The More You Steal, the Luckier You Get

She had known it. What couple wouldn't go into the bedroom to whisper sweet nothings?

The two of them dawdled over to sit by the bed, their legs pressed together. Yu Xunge's mind was perfectly clear, without the slightest ripple. Time to steal!

After four steals in a row, her health dropped to 16%.

The person on the bed had a sallow little face, while the person under the bed was pale as if she had been dead for three days.

She chugged down a potion, but afraid of making too much noise, she finished it in tiny sips.

Her health recovered to 76%.

The jerky in Yu Xunge's mouth never stopped.

It happened three more times.

Yu Xunge was practically grinning from ear to ear. She knew it! She must have used up all her luck drawing her God-given talent when she entered the game last time. She had stolen hundreds of times in the game and only succeeded a few times, but look at today! How many times had she stolen in total? Not only had she stolen 2 points of Luck, she had even gotten an item.

[Soros Set: Mask (1/3)] (A-rank): After use, can disguise the information on one's character panel. Once used, it only needs to be placed in the inventory to take effect. If the mask is dropped, the disguise will fail. (Cannot be successfully detected by items below A-rank. Note: For every additional Soros Set piece collected, concealment level +1.)

When Yu Xunge saw this item, she was ecstatic—more delighted than she had been after drawing Luck.

Items differed from equipment. Their effects came in all sorts of strange varieties. Some only needed to be placed in the inventory to work, some had to be worn, and some required bizarre conditions before they could take effect. However, they did not occupy equipment slots, and some could even be used together with equipment.

After the ecstasy came a wave of lingering fear. This was a set. Since there was a mask capable of disguising character panel information, did that mean there might be something like Soros's Eye, or glasses—some sort of detection-type component?

Yu Xunge steadied her breathing and waited for the cooldown on the basic healing potion to end.

Fortunately, it was broad daylight, so the young couple only kissed and did nothing else. Otherwise, she really might have dug straight through the floor.

Perhaps everyone's luck for the day was fixed.

After stealing 2 points of Luck and an A-rank item, she lay under the bed for an hour. Whenever her health ran out, she gulped down potions and ate jerky. Whenever she had health, she stole.

At that moment, she truly understood the saying: loving theft was like loving life...

In the end, she stole another point of Charm.

Yu Xunge was not disappointed. Charm and Luck were both attributes that could not be increased with usable attribute points. Naturally, the more rare things she had, the better.

She kept stealing until the young couple left the room. Soon, the whole family went out together. Yu Xunge guessed they had gone out for dinner. She did not know whether they had called her, but her phone was switched off and tossed into her game inventory anyway. She would just pretend she did not know.

As she crawled out from under the bed with a pale face and disheveled hair, Yu Xunge felt that her current appearance could probably scare Yi Qiuguo, whose heart was not exactly strong, to death.

She still had 16% health left and could not bear to drink another potion.

Today, in order to steal Su Yitong's attributes, items, and equipment, she had drunk more than twenty basic healing potions. She had also finished all twenty jin of jerky in her inventory. She felt like her face had gotten a full size bigger.

Yu Xunge returned to her bedroom and slept. She did not wake until that happy family of three had returned. She checked her talent, and [Alias, Come!] was ready again. First, she used her disguise skill to turn herself back into the burly man from before. After changing clothes, she drank an invisibility potion, left her bedroom, went downstairs, and headed out.

The sound of shutting the door was too loud, so she left it cracked open. The people inside could discover it whenever they felt like it.

Then she headed straight for the stairs. By the time she reached the second floor, the potion had worn off, but her disguise was still active. Yu Xunge calmly carried her toolbox out of the residential complex.

Before Yu Xunge had even left the residential complex, she used the Soros Mask to alter her player information.

Her real stats were:

[Character] Yu Xunge (Level 0, 0.001%)

[God-given Talent] Thief God (S-rank)

[God-given Talent] Immortality (SS-rank) (Incomplete)

[Race] Human

[Racial Talents] Undead Will ┃ Feeding

[Health]: 100/100

[Mana]: 100/100

[Strength]: 5

[Constitution]: 7

[Intelligence]: 10

[Agility]: 12

[Luck]: 10 (Maximum)

[Charm]: 10 (Maximum)

[Usable Attribute Points]: 0

She could not be certain whether others could see the specific skills of her talents, but she changed them anyway.

Her disguised character panel was:

[Character] Yu Xunge (Level 0, 0.001%)

[God-given Talent] Broker (A-rank)

[Race] Human

[Racial Talents] Undead Will ┃ Feeding

[Health]: 100/100

[Mana]: 100/100

[Strength]: 5

[Constitution]: 7

[Intelligence]: 7

[Agility]: 7

[Luck]: 5

[Charm]: 9

[Usable Attribute Points]: 0

Her attributes had become utterly mediocre, but she did not lower her Charm by much. Thinking back, even when she disguised herself as a beggar while fleeing, she seemed to have received more money than others. A person's temperament could not be hidden! Charming people were charming wherever they went.

So she did not plan to alter her Charm attribute too drastically. For now, she changed her talent to the A-rank Broker, a very good talent that would not easily arouse anyone's suspicion.

If the Thief God talent were ever revealed, she would become the enemy of every player. No one would be willing to let someone capable of stealing their attribute points remain alive.

Once she obtained a more suitable God-given talent through [Death Impersonation Show] in the future, she would change it again.

She placed the mask at the very bottom of her storage box. For a long time to come, this would be her most precious item.

On her way home, Yu Xunge kept thinking over whether she had left behind any flaws. Starting from the day she was reborn on the twenty-second, she went over every detail one by one.

The time between her rebirth that day and the game's closed beta had been too short. She simply had not had time to make plans or preparations. It had already been difficult enough just to rush home in time. If Yu Xunhuan learned the significance of that game, would he hate her?

She did not care whether Yu Xunhuan hated her, but this concerned whether she could continue hiding within the male and female leads' camp in the future. Many opportunities could only be discovered by the male and female leads. Even if she could not sabotage them, could she not at least follow along and get a sip of the soup while letting them lower their guard?

During the first two years after the game invaded in her previous life, Yu Xunhuan had occasionally taken her into secret realms and dungeons entirely controlled by the Su Family, Han family, and House Liang. She had truly obtained quite a few good things through Yu Xunhuan. Even though she now knew the locations of those dungeons and could use various potions and skills to sneak into those secret realms and dungeons, many valuable things could not be obtained alone.

Especially those bosses that required dozens or even hundreds of people working together to kill...

Let her think... Think about how Yu Qingshan and Yu Xunhuan had earned her trust over the years.

That was right. Before and after every time they gained benefits from her, they would bleed a little themselves. For instance, they had used the money she gave the family to buy her a thirty-million villa. After a dungeon appeared in the villa she had given Yu Xunhuan, Yu Xunhuan had taken her there before as well. But he said House Liang had already seized that dungeon, and he had only gotten usage rights, so he could only occasionally bring her in.

Even when the Su, Liang, and Han families had jointly hunted her down, he had taken risks several times to warn her, allowing her to escape several minor crises.

Every time she avoided danger because of Yu Xunhuan's warning, she trusted him a little more.

But now that she thought back on it, each of the times she had nearly died had come after she escaped several minor crises...

What about her? Should she give Yu Xunhuan a little sweetness, a little bait? Once the game invaded, only by relying on her own strength and Yu Xunhuan's trust would she have a chance to participate in some of the Su Family's major operations and cause trouble from within.

There were still two closed betas left. In truth, this was the best opportunity. She could tell Yu Xunhuan this secret, then secretly stop him. From beginning to end, she would only need to say a few words. She could win his greatest trust while ensuring that he gained nothing.

But would that allow Yu Xunhuan to turn the tables against the odds?

She knew, of course, that the safest course was to kill Yu Xunhuan immediately. But she truly could not accept that!

When she used to read novels, she always mocked the protagonists for not immediately killing their enemies after being reborn. But only now that it had happened to her did she understand. One stroke to settle all old debts? That did not exist. The overwhelming hatred in her heart could never be erased merely by killing Yu Xunhuan.

Sometimes, allowing an enemy to die swiftly and cleanly was a blessing to them instead.

She could throw Liu Zhengliu into the mud and temporarily put her out of mind, but she could not do that with Yu Xunhuan.

She did not want to look forward. She wanted to look down. She wanted to stomp Yu Xunhuan beneath her feet, force him to stare at the soles of her shoes, watch him suffer every hardship. Only an eye for an eye could ease the hatred in her heart!

And his harem, his lackeys...

Even if Yu Xunhuan died, she would still have to find them one by one!

More importantly, killing Yu Xunhuan would be easy, but she could not fight the Su, Liang, and Han families at the same time with her strength alone. The best way was naturally to infiltrate them and make them fight each other.

But the more she thought about it, the more she felt that letting Yu Xunhuan participate in the closed beta early was too risky.

There had to be a way... Yu Xunge closed her eyes and tried hard to recall every skill, item, piece of equipment, and potion she had ever known.