Reborn: I'm the Center of Attention in the Cultivation World

Hu Ge died.

Cause of death: hunted down by an alliance of four families. Officially confirmed, documented in a red-header notice, and the hottest topic in the entire cultivation world.

Eighteen years later, he came back to life.

A hapless man named Niu Lai had dragged him up from underground with a rusty chain.

Being reborn was one thing, but he’d come back as a useless wreck. His face was as pale as a paper effigy, his body so weak he couldn’t even step over the threshold, and the mice had moved out because the house was so poor. Worse, he had more than one creditor. He had to fulfill Niu Lai’s dying wish, settle the scores from eighteen years ago, and deal with Chen Shu, his old nemesis, who had come after him.

Hu Ge decided to pretend he was insane.

He played the part so convincingly that Chen Shu’s very first words left him drenched in cold sweat.

“Niu Lai,” she said, “you’d better not lie to me.”

One was doing his best to act. The other was doing her best to sound him out. He thought she hated him. She had spent eighteen years investigating him.

The whole world thought they were enemies. Only they knew what lay beneath that unspoken truth.

Until one day, Hu Ge discovered that the buyer of the contract lock wasn’t Niu Lai. It was Chen Shu.

“You brought me back,” he asked her. “Was it so you could kill me again?”

Chen Shu didn’t answer.

Hu Ge laughed. “Then I won’t die.”

He had only planned to muddle through this cultivation world until he died. Now he’d changed his mind. He would live well. Pay off his debts. Get his revenge. Restore the spiritual leyline he had once repaired alone. And take her away with him.