A soul with blood still warm throws the dice of fate into 1999.
When Fang Yuan jolts awake in a shabby rental room, the burning pain of liver cancer still lingers in his lungs and viscera. The calendar tears open the blood-soaked reality: March 12, 1999. From beyond the partition door comes the sound of his mother's bloody cough, and only half a year remains before the fire that will consume her life. In his previous life, he watched his mother die in the flames, had his marrow drained by the rich young man Chen Hao, and eventually froze to death beneath a bridge like a stray dog. Now, returned from hell, he holds two bloodstained chips in his hands: the money for his mother's emergency appendicitis surgery, and a five-million-yuan death lottery ticket, a death warrant on the Chen family's hit list.
On a stormy night, he clutches the burning-hot ticket and rushes into a clinic. Behind him, blades flash in the dark alley, four knives cutting off every avenue of escape. “Who sent you?” The boy's bloodied school uniform is pressed against the brick wall, and a steel pipe hums in the rain. Meanwhile, at the other end of the city, Liu Ruyan pins a cherry blossom brooch to her uniform. She has no idea that this unattainable “ice queen” once fell from a building because of a family-arranged marriage, clutching a faded photograph she'd secretly taken of Fang Yuan.
From reselling domain names to fighting bloody battles in the golden age of online games, from the Bitcoin dark web to the heights of the mobile internet, Fang Yuan wields rebirth as a blade and cuts open the arteries of the era. When Chen Hao's financial empire comes snapping at him, he laughs as he drinks his enemy's blood: “Thank you all for helping my enemies with thirty million.” At the engagement banquet atop a skyscraper, Liu Ruyan presses a gun to her arranged fiancé's brow. Behind her, a giant screen lights up with the headline that Fang Yuan has acquired the three great families. “I've only ever had one savior.”
In this life, he will turn the blood
