Aashish_Kookna

“If you could relive your life—not to chase fame or fortune, but to right your deepest regrets—would you dare face your own past?”

Yun Fei was an ordinary man in his thirties, living a life soaked in the bitter wine of missed opportunities and mistakes. A failed business, a broken family, friendships turned sour, and the loss of the only girl who truly loved him—his world was a long list of what-ifs and if-onlys. He wasn’t evil, but he had been weak. Not cruel, but often silent when he should have spoken. His was a life not ruined by one catastrophic event—but by a thousand small regrets that, over time, swallowed him whole.

And then he died.

Not in glory, not in battle, not even in some poetic tragedy.

Just… alone. Forgotten.

But death wasn’t the end

Born Again with My Future Regrets

Setting: Afternoon Rain, School Rooftop

Yun Fei and Lin Xiya stood beneath an umbrella, reviewing the newly unlocked Time Echo Manipulation.

Filter: "Fatal Regret – Unavoidable in All Timelines"

Top Result: Chen Zhihao – Classmate – D.O.D.: April 12

Confirmed fatal in 37,000 simulations.

That loud, always-smiling guy who sat three rows back and often lent people his notes.

Lin Xiya's eyes trembled. "I never imagined he was hiding pain that deep."

Yun Fei's voice was quiet. "In every life, he dies… in five days."

They didn't have a plan—just a power they barely understood.

But they both said: "Let's save him."

Meanwhile, Deep Below the Surface of Reality…

Null 447 drifted through corrupted streamspace, twitching and dragging its fractured core.

A gate opened ahead—silver, endless, pulsing with judgment.

Dressed in a black coat of stitched timelines, eyes masked by a silver blindfold, he whispered in a tongue that hurt time itself.

Null 447 quivered. "They remembered. I failed."

The man knelt and picked up a feather from the void.

"I am Kairoth, the Echo Hunter. When echoes defy fate, I erase them."

> Target Lock: Lin Xiya. Echo Host.

She sat cross-legged, studying the Echo interface.

The more she focused, the more timelines she could feel—like delicate threads woven into her mind.

Some showed Chen Zhihao smiling. Others… falling. Jumping. Vanishing without a goodbye.

She tapped into one timeline fully, and her mind slipped—

Zhihao sat on a rooftop, a bottle in one hand, a photo in the other.

"Don't cry at my funeral," he whispered into the wind.

"Don't be dramatic," she said, smiling softly.

Zhihao turned in shock. "How did you…?"

She stepped forward. "You matter. Even if no one sees it right now."

> Outcome Shift: Timeline No Longer Fatal.

Update Available: Apply to Prime Timeline?

At lunch the next day, Yun Fei watched in awe as Chen Zhihao approached their table with a grin.

"Yo, Lin Xiya," he said. "Thanks for the DM last night. That poem hit harder than I expected."

Lin Xiya smiled. "Just thought you needed it."

> Regret Thread Resolved: Chen Zhihao – Saved.

But then—the system interface glitched.

A red ripple tore across the display.

Echo Signature: Kairoth Active in Prime Timeline.

He saw the world shimmer—like glass cracking.

Time slowed around him. Students froze mid-bite. Birds stopped midair.

Only Lin Xiya and Yun Fei could move.

He raised a hand, and space tore open like a wound.

Yun Fei summoned the Index—but it burned in his palm.

As Kairoth's blade of timeline rupture aimed for Lin Xiya's heart—

A burst of swan-feather light exploded from her chest.

And someone else stepped between them.

Wearing an old-school backpack and glowing with Swan Ring energy.

He looked at Kairoth with bright, fearless eyes.

Chapter 14: The One Who Hunts Echoes