My name is Chen Jiu. In my previous life, I was the youngest Minister of Justice in Great Qi, but a trusted aide framed me, and I was executed by a thousand cuts.
When I opened my eyes again, I was back twenty years in the past, still the dirt-poor constable at the county yamen.
Great Qi seemed peaceful on the surface, but currents ran deep beneath it. People from dynasties erased from the history books were still alive, and a colossal bronze gate lay buried beneath the imperial palace.
The northern barbarians worshipped totems made of human bones. A subterranean palace beneath a Buddhist temple in the west held the birth records of countless people. Jianghu sects survived by devouring memories.
Behind every murder case lay traces of rewritten history, and I was the only person who could "see the past."
By chance, I acquired the Eye of Rewind. Touch an object, and I could see scenes from its past.
When my left eye opened, the dead spoke, and the killer's motives were laid bare.
Others solved cases through deduction. I simply reviewed "recordings of time." The truth was never hidden.
While everyone else was still looking for clues, I had already seen through the schemes that would unfold twenty years later.
Once, I knelt and awaited death. Now I stood and changed my fate. Even Xiao Han, the Eastern Depot's commander, was no more than an old case file on my desk.
I will tear open the page history books dare not record and write back, case by case, the truths that were erased.
In this life, I seek neither power nor fame. I only want to bring darkness into the light.
I can rewrite history, and history will remember my name.
