A man died during the pandemic in 2020, but as he closed his eyes for the last time, something stirred in his mind. When he opened them, he discovered that he had been reborn in what appeared to be ancient China, yet he retained all his memories from the future. 

Let us follow Shen Mu, as he makes his way in a world he knows nothing about and learns the truth about the world, and his mission as a cultivator.

Can his memories of the future help in a place where magic is real? And what is that other presence in his mind?

Rebirth and Reincarnation

After thinking it over for hours, I came to a conclusion: Whatever I did, I would get innocent people in the crossfire, but I couldn’t sit and do anything either. 


I needed time to find the wizard behind the curtain and I needed them to keep them thinking their plans were working so that they wouldn’t think of changing them. Which meant that what I needed to do was to pretend I didn’t know anything. 


But to catch the mastermind and bring it to justice, I needed to connect the dots, and for that I needed proof… just in case they too had some influence within the walls of the palace. 


So, I needed to begin gathering my own intelligence. 


Before we were invited for breakfast, I asked Min and Ling to cover for me while I entered the kitchen to look for the poison and, if I could get away with it, interrogate the chef. 


Fool me once...