I am Wu Ying, a hard laborer digging ditches outside Xianyang City in the Qin Dynasty.
I have a secret: as long as I have seen the other person's face, I can take possession of any intelligent creature - inherit his memory and experience, without any side effects. The previous body will die immediately, but my consciousness will never be erased.
The first death came unexpectedly. The landslide buried me, but I woke up in the body of the alchemist Xu Fu. As a result, I became a celebrity in front of Qin Shihuang, became the most trusted "Brother Xu" of Prince Fusu, and became a thorn in the eyes of Zhao Gao and Li Si.
I thought it was just a power play. Overthrow Zhao Gao, support Fusu, and then become a free and easy "Feng Shengjun". But every word "Brother Xu" Fusu said to me, every bowl of chicken soup the old woman cooked for me, made me afraid - what I was afraid of was not death, but having to leave this face and these people one day.
But they don't know that I can take away anyone's body. Including the emperor.
The end of the Qin Dynasty was just the beginning. I will walk from Xianyang to the stars, from flesh and blood to Boltzmann's brain, from brief encounters to eternal loneliness. Two thousand years later, when I recalled Fusu's words "I am alone and a little scared" at the end of the universe, I understood——
The biggest curse of eternal life is not endless loneliness, but that you finally meet someone worth staying, only to find that you have lost the ability to stay.
