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Volume 1, pawnshop number [number missing]
I won't be time-traveling in the first chapter, you guys go ahead.
I'm so unlucky, really.
Others travel through history to become powerful rulers or kings, or at the very least, return to the Ming Dynasty to become a prince. But I'm the one who gets transported back in time. Yesterday, Liu Laoliu brought back this guy who turns out to be Jing Ke!
That's him, the guy who wanted to hold a concert before attempting to assassinate Qin Shi Huang.
The story needs to be told from the beginning.
That day, I was walking along, not bothering anyone, when as I passed the park's outer wall, a dirty old man waved his filthy, postmodern hand at me: "Little friend, you've got some fortune to tell today..."
As the saying goes, "boredom breeds trouble," and I, a completely idle person, squatted down in front of the old man, coughing and spitting, thinking that since I had nothing better to do, I might as well. The main reason I wasn't afraid he would cheat me was that I only had 5 yuan in my pocket.
I said with a grin, "Then you should first calculate my surname, the year I was born, and what I do. If you get it right, I'll give you the money."
The old charlatan shook his head with feigned authority: "Those are all tricks of charlatans, but I am a deity—and I ask you: do you want to be a deity too?"
What a brilliant opening! You wouldn't want to leave either, would you?
Anyway, I couldn't bear to leave. I guess this old man might write a whole book: "I see you have extraordinary talent and are a peerless master, one in a million... The task of maintaining world peace will be entrusted to you from now on."
But a master is a master. He said something amazing to me that made me worship him wholeheartedly, which led to a series of bad luck later on.
He told me, "The Baisha cigarettes you're smoking are fake!"
Upon hearing this, my immediate feeling was just like what a versatile reader on Qidian described: I felt like some kind of flower had somehow managed to do this or that to me...
I usually buy my cigarettes from the little tobacco shop across from my house, but today when I went out, I realized I was out of cigarettes. Turns out, the pack I bought was completely fake! No wonder people say that for a man, buying a pack of fake cigarettes is second only to discovering his wife isn't a virgin on his wedding night.
0.01 seconds after the old man said that, I knew I was going to lose the five yuan in my pocket.
What happened next can only be described as a complete turn of events.
"You could have become an immortal, but just before the Department of Immortal Affairs (on par with the Department of Personnel) was about to approve your application, you fell in love with a female demon. This matter itself was not a big deal, but it brought immeasurable public pressure to the immortal realm and a long-standing and difficult problem: what kind of moral standard should be used to judge someone who is about to become an immortal but has not yet done so?"
To be honest, my first instinct was that a Peking University professor was disguised as a charlatan conducting research on mental health. I even secretly looked around but didn't find anything that looked like a hidden camera.
"The Jade Emperor was very angry, and the consequences were severe. He originally intended to strike you with nine bolts of lightning, but since that day happened to be the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, he changed it to a single bolt of lightning at the urging of the Seventh Princess..."
I interrupted and asked, "What's the difference between being struck by lightning nine times and being struck by lightning once?"
"There's no difference, you're dead anyway."
I:"……"
"Later, the celestial realm reached a conclusion regarding your issue: that you should not be punished for falling in love with a fairy before you became an immortal."
I:"……"
"So they decided to retroactively register you. Now you have two choices: First, spend your life doing something for them, and after that, they'll naturally put you (this word makes me very uncomfortable) on the altar to become a god."
I was curious, so I asked, "What about the second option?"
"The second option was proposed by the Queen Mother of the West. This woman meant: Since you like that little demon, let's test you for three lifetimes. If you can be together in every lifetime, then you can become immortals together."
I straightened up and said, "The story is wonderful, but I haven't eaten yet. Bye-bye!"
However, this old charlatan grabbed me and asked, "What do I have to do for
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