“It’s time to wake up. The company needs to clean up this room for the next person.” A slight push was shaking him.

Huh?

“What room and what company?”

“Wait, a minute. What is happening?”

“Wasn’t I sleeping in my bedroom? Who’s talking?”

Bewildered, Lui Wing opened his eyes. He turned around to look. Just one glance almost knocked him off the stool he was sitting on.

It startled Lui Wing. He turned to look around.

At the foot of the table he was lying, stood an older woman with remorseful eyes and aged white teeth, wearing formal black clothing. She was pretty given her age, but at the moment she had a stern expression on her face. The woman had lost her patience with him.

“What is going on?”

Lui Wing was confused. Then he noticed something different about the room’s layout and decor.

The picture on the wall behind the woman caught his attention. It looked like a world map. Were the continents different compared to the Earth back home?

It wasn't his room that he ended up in. Lui Wing fell onto the floor with a flinch as the stool he was sitting on came to a crash.

A question emerged in Lui Wing’s head. While the older auntie just shook her head.

Boom!

As if space dimensions and time quivered… Lui Wing’s vision was blurring. A sharp pain invaded his mind, and countless pieces of information were surging in his head from all sides like a tsunami. It felt like a glass barrier had been shattered. The memories stormed into Lui Wing’s mind.

“Lui Wing?”

“Orphan?”

“Another world? What the hell, man!”

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The stream of information was puzzling and overwhelming. Pictures continued appearing and flying like a picture film; it was troublesome to convert the information when it went wild, but it would be bearable to absorb if the memories eased.

Seizing his forehead with one palm and smoothing it, Lui Wing thought his head was about to detonate from the pressure. The shock was unbearable. He clamped his teeth and stiffened his alternative fist to where his fingernails penetrated into his palm, leaving crescent-shaped impressions on his skin—holding back the urge to scream.

He didn’t keep track of time, so he wasn’t positive how much time had taken place until the turbulent storm of information in his head quieted down. Some snips of memory emerged along the timeline to the present. A loud ringing sound ricochets in his mind and to his ears. This sound disabled him from hearing all other noise in the surrounding area until the process stopped.

Breathing hard, with all the new information collected, Lui Wing realized he had been transported to another world… and was reincarnated into the previous host’s body.

Lui Wing came to a halt as it suddenly dawned on him. Of course, he was surprised he realized he was in this unfamiliar room with that older auntie.

“However, I just got home late from finishing up some last-minute deals for the company he owns. After showering, he finally got comfortable and went to sleep! Was I silently transported to another world and into another body in my sleep?”

“Could it be because he tested his luck and gambled on a deal to make some extra money, or did he over-exert himself to death in his sleep?”

On the outside, one would think Lui Wing looked like a crazy person from the features he was showing, but clearly, Lui Wing was smiling bitterly on the inside. He sorted through the collected memories in his mind, unaware that he looked like a crazy drunk to the people in the funeral company.

“This is a world similar to Earth. But the technology here is more advanced than what he was used to—this galactic era had already entered the age of interstellar travel, reaching far beyond one planet. They categorize each planet as 1-5 stars.

The closer the planet is to the international trade center, the better the rating of the planet. A 5-star world was the worst rating because of the world being too secluded or a small physical presence in primeval essence known as Essence Energy. The higher the rating would mean that the planet has an abundance of Essence Energy.

The planet that he was currently on was called Sera. Sera was rated as a 5-star planet because it is so far away that few visitors from the trade center would want to invest in a distant world. City bases were scattered throughout the planet Sera, and the previous host lived in the city base called Resilience. Each planet has a city lord that governs the world. The world’s Lords must guard it and help it gather more Essence Energy.

From countless eras of building the trade center, it became a hub that started as a spectacular spaceship that converted into a space city that could travel through the stars. It was known to host many different cultural races. Many of the races had a humanoid form. Although it was a paradise for some, it was hell for the weak.

The trade center was under the protection of a force called the Federation. The Federation has jurisdiction over what happens in the trade center area because it is in one of the most influential galaxies. The Federation was founded under a mighty Celestial that watched over their land. Each Celestial has a star zone that it guards.