"Huh?"
"So I wasn't reincarnated?"
"You look like Gongxi Chou. I believe you."
Gongxi Chou had briefly served Duke Wen Yan, and he was an old subordinate of Duke Wen Yan's, so he recognized the face that looked remarkably like Gongxi Chou's. He also recognized the distinctive elements of the Gongxi Clan in the man's appearance. He lowered his head, glanced at the plan, and tossed it aside.
Jimò Qiu was a little surprised.
He had thought it would take some effort to get through to him.
"You weren't reincarnated. Reincarnation isn't easy. As far as I know, a spacetime is like a surging river that never ceases to flow. Time only moves forward. We're but a drop in the ocean of time—what right do we have to overturn spacetime?" Jimò Qiu spoke bluntly.
Turning a river around was beyond human power.
Even gods wouldn't do something like that lightly.
Jimò Qiu said, "You're just trapped in a dream and unable to wake up."
Being told he hadn't been reincarnated, and seeing the plan he'd spent half the night thinking up go down the drain, the Tenth Rank Left Shu Chang felt a little disappointed, but mostly he was calm. Even if he really had been reincarnated, so what? His greatest regret in this life was that he couldn't protect his wife and children, and the rest of his family.
Beyond that, he had no obsession that he absolutely had to change.
He could make do with the life he had now.
The Tenth Rank Left Shu Chang rose and patted himself down. "Let's go."
He smiled freely. "...It's about time I woke up."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a crack beside his ear. The ground vanished beneath his feet, and he plunged uncontrollably downward. At the