Chapter 9: The More You Steal, the Luckier You Get
I told you, where else would a young couple go but to the bedroom to whisper sweet nothings?
The two of them fussed and finally sat down by the bed, legs touching. Yu Xunge’s mind was clear and calm—time to steal!
She tried four times in a row, and her health dropped to 16%.
The person on the bed looked pale and yellowish, while Yu under the bed looked as white as if she’d been dead for three days.
She downed a bottle of medicine, afraid of making too much noise, sipping it quietly until it was finished.
Her health recovered to 76%.
Yu Xunge never stopped munching on dried meat.
She struck again three more times.
Her smile was nearly crooked from laughter. She said last time when entering the game, she must have exhausted her luck drawing the divine bestowed talent, stealing hundreds of times but succeeding only a few. But today! She only attempted a handful of times and not only stole 2 points of luck but also snagged an item.
【Soros Set · Mask (1/3)】(A-rank): Upon use, it disguises the player’s character panel information. The item must be placed in the inventory to take effect, and if the mask is dropped, the disguise fails. (Cannot be detected by items below A-rank. Note: each additional piece of the Soros Set collected increases concealment level by +1.)
Seeing this item, Yu Xunge was ecstatic, even more than when she obtained luck points.
Unlike equipment, items have all sorts of effects—some activate simply by being in the inventory, some need to be worn, others require strange conditions to work. They do not occupy equipment slots and can sometimes stack with equipment effects.
After her joy came a wave of fear. This was a set, and since there was a mask that could disguise panel info, was there also a Soros Eye or glasses—some kind of detection component?
Yu Xunge took a steady breath and waited for the cooldown of the basic healing potion to end.
Fortunately, in broad daylight, the young couple was only kissing, nothing more—otherwise, she might have dug through the floor.
Perhaps everyone’s luck is fixed each day.
After stealing 2 luck points and an A-rank item, she lay under the bed for an hour, taking medicine when out of health, eating meat, and stealing when she had health.
At this moment, she truly understood the saying: loving theft is like loving life...
Finally, she stole 1 point of charm.
Yu Xunge wasn’t disappointed. Charm and luck cannot be increased by using attribute points, so the rarer the better.
She kept stealing until the young couple left the room, then stopped. The family soon left together; Yu guessed they were going out to eat. She didn’t know if they called her, but her phone was off and stored in her game inventory—best to pretend she didn’t know.
Pale-faced and disheveled, she crawled out from under the bed, thinking that her current appearance would probably scare Yi Qiuguo, whose heart wasn’t very strong.
She still had 16% health and was reluctant to use medicine.
Today, to steal Su Yitong’s attributes and items, she had consumed more than twenty basic healing potions and finished all twenty pounds of dried meat in her inventory. She felt as if her face had grown a size larger.
Yu Xunge returned to her room and slept until the happy family of three came back, then woke up. She glanced at her talents—“Armored!” was lit. She first used the disguise skill to transform back into the burly man she was before, changed clothes, then drank an invisibility potion and left the room, going downstairs and out.
The door slammed loudly, so she left it slightly ajar, letting those inside discover it themselves.
Then she headed straight for the stairs. When she reached the second floor, the potion wore off but the disguise remained. Calm and collected, Yu Xunge carried her toolbox and left the neighborhood.
…
Before leaving the neighborhood, Yu Xunge used the Soros Mask to alter her game profile.
Her real stats now read:
【Character】Yu Xunge (Level 0, 0.001%)
【Divine Talent】Thief God (S-rank)
【Divine Talent】Immortal (SS-rank) (incomplete)
【Race】Human
【Race Talent】Undead Will┃Feeding
【Health】: 100/100
【Mana】: 100/100
【Strength】: 5
【Constitution】: 7
【Intelligence】: 10
【Agility】: 12
【Luck】: 10 (max)
【Charm】: 10 (max)
【Available Attribute Points】: 0
She wasn’t sure if others could see the specific talents but changed them anyway.
Her disguised panel read:
【Character】Yu Xunge (Level 0, 0.001%)
【Divine Talent】Broker (A-rank)
【Race】Human
【Race Talent】Undead Will┃Feeding
【Health】: 100/100
【Mana】: 100/100
【Strength】: 5
【Constitution】: 7
【Intelligence】: 7
【Agility】: 7
【Luck】: 5
【Charm】: 9
【Available Attribute Points】: 0
Her attributes now appeared very ordinary, but she didn’t reduce charm too much. Looking back, even when she fled disguised as a beggar, she seemed to get more money than others. One’s aura can’t be hidden! A charming person is charming wherever they go.
Therefore, she didn’t want to make the charm attribute too obvious and temporarily changed her talent to the A-rank Broker—a very good talent that wouldn’t raise suspicion.
If her Thief God talent was exposed, she would become the public enemy of players—no one would want to see someone who could steal their attribute points alive.
She planned to change it again after obtaining a more suitable divine talent through the “Death Mimicry Show” in the future.
She placed the mask deep in her storage box—it would be her most precious item for a long time to come.
…
On the way home, Yu Xunge kept reviewing whether she had any weaknesses, replaying every detail from the day she was reborn on the 22nd.
That day was too close to the game’s closed beta start, leaving no time to plan. Just making it home on time was difficult. If Yu Xunhuan learned the true meaning of the game, would she hate her?
Yu didn’t care if Yu Xunhuan hated her, but this mattered for whether she could continue hiding within the leads’ faction. Many opportunities only the leads could discover. Even if she couldn’t ruin them, she could at least follow along and let them let their guard down.
In her past life, during the first two years after the game invasion, Yu Xunge was sometimes taken by Yu Xunhuan to secret realms and dungeons dominated by the Su, Han, and Liang families. She did get a lot of good stuff from Yu Xunhuan. Even though she now knew the locations of those dungeons and could infiltrate them with various potions and skills, many treasures couldn’t be acquired alone.
Especially bosses that required dozens or hundreds of people to defeat...
She pondered how Yu Qingshan and Yu Xunhuan had earned her trust over the years.
Yes, every time they gained profit from her, they sacrificed something too—buying her a thirty-million villa with her money, or when a dungeon appeared in the villa she gave to Yu Xunhuan, he took her there but said the dungeon had been seized by the Liang family and he only had usage rights, allowing occasional visits.
Even when the Su, Liang, and Han families jointly hunted her, he risked warning her several times, helping her escape minor crises.
Each time she dodged danger thanks to Yu Xunhuan’s warnings, she trusted him a little more.
But now, looking back, several times she came close to death were right after escaping those minor crises...
So should she give Yu Xunhuan a little bait? If, after the game invasion, she gained his trust and used her strength, she’d have chances to join some major Su family events and cause trouble.
There were two more closed betas coming—that would be the best time to reveal this secret to Yu Xunhuan, secretly undermine him, say as little as possible, gain his utmost trust but leave him with nothing.
But would that cause Yu Xunhuan to turn the tide?
She knew the safest way was to kill Yu Xunhuan immediately, but she just couldn’t bring herself to do it!
In the past, she mocked protagonists who, after reincarnation, immediately killed their enemies. But when it came to her, she realized that a single stab to wipe out grudges didn’t exist—her overwhelming hatred could not be resolved by simply killing Yu Xunhuan.
Sometimes letting your enemy die quickly is actually a mercy.
She could temporarily abandon Liu Zhengliu after trapping her in the mire, but Yu Xunhuan—no.
She didn’t want to look forward; she wanted to look down, to trample Yu Xunhuan underfoot so that he could only see her shoe soles, suffer bitterly, and repay hatred with tooth and claw—that was the only way to ease her burning grudge!
And those three women of his, those five foolish brothers!
If Yu Xunhuan died, she’d still have to find each of them!
More importantly, killing Yu Xunhuan was easy, but she alone could not fight the Su, Liang, and Han families simultaneously. The best plan was to infiltrate their ranks and turn them against each other.
But the more she thought about it, the more she felt the risk of letting Yu Xunhuan enter the closed beta early was too great.
There had to be a way...
Yu Xunhuan closed his eyes, trying hard to recall every skill, item, equipment, or potion he once knew.