545: I'm hooked

"Shared item levels... so these two dice, every time I guess the number right, I can get double the intelligence income from the previous day. Not bad."

Ye Su took out the original 'Lucky Dice' from the system and shook both dice together in his hand.

[Host's total intelligence income yesterday: 319,012 Yuan!]

"I'll guess '2' for both dice. I refuse to believe neither will hit!"

With that, Ye Su threw both dice onto the bed.

Thump, thump—

After landing on the mattress, the two dice bounced in different directions. One finally stopped on '3' and the other on '4'.

"Fuck!" Ye Su cursed. "Damn it, two dice and both missed!"

This result made Ye Su so angry he almost turned into Brother Crow and flipped the bed over.

Adjusting his breathing to calm down, Ye Su swept his right hand and stored both dice back into the system space.

[storage space 1: Lucky Dice (Two)]

"At least they can be stored in the same space without taking up two slots."

But at the thought of the rewards he had missed by guessing wrong on the 'Lucky Dice' repeatedly lately, Ye Su felt a tightness in his chest.

"No, what I've lost, I must take back with my own hands!"

Ye Su flipped his right hand, and two glittering gold bars appeared in his palm.

"Open the 'System Gold Shop' and recycle these two gold bars!"

As soon as he spoke, the two gold bars that had just appeared out of thin air vanished, and a prompt popped up on the system screen.

[Gold bars recycled successfully!]

[Weight of gold recycled: 2000 grams]

[Recycle unit price: 806 Yuan/gram]

[Total payment: 1,612,000 Yuan. Transferring to Host...]

Buzz, buzz—

[Industrial and Commercial Bank of China: Your card ending in 9539 received a transfer of 1,612,000 Yuan on July 15th at 17:09. Current balance is 25,246,353 Yuan.]

The phone on the desk vibrated. Ye Su unlocked it and checked, confirming the money from selling the gold bars had arrived.

"With the money from buying gold bars plus other income, the total intelligence income from the gold bars should reach nearly two million. It all depends on whether I can guess a number right tomorrow."

Ye Su made up his mind: if he didn't guess right tomorrow, he would sell four more gold bars.

If he still missed the day after, he'd sell 8 gold bars.

If he still didn't hit, he'd sell the remaining 9 gold bars along with all the small gold nuggets produced by the 'Book of Wealth' during this period.

He really didn't believe that with two dice and eight chances total, he couldn't guess right even once!

"Right, I already spent 9.5 million buying the house today. If I make it 10 million, can I complete the 'Hidden Achievement - Big Spender 2.0'?"

No sooner said than done. Ye Su immediately issued a command to the 'System Gold Shop' to purchase 1000 grams of gold.

[Purchase successful!]

[Weight of gold purchased: 1000 grams]

[Today's gold price: 809 Yuan/gram]

[Host's total expenditure: 809,000 Yuan. Distributing gold to Host...]

With a flash of light, another gold bar appeared in Ye Su's hand, looking exactly like the ones he had just sold to the system.

"Could this be the gold bar I just sold? Good grief, back and forth, they fleeced me of 3000 Yuan in service fees!"

If it weren't to see if he could complete the hidden achievement, Ye Su wouldn't have wasted those 3000 Yuan.

[Ding!]

[Detected that the Host's personal account expenditure exceeded 10 million Yuan in a single day. Successfully completed 'Hidden Achievement - Big Spender 2.0'!]

[Hidden Achievement Rewards: 1 million Yuan cash, 10 Physique points, 1 storage space!]

[Host's current Physique: 170 points!]

"I actually completed it!"

Seeing the system prompt, Ye Su's face changed instantly, no longer caring about the 3000 Yuan loss in service fees.

"170 Physique points... those two are in for a treat!"

Having not seen them for nearly two weeks, with Yan Ran and Chen Xinyi coming to Yang County together tomorrow, one could imagine how intense the 'battle' would be.

The system space could only store Mysterious Surprise Items and intelligence items; gold bars purchased from the System Gold Shop couldn't be put inside.

Ye Su was too lazy to carry such a gold bar around, so he simply sold it back to the system at the price of 806 Yuan per gram.

"Right, I haven't told Zhang Xiuying that the DNA test results are out."

Ye Su picked up his phone, clicked on Zhang Xiuying's avatar, and sent her a message.

[Are you there?]

After a moment, Ye Su received a reply.

[Zhang Xiuying: Yes]

[I wanted to tell you that the DNA test report is out. It confirms that you are indeed biological sisters with my friend.]

[I'll send the report to you. Take a look for yourself first.]

Ye Su selected the three photos of the test report Yan Ran had sent him and forwarded them to Zhang Xiuying... On the other end, when Zhang Xiuying suddenly received Ye Su's message, she had a premonition that the DNA results were out.

Even though she didn't believe such a coincidence could happen, when she saw that all three DNA reports showed she and that Yan Ran were biological sisters, Zhang Xiuying's mind went blank. She stood frozen with her phone, unable to even hear the chatter of the colleagues around her.

So, I really was adopted... So, that's why all these years they never treated me as their biological daughter and only wanted me to be a 'blood bag' for their son... The grievances of 30 years all erupted at the sight of that conspicuous line: 'A biological sister relationship exists between Yan Ran and Zhang Xiuying.'

Zhang Xiuying wanted to cry, but she opened her mouth only to find that no tears would come.

Abandoned by her biological parents and treated as a blood bag by her adoptive parents... If it weren't for having a biological sister who hadn't given up looking for her all these years, Zhang Xiuying wouldn't know what the point of her life was anymore.

[Ye Su: Your sister plans to come from Guangzhou to Yang County tomorrow to reunite with you. What are your thoughts?]

"What are my thoughts..."

Of course Zhang Xiuying wanted to meet her real family.

However, she could see that Ye Su was very well-off, and even he said that the sister she had never met was a wealthy woman. Surely her circumstances were even better.

Looking at herself... Zhang Xiuying was truly worried that after they met, Yan Ran would be deeply disappointed in her or even regret finding her.

"Since it's come to this, let's just meet. Even if she really looks down on me as a sister, there's nothing I can do..."

[Okay]

[What time tomorrow?]

[Ye Su: She's leaving tomorrow morning. As long as there's no traffic, she'll definitely arrive in the afternoon.]

[Ye Su: I'll notify you as soon as she arrives.]

[Okay, sorry for the trouble.]

[Ye Su: No trouble at all.]

[Ye Su: When your sister arrives in Yang County, she'll stay at my place first.]

[Ye Su: If you have a showdown with your family tonight and things get unpleasant again, you can come over to my place to stay. I have an extra room.]

Then, Zhang Xiuying received an address from Ye Su. It was Splendid Mansion, right next to where they had met in the early hours of Monday.

Seeing the address, besides confirming that Ye Su was very rich, Zhang Xiuying finally understood why he had appeared by the Yang County River in the middle of the night.