Emptying the Yu Family's Fortune

Yu Xunge sat meditating with her back against her bedroom door, waiting until three in the morning before she heard movement outside. She immediately linked her vision to the thrush's.

After waiting for a while, she saw Yu Qingshan appear at the entrance to the study. He first turned the middle section of one of the desk legs, then stood on a chair and fumbled around atop the bookcase for a while. Finally, he removed every book from the third shelf and tinkered with a corner of it.

At that point, the bookcase opened to either side, revealing an entrance wide enough for one person to pass through.

A while later, Yu Qingshan emerged carrying a vase.

After repeating the previous steps in reverse, the bookcase closed. He carefully returned every book to its original place.

The moment Yu Qingshan returned to his room, Yu Xunge rose to her feet. There were no cameras elsewhere in the Yu Family home, but she had no idea whether there would be any in the treasure room. To be safe, she changed clothes, put on gloves, and used her Disguise skill to transform herself into Yu Xunhuan before lightly entering the study.

As long as she knew the location and the order of the mechanisms, she could eventually figure it out. Before long, the wardrobe opened.

Yu Xunge hurried inside, leaving the thrush at the entrance to keep watch. It would call out at the first sign of movement.

After walking two meters, she reached another room. This was likely the secret chamber converted from the neighboring storage room. The room had no door and seemed to have been deliberately sealed off, leaving only the passage to the study. It was about the same size as the study and packed full of wooden crates.

She had seen these wooden crates in her previous life. Back then, she had already become a wanted criminal and had spent nearly half a year on the run, sleeping rough and living off the land. Yet Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo had been busy carrying the treasures they had accumulated over a lifetime into the living room, preparing to move them into the new villa Yu Xunhuan had bought for them the next day. Their faces had been full of joy and pride.

Yu Xunge took out the identical cardboard boxes she had prepared in advance, transferred the contents of the wooden crates into them, then pressed her hand against each box. With a thought, she stacked them into her spatial inventory, leaving only empty wooden crates scattered across the floor.

Once she had finished, she closed the secret chamber and returned to her room with satisfaction. After changing her clothes and removing her disguise, she lay down with a smile.

She could finally get a good night's sleep.

On the twenty-sixth, Yu Xunge got up early and went out for a run to exercise.

She had to be home when Su Yitong came over today.

Su Yitong was also a closed beta player. As the main wife of the male lead who married into the family, how could she possibly be lacking?

Still, Yu Xunge could not understand why a wealthy young lady would download a game with no promotion whatsoever in the middle of the night...

She could only guess that Yu Xunhuan had been playing it at the time, so Su Yitong had downloaded it to play with her boyfriend. Or perhaps she had enough luck on her side to become the female lead?

During that time, the company called to inform her that the role she had played for less than three days had been given to someone else. Yu Xunge did not care. Compared to the entertainment industry, she had more important matters to attend to.

At eleven in the morning, Yu Xunhuan brought Su Yitong over.

Yu Xunge had already hidden the hatred in her heart. She could even smile when she saw Su Yitong, and she admired herself for it.

But that was all. She could not bring herself to say anything flattering. Even though her younger brother had always said in her previous life that he had suffered in the Su Family, she could not bring herself to curry favor with the Su Family for his sake. She was not the one marrying into their family!

When Su Yitong had visited in her previous life, Yu Xunge had been upset over Liu Hongsheng. Who knew what Su Yitong had made of that? It was probably because she had been so distracted that day that, when Yu Xunhuan guided Su Yitong into believing she had inappropriate feelings for her brother, Su Yitong had believed it so easily.

Today, Yu Xunge wore a smile of blessing the entire time. When they raised their glasses, she even tried to steal from Su Yitong.

Good. Though the theft had failed, the skill had definitely activated. She could clearly tell the difference between being unable to use it and having it fail.

It seemed Su Yitong was already a player.

Yu Xunge stole from her three more times, draining her own health to forty percent before stopping. One attempt succeeded.

When the notification showed that the theft had succeeded, Yu Xunge waited until she lowered her head to shovel food into her mouth before checking what she had stolen.

1 Luck!!

Su Yitong had been a healer in her previous life. Yu Xunge had assumed the attribute she was most likely to steal today would be Intelligence, but unexpectedly, Su Yitong's highest attribute was Luck, which could not be increased with attribute points. And Luck could be stolen too?!

Perhaps at first, Yu Xunge had only been spending health to use her skill out of a desire to make things difficult for an enemy. But now she made up her mind. Even if she had to drink potions, she would keep stealing from Su Yitong until she could no longer steal Luck!

This was incredibly rare. No, it could even be said that this might be her only chance to steal Luck.

It was already rare for Luck to be the highest value on someone's attribute panel. Once everyone began leveling up and gaining attribute points, they would receive five attribute points per level. As long as they casually invested those points into their strongest attributes, a situation like this would basically never happen again.

But the more that was the case, the less she could rush. She could not match the Su Family's influence right now. Although the Thief God's passive effect meant that even if she stole something from Su Yitong now, Su Yitong would not remember losing it until a day later.

But the Su Family's influence was too great. In the future, she would not only steal Su Yitong's things, but also Yu Xunhuan's and those of his group of brothers. If Yu Xunge was present for long stretches the day before something went missing every time, and occasionally slipped away for a short while to drink Minor Healing Potions, that would be a glaring weakness that could easily arouse suspicion.

Naturally, she needed to start guarding against such things from her very first theft. Yu Xunge had never believed in luck.

Thus, over the next hour, Yu Xunge acted as a good-luck charm, offering the occasional blessing. Soon, after they had finished eating and sat down to chat, Yu Xunge had the thrush use her backup phone to call her own phone. Then she pretended she needed to leave for work and departed.

She took the elevator downstairs and drove out of the residential complex in full view of the cameras.

Half an hour later, Yu Xunge had restored her health by chewing jerky. She used her Disguise skill to become a burly middle-aged man, returned to the complex, and took the stairs back to the floor where the Yu Family lived.

Through the thrush she had left behind in the Yu Family home, she saw that no one was on the first floor. Who knew how they had so many secrets to discuss? They were talking in the study.

Through the thrush, she could only vaguely hear phrases such as "Yu Family," "Su Family," and "marrying into the family."

There were no cameras in the stairwell, but every security door now came with its own camera.

Yu Xunge pulled out a Minor Invisibility Potion from her backpack and drank it. The potion could only turn someone invisible for five minutes and had a seven-minute cooldown, so she had to keep close track of time while using it.

After drinking the potion, not only did her body turn invisible, but the items she was carrying when she drank it were also concealed by its effects. She walked over, took out her invisible key, and opened the Yu Family's front door.

The door opened a crack as though blown by the wind, then slowly shut again.

Yu Xunge timed herself as she headed to the study. They had not even closed the door.

Yu Qingshan sat behind the desk, while Yi Qiuguo and the others sat on several sofas. Relaxed smiles rested on all their faces.

Yu Xunge gently moved to Su Yitong's side. The moment Yu Xunhuan lifted his hand to put an arm around her shoulders, Yu Xunge began stealing without pause!

She stole four times in a row, her face turning pale as her health dropped to twenty percent. She swallowed a Minor Healing Potion, restoring her health to eighty percent, and continued!

Then she stole three more times in a row!

Success! Yu Xunge took a glance, and wild joy surged through her heart. It was Luck again!

Was this what they meant by getting luckier the more you stole?!

Yu Xunge silently counted the time. There were still two minutes before the invisibility wore off. She quietly backed out of the room, went to Yu Xunhuan's bedroom, lifted the sheet hanging from the bed, and hid beneath it.

Her Luck on her personal panel had now reached an astounding 10. Two words had appeared beside it—maximum value.

Not long after Yu Xunge lay down, the Minor Invisibility Potion wore off. While quietly waiting for the cooldown on the Minor Healing Potion to end, she chewed jerky to rapidly restore her health. Thanks to the meat, she recovered five health per minute.

Five minutes later, when the potion's cooldown ended, her health had recovered to forty-five percent.

Yu Xunge did not rush to drink another potion. Instead, she continued eating the jerky in her inventory. She could only steal so recklessly while she was low-level. Once her level was higher, her health would easily reach several thousand. Every additional theft against the same target deducted a percentage of her health, while a Minor Healing Potion restored only sixty points. By then, if she wanted to recover health quickly, she would need Intermediate Healing Potions, Advanced Healing Potions, or even Super Healing Potions. The cost of every extra theft would become extremely high.

Just as her health recovered to ninety-six percent, the bedroom door opened, followed by the sound of voices.

It was Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan.