Human Longevity Book

Immortal cultivators all over the world say that immortality means changing one's fate against the will of heaven. Xu Guannian, a copywriter at Xianji Fangmo in Qingxi County, just wanted to find out one account: why his mother died twelve years earlier than recorded in the longevity book. He does not have a prominent life experience, nor does he have rare spiritual roots. The only thing that is special is that he has a photographic memory of dates and numbers - and that he can see the "year traces" left by the passage of life. But every time he uses it, he loses a piece of his memory. From deregistration, life tax, to families who dare not register their children, the more Xu Guannian checked, the more he understood: the life book does not predict death, but stipulates how long someone can live. When monks cannot pay the longevity tax, the price will fall on relatives, debt deeds and criminal records; the county is just the terminal, and the state capital, sect and larger immortal system are still hidden behind the official seal. There is no immortality born out of thin air in this world, only lifespan that is redistributed. Xu Guannian had to open up the world's accounting books page by page for his mother's twelve years and for his sister who depended on each other for life. What he wanted to do was never to become an immortal - but to ask: If immortality is based on the death of others, is this immortal still worth becoming?