Li Yi was born an orphan. Handsome, charming, diligent, and eager to learn, he had built up an enormous fortune before he was thirty. But fate was cruel: at thirty-one, he was told he had terminal leukemia. After waiting in vain for six months for a suitable bone marrow donor, Li Yi used his entire fortune to establish a foundation and donate it all. He calmly departed the world he still dearly loved. Perhaps fate took pity on him, because when Li Yi opened his eyes again, he discovered he had been reborn in the world of Dream of the Red Chamber as the Foolish Tyrant, Xue Pan.
Li Yi smiled with satisfaction. At last, he could meet the goddess of his dreams. Lin Daiyu, let me protect you in this life.
