A new life

Jian Nantian was placed on the bed beside a dignified woman. She was Jiang shaoxu."Mother, look, brother's nose and mouth look exactly like yours," chu Chen said while sitting beside the bed.

Jiang shaoxu smiled and looked at Jian Nantian with love.

Jian Nantian was completely stunned.

"I'm a baby?"

"Is this... reincarnation?" Jian Nantian thought.

His mind was in chaos, he could clearly remember getting shot in the chest by those gangstar.Thinking of this made him remember his family.

He thought of the possibility of exploiting that near-death experience as a mean to break free from the cage he called home. He considered how his parents would react once he said to them that he will drop the university to be a dishwasher.

"Dad will not make too much trouble for me, but mum will surely go crazy. Nowadays the only thing I can do home without starting a fight is reading. Maybe I will lose that too"

Since he remembered, he loved playing games, reading books and getting drunk. He found anything else boring and this seriously affected his school career since high school. So, the situation in his house grew more and more difficult for him to sustain as his parents would rather yell all the time than accept that the university wasn't fit for him.

''I guess a big part of that situation is my fault, after all, I've spent most of my life being drunk or isolated in some book. Not a good job as a son indeed.''

Thinking this, regret emerged in him. If he knew better at that time, he would've not used booze as a mean to vent and maybe the situation in his family would have been more peaceful.

''Well, I can't change what has already happened, and I didn't really have many options to keep myself cool while pretending all the time" Jian Nantian thought.

When he was 14 he figured out that something was not entirely right with him. He would see his friends going after girls or pretty clothing, emphasizing love and social status in a group of people. Yet, he only felt curiosity toward sex without ever being able to really bind with someone. As for human society, he saw it as a bunch of rules created by humans in order to force them to live together.

''Aren't those rules created by men? As a man, I should have the right to ignore them and live the way I want to.''

Time kept on passing while he was thinking, without him noticing.

''In the end, it's a world ruled by money. If you have it you can do whatever you want; if not you can only end up in one of the gears of society, accumulating money till the moment you die.''

''What a pitiful way of living. Forced by the rules of humans to work in order to accumulate pieces of paper, while those have value only thanks to the same rules you are obeying. True freedom is only achievable by gathering enough paper. Is there even value on living a life like this?'' these were the thought running through Jian Nantian's head.

He finally understood the situation he was in.

"I guess I reincarnated into another world."think of this gave him a bad feeling, he just reincarnated into this world,so he didn't understand how the world work's.

" I guess I should do my best to learn the language of this world."Jian Nantian thought, but suddenly his thought was interrupted by a liquid poured down inside of his mouth and he lost himself in the dizziness of his first meal.

Jian Nantian looked at the woman feeding him with half closed eyes. The woman had long black hair untied on his back and ice-blue eyes below her thin eyebrows.

''Sure my mother is beautiful."

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Five months have passed since Noah was reborn in this world.

It was spring, or at least it seemed so for what he saw of the outside environment. The mansion he lived in resembled a countryside villa from his previous life, yet it had the size of a castle and was mostly made of wood, with a wall made of rocks on the perimeter.

In that moment, he was in the arms of his new mother, peeking around while she was walking through the mansion talking to him. Little did she know that Jian Nantian managed to understand most of what she said.

''The language of this world is not so hard, also because it has a lot of similarities with the English of my previous world. Well, it's also thanks to Lily never leaving my side and continuously speaking to me''

These five months were spent by him mostly in his mother's embrace walking around mansion, with Jiang shoaxu explaining the most random things to him. Thanks to that he had a general idea his family and the structure of the mansion.

The mansion was divided into 2 rings, outer and inner. The inner ring was composed of a 4 stories building and it was the place where the main family lived; the outer ring had two 2 stories buildings and a 3 stories building, they were respectively inhabited by guards, servants, and guests.

Apart from this, he learnt some basic things about this world.

From the clothing of the people, the structure of the buildings and the state of the furniture, he could guess that this was a world without electricity, so way behind in the field of technology compared to his previous world.

'Yet, this might be also a disadvantage; my habits are those of the industrialized society and my thoughts are those of a guy from the 21st century, I don't know how the people here might react to some ideas. I must be careful.'

Sometimes thinking about his future, sometimes listening to his mother, the day passed and the night was approaching. Jiang shaoxu walked to a balcony in order to watch the stars appear on the dark sky. Jian Nantian used this chance to study the environment outside the mansion. Outside the defense wall, there were sheep grazing the fields, there was a large stone road that started from the main gate of the mansion and stretched in the distance, cutting the green fields into 2 halves. A field of what seemed like corn was being cultivated on his right side and a forest was barely visible on his left in the distance.

It was a beautiful scenery, one Jian Nantian wasn't used to seeing, and now this was his new world. Then he shifted his gaze to the sky, and he seemed to see the darkness enveloping the redness of the clouds due to the sunset. At the beginning it was like a small dot in the distance, becoming bigger and bigger as it was going in their direction. Only then he realized that something was wrong. The darkness wasn't caused by the nightfall but by the silhouette of something undulating through the clouds.

It was fast and it was getting closer and closer.

At some point, a deafening roar ran through the peaceful countryside. It was coming from the figure in the sky.

A black winged body dove from the clouds diagonally, speeding toward the flock of sheep outside the mansion wall.

It was 7-8 meters long and had big black scaled wings, actually the scales were covering all of his body.

It dove at such a high speed that Jian Nantian could not make out the time difference between its exit from the clouds and its nearing to the terrain where the flock was.