1986: Hunting in the Xing'an Mountains

Gao Chen was reborn.

He was reborn after the first snowfall of 1986, just before a wild boar's tusk was about to strike his childhood friend.

In his previous life, he was a spineless forest ranger. When he was eighteen, a boar hunt went wrong, leaving his childhood friend gravely injured and disabled. His childhood sweetheart was forced into a marriage swap and died tragically, and the two families never spoke again. He never married, never amounted to anything, and at sixty-five, a flash flood swallowed him and his little cabin whole.

When he opened his eyes again, he was back in the snowy forest at seventeen.

This time, he had forty years of mountain-hunting experience. He killed a wild boar with a single knife thrust to the throat, shot squirrels from a hundred paces with a slingshot, caught sable with a clever trap, and faced down a black bear with an old-fashioned rifle. On Jia Pi Mountain, he laid a vast network of traps; in San Dao Gou, his hunting calls echoed through the forest.

Everyone in the village said, "The Gao family's eldest boy has finally come to his senses!"

But Gao Chen knew he had not come to his senses. He had returned with the debts of his previous life.

He would protect both families, marry Liang Jingru, turn this stretch of the Greater Khingan Range into his hunting ground, and show everyone who had looked down on him that

The King of the Mountains was back!

Watch Gao Chen return to 1986, hunting knife in hand, and carve out a triumphant life amid these snow-covered mountains and dark rivers!

"In my last life, I guarded the mountains until old age. In this one, I'll rule them!"