APÉIRON: Against The Heavens

Xue Ying hated protagonists who were never truly free. In every story he read, power came with chains. Family. Lovers. Morality. They called it defiance, but to him it always looked like submission. In the darkness after his death, he was offered a choice: disappear forever… or be reborn and live the life he always dreamed of. A life of power. Of freedom. Xue Ying accepted. But reincarnation did not make him a chosen one. He awakened as a weak, disposable character in a cultivation world that did not care about dreams. No destiny. No protection. Only a ruthless system that rewarded one thing above all else: Influence.