The Outcast: Starting with the Five Elements Ring

Chu Ci has spent years struggling to make his way in the world. After his business venture fails, he is buried in debt. He decides to go out for a walk to clear his head, only to discover that this world seems somehow different.

He had assumed the world was just as everyone saw it, until he met a strange man who kept saying baffling things, yet somehow made Chu Ci feel an inexplicable sense of familiarity. The man eventually gives Chu Ci a Five Elements Ring, turning him into someone extraordinary: an Otherworlder!