Southern Archives: Thirty Years Beneath the Sea, Then Out of the Coffin to Rule the South Seas

[Tomb-Raiding Fan Fiction + Republican-Era Nanyang + Faked Death and Return + Overwhelming Advantage + System + No Saintly Hero]

After transmigrating into The Southern Archives, he became Zhang Haiyi, an outsider to the Zhang family.

Just after sharing an unforgettable first love with Zhang Haiqi, he was ambushed by the Zhang family proper, sealed inside a bronze coffin, and sunk into the Strait of Malacca.

Thirty years later, as Nanyang was swept by turmoil, the chains on the bronze coffin aboard a ghost ship snapped!

[Ding! The Nanyang Paranormal Archives System has been activated]

When a man soaked in seawater, carrying a black-and-gold Tang sword, kicked an arrogant Nanyang warlord over the railing...

Zhang Haiyan gaped in shock. "Godmother! Who's that badass?!"

Zhang Haiqi's eyes reddened, and her voice trembled. "Shut up... Call him Godfather."

From then on, he unraveled Nanyang's bizarre cases single-handedly, crushed Zhang family pursuers with a single stroke, and built a maritime empire with his bare hands.

When people asked why he had come back, Zhang Haiyi took off his gold-rimmed glasses and wiped them unhurriedly.

"Someone messed with my people. I'm back to collect what's owed."