Chapter 45: Neither the Young Punks Nor the Old Fossils Are Up to It

Yu Xunge even made time to drop by the Yu family villa to leave the latex mattress she had bought for Yi Qiuguo in the living room. Rejecting Yi Qiuguo's invitation to stay for dinner, she headed straight to the jewelry store.

Before Yuxun Huan became a player, she certainly didn't mind eating at the Yu family home. But now that Yuxun Huan possessed... well... one-fifth of the God of Cookery's divine talent, she wouldn't even touch a single grain of rice from the Yu family.

Ever since that day, whenever anyone came to Yu Xunge to use the [Gear of Destiny], she accepted only gold. Under the current gold market price, one million yuan converted to about three jin and eight liang of gold. She simply rounded it down and demanded four jin of gold.

Su Yitong: "..." It was the first time she had ever heard of "rounding down" in such a manner, and nowadays, the mere mention of gold made her slightly nauseous.

Still, the wealthy didn't care about such a small amount of money.

After having their luck modified, many people initially worried: was this borrowing future luck in advance? Would they be lucky now only to suffer terrible misfortune later? In truth, many people were taking a wait-and-see approach. As time passed, however, they discovered there were no negative side effects. Even when luck improved, it merely allowed one's wishes to be fulfilled within a certain range, rather than achieving goals without any effort.

The effect was roughly like a favorable wind suddenly appearing when one was struggling to climb upstream.

Take the cropped-hair young man who won the lottery, for instance. After scratching a million on the first day, he immediately bought ten more tickets and never won anything again.

Not only did Yu Xunge's divine bestowed skill not suffer from sluggish sales, but even more people came to purchase it. People didn't need it every day; they simply wanted peace of mind and smooth sailing when facing major events, experiencing that feeling of effortless success as if assisted by the gods. Wasn't this far more useful than money trees and Feng Shui ornaments?!

During this period, Yuxun Huan, Yu Qingshan, and Yi Qiuguo even tried to pull strings to get her to cast [Feeling Happy Now] on them so they could experience the bliss of having +10 luck.

Such trivial matters were readily agreed to by Yu Xunge.

There were only 24 hours in a day, and the skill had a 6-hour cooldown. Those dignitaries—except for those whose babies needed to be born in the middle of the night—mostly wanted good luck during the day. Even though Chinese people loved to discuss business over dining tables, the latest they would request her blessing was right before dinner.

She generally only took two orders a day: one in the morning and one in the afternoon. This allowed her to earn gold without interfering with her classes. Her clients provided chauffeured cars to pick her up and drop her off, and right after using the Gear of Destiny, she could have the driver take her straight to her classes.

The gloomy hours of late night could be reserved for the Yu family.

Yuxun Huan couldn't rush over late at night. Maintaining his persona as a deeply affectionate younger brother, he didn't dare make the murderous demand that his sister drive over at night just to use a skill on him and then head back.

However, Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo, who lived in the same villa compound, certainly could!

During the first half of December, the pair walked over tirelessly every single day to the entrance of Yu Xunge's villa, begging her to use the skill on one of them.

It was just a flick of her wrist, and Yu Xunge wasn't worried that a few hours of this would defy the heavens and alter their destinies.

Yi Qiuguo even complained that Yu Xunge was growing distant from them, refusing to even register their fingerprints for her villa.

Yu Xunge replied that she had quit the entertainment industry and was now free to date. She might bring a boy home in the future and wanted to avoid any awkwardness.

Yi Qiuguo chuckled knowingly, wearing a look that said "I understand," and stopped asking. The very next second, she elbowed Yu Qingshan: "Why don't the two of us move back to the Bauhinia Road place for a while? Don't you always say you're worried about the kids disturbing us?"

Yu Xunge: Is this an excuse I'm even supposed to overhear?

With a scrunched-up face, Yu Xunge escorted them out of the villa courtyard, pretending not to notice Yu Qingshan's bitter expression.

The little old patriarch wouldn't do, and the senior patriarch wouldn't do either.

Tsk.

...

Amidst day-after-day of training, Yu Xunge had not only learned how to exert force more efficiently, but many bad close-quarters combat habits had also been corrected with her coach's help.

Her current strength attribute was 10. Previously, even when using all her strength, she could only unleash 6 to 7 parts of it. But now, having mastered the techniques of force generation, she could unleash at least 90 percent of her power.

Although she primarily focused on ranged attacks, close-quarters combat capability was equally important; she couldn't afford to become completely helpless the moment someone got close to her. She had learned numerous moves: horizontal elbows, jumping elbows, covering elbows, crown-piercing elbows, striking elbows, turning butterfly elbows...

Yu Xunge felt that she was terrifyingly strong now!

Once the theories were learned, the rest required long-term practice, so she switched to a new instructor to learn how to use daggers.

Similarly, she had learned all the knowledge related to archery. With the rest depending on daily practice and comprehension, Yu Xunge moved on to master shooting techniques with crossbows and firearms. Her experiences in Thailand had finally settled her once-floating heart.

She had already stockpiled plenty of weapons. Rather than gambling on ethereal mutations with a probability of less than one in ten thousand, she was better off studying diligently.

That was what she said, however, human nature always included a streak of gambling.

Every day after class and dinner, Yu Xunge would make a detour to visit the antique market, buying up any junk she laid eyes on and hauling piles of worthless items back home. Once, when she let Yi Qiuguo inside to help tidy up the house, Yi Qiuguo looked at the pile of trash that even Yu Xunge herself was too lazy to toss into her game inventory and remarked that she would surely be scammed into buying health supplements when she grew old.

The male protagonist had fallen through, the third female lead was toxic, and she was placing her bets.

Everyone had a bright future ahead of them.

Yet there was one person who seemed like he was about to fall apart.

That day, Yu Xunge received a call from Yuxun Huan asking if she had time that evening to modify the luck value for one of his friends. He would pay—five jin of gold per session.

How could she possibly refuse this? It was a business with zero capital outlay, and she was extracting money from Yuxun Huan to boot; naturally, she agreed.

However, she took a preventive measure, fearing Yuxun Huan might insist on treating her to dinner. She spoke up first: "Business is business. It's impossible to use this skill for your friend without charging a fee, but tonight, your big sister is treating. We're opening a good bottle of wine."

A restaurant averaging over 10,000 yuan per person, plus a bottle of wine worth around 200,000 yuan, totaled just about one jin of gold.

Yu Xunge smoothed her hair in the rearview mirror and nodded at her reflection: You really are generous!!

Then, turning the steering wheel, she drove to the Yu family villa and brought Yu Qingshan and Yi Qiuguo along as well. Although she had no idea who Yuxun Huan's friend was, she could guess with her toes that it was most likely one of his sworn brothers, and she had no desire to dine alone with them.

That fool of a younger brother acted just like someone bringing his girlfriend to meet his parents. Every time he made a new friend, he loved to drag that friend home for dinner, pointing at her, Yu Qingshan, and Yi Qiuguo while declaring: "I'm bringing you to meet my family."

In reality, Yuxun Huan managed to bring at least two different "brothers" home for dinner every semester, and every single one of them was tall, rich, and handsome.

Yu Xunge had always suspected either there was something wrong with his brain or he was closeted.

Later on, she realized this was what people called wisdom!

Because those brothers and friends were so deeply moved that tears welled in their eyes, providing Yuxun Huan with immense help.

Yu Xunge felt it was hard to define Yuxun Huan simply; perhaps having so many noble benefactors relied on far more than just sheer luck.