Title: Between Two Lives – From Sheng Fang to Li Tian
Sheng Fang, age 29, was a name that never appeared on the exam toppers’ list, yet his knowledge was no less than that of a professor. He was an engineering student—razor-sharp mind. Business management concepts came to him naturally. Medical pharmacy formulas, agricultural seasonal cycles, political power games—everything felt like an open book to him.
There was only one problem: bad luck.
In every exam, something went wrong. Sometimes the paper was unusually tough, sometimes his answer sheet went missing, sometimes a last-minute health issue struck. People would say,
“Even after studying so much, he still fails?”
But his parents were different.
“Marks are not life, son,” his father always said.
“Your time will come,” his mother would say, placing a hand on his head.
They never pressured him. Even after every failure, their support—financial and emotional—remained unchanged. Sheng Fang was alive only because of them.
Then one day… a phone call.
A rainy night. A highway. A car accident.
His parents—dead on the spot.
That day, Sheng Fang was no longer just a failed student—he became a man broken from within.
He stopped studying. Exams, degrees, the future—everything felt meaningless.
Life shifted into pure survival mode.
Over the next three years, there was nothing he didn’t do.
Food delivery boy. Cleaning staff. Restaurant waiter. Construction site laborer.
Work all day, exhaustion every night.
People would look at him and say,
“Such potential, completely wasted.”
But no one knew that inside his head, a genius was still alive.
Then came the diagnosis: Pancreatic Cancer.
The doctor said softly, “It’s late stage.”
Sheng Fang simply smiled.
“At least this time, the reason for my bad luck is clear,” he said to himself.
Lying on the hospital bed, he made just one wish—
If I get another life, I will live longer. I will become strong. I will write my own fate.
And then… his breathing stopped.
His eyes opened.
But this was not the hospital.
A crude room, old wooden beams, and the smell of herbal medicine in the air.
His hands were thin. His body was young.
He looked into the mirror—this was not Sheng Fang.
Memories flooded in.
Li Tian. Age 19.
The Murim world.
The Tian family—once a respected merchant family, now… bankrupt.
Debt, humiliation, and no guaranteed future.
Sheng Fang—now Li Tian—sat up on the bed.
“Murim world?” he said slowly.
“Martial arts, sects, power struggles… interesting.”
But this was not a hero’s rebirth story.
No powerful clan. No cheat system.
Just a fallen merchant family, and a boy the world considered weak.
Li Tian clenched his fist.
“In my previous life, I was a victim of bad luck,” he thought.
“This time… I’ll live with preparation and intelligence.”
He had no cultivation experience, but he possessed a treasury of knowledge.
With business sense, he could stabilize the family.
With medical pharmacy knowledge, he could create herbs and medicines.
With agriculture, he could improve food security.
With political insight, he could understand future power games.
And most importantly—
This time, he had a reason to live.
“I will live long,” Li Tian said to himself.
“Not just to survive… but to break my fate.”
In the Murim world, from the house of a fallen merchant family,
a new story had begun.
And this time…
he would be the one who defeats bad luck.