2: Who am I?

At last, Shen regained consciousness.

His body felt frail as if he got hit by a truck. Slowly, but steadily, Shen could see light. The first thing he saw was a fancy bright red room. Beside him was a desk with a candle, beneath the candle was a stack of books. Beyond that was a huge shelf, with at least 50 books with several weapons hanging around it. There was also a normal-sized window, with a place to sit under.

Overall, the room looked as if a noble slept here. It was vibrant in colors, jewels, accessories, and was huge. Only a well-off family could afford something like this. Even the door looked expensive.

Shen looked around the room once more. This time, he also noticed several pills and vials on the table, a little behind the candle and books.

-Creeeakk

Upon hearing the door open, Shen instinctively lied back down on the bed, making a small fwoom sound.

"Are you awake?" An incredulous voice asked.

Shen sighed, "Yeah, I just woke up, what happened?"

A beautiful woman with jet black hair rushed into the room with a shocked expression. Tears started forming under her eyelids.

"Y-you're finally awake Wen?" She wasted no time and rushed to hug Shen, who was now apparently "Wen."

Upon seeing the woman, Shen felt a sense of happiness, relief, and love. A thought formed in Shen's head, 'This woman is probably my mother, or 'Wen's'

"I-I'm sorry, I think I've l-lost my memories..." Shen quickly made a lie that would match the situation.

However, for several minutes, the two were locked into place.

"Y-you're finally awake..." Tears continued to stream down the woman's face. "You really lost your memories?"

"Y-yes, I'm afraid so..."

Shen mentally sighed, as the hug kept going for a few minutes.

"S-so, who am I?"

"Who are you?" The mother asked, "you're the son of the southeastern emperor who is almost in the heavenly cultivation realm!" She replied proudly.

She then stood up and wiped her tears with her sleeve.

"I-I'm so happy... Are you still sick? Do you have a fever? Does your head hurt?"

"I have a slight headache..."

Her expression quickly brightened, "I'll be right back!" She then quickly ran out of the room.

'Southeastern Emperor? Am I a prince? If my suspicions are correct, which it most likely is, she'll come back with maids and a doctor, well, obviously.'

A few seconds later, Shen's assumptions were(obviously)proved correct as several rushed footsteps hurried to Shen's room.

'My mother is back, along with 2 maids and a doctor, obviously.'

After what felt like years of nagging, the maids and the doctor exited the room, leaving Shen alone with his mother.

"H-hey, mom? Since I lost my memories, can you tell me about myself, or about where we are?"

Shen's mother, Empress Fay, smiled, "Of course,"

"Let's start big. This planet is one of the millions with life in it. This world called Sahin has a couple of billion humans and billions more beasts. The continent we are in is the southeastern continent. There are 4 continents, southeastern, northern, northwestern, and the Mesial continent. Your father, Chen Li, controls the one-fifth of the southeastern continent. Another one-fivth is controlled by the Sun Empire, the next is controlled by the Seb Empire, the Shei Empire, and the last part is controlled by the Misa Empire"

"Oh,"

And so, the day went on with Shen asking questions and the empress happily answering.

~~~~~(Hoho?)~~~~~

From the things Shen found out about Wen's life, the most interesting part was that he, Wen, never went to school, it was as if he was born with information, or spent his whole childhood in a den of books.

Wen was apparently at the 7th stage of the Spirit Refinement realm. Wen was 15 when he broke through to the 7th stage of the Spirit Refinement realm.

He was something considered a genius. However, after that breakthrough, he had a bottleneck that no one could help with, and soon, everyone else his age caught up.

No one knew what caused his bottleneck and just considered him trash.

"Sigh, at least I'm the emperor's son, I would still have a plentiful amount of money," Shen was still in bed, as the night quickly advanced. Inside the palace, news of Wen's awakening quickly was heard of, though, nobody really cared.

Still in his bed, Shen pondered about what happened after his first death. "In stories like what happened to me, isn't the system supposed to come with me to my new life?"

But soon after, he fell asleep.

***

A youth with a mildly handsome, regal-like face and dark hair was reflecting on a mirror. Shen looked at the mirror with mild shock. "I surprisingly look a little like what I did in my old life, just a little more regal, and clean,"

On his right hand's middle finger, there was one of the ever so infamous space rings. However, his ring only contained a few weapons and books

Shen quickly dressed himself in a black coat with gold streaks and silver buttons, the robe the royal families of the Li emperor had to wear.

'Starting today, I'm going to start training myself twice the amount Wen did,'

. . .