Face illuminated in the darkness, Xiao Feng stares intently at his tablet. Dark circles droopping down below his eyes, his eyes themselves bloodshot from lack of sleep. Lazily scrolling through his massive collection of completed novels. "Ai, time to find another one... wonder if there's anything new..."

"Read it... read it... read that one too... oh? Demon king... princess... nevermind. Read it too."

Grumble

Stomach rumbling, Xiao Feng lets out a long sigh as he stretches his arms and shuts off his tablet. 'Better put in a pizza' he thought. Covered in his blanket that drags on the floor, he heads down stairs. Heading into the kitchen, he opens up the freezer. Upon gazing upon the empty freezer for about a minute, he slowly slumps to the ground. Gazing at the ceiling for god knows how long, he groggily stands back up and walks to the pantry. "Please... Cereal is fine... Ramen is fine... just don't be empty..." he says. 

Opening up the pantry and seeing nothing but a granola bar, Xiao Feng slams the pantry shut. A single tear forming in the corner of his eye, he removes his blanket and robe, and heads back to his room. Listening to his fan running, and staring at that unmade bed, he reluctantly heads over to his dresser and gets dressed in a stained t - shirt and some old shorts. Grabbing his wallet, he heads back downstairs to head out. 

...

"Enjoy your food! Get some sleep young man!" said the old woman at the food stall.

"Mm. Thanks granny. Have a good one." Responded Xiao Feng. 

Walking back towards his house, gnawing on some cheesy bread, the half asleep Xiao Feng hears a high pitched scream sound out to his right. Coming to a stop, he looks down at his cheesy bread and seems to come to a split second decision. He takes another bite, and continues on his way home. 'Hell nah, lady, whoever you are, that spider or whatever you just saw, use the shoe. Works wonders.' he thought. 

After walking for another few seconds and not hearing anything else, Xiao Feng continues on his way at his usual pace. Being in a much better mood after getting some food into his stomach, and as he takes another bite, "someone... please... help!" With a loud smack and another scream that followed, Xiao Feng stuffs the rest of his cheesy bread in his mouth and slowly makes his way towards the screams of the woman. 'Oi, Feng, just call 911... don't be a hero... call you idiot...' 

After dialing the police and ruining his possiblilities of saving the damsel in distress, outside the alleyway of the screams turned sobs, he slowly itches his way back the way he came to rinse himself of anything to do with this situation. 'Good luck, I did my best. Police should come eventually...' before he even finished his thought, with a loud clang, he tumbles over a trash bag and directly falls to the ground with a loud thump. 'Oi... this isn't even funny... I did a good deed, and now this?' scrambling to his feet, not even picking up his wallet, Xiao Feng immediately makes a run for it. Without looking back, he runs straight down the street. Loud shouts echoing behind him, Xiao Feng runs even faster. As he turns a corner, all he sees is a flashing red and blue light. Wiping the cold sweat off his forehead realizing it's a police car, he turns around with a mocking smile on his face to see the shocked expression of his pursuers. But, before he could mock these idiot thugs, with an extremely loud honk, followed by his legs buckling under himself as he flies into the air, his smile frozen on his face as he flies across the road. Landing on the hard concrete, all he feels is a cold numbing feeling throughout his entire body. Lifting his hand off of his chest to his face, what meets his gaze is his hand, soaked in blood that could only be his. Completely losing strength, his hand slumps to his side. A mocking smile on his face, one filled with regret and unwillingness as his eyes begin to shut. Loud shouts, guns firing, car alarms, none of the surrounding sounds reach Xiao Feng's ears, as he slowly loses consciousness.

...

Chirp Chirp

"Ugh..." 

Barely opening his eyes, Xiao Feng immediately feels a wave of pain through his whole body. His hand instinctivly grabbing onto his head, images continue to flood his mind. People, beasts, contractors, all sorts of jumbled information floods itself into his mind. With so much information, Xiao Feng nearly loses consciousness again. He barely holds on as he slowly sits up as he attempts to unravel all the information. Taking a deep breathe of fresh air, Xiao Feng lays back down and closes his eyes. After an unknown amount of time passes, he slowly opens them once more. Struggling to sit up, his head throbbing, he slowly breathes in and out. 

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After another few minutes, the pain and throbbing slowly subsides. Xiao Feng looks to his left, out the window of the room he's in. Checking out the blue sky, the sun high up in the air, his expression of one of utter disbelief. Opening his mouth, inaudible mumbling escaping his mouth. Only one word could be made out of the mumbling, 'unbelieveable'.

After gathering his bearings, he slides out from under the covers of his blanket and sheets, and stands up to examine in more detail the outside to confirm his suspicions further. Seeing the inner garden and fountain shooting high up into the sky, something that resembles a squirrel but definitely not a squirrel scurrying about the clean cut grass of the garden only futher solidifies his guess. He had transmigrated to a completely different world, just like all those novels he reads. Looking down at his body, examining the black gold robe that ecompasses his body, his lips curl up into a grin. Looking around the room, in the corner he spots a mirror upwards of three meters tall and one meter wide, he makes his way over. 

Standing before the mirror, Xiao Feng is completely stunned. Seeing the 1.8 meter tall, extremely handsome man in the mirror, he nearly falls straight to the ground. Short, groomed blonde hair with nearly shaved sides, his narrow blue eyes that are slightly bloodshot but still much better than his past self's droopy black eyes filled with lazyness. Upon further inspection, he notices his extremely pale and sick skin. As he examines further, images once more surface in his mind as his head starts to pound. This time, however, the images are much clearer. People mocking the old owner of this body, their scornful gazes, vulgar insults, disgust, all of it. Xiao Feng couldn't help but cry out in alarm and look towards the mirror once more. Seeing this handsome guy staring right back at him, Xiao Feng can't help but let out a light cry of alarm. 'Someone that looks like this can get ridiculed? Man... if it was me I might of just become food for the pigs...' he thought.

After sifting through a few more memories, Xiao Feng found what he was looking for. Two days ago, or so he believes, his cousin Xiao Kao gave this 'Xiao Feng' something that could only be described as obvious poison, calling this body's old owner a waste of space, and to finish it once and for all and stop wasting the families resources. And after a thorough inner battle, the old 'Xiao Feng' took the poison and, by all rights, passed away a few hours ago. It seems that the poison didn't end his life instantly, so the mother of this body had many of the cities doctors do all they could to try and save his life. But, it seems he kept denying treatment, but he still got it in the end, only prolonging his suffering. "Ha... so it's like that."

Bowing towards the mirror in honor of this world's Xiao Feng, and then vowing to use this body to its fullest potential. How he plans on doing that, even he doesn't know. But, as an otaku of earth, he has a gut feeling that he will be able to get payback for all the grieviances done to the former Xiao Feng. Standing up straight once more, with a salute to the mirror, a slight smile on his face, Xiao Feng returns to the window to gaze upon his new world. 

'According to the memories I've seen of the past few days, I should have another doctor coming to check on me. They shouldn't of seen this body lifeless before I took over. So, I guess I should just wait.' With that thought, he continues to gaze out the window at the passing clouds, taking note of all the flying beasts that he has never seen before. Birds the size of eagles flying around making nests, people in the distance flying on huge condors, Xiao Feng can't help but get a little giddy and excited. Looking at the memories he inherited, this world has people known as Contractors. Contractors are people who have been able to contract something known as a Gaia Crystal. Upon obtaining a Gaia Crystal, Contractors can contract beasts, and summon them to fight alongside them. It seems like this 'Gaia Crystal' is the source of the old Xiao Feng's troubles. He wasn't able to obtain one at the age of sixteen, which is the age when Gaia allows humans to contract the crystal in this world. Since then, a year and a half has passed, and no changes to said predicament have come along. So, he had been labeled by the world as trash. As part of the great Xiao Family of this Scarlet Beast Kingdom, and not being able to contract a Gaia Crystal, he was an extreme embarassment to the family. Since young, he had been pampered and fed all sorts of great medicines and materials to allow him to cultivate very well once he contracted his crystal. Yet, when he was unable to obtain a crystal's recognition and labeled trash, all those materials are said to have gone to waste. Which isn't an exaggeration in the least. As Xiao Feng is the second son of the main branch, he was given much more resources than his brothers and sisters, along with his cousins. As soon as he was labeled trash, all that envy that bottled up in his relatives exploded out, which after nearly two years, forced the situation where he drank the poison given to him by Xiao Kao to get rid of his suffering, along with the suffering given to his mother, who is only a concubine to the family head. 

Sighing, Xiao Feng can't help but shake his head. With all the knowledge from the novels of his world, it goes without saying that he is a differnt soul than this Xiao Feng. He hopefully should be able to turn this situation around. All he needs to do is contract one of those so called Gaia Crystals, and become an extremely powerful Contractor, and that in itself will make up for all the grieviances given to the old Xiao Feng. Sifting through his memories, he makes sure to take note of every last person that scorned the old Xiao Feng, to make it up to him for taking control of his body. Clenching his fist, Xiao Feng turns to gaze at the door of his room, awaiting the owners of the footsteps that are anxiouslessly coming towards him. With a slight smile, he unclenches his fist, and sits upon the window sill, awaiting his guests.