Chapter 0 - Prologue (1/2)

On a busy street.

A scholar with a comely appearance was squatting down in the crowd while looking at the corpse beside his feet, sighing in despair.

The face of the corpse was too horrible to look at due to the strong hit. There were two trails of blood flowing out from his eyes and another two under his nose. The body’s eyes were wildly open like the eyes of a dead fish, which looked scary but also a bit funny.

“It’s such a bummer that you have to walk in the middle of the street. Look what have happened! You were hit and killed by a coach! And dying with such a scary look, if someone you know see your face, you might really want to come back to life right away.”

The scholar criticized the corpse on the ground for being so disappointing. Then he started to sigh again.

“Alas, you can only blame your own foolishness. Why did you walk into their trap and go to steal that Phoenix Jade Pendant? They didn’t catch you but you were still killed by a coach! How unfortunate is that!”

The scholar, eyes open wide, kept ignoring others in the crowd and added, “Even I feel ashamed for you!”

Right at this moment, a bunch of yamen runners ran toward this place. The crowd dispersed quickly in a bustle…

When the scholar saw the yamen runners, he made off right away like a rat seeing a cat.

That was his conditioned response over these years. And he had already got used to escape.

After he had run to an empty alley with his black boots, he couldn’t help letting out a sigh of relief seeing there was no officer following him.

“Great! Looks like it hasn’t got around. And those officers didn’t come here to catch me. But… Ha ha…”

Having let out a meaningful and weird laughter, the scholar threw out his chest.

“This is the best. Now that someone who looks exactly like me can be my scapegoat, those people must assume that I was already dead. Then they won’t send so many people to catch me. God loves me so much!”

“I can’t believe how lucky I am. I was hit by the coach and then came back to life! I wonder if I would die and be brought back to life again if that coach hits me again?”