Chapter 41 Making Extra Money with the Gears of Fate

The weather was fine today, and for once, Yu Xun'ge did not go out to take care of important business. Instead, she hired a domestic helper to do a deep clean of her home. While the helper was there, she took the opportunity to wash the "All-Cats-Slay" cat bed herself. During the process, she not only checked whether the helper was a player, but also hid her own shadow inside the helper's shadow to act as a surveillance eye.

After all, she had too many secrets nowadays. If the helper happened to be sent by someone else and planted a hidden camera anywhere in her house, she would be completely exposed.

Yu Xun'ge felt that the persecution mania she had developed while fighting for her survival would never be cured in this lifetime. She was bound to suspect everyone who approached her, yet she loved her persecution mania to death. Her only regret was that she had not purchased a cleaning skill, which would have spared her from having to invite strangers into her home.

Although she had no idea what kind of benefits this cat bed could actually bring her, given that in her previous life it had been developed into a small faction within a pet hospital and was rated as an S-grade item, Yu Xun'ge had already made up her mind. The moment the game invaded and the cat bed mutated, she would immediately use a binding stone to bind it to herself.

It was only 100 gold coins, after all.

When she was drying the cat bed in the backyard, seven or eight fat cats were sprawled lazily on the ground soaking up the sun.

In the past, she had been busy all day long. Even when she stood dazed in the backyard, it was mostly to sort out her thoughts, and she had never had the mental leisure to observe these cats. She only had a general impression that the cats in the backyard were always coming and going, with none of them ever staying permanently.

Yet today, she noticed two cats that she seemed to have seen before... Was it back in August? Or perhaps earlier when she was still living in the thirty-million-yuan villa? In any case, she was certain she had seen them before.

One was a fat tabby cat with four snow-white paws, and the other was a fat black-and-white piebald cat.

She silently noted down the appearance of the two cats.

The helper spent the entire day tidying up the house. Because Yu Xun'ge did not want too many people entering her home, she had only hired this one person, but she paid her very generously. To clean the entire villa from top to bottom and put everything in meticulous order, she offered ten thousand yuan. It was a major job, and many helpers scrambled to take it; working for a single day here paid better than working for half a month at other households.

Yu Xun'ge inspected the results and confirmed that it was indeed impeccably clean. She straightforwardly paid the agreed sum and saw the helper out.

However, she declined the helper's request to add her on WeChat and made no mention of hiring her again next time. Next time, she would definitely switch to a different person for house cleaning. Continuously using the same person made it far too easy for someone to buy them off.

The experiences of her past life were her most precious wealth.

Just as she sent the helper away, a WeChat message arrived from Su Yitong.

The eldest young lady valued her time and got straight to the point without any pleasantries, asking her if she was willing to use her divine gift skill to make money. Every time she used her divine gift talent to do a task for the Su family, the Su family would pay her one million yuan.

Yu Xun'ge was not surprised that Su Yitong had sought her out. When she had proactively offered to use this skill on the day of Su Yitong's wedding, she had already intended to use it to make money.

Money like this shouldn't be refused, and it would still be nearly half a year before the currency collapsed. However, she was not willing to make enemies for the sake of the Su family, nor did she wish to become a target of public animosity.

[Yu Xun'ge]: I only take commissions to modify a person's luck value to the maximum of 10. I do not accept commissions to lower luck to 1.

She didn't even mention the intermediate values from 2 to 9. Wasn't the greatest utility of this skill to harm others or help people? Who cared about those middle numbers?

Su Yitong understood her meaning as well. One million yuan was simply too cheap a price to buy a human shield. She readily named a date and stated that she would send someone to pick her up that day.

Yu Xun'ge was not worried that Su Yitong was handing out empty promises; the Su family had established guarantees when it came to such matters. The closer someone was to them, the more readily they paid out money. Even if there were going to be private suppressions later, that would be a matter for the future. Business was business; as long as one helped the Su family, the Su family would certainly pay out the reward. They would never be so petty as to make outsiders feel that once they became part of the Su family's inner circle, they actually stopped earning anything at all.

Yu Xun'ge deliberately cleared half a day from her schedule. When the appointed time arrived, a car from the Su family was parked outside Yu Xun'ge's villa complex. After getting into the car, Yu Xun'ge found that Su Yitong was inside as well. During the conversation, she tactfully offered a preemptive warning: "Although I can modify luck values, luck is not destiny. Many things cannot be changed by luck alone."

Su Yitong nodded: "Rest assured."

She herself had gone from a luck value of 10 down to 8, so she naturally understood the subtle difference in between. Her life hadn't undergone any drastic changes because of it, and things still went smoothly and according to her wishes, but they simply weren't as frictionless as before. To quantify it, if she previously wanted 1, she would end up getting 1.5 or even 2; nowadays, if she wanted 1, she would only get 1...

She wanted to convince herself that it was all psychological, but once luck was quantified into data, certain things simply could not deceive oneself.

The destination was a private room in a restaurant. When she pushed open the door and entered, Yu Xun'ge's expression remained calm and detached, as if she completely neither recognized nor cared who the people in the private room were—even though in her past life, the woman present had used the opportunity of sparring with her to trample Yu Xun'ge's face underfoot countless times and humiliate her.

Su Yitong pointed at a crew-cut young man sitting next to Liang Yuanchuan and instructed Yu Xun'ge to use [Wheel of Destiny] on him.

Yu Xun'ge asked no questions and cared about nothing. She extended five fingers toward the young man, closed her eyes, and after a few seconds said, "Done."

The crew-cut young man checked his data panel, saw that his luck value had turned to 10, and gave a slight nod to Liang Yuanchuan.

Yu Xun'ge smiled and nodded slightly at the group before preparing to leave. Su Yitong did not detain her either, standing at the door of the private room and having someone drive Yu Xun'ge back home.

Just as she got into the car, the transfer notification arrived.

While sitting in the vehicle, Yu Xun'ge once again sensed someone divining her information—it was that same crew-cut young man.

A faint, mocking smile crossed her mind. It seemed the Liang family and the Su family had formed an alliance?

...

The Liang family and the Su family had indeed formed an alliance. Shortly after Su Yitong's wedding, the two families held a clandestine conversation.

The Liang family had been shocked to discover that someone had sneaked into their estate and severed half of Liang Yuanchuan's arm. The Su family, on the other hand, was even more shocked, because not only had their third branch's youngest daughter's ear been hacked off by someone, but the Su family's vault had also been raided, with a massive quantity of gold bullion stolen.

This made things rather awkward.

When the Liang family members arrived, no matter how rational they tried to be, deep down they still harbored a trace of resentment. Perhaps it was someone the Su family had provoked, and that opponent wanted to use the Liang family's hands to retaliate against the Su family, which was why they sneaked into the Liang family to hack off Liang Yuanchuan's arm. As for the outcome—well, good grief, the Su family wasn't faring any better themselves.

The Su family members' emotions were equally complicated. Although Su Yitong was injured, she had only lost an ear. While her hearing was affected, it was nowhere near as severe as losing half an arm; with a bit of concealment, nobody would even notice she was missing an ear. As for the gold bullion, painful though it was, the Su family possessed vast and deep roots, so they wouldn't be critically wounded by the loss of that little stockpile.

Ordinarily, family scandals should not be aired in public. However, although the Liang family had come in a negotiating tone, if the Su family failed to provide a satisfactory explanation, based solely on Liang Yuanchuan's assertion that he had seen the culprit was Su Yitong, the Liang family would have every justification to turn hostile against the Su family.

The members of the two families stared at one another in silence.