Chapter 9
She used to laugh at protagonists in novels for not taking immediate revenge on their enemies after being reborn. But now that the situation had fallen upon her, she understood: a single strike to erase enmity? That’s a fantasy. The overwhelming hatred in her heart couldn’t simply be resolved by killing Yu Xunhuan!
Sometimes, letting an enemy die swiftly could even be a mercy.
She could temporarily cast aside Liu Zhengliu after dragging her into the mire, but Yu Xunhuan was another matter entirely.
She didn’t want to look ahead; she wanted to look down. She wanted to trample Yu Xunhuan beneath her feet, forcing him to gaze at her soles, to witness his own suffering. Only an eye for an eye could quell the hatred in her heart!
And then there were his three women and those five foolish brothers!
If Yu Xunhuan died, she would still have to hunt them down one by one!
More importantly, while killing Yu Xunhuan was easy, she couldn’t take on the Su, Liang, and Han families all at once with her own strength. The best strategy was to infiltrate their ranks and incite them to fight among themselves.
But the more she thought about it, the more she felt that letting Yu Xunhuan participate in the internal test early was too risky.
There had to be a way… Yu Xunhuan closed his eyes, desperately recalling all the skills, items, equipment, or potions he once knew.
**Chapter 10: The Gears of Fate**
The case involving Liu Zhengliu and Liu Hongsheng had reached a stalemate. Although the cause of Liu Hongsheng's death was determined to be unrelated to the knife wounds or the fall, so many people had witnessed Liu Hongsheng escaping from Liu Zhengliu's grasp. The blood on Liu Zhengliu's hands and her fingerprints on the knife were undeniable.
Liu Zhengliu was stuck for the time being, especially since Liu Hongsheng's wife was adamant about putting her behind bars. This incident had blown up, especially since it happened right outside the entertainment company’s building. In just a few days, it had begun trending online.
With her manager gone and no one to oversee her, the only opportunity she had was snatched away by a resourceful rival. She was quite pleased with her newfound freedom.
One of the two biggest fools in the company was dead, and the other was being interrogated. In her previous life, it was these two who had conspired to dig up her dirt. The other higher-ups wanted to help her, but why would they target their own artist? Money wasn’t meant to be burned like that. At that time, her contract still had six months left, and when Liu Zhengliu announced she wanted to terminate her contract and switch agencies, everyone fell silent, allowing these two to wreak havoc.
Yu Xunge planned to lay low for half a year, waiting for her contract to expire and then retreat from the industry.
She had been quite busy lately, and just yesterday, she had been pondering what could help her gain Yu Xunhuan's trust while also keeping him in check.
The first thing she ruled out was altering memories. Even if she changed Yu Xunhuan’s or Yu Qingshan’s memories of the 22nd, the surveillance footage wouldn’t lie. Yu Xunhuan was extremely suspicious, cautious to the core. If he had any doubts, he would definitely check the footage from that day. If the false memories contradicted the evidence, not only would she fail to gain Yu Xunhuan's trust, but it would also serve as solid proof of her scheming against him.
In her previous life, the Su, Han, and Liang families had all sent people to hunt her down. The most troublesome of them wasn’t the Su family; although they sent many people, it was manageable as long as she could evade them. The real headache was the people sent by the Liang family, especially because of Liang Yuchuan, whose temperament was vicious, and there was someone in the Liang family whose talent was utterly disgusting!
Just thinking about that person made Yu Xunge dizzy and break out in a cold sweat, as if she had spent an entire day on advanced calculus.
**The Gears of Fate** (B Rank)
**Skill 1: Happiness Again**: Select a target and use this skill to spin their fate wheel, altering their luck for the day. Duration: 5 hours. Cooldown: 5 hours. (You can choose whether to hide the modified fate value from the target.)
**Skill 2: Your Combination is Wrong, I Don’t Like It**: Select a target and use this skill to spin their fate wheel, swapping their highest and lowest attribute values. Duration: 1 hour. Cooldown: 5 hours.
Though it was only B rank, it was truly a curse from hell!
Or rather, it made sense that a skill with no offensive capabilities could still be rated B.
For those few days, if that person saw her, she would be cursed for a full 5 hours.
Moreover, the most crucial part was that the changes in luck wouldn’t show up on the target’s data panel. Her own luck value remained at 8.
Then suddenly, she would start to experience bad luck.
She would run into dead ends, her disguises would be discovered, she would choke halfway through drinking a health potion, her spells would miss, and even magic missiles—those auto-targeting spells—would fail to crit. She had stacked her crit rate to 77%! Yet, after firing 50 magic missiles, not a single one had crit.
Was this a divine gift? No, it was a divine curse!
She had evaded capture for an entire year, but after this person showed up, she was caught within a week, all because of this so-called divine gift.
But here’s the question: was that person an internal test player?
In the three internal tests, the first supposedly had only a few hundred logins. By the second, word had spread like wildfire; even if the test was sudden, once discovered, everyone who knew about the game rushed in, leading to thousands of logins. The third internal test saw even more than hundreds of thousands creating characters.
Regardless, Yu Xunge planned to find that person in the next few days. As long as he participated in the internal test, she would eliminate him at the first opportunity!
Then she would test whether this skill could affect non-players. If it could, she would use it on Yu Xunhuan.
If Yu Xunhuan could draw an SS rank talent while his luck was at rock bottom, she would steal it on the spot and kill him, putting an end to it all. Even if she had to live in regret in her next life, she would give Yu Xunhuan a swift end. If he ended up with a trashy divine talent, that would be even better.
That person was easy to find; he was the driver for the Liang family. Yu Xunge knew where the Liang family’s old residence was, located in one of the best spots in the villa district. After all, without enough power and wealth, who had the right to be the female lead in a male-oriented story?
She didn’t rush to the Liang family but instead brewed potions at home.
In addition to twenty bottles of basic phasing potions, she had over fifty intermediate invisibility potions. Compared to the basic ones that only lasted 5 minutes, these intermediate potions lasted up to 15 minutes, though their cooldown was longer—20 minutes after use.
She found a beef skewer recipe in her **Cooking** (Beginner) skill and made 250 skewers to stash in her bag. Each skewer could be eaten in a minute, restoring 5 health points over time. This way, she could stock up on food while also practicing her cooking skills.
Now, her 24-slot bag was filled with various odds and ends, clothing, and weapons, while five worn-out small bags contained food and potions she might need: 99 basic healing potions, 99 basic mana potions, 57 intermediate invisibility potions, and 99 beef skewers.
How could a woman worthy of being the male lead’s partner not be an internal test player?
The world didn’t revolve around Yu Xunge, but it certainly revolved around the male and female leads.
Not only were the leads internal test players, but so were the male lead’s brothers. Otherwise, how could they call each other brothers?!
How wonderful! Just her, the male lead’s sister, was left out.
Isolating her, huh?!
Yu Xunge’s purpose in going to the Liang family was not only for the gears of fate but also for the male lead’s second girlfriend—Liang Yuchuan.
The male lead’s three love interests all had S rank talents. The divine talent of his legal wife, Su Yitong, was said to be related to healing, and she later collected various buff skills, becoming the strongest support. The second girlfriend, Liang Yuchuan, also had an S rank divine talent, one of only two publicly known S rank talents on the top hundred list.
**Water God** (S Rank)
**Skill 1: Wherever There’s Water, There I Am**: Can transform into a water droplet and merge into water.
**Skill 2: You’re So Watery**: All water-related items and skills gain a 50% boost.
**Skill 3: Vampire**: After use, there’s a 20% chance to drain 1% of the opponent’s life.
**Skill 4: I, the Water God, Heal** (Passive): When you transform into a water droplet or are in water, your injuries will gradually heal.
Yu Xunge was envious of this talent, but she didn’t plan to steal it. If Yu Xunhuan could draw an SS rank talent with a luck value of only 1, she would immediately use this skill to steal his SS talent and then kill him. If Yu Xunhuan ended up with a very ordinary talent, she would keep **Thief of Thieves** handy to prevent him from turning the tables.
Moreover, deaths in the game world could refresh the cooldown of **Thief of Thieves**. As long as the skill hadn’t been used, she could use it twice more once she entered the game, and it certainly wouldn’t be wasted in reality.
She wanted to try stealing items from Liang Yuchuan; she didn’t believe the female lead wouldn’t have good stuff.
Her villa worth fifty million was located in the same area as the Liang family’s villa, not far away. In her previous life, Yu Xunhuan had relied on the dungeon in that villa to get close to the Liang family.
**Chapter 11: The Gears of Fate Are in Hand!**
That night, Yu Xunge used her disguise skill to head to the villa district. She didn’t return to her own villa; there were too many strange skills, and from the moment she set out, she had no intention of leaving any traces back to her old lair.
Before her disguise wore off, she hid in the woods of the villa district, leaning against a tree and sleeping until two in the morning. When she woke up and saw the date was still the 27th, she was momentarily stunned. She felt as if a long time had passed, not expecting that a week hadn’t even gone by.
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