Chapter 1 - Rebirth (1/2)

Chapter 1 – Rebirth

「 leads to death</e with one’s desire leads to bitterness

Bitterness leads into what one does not desire,</e unable to obtain one’s desires leads into Suffering</es; our protagonist had experienced no fewer than five of these sufferings His whole life since birth had basically been a chronicle of tragedies Fortunately, it was a short chronicle, because he only lived to the age of twenty-eight before facing his ht to have ended at that point However, at thatpoint

Nie Yan turned over A feeling of wetness arose fro closely to his skin It was an unco been shot in the back and collapsing onto the ground His blood flowed out, seeping into the earth

Isn’t it just death? He lay there calmly where he collapsed To silently pass away like this… Couldn’t this also be considered a peaceful death of sorts?</eates of the Cao Xu Mansion There, he waited with great anticipation for his target to ee In the moment when Cao Xu nearly disappeared into his vehicle, Nie Yan pulled the trigger Eht through Cao Xu’s skull「Bang!」Blood dyed the ground Gazing through the scope from a distance, he noticed a hole in Cao Xu’s head with blood flowing out smoothly

Cao Xu’s eyes stared vacantly before finally becoradually faded away

Replaying the event in his mind, Nie Yan felt incomparable pleasure in his heart as he recalled the scene of the bullet piercing through Cao Xu’s head Naturally, it was because he had been unburdened of his hatred

Cao Xu possessed a lifetilory and splendor, yet he died at the hands of a nobody like Nie Yan Even if he becahost, Nie Yan wouldn’t be too particularly bitter In the face of death, everyone was at an equal standing Even if he had the wealth to rival nations, it still hadn’t been able to save his life

Cao Xu had committed too many evils… It would be hard for him to escape retribution in the afterlife

At the same moment when Cao Xu’s brains were blown out, Nie Yan came to a realization His perspective on life underwent a co in life could be deterle shot of a sniper rifle Perhaps toe of thenewspaper The headline would read “Millionaire Cao Xu assassinated!” Below, a giant e for the common people to revere and worshi+p

Immediately after Nie Yan had assassinated Cao Xu, Cao Xu’s personal bodyguards discovered his location and went in pursuit They shot at Nie Yan, and a single bullet ed to hit him in the back

He felt a burst of sharp painradually grew colder as his life force rapidly escaped his body

h He laughed at the bitter shortness of life He laughed at his life of confusion and hesitation Only when he was about to die did he finally awaken to reality

Shortly after this realization, tears began to streak down his cheeks

The deep animosity he felt towards his parents had already ceased to exist The events of the past were now replaying within his ed for now in his fading time on this Earth was her faint, unblemished sh school By now, she had already been engaged to soant and refined coraved in Nie Yan’s e of tiettable He wondered… When she receives the news of my death, of how I took Cao Xu out with h? Or perhaps… will she shed tears in grief?</eh their constraints and began flooding in They were now drifting and floating within his retful Sometimes, when you finally realize or understand the truth of so about it </erets, too rab at the e… However, to his disone out of his reach Alas, his life had finally reached its limit—up ahead lay only an eternally silent abyss

Reer as it incessantly sliced at his heart; the pain in his chest was unbearable

s have I committed in my past life for the Heavens to torrievances soared to the Heavens He was bitter He screamed resentfully in his mind as teardrops continually tumbled down his cheeks

The moment seemed to last forever, and Nie Yan was actually completely unaware of how radually became serene

His mind was still active as he pondered away… Could it be…? Is this death? Perhaps, I’ tiers, moreover, it felt real Why, after all this time, why a his surroundings, he stared out blankly, at a complete loss

Could it be…? Is this the underworld?</eain their focus As he looked around, a few old things entered his vision: a wooden bed, a chair, and a visibly daed floor

Where is this place? Didn’t I already die?</e a sort of illusory sensation He began feeling his back; his entire hand felt wet and sticky However, as he moved his hand into view, he saw that his palm wasn’t covered in blood but rather sweat The wet sensation he felt earlier was due to the clothing on his back having been soaked wet in his own perspiration

on?</euely recalled his blood being red It was just like red wine, except with a scarlet tint; it was the colour of his life gradually fading away

Nie Yan still felt pain after pinching himself Cao Xu was a dream as well?

Why did it feel so real?</e Zhuo</e Zhuo who dreamt I was a butterfly, or a butterfly who drea Zhuo?”

How do I determine what is real, and what is a dreas with a hint of doubt There were just too , there was a shabby-looking wooden bed, chair, and desk By the wall, there stood the grandfather clock his old erate as a priceless antique「Tick Tock Tick Tock」The sound it produced echoed into the silence Nie Yan recalled that the clock’s time had never been accurate, not even once

It was as if his past an opening up

This room here feels so fah school?</eht shone in He felt a stinging sensation as the sunlight entered his eyes, causing his pupils to violently contract This was a type of dazzling awakening into reality

ht hand forward He gazed at its tenderness and slight i the sickly pale skin tone

on here? Am I myself from ten years in the past, or am I myself from ten years in the future? </ening his train of thought, a few frag Gradually, they becahteen It was summer vacation and his parents weren’t horee fever that sue to keep his life

During that time, his parents had left him with a bit of oodbye They never returned home, not even after two or three h their cellphones either It was as if they had just vanished without a trace At that time, he believed his parents didn’t want him anymore He was alarue and burden hih fever The experience left a deep trauhtest breeze It took hi that personality to sorew up, did he find out that his parents hadn’t abandoned him on purpose Rather, they had borrowedbusinesses at the country’s borders At that tiently needed a type of ic resource Following every nation’s discovery of thisrestrictions on its export and started hoarding the resource for themselves It was unkno Nie Yan’s parents were able to find such a source Although, in the end, theyit to the government at several hundred times the price they purchased it for As a result, they earned a huge sum of money

Their current circu Thus, Nie Yan’s parents were unable to contact hih the phone Furthermore, their matters were classified military secrets If any information were to leak out, it would result in their deaths As a consequence, Nie Yan and his parents’became buried in such a way It took many years after the matter had passed for his father to inforive the both of them

It was that year when his father had earned his firstcoe projects, advancing the company’s reputation by leaps and bounds He resolved his faht, and as a result, Nie Yan was transferred over to a high-class school within the city