I Failed to Awaken from the Start, So I Became a God by Reloading

The day my girlfriend vanished, she left behind a badge engraved with the character "Xu." I followed the trail and was instantly killed by a shadow.

When I opened my eyes again, I was back at the awakening ceremony in my senior year of high school. This time, I shone with two lights: A-rank fire, and A-minus-rank precognition.

I thought I had simply been reborn. Until I discovered a door at the back of my head. Every time I used precognition, someone would open it from the other side for thirty seconds. Someone had been taking my mental energy all along.

"Some abilities aren't yours. Someone else put them inside you."

And the planetary consciousness that calls itself "Origin" is awakening through my eyes. This rebirth was part of a plan from the very beginning. My missing girlfriend, the precognition student who vanished twenty years ago, that door left ajar: someone is waiting for me to walk this path to its end.

I'm Chen Shang. I've been killed once. I won't die a second time.