Era Night Patrol: Great Qian's Demon Suppression Bureau

His superior shoved him into a demon lair. When he crawled back out, the first thing he did was kill his superior.

Half a broken saber, two taels of silver, and a life he'd managed to reclaim.

That was Su Chenyuan's first assignment after joining the Great Qian Demon Suppression Bureau.

Three years ago, he was the illegitimate son who escaped after the Ning Marquis's entire household was wiped out. Three years later, he was a low-ranking night patrolman, casually thrown by the powerful into a deadly trap.

Fortunately, whenever he died, he could return to three seconds earlier.

The price was a shortened lifespan and doubled pain.

Then he would remember every killing move and drive his broken saber into his opponent's throat!

When sect experts killed with impunity, trusting in their bloodlines, he dragged his gravely wounded body forward and cut them down on the steps. When powerful court officials refined medicine using living people, he kicked down their doors with his saber and slapped the account books onto the courtroom table.

At first, all he wanted was to save enough money to leave the capital with his blind maid.

But the higher he fought his way, the more he realized that in this sleepless imperial capital, too many people were waiting to trade the lives of the poor for their own immortality.

Until one night, on the body of an ancient corpse that should not have existed, he saw something from the Ning Marquis's household...

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