In the fourth year of Xining, Chen Kuo, a modern extreme-sports athlete, dies in a 6,200-meter fall on Mount Kailash. He awakens in Bianjing as Lu Liu, a seventeen-year-old dockside orphan living outside Dongshui Gate. No System, no lucky encounters: all he has is the muscle memory from his previous life: holding his breath for the time it takes an incense stick to burn, scaling walls as easily as walking on flat ground, and keeping his heart rate steady in a crisis. Others play the power game with cunning; he plays it by pushing the limits of the human body.
