“No way...” Chen Mo blinked hard and glanced at his phone screen. The date read September 15, 2025, and his food delivery app still showed last night’s undelivered orders, now overdue. The red penalty notice was impossible to miss.
Wasn’t he supposed to be in the intensive care unit? In his previous life, he’d made a name for himself in Luoyang by the age of thirty, relying on sheer grit to build a small but well-known restaurant chain. But just as he was about to expand, his business partner betrayed him. He lost all his savings, then was hit by a truck while chasing down unpaid debts. As he lay dying, all he could think of was the disappointment in his parents’ eyes and the promises he’d never managed to keep.
