In his previous life, Lin Ci was a delivery driver. Customers yelled at him, and he smiled apologetically. The station manager snapped at him, and he took the blame. Traffic cops chased him, and he ran like the wind. He put up with it all.
After transmigrating into the body of the only son of a fallen noble family, he found himself at the very bottom once again. On his first day at the academy, scions of great families humiliated him in public, while everyone around waited for him to bow his head.
Not anymore.
He fired back in front of everyone and activated a way to earn points through verbal takedowns. It wasn't a System for hurling insults, but one that gave him logical, cutting retorts capable of leaving his opponents speechless. Points could be exchanged for cultivation, skills, anything at all. This time around, he had no intention of taking things lying down.
Lin Ci soon discovered that his father's disappearance, the truth behind his family's decline, the undercurrents at the academy, and the secret buried for twenty years beneath the seal on the back mountain were all intertwined, pointing toward an abyss he had never imagined. He thought he was turning the tables, but in truth, someone was leading him step by step into a trap laid twenty years ago.
With the verbal takedown System pushing him onward and the secrets his father left behind pulling him deeper, every step he took brought him to the brink of paying a price. It wasn't that he wasn't afraid of dying. He simply didn't want to live cowering anymore.
