want, but right now, I really don't have any left."

Yi Qiuguo was easily used as a weapon by Yu Qingshan, but she was also genuinely easy to fool. After Yu Xunge finished speaking, the anger rising on her face subsided. Her lips moved, but in the end, she silently looked at Yu Qingshan.

Yu Xunge knew it was Yu Qingshan's turn to step in.

But Yu Xunge did not want to listen. She said directly, "How about we sell this house? It should be enough for a down payment."

Everyone fell silent. Yu Xunge sighed as well, bluntly admitting that she was useless. This drama had not even finished filming, and now something had happened to her agent. After saying a few meaningless things, she returned to her room looking as though her career was not going well.

As she passed the study, she opened the door and went in, slipping the White-Bone Hwamei from her pocket into a corner. She had already stripped the flesh from the bird's body, leaving only its skeleton, tiny and delicate.

After putting the hwamei away, she casually took out a book. The moment she stepped outside, she saw Yu Qingshan standing beyond the study door, his expression gentle. Yet Yu Xunge knew he was guarding against her discovering the study's secret.

Yu Xunge returned to her room without changing expression. Then, while doing bodyweight training on the carpet, she closely monitored the hwamei's movements. She had kept

the five attribute points from leveling up unassigned because some attributes could be improved through training in the early stages.

After training for an hour and taking a shower, she began recording the secrets and information she knew from her previous life.

Before she died, she had learned that she was the vicious supporting female character in a male-oriented novel about a live-in son-in-law. Yet after being reborn, for some reason, she could no longer remember the specific contents of that book clearly... She only remembered this character description, which had struck her too deeply.