After dying in a car crash, brilliant but detached surgeon Arin Vale awakens in another world. in the body of a young orphan named Ye Lan, days before a ceremony that decides who may cultivate power and who will be discarded.
Arin, guided by logic instead of faith, begins to dissect this world of qi and destiny with a polymath's mind, determined to master its laws the same way he once mastered life and death.