Chapter 33
Recently, more and more cats have been coming to the backyard of the villa to stay and eat. Fortunately, it’s autumn and winter now, so the cats aren’t too rowdy. The villa’s location is quite secluded, and no one has noticed.
**Chapter 41: Earning Extra Cash with the Wheel of Fate**
The weather was nice today, and for once, Yu Xunge didn’t have to go out for business. Instead, she invited a cleaning lady over for a thorough cleaning of the house. Meanwhile, she took the opportunity to wash the cat den, which was known as the "Wàn Māo Zhǎn" (万猫斩, literally "Ten Thousand Cats Slaughter"), and during this time, she not only checked if the cleaning lady was a player but also hid her own shadow within the cleaning lady’s as a lookout.
After all, there were too many secrets now. If she were to find out that someone was sent by another party to install a surveillance device in her home, she would be exposed.
Yu Xunge felt that the paranoia she developed while escaping for her life would never go away. She would suspect everyone who approached her. Yet, she had grown fond of her paranoia; her only regret was not having bought a cleaning skill, which would have spared her the need to invite strangers into her home.
Though she didn’t know what this cat den would bring her, in her previous life, she had managed to turn a pet hospital into a small force, and it was an S-rank item. Yu Xunge had already made up her mind: as soon as the game invaded and the cat den mutated, she would immediately bind it with a binding stone.
Just 100 gold coins.
As she basked in the sun with the cat den, she noticed seven or eight cats sprawled out in the backyard, soaking up the warmth.
In the past, she had been so busy that even when she was dawdling in the backyard, she was mostly lost in thought and had no time to observe the cats. She only had a vague idea that the cats in the backyard came and went, with none staying for long.
But today, she realized that there were two cats she seemed to have seen before… either in August or when she was still in the thirty-million villa. In any case, she had definitely seen them.
One was a plump, snow-white tabby, and the other was a chubby black-and-white cow cat.
She silently noted the appearances of the two cats.
The cleaning lady had been tidying up the house all day. Yu Xunge didn’t want too many people in her home, so she only hired her, but she paid generously. For a thorough cleaning and organizing of the entire villa, she offered 10,000, which was a big deal. Many cleaning ladies were eager to take on such a job; working for a day here was better than working for half a month elsewhere.
Yu Xunge checked the place, and it was indeed spotless. She paid the cleaning lady promptly and sent her on her way.
However, she declined the cleaning lady’s request to add her on WeChat and didn’t mention hiring her again. Next time, she would definitely choose someone else to clean. Using the same person repeatedly made it easy for someone to be bribed.
Her experiences from her previous life were her most valuable assets.
Just after sending the cleaning lady off, she received a message from Su Yitong on WeChat.
The young lady wasted no time and got straight to the point, skipping the pleasantries. She asked if Yu Xunge was willing to use her divine skill to make money. For every time she used her divine talent to do something for the Su family, they would pay her 1 million.
Yu Xunge wasn’t surprised that Su Yitong had come to her. She had initially offered to use this skill on Su Yitong’s wedding day with the intention of making money.
This was free money, and the market wouldn’t crash for another six months. However, she wasn’t keen on making enemies for the Su family, nor did she want to become a thorn in someone’s side.
**[Yu Xunge]: I only take jobs that modify a person’s luck to the maximum value of 10, not those that lower it to 1.**
She didn’t even mention the intermediate values of 2 to 9. The main purpose of this skill was to harm or help people; who needed those middle numbers?
Su Yitong understood her meaning. It was too cheap to think that 1 million could buy a shield. She readily provided the time and said she would send someone to pick Yu Xunge up that day.
Yu Xunge wasn’t worried that Su Yitong was just making empty promises. The Su family was reliable in this regard. The closer they were to their own people, the more generous they were with money. Even if they had to suppress someone privately later, that was a matter for another day. As long as she helped the Su family, they would definitely pay her, and they wouldn’t be petty enough to make others feel that once they became part of the Su family, they wouldn’t earn anything.
Yu Xunge specifically cleared her schedule for that day. When the appointed time came, a car from the Su family stopped outside her villa community. After getting in, she found Su Yitong was also there. During their chat, she subtly gave a heads-up: “While I can modify luck values, luck isn’t destiny. Many things can’t be changed just by luck.”
Su Yitong nodded. “Don’t worry.”
She herself had gone from luck 10 to luck 8, so she understood the subtle differences. Her life hadn’t changed much; it was still smooth sailing. But it wasn’t as effortless as before. If quantified, when she used to want 1, she would get 1.5 or even 2. Now, if she wanted 1, she would only get 1…
She wanted to tell herself it was all in her head, but once luck was quantified, some things couldn’t be deceived.
Their destination was a private room in a restaurant. Upon entering, Yu Xunge maintained a calm expression, as if she didn’t recognize or care about who was in the room, even though in her previous life, this woman had humiliated her countless times by stepping on her face during their practice sessions.
Su Yitong pointed to a buzz-cut young man sitting next to Liang Yuchuan and instructed Yu Xunge to use the **Wheel of Fate** on him.
Yu Xunge didn’t ask any questions or show any concern. She extended her fingers toward the young man, closed her eyes, and after a few seconds, said, “Done.”
The buzz-cut young man looked at his data panel, where his luck had changed to 10, and nodded slightly at Liang Yuchuan.
After Yu Xunge smiled and nodded at a few people, she prepared to leave. Su Yitong didn’t keep her, standing at the door to have someone take Yu Xunge back home.
As soon as she got in the car, the transfer notification arrived.
On the way back, Yu Xunge felt once again that someone was divining her information, and it was still that buzz-cut young man.
She couldn’t help but smirk inwardly. It seemed the Liang family and the Su family had teamed up?
…
The Liang family and the Su family had indeed formed an alliance. Shortly after Su Yitong’s wedding, the Liang family and the Su family held a secret discussion.
The Su family was shocked to learn that someone had infiltrated the Liang family and severed half of Liang Yuchuan’s arm. The Liang family was even more astonished because not only had the Su family’s youngest daughter lost an ear, but a large amount of gold bricks had also been stolen from the Su family’s treasury.
This was awkward.
When the Liang family members arrived, even if they were rational, deep down, they felt a bit of resentment. Perhaps it was the Su family that had provoked someone, and the other party wanted to use the Liang family to retaliate against the Su family, which was why they infiltrated the Liang family to attack Liang Yuchuan. But as it turned out, the Su family wasn’t faring any better.
The mood among the Su family members was also quite complex. Although Su Yitong was injured, she had only lost an ear. While her hearing was affected, it wasn’t as severe as losing half an arm. If she covered it up, no one would even notice she was missing an ear. As for the gold bricks, while it was painful, the Su family was large and prosperous enough that they wouldn’t be crippled by such a loss.
Originally, family scandals shouldn’t be aired in public, but although the Liang family came under the pretense of discussing matters, if the Su family didn’t provide a reasonable explanation, based solely on Liang Yuchuan’s claim that he saw Su Yitong as the culprit, the Liang family could easily turn against the Su family.
Both families exchanged glances, and silence fell over the room.
**Chapter 42: Costumes**
Liang Yuchuan and Su Yitong both wore expressions as cold as ice, their moods at rock bottom, feeling humiliated!
Not only because they were now physically impaired, but also because the culprit had clearly toyed with them, using crude methods to frame them, forcing the two victims to face each other and recount their experiences, as if the person was reveling in their misfortune.
The Liang family had been focusing on the development of the game recently. All members of the Liang family had entered the game, and after the closed beta ended, they had been searching for information on players, trying to find those with divine talents related to divination. With the evidence gone, they could only seek help from the mysterious side. However, not long ago, they finally found someone, only to discover that the person couldn’t divine anything at all.
Now, as the two families sat down to talk, they concluded that this person must have grievances with both the Su and Liang families. As for the driver who died, he was likely a minor character who had been silenced after collaborating with the culprit.
Thus, the elders began to investigate anyone who had grievances with both families, while the younger generation collaborated to use their divine talents to search for clues.
This led to Su Yitong seeking out Yu Xunge to add a luck buff to the player with the divination talent, just to see if it could help.
But the results were clear: it was still fruitless.
Although the buzz-cut young man didn’t divine anything, his luck, which had been average, was exceptionally good that day. On his way home, he even won a lottery ticket he bought at a convenience store. This was immediately reported to Liang Yuchuan, who, upon hearing it, naturally shared it with Su Yitong, as she wanted to inquire about Yu Xunge. This divine talent was quite good, and there would surely be times when it would be needed.
Liang Yuchuan had actually known about this talent for a long time. When she had the Eye of Soros, she had checked everyone in the Liang family after the first closed beta ended, and naturally discovered the divine talent of the driver, Liang Hui. However, she hadn’t made a fuss about it at the time; she only informed the family head about the game while observing whether Liang Hui would develop any inappropriate thoughts due to his newfound fortune. But before she could test anything, that person had died.
Even now, when she heard the name and ability of the same divine talent from Yu Xunge, Liang Yuchuan didn’t suspect anything.
After all, it was just a B-rank talent, and it belonged to someone who had only become a player after participating in the second closed beta. In Liang Yuchuan’s view, it was like some game settings: once the owner of a divine talent died, the **Wheel of Fate** would return to the pool to be drawn by someone else, or perhaps such low-level talents simply didn’t possess uniqueness.
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