[The Outcast fanfiction + original male lead + rewriting regrets + Republican-era start + identity power fantasy]
1940, Mianshan.
Tang Men Grand Master Tang Jiaren will trade his life with Dan Shi to take down the Biheshan ninja leader, but thirty-seven breaths later, he will die from the enemy's final beheading strike.
When Zhou Yan opens his eyes, the Book of Karma contains only one sentence:
**This person's fate is sealed. They cannot be saved.**
Yet he charges straight into the poisonous fog.
From the ten members of Tang Men, to the old affairs of Three-One Sect, to the Jia Shen Rebellion that will engulf the world of outcasts, all those people he once watched die, become disabled, and spend their lives full of regret through the pages of a story are now standing right before him.
Change one person's fate, receive a gift of fate in return, and take on that person's remaining calamity.
Many years later, before the gates of Mount Longhu.
The Old Celestial Master looks at the young man whose appearance has not changed, and for the first time, his hand trembles.
"Zhou Yan... How can you still be alive?"
Zhou Yan looks past him at Tian Jinzhong and smiles.
"Old Zhang, I came back this time because I don't want to be the one burying them anymore."
