Ling Wuchen once ruled the stars.As the youngest Celestial Emperor in history, he carved his name across thirty-six heavenly realms—until the Chronos Tome, a relic of primordial time, became his doom. Betrayed by the sect that raised him, Ling chose annihilation over surrender, detonating his soul alongside his beloved Phoenix Consort, Su Li. Death was only the beginning.Reborn in his sixteen-year-old mortal shell, Ling finds the Chronos Tome fused to his soul—now a fractured artifact whispering through a ghostly mentor claiming to be its creator. With fragmented memories of a future that no longer exists, Ling infiltrates Green Cloud Academy, a mortal training ground secretly controlled by his former sect. Here, teenage disciples vie for celestial favor, unaware their "ascension trials" are but cogs in a cosmic slaughterhouse. But time is a double-edged sword.Every second Ling spends manipulating temporal threads deepens his bond to the spectral mentor—a being whose smile mirrors his own. Every flicker of the Phoenix fire haunting his dreams pulls him closer to Su Li’s scattered soul shards. And every mortal he saves from the sect’s grand design risks unraveling the timeline he needs to destroy them. In this deadly game of temporal chess: A single misstep could erase his rebirth Every ally might be a future enemy And the price of godhood may require sacrificing the twelve women bound to the Tome’s lost pages The heavens think him dead.They will learn to fear his second dawn.