UWP - Chapter 1 - Now That's What I Call a “Senior”

Bai Zhi had always fancied himself a genius.

He had been a creative problem-solver from his boyhood, excelling at logical reasoning and making things happen.

When his peers, still in their diapers, were running around at play, he could be found solemnly sitting on the front steps with his head tilted heavenward, contemplating the mysteries of the universe and the future.

When the other kids were playing in the mud, molding clay dolls or making paper airplanes, he had constructed, out of some wood and various tools, a makeshift AK-47 of his own.

While other children waxed poetic about being whisked away to far-off lands, he simply up and left on a trip without a word of notice.

One time in chemistry lab class, completely unprompted, Bai Zhi concocted something that nearly blew up the whole class and sent the teacher to hospital for two whole weeks. Said teacher would go on to proclaim that once Bai Zhi graduated, the next piece of news they heard about him would be delivered, if not by the paper, then by television.

Everyone knew that the papers were wont to cover notorious scandals, while the television extolled the virtues of national heroes.

And in the summer holidays, after the college entrance exams, Bai Zhi was fiddling with dangerous chemicals all alone at home when he accidentally triggered an explosion and killed himself. The sensational story of how a top high-school graduate blew himself up at home would itself blow up nationwide, getting featured both on television and in the papers.

...Thus, the words of Bai Zhi's long-suffering chemistry teacher turned out to be a prophecy.

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When Bai Zhi opened his eyes, he found himself transmigrated into the body of his namesake in another world, who, as it happened, had just died suddenly.

He found a nearby mirror and scrutinized his reflection for a good while, then nodded to himself. "Hmm... bit more handsome than I used to be."

This world and the world Bai Zhi had come from shared similar histories and environments, but differed slightly in some details. The f

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Underworld Player Chapter 1 - Now That's What I Call a “Senior”

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