I Choked to Death on Water, Then Was Reborn [Quick Transmigration]

[This story will switch to a paid model on January 28 (next Thursday). The paid chapters will run from Chapter 34 through Chapter 121.]

My new novel, Five Years of Exams, Three Years at Court (System), is now out. Come check it out, haha!

To get into the advanced class in his second year of high school, Chi Ying studied like crazy, neglecting food and sleep, and his grades improved rapidly. But the day before his placement exam, he transmigrated.

To bring his rivals down, Shen Wang planned every step and plotted with foresight, steadily rising in status. But the day before he ascended the throne, he transmigrated.

Two people from different eras swapped bodies and got bound to a System?

"There's no time! Help me ascend the throne first!"

"No way. Help me take my exam first."

"This prince isn't good at this. Are you being tested on Confucian classics or mathematics?"

"..."

After all that hard work building a career, one transmigration sends you back to square one.

The ministers noticed that their newly enthroned emperor had been acting strangely lately.

Every night, His Majesty locked himself in his room, keeping the lights on and muttering to himself while facing a small bronze mirror.

This is downright eerie, the ministers thought.

But before long, something even stranger happened.

The normally overbearing emperor finished a busy day, took off his imperial robes, sat at his desk with a book in hand, and cried out to the heavens.

"Damn it, why is math so hard?!"

A wild, unrestrained, devoted-dog emperor seme x a seemingly refined but truly devious academic genius uke

"Look at these distant mountains and vast seas, this land blessed with beauty and talent. Isn't it all my empire?"

"Finished admiring it? Then get back to your practice problems!"

"Nonsense. I am the emperor, how could I... What? I failed math?"

One-on-one, devoted to each other. Ancient-to-modern transmigration. Their souls swap at first, and after they switch back, the seme comes to the modern world where the uke lives. Most of the story takes place in the modern era.

(Important) This isn't an ordinary school story. It's a modern fantasy in an alternate setting, and neither lead is an ordinary person.

"What we thought was an accidental first meeting was actually a long-awaited reunion, arranged long ago after ten thousand years of solitude."

Story blurb: They say General Fengzhi was lucky and impossible to kill. He fell off a cliff and survived, and even being hacked with blades didn't kill him. He could be submerged in water for the time it takes to brew tea, yet still be breathing when pulled out.

Finally, after a victory one day, General Fengzhi was so delighted that he took a sip of water.

And then he choked to death.

Ye Zhuolin: "..."

The System, propping up its chin: "You have been reborn. Follow the instructions and complete every task."

Ye Zhuolin: "And then?"

The System: "Then you can go die!"

Ye Zhuolin: "???"

Other people are reborn to stay alive, but he's reborn so he can die?

A self-righteous seme who pushes his luck x a refined general who uses his words and his hands

The first time he meets one of the seme's secret identities:

"Look at his bearing! Look at his presence!"

After n tasks:

"Don't come near me! Aaaaaah!"

1. A lighthearted, nonsensical, silly story. The author's a goofball who loves to have fun. One-on-one, no split personality. The seme is the System, and his secret identity is hilariously exposed along the way.

2. This isn't a time-reversal kind of rebirth. He simply dies and comes back to life.

3. (Important) Mostly silly, but not a brainless wish-fulfillment story full of sweet romance and face-slapping. The overall tone is lively, with occasional serious moments.

Theme: Even in different worlds, keep moving forward bravely!