Based on the clues Chen Changan had gathered so far, the Holy Spirit Pearl reincarnated over and over in the guise of an ordinary person. After each reincarnation, it never stayed in one world for long.
Though it took the form of an ordinary person, its true nature was that of the Holy Spirit Pearl. It couldn't possibly be completely ordinary; there had to be something different about it.
An outlier!
Chen Changan felt that the outlier among these ordinary people might be the reincarnation of the Holy Spirit Pearl.
One possibility was that they were the most ordinary of ordinary people, taken to an extreme.
Another was that they were a misfit among ordinary people, someone who didn't fit in with anyone else—an equally extreme possibility.
With that in mind, Chen Changan began observing people one by one.
To find the Holy Spirit Pearl's reincarnation as quickly as possible, Chen Changan even created a thousand clones.
Even so, it took him nearly a full year before he narrowed down his target.
Zhou Yuanying.
During that year, Chen Changan had suspected plenty of people and tested many of them. In the end, however, Zhou Yuanying was the only one who seemed the most likely.
Because he... was too unusual.
When Zhou Yuanying was born, his mother died in childbirth. When he was three, his father died of illness.
From then on, Zhou Yuanying lived on his own. Somehow, a three-year-old child had managed to survive all the way into his twenties.
What's more, Zhou Yuanying was a loner who never associated with anyone. The others kept their distance from him, too. They all thought he was a baleful lone star who had brought ruin upon his parents, and that anyone who came into contact with him would meet with misfortune.