My Name was Seo Jin, 32 years old before I had an accident.

A stupid accident to be honest.

I was an actor, not the most famous one but well; one of the famous actors in the country or even worldwide.

I had a great day, two weeks after I finished shooting my drama and the second episode got a high rating.

Went home while eating bread after a shot for a local magazine, I even gave a free sign for fans who recognized me in the city while I strolled around.

Maybe it was a mistake, visiting a random book store because the front looked so odd and pretty.

"You had a good eye, son," the old man who sat behind the counter gave a thin smile, I bow slightly after flashing a thin smile.

I didn't use my mask, taking off my baseball cap, "the colour is so pretty," I said while caressing a medium figure of a crimson bird.

They crafted the statue so professionally, the bird made of stone engraved by crafty hand, "the red colour is so bold, various shades of red."

The old man let out a light chuckle, "do you know what kind of bird is that?"

I stared at the feather, I wondered how soft the real one could be and how majestic this bird if it was real.

"Nope," I answered easily, "though I believe it would extinct because the human would hunt them down for its beauty."

The old man approached me, patting my back, "believe me, son," he replied, "no one would have the gut to hunt it down."

I didn't talk about it any longer, feeling boredom attacked fast.

I was about to leave the store when the old man approached me again, "wait, son," the old man waved his hand.

As a good young man, I walked back to him who stood behind the counter.

"Here," he said, handing me a piece of paper, similar to an amulet I once saw in a shaman's where my mother went to ask for a piece of advice.

"Sorry?" I raised my eyebrow, "I don't–"

The old man shook his head politely, "it's free, consider this as a good luck charm."

I nodded, feeling a little happy for the extra merchandise from a random old man like a child getting free candy.

"Thank you!" I said with a big grin before leaving the store.

The very next day, with the same denim jacket I wore yesterday.

The amulet still inside my inner pocket.

I died.

A maniac fan hit me with her car because she failed to get a ticket to my fan-meeting.

I recalled how sunny that day after I wave the last goodbye from the stage and getting off.

My manager was away to buy me an ice Americano while my bodyguard was standing surrounding me.

I heard a loud honking, a scream, and people suddenly ran away.

I remembered one of my friend, one of the staff, she pulled me away but then I saw one of my fan who brought her child to the fan meeting shrieked.

Her child standing in the empty area, where the car drove fast as if it didn't have any brake.

My feet moved by itself, my memories were blurry, the ground; hissing; people's screaming my names.

"Famous actor Min Seo Jin died for saving one of the fan's child, he died because one of fan tried to hit him by a car-"

It wasn't so bad, I thought, dying with a good memory like this one.

Dying as a hero.

Saving someone's life.

At my last breath, the hospital's ceiling was blinding as the nurse pushed my bed to the operating room.

I felt so many of my blood dripped down, pouring and oozing like a river.

I huffed, my body was all sore and hurting, I looked to my left and saw my manager cried as he kept saying hang in there.

Brother, I hope you would remember this one old friend who often disturbs you and nag you to drink together.

I had a good life.

Living with my passion for acting and having so many kind fans, aside from that one psycho of course.

Suddenly a question crossed my mind, I hadn't learned that bird name.

The one with bold colour, shades of red and looking so majestic and beautiful.

I wonder what kind of bird it was.

It was so mesmerizing, once again my mind dozed off and I felt numb.

Captivated, I wanted to feel the softness of its feathers against my hands.

"Seo Joon, are you okay?" Hwan sobbed beside my bed, I looked to my younger twin who held my hand tightly.

It hurt, so much.

My head was a mess as I watched my mother, Feng Yi came to the bedroom with a tray and a steaming bowl full of porridge.

My eyes then averting to my father, tall and broad, a worried face looked down to me who laid almost lifeless on the bed.

"I'm– I'm sowwwyyyyy,' Hwan cried louder because I didn't answer.

I immediately covered up my ears because his cries made my head spun harder, my vision got blurry and I saw my mother patted Hwan's back and carried him out from my bedroom.

I believed he got a scolding from my parents after what he did to me.

We were playing, as usual, after our lesson with Elder Wu. We played and explored our father's office and Hwan found a weird log, almost as tall as us.

We laughed and played pretend as if we were fighting with the imaginary enemy, but then Hwan accidentally bumped into the log and it fell from its place.

Right above me and that shit hit me pretty hard on my head.

I passed out after.

"Seo Joon-ah," I opened my eyes slowly, I found myself inside a warm embrace of my father.

Of Seo Joon's father, the older man's face scrunched as if he could also feel my pain.

His first son's pain, "father," I said with a small tone, the older man listened carefully, "don't, don't scold Hwan, it's not his fault entirely."

Father's mouth turned into a thin smile, "I didn't," he patted my back, the headache became better as he used his healing power on me, "but you know your mother scolded Hwan badly."

I laughed a little, my mother was indeed a scary woman while my father was far calmer than her.

My mom was a human who protected by wind fae while my father was a human who protected by forest spirit, both of me and Hwan got the power from those spirits who protect my family under them.

We lived in a small town near the south lake, a calm village in the border of the White Tiger's territory and the capital's great wall.

I was a normal human once, reborn in a whole new world where magic exists.

I needed time to process everything, I nuzzled my father's strong chest.

When my head became better, I ate the porridge my mother made for me with the help of my gentle father.

My head a mixed between a child named Seo Joon and an adult named Seo Jin, my past self.

When my father left me alone to rest again, I slowly got out of my bed. Walking slowly to the big window and sat on the window sill, quiet wide for me to sit.

Usually, Hwan and I would sit here to watch the birds chirping on the trees, now I sat here to arrange my mind.

My name was Min Seo Jin back then, 32 years old, an actor in my country.

Now my name is Seo Joon, firstborn of Rua and Feng Yi, next autumn I would be eight years old. I had a twin brother named Hwan.

The people in here was a little different from my previous world. The world, the new one I knew started with this village.

The village I lived in was in the middle of the forest, the border between the Great White Tiger's territory and the Capital's territory.

The capital would start from the Great Wall, I never been there, while the White Tiger's territory famous known for the beautiful scenery of mountains' lakes and hills.

I never see the White Tiger either, he was familiar to some kind of great gods in here.

Gods exist in here and rather than the same concept of gods who existence was unknown; only live with people's belief, in here they were more like guardians who control and protect people like my family.

They were real but far beyond reach for a commoner like me.

So maybe rather than gods, they were more like … kings? No? I didn't know how to explain it either.

The setting in this world wasn't as modern as my previous world, they didn't have any gadgets to help them but instead, they had their style of modern.

They had magic.

Cultivations.

Level of someone's magic would become higher if they practice, similar to a game.

I looked at my hand, concentrating and I could see a bundle of wind swirling on my palm.

My family's magic was wind and healing magic, I remembered my father could control plants too at some point.

I couldn't help but sigh, my memories of Seo Jin didn't help much aside from giving me a more matured mind.

Now with my memories, I couldn't help but amazed by the nature of this world. Something that seemed so normal before now seemed so enchanting and extraordinary to my eyes.

I believed they had something like kingdom setting in here too, Elder Wu, my teacher in the village's small school taught me this one week ago.

Unfortunately, I wasn't one of the good students who took notes of everything he said, I was more into the average child who sometimes dozed off when the water spirit taught us.

In here, mystical creatures and human lived together too.

Magic was common in here but people who couldn't do magic also common, they considered people who had magic naturally without the help of spirits to be blessed.

People tried to form contracts with spirits to get higher and more powerful magic.

My mother told us her family originally didn't have magic until my great grandfather performed a contract with a kind wind spirit.

While my father's family already a natural-born one but they were under forest's spirit protection from generation to generation.

I wonder if this world also have television and I could be an actor again.

The concept wasn't so different, I smiled as I made a plan to be an actor in this world too.

I didn't know what kind of surprised this world would give me again.

If you think about it once again.

This world was similar to a story I once read online.

Not really but a little same, there were guardians in here.

The Capital in the centre was ruled by Jade Emperor, they said the army rode Qilin; the name rang a bell since it was a famous creature from Chinese folktales.

The East ruled by the Azure Dragon, where dragon clan originally lived.

The South by the Great Phoenix, where the bird clan lived.

The West protected by the White Tiger, near my place.

While the North had the Black Turtle as their protector.

The world was wider than my explanation but they were one of the famous ones.

They were so many clans of mystical creatures and spirits, though I couldn't believe human was now one of them and lived together.

Elder Wu was happy when I asked about this in my break time, asking me if I was interested in going to the capital and maybe work for the government.

The government here was the same as in my previous world, Elder Wu said Jade Emperor wasn't the King who took care of the empire's business.

I was confused, so we the system was the same as my old world but only we lived together with spirits; mystical beasts.

It wasn't gods but we called them guardians, the strongest, the rulers. Controlling territory but still respecting the government's rules created by the Jade Emperor directly, bring benefits for everyone.

Jade Emperor was like the last boss, all guardians listened to him. He was also the one who brought peace between us.

We human was the kings who worked for them and since they lived so long, they were considered to be gods; immortals.

So human was larger in number but weaker so instead of starting a war like millenniums ago, we asked for protection and work for those immortals who had stronger power of magic.

Based on history, the human was an outsider in here.

The world was originally owned by immortals but then our ancestor came and lived in here.

Typical of human, I thought as I listened.

No wonder why even though we lived together, there was still a transparent wall between human and other creatures.

Though there were some of the hybrid, child of human and spirit in the school.

"Seo Joon," elder Wu called my name, his white bread was making my hand itched to pull it down since there were only several inches before it reaches the ground.

"Yes, teacher?" I replied, closing my small notebook and putting my pencil inside it.

The old man gave a thin smile, making me remember the old man in my previous life of the strange book store.

My teacher shook his head, "don't forget to do the work from Miss Yue or you will get a heavy scolding from her," I grinned and nodded before leaving the classroom for my next class.

The school for a young kid like me was almost the same in the previous world, manner; singing; learning difficult words and history.

I learned so many things, gaping like a fish as words creeping to my head.

The more I listened the more I believed this was a fantasy world in the books I often read on my holiday as an actor.

Could you believe that the human who invaded this place ever tried to fight a great dragon and thought they could win?

Idiots.

Fortunately, there were intellectuals too that tried and succeeded to make a peace and finally, we could live in harmony.

To put it simply, immortals were nobles and royals in here, some human also considered to be them but not much.

I could guess the lucky human were love-child of immortals with the human.

A low spirit lived with humans, like one of my friend Yang Yang

I had my lunch together with Hwan and Yang Yang after school ended, it was exactly six days after I regained my memories.

My life was quite simple and aside from my ridiculous dream as an actor, I also thought becoming a healer like my father since my healing magic was good.

I also interested in herbs, medicine from plants or animal.

Right! Animals, they were the same as the other world but they had extra like unicorns.

Or even Pegasus, but they were rare and expensive.

There even old Pegasus who could take a human form, they only let human who had a contract with them to ride them in their horse's form.

"Yang Yang, what kind of spirit are you?" I asked my friend, blinked and hummed while thinking.

Luckily this kind of question didn't consider to be rude, to some people, like how you asked what your nationality was.

"I think my father is a fire spirit, but because our magic is a little dangerous my mother only let me lit a fire like this," Yang Yang pointed out his forefinger and lit a small fire like a lighter.

I smiled and clapped my hand, "cool!" Hwan added.

Yang Yang let out a shy laughed, munching his ham-sandwiches.

I leaned back and stared at the bright sky, "this world is extraordinary," I mumbled.

Hwan and Yang Yang ended up playing hide and seek while I used a typical excuse, saying my head hurt a little to make them leave me alone.

In here I didn't need to work my *** off to get money, we did need money but not urgent. More peaceful and calm, money from my father's medicine store was enough for us.

I closed my eyes and let out a tired yawn.

Yeah, I would live my life peacefully this time.

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"The oracle," one of the servants bowed when the head priest waved his hand.

The white-haired man looked to the bright sky, "Is that so," he mumbled.

It had been one thousand years since the Jade Emperor sent an oracle to him, been hundreds of years since the famous guardians visit their place.

The priest shed a tear, "finally we get another chance to meet them again; our Lords, we're so lucky to have this chance in our generations."

It had been decided, nature had spoken to the Jade Emperor and the Great One sent the message from the to us all.

Years after the last wife of the Great Phoenix, finally nature decided to give the one of the high god a couple.

"We went to the border between Lord Byakko's territory and Lord Chaska's territory to pick up Lord Huo Hai's fiancé."