Temporal Relics: I Give the Departed a Second Chance at Life

Everyone wants to travel through time, defy fate, and undo their regrets.

Lin Yan alone is cursed by time and space: he can never interfere in the fate of the living.

His journeys bring no opportunities or lucky encounters. He cannot save anyone or change history.

The only place he can reach is the final ten minutes of countless departed souls, frozen at the moment of their deaths.

Here lie grievances that history books will never record, truths concealed by official accounts, and regrets from the rest of ordinary people's lives that no one else will ever know.

A family letter never sent, an apology never spoken, a keepsake he failed to protect, an injustice that was never avenged.

Others cultivate the ways of time and space to pursue immortality for themselves and roam across countless worlds.

I walk the cracks in time to recover what was lost and make amends for the souls of the dead across the ages.

The fate of the living is decided by Heaven; I will fulfill the final wishes of the dead.

With every regret I recover, I illuminate another buried truth from the past.

As countless unfinished lives are made whole,

a secret thread of civilization, spanning a thousand years and deliberately altered by human hands, slowly comes to light.