A Reborn Cancer Patient's Guide to Saving Myself

Zhao Mingqian looked at Judge Cui seated in the courtroom, his thoughts racing. Three seconds later, he dropped to his knees before him. "My lord, I'm innocent!"

Cui Ziyu furrowed his brow in confusion as he looked down at him.

"I used to be a coding grunt at a tech company. I was raised by a single parent, had average grades, average looks, average height, and average weight. You could say I lived by the golden mean my whole life. Who could have guessed that at thirty-six I'd be laid off? I switched to sales, and less than a week later, at a company team-building event, I wanted to prove my loyalty to the boss and show my coworkers I meant no harm, so I downed two jin of baijiu. I never expected to just croak like that. Maybe Heaven took pity on me and thought I'd wasted my life, so it gave me a chance to start over. But after I was reborn, I hadn't even had time to turn on my phone. I'd only eaten a bowl of instant noodles when I found out I had terminal brain cancer and less than half a year to live. I was planning to spend my remaining time traveling, but then your ox-headed underling beat me out of my body and dragged me to the underworld. My lord, I've suffered such a terrible injustice!"

Cui Ziyu listened with a frown, then said, "Don't sell yourself short. Your misery is only a little below average. There are plenty of poor souls more unfortunate than you..."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.