Essence "The Forbidden Tome" Chapter One (Part 1) Resurrection?

"If only there were a next life. In the next life, I definitely won't put my hopes on others, I definitely won't..."\ Looking at the body lying in the black coffin, dressed in a slightly oversized black suit, Qian silently spoke to himself with a mix of complicated emotions, because that body was himself.\ In this hall that didn't seem at all like the kind of mourning hall an orphan like Qian should have, seeing that the people who had come to pay their respects did not show even a trace of pity or sorrow, he suddenly felt like laughing, laughing at himself for being such a complete fool.\ In the entire mourning hall, apart from two people whom Qian barely knew, everyone else was a stranger.\ One of them was the solemn-looking middle-aged man, around forty, standing beside the family seating area of the hall — his long-awaited biological father from the orphanage, chairman of a well-established listed company in Beijing, owner of tens of billions in assets, ranked among the top fifty of Forbes China wealth list.\ But absurdly, if not for certain public pressures, this renowned man probably would never have come to the orphanage to seek out Qian, the child conceived during his youthful rural assignment.\ The other person was the elegant and wealthy chairman's wife, Qian's stepmother. Unfortunately, Qian had not even had the chance to enjoy the life of a wealthy young man, not even for an hour, before a car accident took his life — fate was truly cruel. On that day, he had just turned eighteen, while his biological mother had also died in childbirth at eighteen.\ The car accident was not an accident but a meticulously planned act, and naturally, the mastermind behind it was that glamorous woman. Undeniably, everything she did was for the handsome young man constantly yawning beside her — her biological son. She would never allow her husband's tens of billions in assets to be shared, even by a single cent, with Qian, the suddenly appeared illegitimate son.\ Taking one last look at the so-called stepmother and brother, Qian, floating in midair above the mourning hall, sighed softly, feeling somewhat unwilling. How he longed to be like the vengeful ghosts in movies to seek revenge, only to find in the end that it was all nonexistent.\ The revenge could not be carried out, his life could not be reclaimed, and his hatred had no place to express. Becoming a lone soul, all Qian could do was float aimlessly and hope for a next life, all the while constantly reminding himself in his heart that if there were a next life, he would definitely not put his hopes on others.If it weren't for having spent more than ten years hoping that his biological father would come to find him and staying in the orphanage all that time, he wouldn't have ended up losing his life in the car accident orchestrated by that woman. If he hadn't placed his hope on a biological father who had no feelings for him at all, how would he have fallen to the state he is in today?

A beam of light suddenly poured down from the ceiling of the mourning hall, and Shan realized that he was floating up like a balloon, rising higher and higher, and soon entering a pitch-black space where he could see nothing and feel nothing. At the same time, he heard intermittent cries, and those cries drew him swiftly in one direction...

—Chapter One (Part 1) End