Chapter 13
Half an hour later, Yu Xunge received a frantic call from Yi Qiuguo, who was hysterically urging her to come to the hospital because her brother had been in an accident.
Yu Xunge's face was expressionless beneath her mask, but her voice trembled with worry and panic. "What happened?! What happened? Hello? Mom?"
The call was taken over by Yu Qingshan, his voice heavy with fatigue as he provided an address.
Yu Xunge was genuinely shocked; this was the black clinic run by another friend she had escaped with back in the day!
By the time she arrived at the clinic, Yu Xunhuan had already been out of the operating room for quite some time.
In the dimly lit, cramped hospital room, Yu Qingshan sat on the edge of the bed, smoking, while Yi Qiuguo was still crying. When she saw Yu Xunge enter, she opened her mouth to blame her, but after a long pause, she couldn't figure out how to pin the blame on Yu Xunge for her son being half-cut.
After stammering for a while, she finally managed to say, "Why did it take you so long to get here?!"
With that, she collapsed back onto the bed, sobbing.
Yu Xunge's expression was heavy with sorrow, mixed with disbelief and a hint of denial. She was putting her acting skills to the test: "This can't be happening! Did he offend someone?"
Yu Qingshan's mind was clearly elsewhere; the cigarette butt was nearly burning his fingers, yet he didn't take a drag.
Yi Qiuguo shook her head, choking back tears. "He’s such a good kid; how could he offend anyone?!"
Yu Xunge pressed, "Can he be saved?!"
Yi Qiuguo replied, "That guy had a gun! What kind of grudge could lead to this? He missed the first shot, then fired seven more! And then he used a knife! It's just inhumane! A beast..."
Yu Xunge thought, Nice! Fifty pounds of gold weren't wasted!!!
**Chapter 15: Short and Sweet**
Little Yu Xunhuan, poof, half gone!
But it’s okay; short and sweet can be charming.
Yu Xunge raised her voice slightly, "How could someone like us offend a person with a gun?!"
Her words jolted both of them awake, even the dazed Yu Xunhuan furrowed his brow, as if trying to wake from a dream.
Yi Qiuguo stared blankly for a moment, then suddenly her eyes widened as she looked at Yu Qingshan, lowering her voice, "Is it the Su family?!"
Yu Qingshan shook his head, finally taking a drag from his cigarette. "Hard to say."
Seeing that Yu Xunhuan was waking up, Yu Xunge said, "Let’s talk outside so we don’t wake Xunhuan."
At her words, Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo got up and followed her out of the room. As she closed the door, she clearly saw Yu Xunhuan's hand clench into a fist.
Once they stood outside the room, Yu Xunge asked, "Does our Yu family have any enemies?"
Yu Qingshan frowned. "Why do you ask that?"
Yu Xunge replied, "I just feel like this kind of attack is aimed at our entire Yu family, as if they want to cut off our lineage... Of course, we’re still here, so there’s still hope, right? What did the doctor say?"
"There’s still a chance," Yu Qingshan said, taking a drag from his cigarette, his tone weary. "I’ll look into this. You need to take care of yourself; it’s best if you go back to the Yu family for now."
Hearing this, he sounded like a caring father, but Yu Xunge suspected he was just hoping to have someone to shield him when the time came for revenge. She didn’t agree, saying, "Xunhuan is still supposed to marry into the Su family, right?" This old fox had sent Yu Xunhuan to the black clinic right away, clearly wanting to keep things under wraps. "If I go back now, it’ll raise Su Yitong’s suspicions."
That was a solid reason, and Yu Qingshan decisively dropped the subject, no longer urging his daughter to return home.
After staying for a while, Yu Xunge made an excuse about going home to make soup and left.
She knew Yu Xunhuan was awake, but she really didn’t want to keep up the act, fearing she might burst out laughing mid-conversation, so she hurried away.
Yu Qingshan and Yu Xunhuan were indeed alike; their first instinct after the incident was to keep it under wraps rather than consider the terrifying consequences if the Su family found out about the marriage.
Once Yu Xunhuan woke up, Yu Qingshan sent Yi Qiuguo away, and the father and son finally began to talk.
After drinking an invisibility potion and returning, Yu Xunge wasn’t surprised by their behavior.
In fact, she had never doubted whether she was Yu Qingshan’s biological child because—well, she had taken a paternity test after her rebirth, and it confirmed she was indeed his daughter. Both Yu Qingshan and Yu Xunhuan had never regarded women as trustworthy; no matter how gentle they appeared, they looked down on women.
The book humorously referred to them as a son-in-law, but in the extras, after the male lead's three sons became the heads of the Su, Han, and Liang families, they all changed back to the Yu surname at the same time. It was a thrilling twist, a real power play.
Yi Qiuguo might have a slightly higher status, but it was only marginal; her main role was to be used as a pawn by Yu Qingshan.
Yu Qingshan looked at Yu Xunhuan. "Do you have any thoughts?"
Yu Xunhuan stared blankly at the ceiling. "Could it be an enemy of Yu Xunge? She might have stirred up trouble outside."
Yu Qingshan sighed. "How many times have I told you? When faced with problems, stay calm. Don’t lash out; that’s something only women do. If she caused trouble, why wouldn’t they go after her?"
Yu Xunhuan began to suspect another woman in the family. "Could it be that mom’s temper got her into trouble?"
Yu Qingshan shook his head. "I know all about her affairs."
Yu Xunhuan closed her eyes, her chest heaving violently. After a long pause, she continued in a hoarse voice, "Did the Su family oppose my marrying in?"
"Hard to say, but they had no reason to resort to such underhanded tactics. They could have just rejected us outright, and we wouldn’t have dared to press the issue." After a moment, Yu Qingshan said softly, "Have you ever offended a woman? You know a lot of messy people through work, right?"
Yu Xunhuan began to think carefully. He was sure he hadn’t offended anyone; he was friendly yet kept a distance from everyone. He had only gotten closer to Su Yitong after confirming her family background. He shook his head.
Yu Qingshan comfortingly patted Yu Xunhuan’s hand. "That vase has already been sold. Before your engagement, I’ll secure a villa for you."
Yu Xunhuan asked again, "Is Yu Xunge really out of money?"
Yu Qingshan replied, "It seems so. I found out her company was involved in a homicide, and her manager got dragged into it. You know how much she trusts that Liu guy; she probably hasn’t been in the right frame of mind lately. Once she’s feeling better, I’ll find a way to help her earn some money. You just focus on recovering; don’t worry about these things!"
Yu Xunhuan said hopelessly, "In my situation..."
Yu Qingshan reassured her, "The doctor said it won’t affect your ability to have children. Being short isn’t a problem; what matters is the technique!"
Yu Xunge nearly burst out laughing.
Seeing that she wasn’t getting any useful information, Yu Xunge reluctantly left the hospital room.
...
After learning that Yu Xunhuan had lost a part, she felt a sudden clarity.
Yes, this was the path to revenge!
She wanted Yu Xunhuan to live in pain and fear every single moment!
Marrying into the Su family? He wasn’t even a complete man anymore, and he still dared to marry Su Yitong? Ha!
She was eager to see what Yu Xunhuan would do next...
She wasn’t worried at all about offending the Su family; she had already reduced the male lead’s luck to 1. He was just an ordinary person now, yet he had managed to evade a top-ten underground assassin who fired seven shots without hitting little Yu Xunhuan, ultimately only managing to cut him in half.
Did the Su family dare to harm the male lead? They could just wait for bankruptcy.
Oh? Wasn’t she even more formidable in her past life? She had been chased by so many people for seven days before being caught, all while her luck was at 1...
Could it be that she was the true heroine?
Yu Xunge hummed a little tune as she returned to the villa. In the game, there were spells to heal severed limbs. This high-level spell was something Su Yitong had mastered in her previous life, but that was three years into the game invasion, by which time the highest human level had reached 25. Su Yitong became famous because of that spell; she was the only one in the entire Blue Star who could do it.
No worries, Yu Xunge had plenty of ways to ensure that Su Yitong would never come into contact with it in this life.
And as for Yu Xunhuan, he had quite a bit of suffering ahead of him.
She wouldn’t go buy a fake to fool Su Yitong, would she? Haha.
After dealing with little Yu Xunhuan, Yu Xunge began preparing for the second round of game testing.
Now that she had a backpack, she wanted to see if real-world items could be brought into the game to sell for gold.
Even if a 10,000 RMB item could only be sold for 1 gold in the game, she would still profit!
In less than half a year since the game invasion, that money would become worthless paper. Even if she exchanged it for gold, it was still better than worthless paper. Although gold and gold coins were fundamentally different—the latter contained a hint of magic that couldn’t be faked—some merchants from other races, who were only in it for profit and had no sense of racial honor, would accept gold.
Especially the goblin race; they cared only about money. They didn’t care if you lived or died; they would do any business, even exchanging gold for gold coins. One gold coin was worth less than 100 grams, while with goblin merchants, you needed 300 grams of gold to get one gold coin.
According to them, their costs for doing business on Blue Star were very high, citing various additional fees like battlefield subsidies, travel expenses for trips to Blue Star, potential funeral costs, and the costs goblins incurred to mint gold coins, among others...
Currently, the gold price was about 500 per gram, fluctuating slightly, meaning it would take around 150,000 RMB to buy one gold coin, but that was only when the currency hadn’t collapsed.
When the goblin merchants appeared, the currency had already collapsed, and everyone was trading using game currency. Forget about exchanging currency for gold; ever since goblins allowed gold to be exchanged for gold coins, gold had basically become valuable but unsellable.
But all of this happened after the game invasion. Yu Xunge was naturally prepared to convert all her money into gold.
**Chapter 15: The Son-in-Law's Engagement!**
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