"Danyal, why are you trying so hard? This things not work not in this county." I looked at Ayla. I had a crush on her and thought about confessing my feelings, but it was not the time. I need to do my duty. I told her, "Ayla if I don't do it, who will do it? Do you know what the state is, Ayla?" Ayla smiled. "I know, but I am curious what is the state according to you?"

I said, "I am Ayla, I am the state, you are the state. Every single officer is the state. If civil servants do, their duty right state becomes right. If they are corrupt and take bribes, the state becomes corrupt."

Ayla looked into my eyes. "I admire your idealism. But we live in this country. Nobody tells you to take bribes, but if you keep insisting on attacking the hornet's nest, they will going to sting you."

I told her, "I cannot allow government funds to be siphoned. People's taxes must be used right. If I let that money get stolen, It will be stolen from every citizen, including infant orphans. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Ayla said, "That word, what a nice quote. Who is it, belong? I told "Edmund Burke, an English intellectual." She said, "If he lived here, he would not say that." She held my hands and looked into my eyes. She said, "Look, nobody wants to see a good man get hurt. Until now, you were lucky. They didn't do anything drastic to keep things hush, but eventually, they will do something. I am worried about you."

I knew I had gone too far. I knew they were going to do something drastic to finally silence me. Maybe they would fake crimes and frame me and send me to prison. Maybe some mafioso types shoot me in the legs and cripple me. Something going to happen. But I lived my entire life as an idealistic person. I couldn't be able to back down from my principles.

I went to my car, tomorrow I am going to get to the prosecutor's office. Yes, he is probably in their pocket too. But I need to try. If I don't try, who will?

I looked at my car. It was a 2008 Hyundai accent. What a piece of crap. The money they offered me for silence could have bought me a new BMW, but my honor is worth more than anything money can buy.

I got in my car, started it, and stopped at the red light. Started going at the green light, 'What is happening? It is red for you' I maneuvered my car to escape from the truck, but he chased and hit me. When I was dying in my car, I said to myself, "If I ever have a chance again, I am going to be a selfish prick."

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I died a hero whom nobody knows. What a waste of life.

 When I got reborn, I was happy. I hoped this time I would be born in a first-world country. When I got out of my mother, I looked around. People seemed white, but they also were wearing strange clothes.

A midwife raised me and said things in a language I never heard before. But that wasn't a problem. I was a baby; I had nothing to do except learn the language. A man got in. He had a crown on his head. People seemed like they were from the middle ages, but I think that man with a crown was my dad. I am a prince. I would have preferred to be born into privilege in modern times, but no fret, I am a prince. A life of luxury and fun. Wait, me, here I come.

I slept a lot, but also I understand why people love their mothers. She always smiled at me, fed me, and changed my diapers. She had maids to help her, but she never let anyone other than her to handle me. She was so full of love to me. Whatever problem I had, I started crying, and she ran to my aid. I was a good son on Earth, too, but if I knew how mothers care for their children, I would have been an even better son.

 Of course, from the first week on, I figured out my name. It was Daniel, a nice name, also the same as my Earth name. Of course, it was a nicer-sounding Western version of the name.

When I was about three months old, my mother and her maids ran into a woman with a toddler by his side. They argued, as far as I understand they both were concubines, and they talked about whom among us going to become emperor. I said to myself, 'Mother, don't worry, I am not that ambitious. I will accept being some noble somewhere too. Of course, you deserve to be an empress (I assumed that worked like Ottoman sultan's concubines didn't have to the statue of the empress sultan's mother do.)

She said something about his son killing me. If the system had concubines and a harem like Ottomans, it could have the Fratricide system of Ottomans too? I tried to forget that thought. No, I was going to live in luxury and comfort. I wasn't going to be a young guy who died for the throne.

When I become one year old, I started to understand everything. But things were bad. I was in Draken empre. They have a Fratricide system. Among the princess, one became emperor and killed the other brothers. Who becomes emperor is decided by the people who hold power. Army, bureaucracy, clergy, and guilds all affected the result. Like Ottomans, there is no nobility in the Draken empire. The worst thing is there is no real magic in this world. I hoped I could start learning magic and get much stronger much sooner than my brothers. There are no other cultivation methods too. So there was no winning when I was a baby route for me.

I was an idealistic bureaucrat. I got educated in public administration on Earth, and because I was idealistic, I learned things well. Also, due to my bad luck, I was an officer conscript in the military in my past life. I had to fight against separatists, so I also had a good grasp of military meters too. I had my first priority set as getting as good of a warrior as I humanly could.

But I needed to stay low. If I was to behave like an adult in a baby's body, people would have assumed a demonic possession or something. I decided to stay low and be a baby for a while and don't try too hard to do things.