Tunnel Rat - Day 1: Nothing Changes, Everything Changes

In the Celestial Empire, a land ruled by Immortals and stalked by Spirits and Beasts, a young girl from the slums of an unimportant city is found to have the Talent. In the great Sect of Argent Peak, she will take her first unsteady steps upon the way.

She, has always refused to let go of her childhood pride.Initially, he forced her into submission in the harshest way possible, which made her despise him to the bone.At twenty, she abandoned her husband, followed a man she thought was worthy of her, only to end up being violently mistreated.Yet, it was he who raised her from the rain when she was at her most helpless moment.Fate brought her back to her eighteenth year, for a do-over. She emerged from her cocoon, when hate was replaced by regret, she shed her thorny exterior, but does she still have the right to pursue happiness?But why does he always remind her in the coldest voice, “He Zhilan, I don't want the He Family to raise an ungrateful wretch.”Or menacingly warn her, “He Zhilan, don't force me to take away your freedom!”

Thea Lynch was seventeen when she injured her ear and temporarily lost her speech. Her parents passed away in a car accident, leaving her and her brother to rely on each other. Later, her brother was transferred for work and left, and she was taken to live at her grandmother's house in Westmere. During this period, her brother entrusted friends to check on her, and the one who visited most frequently was the “Third Brother”—Ian Preston, who was five years older than her.Coronet is over a hundred kilometers away from Westmere, yet he insisted on accompanying her to see doctors, patiently teaching her how to speak, and even appearing at her school gate every evening. He saved all of his gentle caring for her, but everything stopped abruptly before she could muster the courage to confess. Her secret crush was unsuccessful, and a sudden change at home caused her to leave, cutting off all contact with him.When they met again, it was seven years later when she returned home for a matchmaking date and was cornered by him in the restaurant corridor, “That guy downstairs, is he your date? How come after spending several years abroad, your taste has gotten so much worse? With better options around, how can you choose him?”“Who is the better option?” she instinctively asked.Ian Preston: “Me.”[Childhood sweethearts, getting back together, mutual unrequited love]

Yi Chen never asked to transmigrate into a cultivation world, but he still ended up here. However, the good part was that he was granted a system which came with an Innate ability.The ability to check the status of others!Even though it was only Level 1 for now, he had decided to make the best use of it by collecting enough money and leaving the town to find where the cultivators were and join a sect… until a certain young lady decided to choose him on that particular day.'Wait, why did Miss Yu choose me? I’m not even handsome!'Glancing at her status, he gawked.‘What?! She's going to be the phoenix empress...? Great god...I can't even run away then,'Accepting his fate, Yi Chen got married.What he didn't know was that this marriage would become the spark that would make him go on a journey where he would go through countless crises, jump several realms, fight numerous cultivators, slay innumerable beasts and explore all corners of this world of cultivation.Follow Yi Chen as he stumbles, complains, and somehow survives everything this cultivation world throws at him._________“One day, even you might get transmigrated here, like me. So read this novel carefully… it might just save your life!” – Yi Chen__________