"Young Master Chen, are you awake?"
The moment Chen Miao opened his eyes, he heard someone knocking outside his door.
After a brief moment of disorientation, Chen Miao rolled over and sat up.
"What is it?"
"The Third Master just returned and told me to bring you over."
"All right, understood. Let me wash up first."
With that, Chen Miao walked toward the washstand in his room. Even as he washed, however, he was reviewing his identity in this life.
In this life, Chen Miao's identity also bore the surname Chen. His name was Chen Ergou, and he was an orphan!
In theory, this was an excellent identity. But perhaps the Mortal World did not want transmigrators to have such an easy time of it, because even this orphan's identity entangled Chen Miao with a whole series of people and events.
Chen Miao had still chosen this identity for several reasons.
The first was the people connected to this identity.
The Cangzhou Kong Clan!
Yes, the very same Cangzhou Kong Clan to which Kong Xunzhen, the master Chen Miao had acquired by chance in his previous life, belonged!
The ancestors of Chen Miao's current identity had old ties with the ancestors of the Cangzhou Kong Clan.
Chen Ergou's ancestor had been a bamboo craftsman who specialized in working with certain unusual types of bamboo. Although his craft had an established heritage, its potential was limited.
During a crisis that the Kong Paper Effigies had once faced, Chen Ergou's ancestor had stood firmly by their side, forging a deep bond between them.
Later, for various reasons, the Chen Family could no longer keep pace with the Kong Family and gradually faded from the main family's attention.
By Chen Ergou's generation, his father had offended another yin cultivation family and been beaten