Reborn in 1983: Hunting in the Greater Khingan Range

Jiang Cunfeng died in a blizzard in the spring of 2026.

The forest ranger's cabin was as cold as an ice cellar. At sixty-one, he curled up on the kang bed, looking back on his life: at just over seventeen, he followed his childhood friend into the mountains to hunt, leaving his friend badly injured and causing the girl he loved to die after being forced into a marriage exchange. Later, he made a fortune trading furs, only to lose everything after acting rashly and falling into someone's trap. In the end, he returned to these mountains and became a lonely forest ranger.

As he was dying, he called out a name: Yuan Lili.

When he opened his eyes again, he was lying in the snow in 1983. The howling of a wild boar and his childhood friend's startled cry rang in his ears. Seventeen-year-old Yuan Song was white with terror. The wild boar that had turned their families against each other in his previous life was charging straight at them!

Forty-three years of hunting experience came rushing back to him in that instant.

He didn't recklessly charge in as he had before. Instead, he shoved Yuan Song away, ordered him up a tree, calmed the two hunting dogs, and then, with a hunting knife and forty years of skill, took down the wild boar cleanly and efficiently.

When he carried the pork down the mountain and saw his mother, Guo Yunmei, rushing out with a fire poker, he threw his arms around her and burst into tears.

In this life, his mother was still alive, his father was still alive, and his childhood friend was still alive. The girl who had died after being forced into a marriage exchange for his sake, Yuan Lili, was standing by the fence, her face flushed.

From that day on, Jiang Cunfeng set out with his childhood friend, carrying their rifles and leading their hunting dogs, into the familiar yet unfamiliar Xing'an Mountains.

To everyone else, the mountains were wilderness. To him, they were a hunting ground.

Wild boars, black bears, sable, and sika deer were all his for the taking.

But he knew that what mattered most in this life wasn't how much game he caught or how much money he made. It was that not one of the people he'd lost in his previous life would be lost again.