Chapter One Story Will

  Yongzhou Port is located on the east side of Qingguo, although it is adjacent to the sea, due to the recent construction of several ports in the south, the predicted western sea route has already been connected, so the country's trade center has shifted to the south. This port gradually showed signs of decline, and the once bustling port had become quiet a few years ago.

  Seagulls fly freely, no longer harassed by those detestable sailors.

  The residents who originally lived in the port of Qiongzhou did not feel that their lives had changed much, although their income had decreased somewhat. However, the emperor had exempted this place from several years of tax collection, so life was still passable, and this seaport was beautiful, now it has become quiet, naturally more suitable for people to live in.

  So occasionally some big shots will also choose to build their villas here.

  However, due to the distance from Kyoto being too far, there were not many officials who actually stayed behind. If one had to count, it would probably be the old lady in that mansion on the west side of the castle.

  It is said that the old lady is the mother of Viscount Senan in Beijing, and she chose to come here for retirement. The residents of the city all know that Viscount Senan seems to be favored by the Emperor, and has not been sent out according to the law, but instead stays in the Ministry of Finance in Beijing to do things, so they all showed enough courtesy and reverence to that courtyard.

  But kids don't understand these things.

  On this day the wind and sun were fine, the adults sat in the tavern enjoying the salty flavor and damp air brought by the sea breeze, savoring the salted plums and the liquor in their cups.

  There was also a group of teenagers in their teens surrounding the back door stone steps of the Viscount South's mansion in Chengxi, densely packed, and it was unclear what they were doing.

  Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be a very interesting scene. It was found that these young men were all listening to a child of only four or five years old talking.

  The young boy grew up to be very handsome, with eyebrows like a painting, bright and clear eyes, but his voice still had a childish tone, yet the way he spoke was old-fashioned and stern.

  He just sighed and with a small wave of his arm said, "So the story goes that Chumen walked to the wall, found a ladder there, so he climbed up step by step, found the door, and pushed it open..."

  "What's next?"

  Then? Then... it's only natural to return to the human world. The young boy pouted, seemingly very annoyed that the bigger boys next to him would ask such a stupid question.

  "Really? Won't you go get that thing... Hani..."

  "Hani is dead." Another young man took over.

  "Right, won't Truman go and give that Hani a good beating to vent his anger? Being locked up for so many years just like this."

  The little boy shrugged: "Nope."

  "Hmph! Not as good, Master Fan Xian. Today's story isn't as interesting as the ones from the past few days."

  "What kind of music do you like listening to?"

  "A Distant Journey."

  "The Legend of Wind and Elegance."

  "Hiss!" shouted Little Fan Xian at the bigger kids around him, flipping them off with his middle finger. "Fighting and killing is unhealthy, digging for treasure everywhere is not environmentally friendly!"

  "Suddenly a very angry voice came from the courtyard: 'Young master! Where have you gone again?'"

  The children who surrounded him, learning from his example, also gave a thumbs up, only because there were more people, so it looked much more magnificent. They shouted in unison: "Hiss!" and then dispersed with a smile.

  The little boy called Fan Xian stood up from the stone steps, patted the dust off his buttocks, turned around and ran into the yard. Just before closing the door, those sharp and spirited eyes glanced at the young blind owner of the grocery store across the street, and a complex emotion that didn't match his age appeared on his face, then he gently closed the wooden door.

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  This is the fourth year that Fan Shen has come to this world. In these years, he finally understood that he was not dreaming, and he really came to an unknown world. This world seems to be the same as the one in his memory, but it also seems to have many differences.

  By eavesdropping on the conversations of the servants in the Earl's estate, he finally understood his own identity, and it turned out that he was the illegitimate child of the Kyoto Shunan Earl.

  Just like in a typical aristocratic drama, the identity of an illegitimate child is easily targeted by the malicious hands of relatives such as great aunts and grandmothers. And it seems that my cheap old man only has me as his son, so to continue the bloodline of the earl, I was sent to Zhanzhou Port, which is very far from Kyoto.

  Over the years, he gradually got used to his identity. Although it is said that an adult's soul is trapped in a child's body, both physically and mentally, they have to endure completely different experiences. If it were a normal person, they would probably go crazy - but fortunately, Fan Shen was a patient with severe myasthenia gravis in his previous life, and had been bedridden for many years. Now he is just somewhat inconvenient in movement, which is nothing compared to the miserable situation of his previous life. So now that he inhabits this child's body, he doesn't feel too much discomfort.

  The most unsuitable thing is actually his current name. When he was one year old, the Earl of Kyoto sent a letter and named him Fan Xian, with the courtesy name Anzhi.

  This name is no good, it sounds like a curse from his hometown - "guilty suspect".

  But his appearance was just a little kid, so it's impossible to express opposition in words.

  In his previous life in the hospital, he could still move his head at first, so he often asked that lovely little nurse to buy him some pirated DVDs and books to watch.

  Living in the earl's residence for a long time, although the old lady was cold on the outside and warm on the inside, she loved him deeply, and the maids and servants in the residence did not look at him differently because of his illegitimate status, but the pain of having no one to communicate with still made him somewhat uncomfortable.

  Could I really go with Ya Huan and tell her that I'm a person from another world? Could I really tell the teacher that I can actually recognize all the characters in this book?

  So he often sneaked out of the earl's mansion through a side door and played with the common children on the street, mostly telling them stories about the movies in his world.

  It seems he wanted to remind himself of something, reminding himself that he didn't belong in this world, his own world had movies and the internet, had YY.

  Until today, I don't know why, he told the story of The Truman Show. The plot of this movie is already a bit dull, and without Jim Carrey playing cute, he should be very clear that these teenagers from Danzhou Port would not like it at all.

  But he still spoke.

  Because deep down in his heart, there was always a sense of absurdity. He was clearly supposed to be dead, so why did he suddenly reincarnate into this body? He couldn't help but think of that movie... Maybe the people and streets before him, the seagulls flying overhead, were all arranged by someone?

  Just like Truman.

  Truman finally discovered the falsity of his world and resolutely sailed away to find an exit.

  But Fan Sheng, no, it should be Fan Xian... Knowing that he is not Truman, this world indeed truly exists and is not a large film studio.

  So he found himself telling stories every day to remind himself that he was a person from another world, which in itself is a very absurd behavior.