His superior shoved him into a demon lair. He crawled back out and killed his superior first.
Half a broken blade, two taels of silver, and a life he had managed to snatch back.
This was Su Chenyuan's first assignment after joining the Demon Suppression Bureau of Great Qian.
Three years ago, he was the illegitimate son who fled after the entire Ning Marquis household was wiped out. Three years later, he was a low-ranking night patrolman whom the powerful had casually thrown into a death trap.
Fortunately, when he died, he could return to three seconds earlier.
The price was a shortened lifespan and doubled pain.
Then he would remember every killing move and drive his broken blade into his enemy's throat!
When experts from the sects relied on their bloodlines to kill, he dragged his grievously wounded body and cut them down the steps. When powerful court officials refined medicine with living people, he kicked the door in with his blade and slapped the account books onto the courtroom bench.
At first, all he wanted was to save enough silver to leave the capital with his blind maidservant.
But the higher he fought his way, the more he discovered that in this sleepless imperial capital, too many people were waiting to trade the lives of the poor for their own immortality.
Until one night, on a corpse from ancient times that should not have existed, he saw something belonging to the Ning Marquis household...
