Chapter 28
She closed her eyes, the overwhelming sense of weakness nearly drowning her, but she paid it no mind, not even glancing at the packages, pocket watch, and dentures scattered on the ground.
Instead, she immediately opened her character panel.
**[Character] Yu Xunge (Level 0, 0.001%) (Severely Weak) (47:45:39)**
**[Divine Gift] God of Thieves (S Rank)**
**[Divine Gift] Immortal (SS Rank) (Incomplete)**
**[Divine Gift] God of Food (SS Rank) (Incomplete)**
**[Divine Gift] Sharpshooter (A Rank)**
**[Race] Human**
**[Racial Gift] Undead Will | Eating**
**[Health Points]: 50/150**
**[Mana Points]: 80/200**
**[Strength]: 8 → 3.2**
**[Constitution]: 11 → 4.4**
**[Intelligence]: 14 → 5.5**
**[Agility]: 21 → 8.4**
**[Luck]: 10 (Max Value)**
**[Charm]: 10 (Max Value)**
She trembled as she clicked on **[God of Food]**.
**[God of Food] (SS Rank)**
Even a god is just an ingredient in your hands.
**[Skill 1] What is a God of Food?:** All dishes you create that score above 80 points have a 20% chance to trigger a critical hit. For every point above 80, the chance of others triggering a critical hit increases by 1%. When a critical hit is triggered, the effect of the dish is doubled. If it’s a recipe of your own creation, as long as it scores above 80, the effect for others will definitely be doubled. As the creator of the food, when you consume any dish you’ve cooked, the effect will be tripled.
**[Skill 2] Who is Hannibal?:** If you turn any target into thirty-eight different delicacies, each scoring above 19 points, and consume all thirty-eight alone, you will randomly learn one of their skills from their lifetime (each target can only trigger this once).
**[Skill 3] Yes, I am a Master Chef:** The food you cook is a delicacy. Any dish you create that scores above 95 points has a 20% chance to randomly increase one attribute point (each target can only trigger this once per day).
**[Skill 4] Hey? Friend, look, there’s a pot here:** The God of Food cannot receive negative reviews. Mark someone you trust, and all negative emotions from diners towards you will be transferred to the marked target.
**[Skill 5] You want to get it for free? (Passive):** No one can enjoy the God of Food’s dishes for free. If you haven’t explicitly stated that you’re treating, and a diner doesn’t pay for the dish before or after consuming it, their luck will be yours to use for a while, until they pay off that damned bill.
Five skills, just like the **[Immortal]** of the Undead Lord, a total of five skills.
Skills 1, 2, 3, and 5 were all lit up, but Skill 5 was a deep gray.
At that moment, Yu Xunge felt as if she had come back to life, as if she had been pressed underwater, unable to breathe or move, and now she had finally broken free, bursting to the surface!
And she finally understood why Yu Xunhuan had treated her the way he did in her past life, why he had worked so hard to earn her trust, and why his friends had harbored such hostility towards her.
So that’s how it was…
So it was!
Good job, Yu! Xun! Huan!
But she didn’t forgive or let go. The humiliation, trampling, and schemes against her were because Yu Xunhuan had shifted their negative emotions onto her. But wasn’t it them who acted on that malice?!
She wouldn’t forgive anyone who had hurt her in her past life for any reason.
Everyone could betray her, but she could not betray herself, nor could she betray the suffering she had endured!
Yu Xunge trembled as she downed a blood vial, but her health remained at 40. It seemed that before the countdown ended, her maximum health would only be 40% of what it originally was.
Yet now, she felt invigorated, as if her state had never been better!!!
She donned a necklace that reduced cooldown times and crawled under the bed to rest.
She was exhausted.
But she didn’t dare fall asleep; instead, she closed her eyes to recuperate, constantly observing Yu Xunhuan through the shadows to see what he was up to.
She had just seen Yu Xunhuan’s original luck value, which was also 10, just like hers.
Though he was momentarily distracted by the God of Thieves’ gift, he remembered his Skill 5, **[You want to get it for free?]**, and with the remaining money, he bought a large quantity of ingredients to start cooking, focusing only on low-level recipes. He had just begun learning to cook and wasn’t worried about becoming a culinary god; most of the food he made barely passed.
He placed the food he cooked directly on the ground, allowing passersby and players to eat as they pleased.
At first, his luck was quite ordinary, but as more people consumed his food, it was as if he had activated a cheat. In less than two hours of running quests, he earned 3 gold and a piece of green gear. He learned cooking, and not long after, he found a pouch in the city sewers containing over three hundred gold. With this gold, he learned **[Jewelry Processing]** and **[Alchemy]**…
Yu Xunge watched as Yu Xunhuan absorbed the luck of others, offsetting the luck value she had altered.
**[Chapter 35: Let There Be More Love in the World]**
15:15
Cooldown ended.
Yu Xunge immediately logged into her game.
Only 54 minutes remained until the end of the third closed beta test.
After logging in, Yu Xunge first disguised herself as a goblin, then returned to town. In the restaurant of Silvermoon City, she learned all the local specialties before teleporting to Bloodmoon City, where she found a wealthy goblin. After some negotiation, she exchanged for 10,000 gold. Checking the time, she still had enough, so she spent a bit more time gradually exchanging for 800 gold from a few other poor goblins.
At this point, she had a total of 20,800 gold from the two elven main cities, plus 378 gold accumulated from making 3 gold daily from May 7 to October 10. After deducting the costs for teleportation and learning recipes, she had 21,108 gold left, along with 1,084 gold bricks obtained from the Su family.
After spending money to learn the specialty recipes from the Bloodmoon City restaurant, she returned to the Undead City where she had first learned alchemy. Walking into the alchemy shop, she saw the busy figure behind the cauldron and test tubes. She approached and typed “Teacher” into the input box.
The undead female instructor didn’t stop her work but suddenly issued a task to her—**[Alchemy Master Hecapa wants you to create ten basic potions and ten intermediate potions]**.
She didn’t specify whether they had to be the same, but Yu Xunge understood she was testing her.
But in this game, everything was about progress bars… it wasn’t easy to tell.
After a moment of thought, she submitted the twenty different potions she felt were her best recent creations: “Teacher, these are my recent results.”
On the screen, the undead female instructor paused her shaking of the test tubes and accepted Yu Xunge’s potions.
A few minutes later, the task showed as completed.
The reward for the task was a book: **[Hecapa’s Alchemy Notes]**.
**[Hecapa’s Alchemy Notes] (A Rank):** Notes from Alchemy Master Hecapa, documenting her insights and experiences from her promotion from advanced alchemist to master alchemist. You cannot glean recipes from it, but perhaps you can gain something more precious. (Their alchemical innovations are all for glory, but for me, it’s different; I just want to earn more money to buy drinks, so my potions are the most special. Potions marked with my name always sell the best. After all this time, they still don’t understand that working for love has no future! — Hecapa)
After silently reading the item description, Yu Xunge pulled out two thousand gold and handed it to Hecapa: “I might not be able to come back in the future.”
Before she even clicked send, the two thousand gold had already been taken by Hecapa.
Yu Xunge: “………………”
The next second, Hecapa tossed her a dark green cloth bag.
**[Hecapa’s Potion Bag (0/8)] (S Rank):** Hecapa always has so many orders, and this little thing is used to store the ordered potions. The maximum stack size is 999.
The biggest surprise wasn’t just the maximum stack size of 999, but that it was a usable item that didn’t take up inventory space!
Immediately after, a pop-up appeared: **[Would you like to bind it?]**
Yu Xunge was overjoyed and immediately clicked yes!
This time, she had learned her lesson. She first typed, “Teacher, this is just to buy you drinks, no need to give me anything else. I really enjoy alchemy,” and after sending that, she generously pulled out another thousand gold to give to Hecapa.
Seeing that Hecapa really didn’t intend to give her anything in return, Yu Xunge smiled and turned to leave; she was pressed for time to get to the auction house.
In just a few days, it would be the wedding of Su Yitong and Yu Xunhuan. Family members were different from guests; while they could give cash gifts at the engagement, it was better to give actual gifts at the wedding.
Moreover, last time Su Yitong had given her twenty million, she couldn’t appear stingy.
She didn’t feel any resentment about this; after all, she had taken so many attribute points from Su Yitong, along with an A Rank item and an ear, while Su Yitong didn’t even know who her enemy was and still gave her money to spend. And thinking about how Yu Xunhuan’s divine gift had basically been rendered 80% useless, all her grievances faded away.
It was hard to “move” Su Yitong with gifts from reality, but she was unwilling to give her something truly valuable in the game.
But then she thought of something good.
**[Couch of the Joyful Little Demon]**
A D Rank item, but it was actually useless! Just a mattress, costing only 20 gold.
Bought it! Just right to use as a wedding gift for Yu Xunhuan!
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