Past and Present Lives

"Master, do you believe in the next life?"

"I don't want to believe."

"Why not?"

"People who believe in the next life can't live well in this one. It's like those who pin their hopes on tomorrow: they don't cherish the morning light of today."

"What about a past life?"

"That should exist."

"Why do you say that?"

"Because every encounter we have in this life is tied to the fate we forged in a past life."

Sixteen years ago, the young man was the middle-aged man's master. Now the middle-aged man is the young man's master!

Sixteen years ago, the middle-aged man fought the Heavenly Venerable and forcibly sent his master into the cycle of reincarnation, all to repay a debt of gratitude.

Now his time is almost up, and his debt of gratitude is finally repaid...

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