Prologue: A new lease of life

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My name is Kim Tae-hyun, and maybe I should say that I am called Kim Tae-hyun in this life. Why?

Because I am a dead person, my name was Kim Hyun before I came to this world, and I was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2015 when I was 25 years old. I know it doesn't take much of a burden off my parents, but I guess it's the only thing I can do for them.

As the treatment progressed, the family's savings were spent, and the foreign debt became more and more owed. But then my illness became more and more severe, and I spent less and less time awake, and when I was sober, all I saw was the aging faces of my parents and the smiles that were meant to comfort me.

My brother had to wear many hats when he was in college because of my illness, and it was clear from his face that he didn't have much time off every day.

Although my mom and dad and my brother never said they were tired in front of me, they made me feel unbearable!

When I came to my senses again, I decided one thing, I was leaving, I was leaving this world with my parents, I couldn't see my brother get married and have children, I wanted to leave this world, so that my parents would no longer let me drag me like this, so that my brother would not have to live for me at this best age, so that he could also have time to realize his ideals and ambitions, and live the life he wanted.

When I woke up again, I had to take care of my mom on the pretext that I had to eat the food she had cooked. When I saw my mom walk out, I picked up the paper and pen that I had placed on the table.

I knew that whatever I wrote next would not ease the pain of losing my parents, but I couldn't help but leave something for them.

Looking out the window at the sun, I wanted to go out for a walk, and I also wanted to be able to be out there in the last moment of my life. I spent time in the midst of people coming and going, but I still resisted my somewhat willful desire, because I didn't want my mother to come back and worry about looking for me outside, although I really wanted to see the world that I had been saving for 25 years, this world with my parents, my brother and my father.

When I finished the last word, I knew it was time for me to go, and I picked up the knife on the table and slashed it across my wrist with all my might.

My consciousness was getting more and more blurry, and I had experienced this many times, every time I was unconscious, but this time it was different that I would never wake up again.

A breeze blew through the curtains out of the room, blowing the letter from the bedside to the ground, and a drop of blood dripped at the end of the letter, through the bright red blood we could see that it was written, "Don't worry that I will live happily in another world, please live happily, I love you." ”――

When I opened my eyes again, my first thought was that there really was a world when I died.

Before I could think about anything, I saw a face come over, and when I saw a face come over, I instinctively wanted to push this face away with my hand, but when I reached over I was stunned, what was going on?!

I was barely able to make a pair of baby hands, but before I could think of anything I couldn't resist a sleepiness, and then I fell asleep.

It was evening, and it was a quiet little village, with a faint smoke rising from every house, and the afterglow of the sun shining on the whole village.

On the path outside the village, there was a little boy about 10 years old who was carrying a schoolbag and facing the sun, walking towards the village, followed by a little girl of about 5.6 years old.

That little boy is Kim Hyun, now called Kim Tae-hyun, born in 1985 in a small village in Cheongwon County, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea, his parents are farmers, and there is only one son in the family. Kim Tae-hyun has been in this world for 10 years, and because he was born 5 years earlier than his previous life and because he is still young, he can't rely on the advantages of the reborn to make money to improve his family's life.

Through the observation of the past ten years, Kim Tae-hyun knows that this world is still the same as in the previous life, the outbreak of World War I and World War II, after the war South Korea developed towards peace, under the leadership of Park Chung-hee, South Korea entered a stage of rapid development, creating the "Han River Miracle", and the current South Korea has successfully joined the "Asian Tigers" as in the previous life. may be different from the previous life, that is, there is one more Kim Tae-hyun, and one less Kim Hyun.

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