“Ahh…” says a tired voice as it exhales in a relaxed manner.

Li Yi looks up at the cloudless night sky, that is blocked by a towering skyscraper.

“Hahaha. So even on such a tall building, something must still obstruct me.”

Clenching his fist, a single tear leaked from Li Yi’s right eye as he is reminded once more of why he is standing on the roof of this seventy storey building.

For all his life, Li YI had struggled to survive despite being one of the more “well-to-do” people.

Borned in a wealthy family, people would expect Li YI’s life to be an easy one. Unfortunately, it wasn’t long after his birth that his mother died. Grief stricken, his father fell sick and took a few years to recover.

In that time, cunning relatives who sought the family wealth used the pretext of helping his father run the business to take over control. By the time his father recovered, he could only continue to run the business as a CEO in name thanks to some relatives who still supported him and others who wanted to control from the shadows.

While Li Yi’s growth wasn’t particularly affected by this, many of the benefits given to him to aid his growth were shared with his cousins. From food to lessons, his cousins would be there with him.

Li Yi was happy to have such companionship as a child. But after growing up, he realised that this companionship was largely due to his uncles and aunties wanting their children to benefit in whatever Li YI got.

This became extremely clear when Li Yi was in college, and his father had to officially retire from being the CEO. In an instant, his close cousins distanced themselves from him, and he became a new target for the school bullies.

Swearing to take revenge, Li Yi worked hard to graduate. With a fairly respectable score, he made it into one of the top universities in the world to study business management.

But as fate has it, he soon found himself unable to cope with the course and eventually opted to transfer to another university to study computer science.

Of course, Li Yi found it weird that a business management course would be as challenging as it was after mixing with other business major students in his new university. But the time he graduated, he discovered the truth.

When his relatives heard that he was going to study business management, they feared that he was planning to take the company back from them. As a result, they used their connections to make the course extremely hard for Li YI’s batch. In fact, the moment Li Yi transferred away, the course was purposefully made easier to make it up for to the rest of the students.

Li Yi was infuriated. But he also knew that he was powerless. His father was now a weak old man. Furthermore, his father had fallen sick and took years to recover when his mother died. If he were to find out that his own siblings had plotted against him to such an extent, he might just die in anguish.

Unable to do anything to about it, Li Yi decided to give up and instead start from scratch. Under the recommendation of a fellow graduate, Li Yi joined an international IT company as a programmer.

Everything went exceedingly well for two years, and Li Yi became the most promising rookie. As a result, he was posted to work as an assistant to a senior programmer. The project was an computer program that could predict the prices of stock market for the next few days.

Alas, Li Yi could not escape destiny as his senior stole the project materials on the day of its completion, and had pinned the blame on Li Yi!

Initially, everyone found it suspicious for Li Yi to have been the one responsible. But after various pieces of evidence were produced to set him up, even Li Yi himself wondered if he really did steal it.

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The police was contacted, and Li Yi was about to give up when he received a call from his father’s phone. To his shock, the maidservant who was in charge of taking care of his father reported that his father was dead.

Li YI dropped his phone, and rushed out in a hurry as his colleagues chased after him. Breaking his way through security on the ground floor, Li YI got on a taxi and managed to get away.

However, as the taxi drove along, it dawned upon Li Yi that everything was pointless. So what if he went back now to see his dead father? He couldn’t do anything to bring back the dead. And not to mention, he just ran away after being accused of a crime.

There was no way for him to escape from arrest and no way to prove his innocence ether. Laughing sorrowfully, he asked the taxi driver to turn around and to drive him back.

Feeling extremely tired, Li Yi got off at the building next to his company building, which was the tallest skyscraper in the entire city, and made his way up to the roof where he is now.

“Ahahahaha…!!! How foolish of me! Of course there is something blocking my way! I knew it all along, didn’t I!?” Li Yi cries out in grief as more tears fell from his eyes.

“Is this pain lesser than that which father felt when mother died?” Li Yi wondered.

Spending another five minutes or so standing on the edge of the building, Li Yi finally wipes his tears with his sleeve and decided to accept his fate.

At this moment, Li Yi realised that someone was looking at him. From several floors above on the skyscraper opposite, an office lady looked down at Li Yi from her office. With one hand on her chin and another twirling her long wavy hair, Li Yi could feel a cold glare as a shiver is sent down his spine.

Just as he was about to take a step back, a strong gust of wind blew from behind.

“Ah.” says Li Yi blankly as his body is blown off the edge.

As the distant street view below came into sight, Li Yi closed his eyes and await the ground below to put an end to his misery.

“Oh god. What wrongs did I commit in my previous lives that you cannot forgive me for even in my end?”

Splat. Li Yi clearly feel his face being smashed into. A cold soggy feeling wraps him all around, and his body turned cold.

“Oi…”

Li Yi laid there, not wanting to move. After all, can he even still move after landing face first on a rock hard road from a fifty storey fall? He should be dead on impact!

“OI!” came a loud shout as Li Yi felt a sharp jab at his torso.

“WHAT THE HELL?! CAN’T YOU LEAVE A DEAD MAN BE?!”screams Li Yi as he jerks up into a sitting position.

“Erh?” Li Yi thought in wonder and he sees a group of children in rags staring in surprise at him.

“Ah. Damnable. He must have stolen luck from us! Run and tell the adults!” shouts a slightly better dressed boy as the entire group of children turns and runs away from Li Yi.

“What the hell, did I accidentally fall onto some Chinese drama set?” Li Yi mumbled aloud.

Rubbing his hand on his head, the strange soggy feeling finally slaps a sense of awareness onto Li Yi. Looking his two hands, followed by his body, Li Yi realises that he is covered in mud. Not to mention, his entire body was a lot smaller!

“No no no. This cannot be.” Li Yi speaks aloud once more to himself.

“ISN’T THIS JUST LIKE ONE OF THOSE CHINESE WUXIA THAT I READ BEFORE?!”

After screaming that out loud, Li Yi ran forward without looking and rammed head first into a concrete wall.

*BAM*

That was the last thing Li Yi heard as blackness took over once more.