Chapter 40 Training

Yu Xunge figured she shouldn't push the guy too far, so she finally popped up in the chat.

【Yu Xunge】: Just tell me, how good is that bed?!
【Yu Xunhuana】: It's alright, I guess.
【Yu Xunge】: Right?! Good stuff and good news aren't that easy to come by!

Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo both asked what kind of bed it was.
Yu Xunge posted the details of the bed in the group chat, claiming it was her wedding gift to them.

【Blessed Qiuguo】: Are there any more? Mom wants one too, your dad needs it.
【Depressed Qingshan】: ？？？
【Yu Xunge】: You think these grow on trees? They're super expensive, okay!! Dozens of gold coins! Just look at how much money it takes to get one gold coin outside right now, and you'll know what kind of price tag this bed has.

Yu Qingshan had heard a lot about it lately. Recently, a single silver coin cost 10,000, and gold coins had been driven to astronomical prices.

【Depressed Qingshan】: I heard it takes a million to trade for a single gold coin, though I haven't heard of anyone actually doing it.
【Blessed Qiuguo】: A bed worth tens of millions?! Good grief! You could buy a house with that! You're never generous when you should be, but you're so willing to shell out money here!
【Yu Xunhuan】: @Yu Xunge Thanks, sis~ If there's anything similar, buy it for me first, and I'll transfer the money to you later.
【Yu Xunge】: @Blessed Qiuguo Isn't this much more important than a house to a wealthy woman? Those who know, know.

Yi Qiuguo stopped making a sound. Even if she did, Yu Xunge had nowhere to go to get her a matching bed.
If she had only known, she would have hoarded a few more of these beds back then!

Once the game invaded and the auction house function unlocked, wouldn't she have made a massive fortune by reselling this bed?

After turning off her phone, Yu Xunge drifted off in a trance for a moment. For a few seconds, she actually felt a sense of happiness, and sometimes she even doubted whether her past life had just been a dream.

If not for the memory of enduring the agonizing pain of being nailed to the ground and bled dry while waiting for Yu Xunhuan in her previous life, and if not for that book appearing in her mind as she lay dying, she would have believed them even after being reborn.

What a ordinary and happy family. The mother had a hasty temper but was easily satisfied, sometimes looking purely adorable; the father was gentle and good-natured; children were treated equally. They had given all their savings to their daughter, and the daughter, after making money, gave back to her family, giving money to her parents and her younger brother, after which the brother saved his share to buy her a villa.

After the world changed drastically, her brother would also occasionally take her, his older sister, to join the teams of high-society families to raid dungeons and fight monsters... Even when her sister-in-law's family hunted her down, her brother took the risk to tip her off.

In her past life, she had been deceived by this false sense of happiness, which was why she had always forced herself to endure...

Yu Xunge looked at the chat interface, snapping out of her trance only after a long while. Then, she was startled to realize that she had managed to calmly chat with these pieces of trash for so long. Revenge really did make a person gentle; right after her rebirth, no matter how much she persuaded herself to exercise restraint, her attitude could never truly be good.

Yu Xunge tucked her phone into her game inventory and went back outside to practice her shooting.

Now, she was wearing a sports bra and a tight-fitting tank top on her upper body, with long pants on her lower body. In her pocket was a small, tattered pouch with four small slots, holding two vials of primary healing potions, a roll of first-aid bandages that provided continuous health regeneration when used, and her phone.

Her two 36-slot bags, potion pouch, and other items were all stored inside the Magician's Dentures.

As for the most important and already-bound Pocket Watch of Soros, she openly hung it around her neck, tucking it tightly against her chest for security.

Being bound meant it could neither be lost nor stolen; anyone who groped around for this pocket watch would only feel empty air, save for its owner.

From the outside, people would only think she was wearing a silver necklace, and even if someone accidentally brushed against her chest, they wouldn't feel a thing.

She was about to move when she suddenly paused. The coach looked at her curiously, and Yu Xunge smiled, saying she had just thought of something.

For a split second just now, she felt someone trying to divine her information, but it had been blocked by the Pocket Watch of Soros. Through the thin mist in her mind, as if gazing across the galaxy of time and space, she caught sight of the person attempting the divination—a young man with a buzz cut.

After class, Yu Xunge went to a nearby restaurant to eat.

Whether it was due to her maxed-out charm or because she had experienced so much, her demeanor was now far more captivating than before.

The unfathomable mystery of the God of Thieves, the icy detachment of the Undead Immortality, the bravado and sharpness of the Divine Marksman, the earthy warmth and approachability of the God of Cookery, intertwined with her own self-restraint and madness.

Blending all these auras together, paired with her inherently refined, exquisite, gentle, and intellectual face, meant that whenever Yu Xunge stepped outside now, she would involuntarily draw the lingering gazes of passersby.

In fact, this sensation had started long ago. On the day of Su Yitong's wedding banquet, even though she deliberately kept a low profile, people still occasionally stole glances at her. It was just that everyone present that day was either wealthy or noble, considering themselves a tier above her, so they couldn't bring themselves to strike up a conversation with her at the wedding. But right after the wedding, Yu Xunge "vanished"—she was either in class or going home to cook, ignoring calls from strangers and turning down friend requests from unfamiliar people.

Sometimes, even while eating, she could sense someone covertly filming her.

This was simply an unavoidable reality of this era.

Moreover, because she had withdrawn from the entertainment industry and no longer had rival fanbases, when news of her surfaced online, people offered genuine, neutral evaluations, mostly consisting of praise. This led to her frequently going viral in small bursts lately. Yet Yu Xunge ignored it all and refused to hype herself; her life consisted solely of practicing hand-to-hand combat, marksmanship, and eating meals, and gradually, the noise died down again.

Unexpectedly, however, Liu Zhengliu had sought her out, wanting to collaborate with her again and make a comeback in the entertainment industry together.

Yu Xunge had almost forgotten about this scumbag. First, she investigated to confirm that this person was not a player, and then she unceremoniously threw her out, conveniently gifting her a [Wheel of Destiny] to reset her luck value to 1.

Currently, Liu Hongsheng's case was still revolving around screening people who had grudges against him. Even after the existence of the game came to light, completely clearing Liu Zhengliu of suspicion, nobody cast their suspicions toward Yu Xunge. Firstly, Liu Hongsheng hadn't made a move against Yu Xunge yet at the time, so there was no conflict between them; secondly, Liu Zhengliu was still alive and well—though she had been used as a pawn, everyone assumed she was merely a scapegoat randomly picked by the killer.

However, if Liu Zhengliu were to die as well, things might change.

Yu Xunge didn't bother finding a teacher to teach her cooking. She hadn't been particularly fond of cooking before anyway; the only reason she cooked occasionally was because of the game's cooking skill, and she had even deliberately trained hard in it. She was afraid of triggering Yu Xunhuan's sensitive nerves, and she didn't want to struggle in survival for so long only to expose herself over this.

Furthermore, the cooking tutorials provided by the cooking skill were extremely detailed, and many preparation methods differed entirely from real-world culinary techniques, making a teacher completely unnecessary.

Recently, more and more stray cats had been coming to the villa's backyard to lodge and eat. Fortunately, it was currently autumn heading into winter, so the cats weren't noisy, and Yu Xunge's villa was located in a rather remote area, so no one had discovered them.