Because of the intense pain, his face was flushed red, veins bulging on his forehead, his features twisted, making him look extremely ferocious and terrifying—almost like a vengeful ghost that had escaped from hell!

This sudden change, along with Brian Carter’s miserable screams, startled Linda Bennett, who had been crying so hard she could barely catch her breath. She was so frightened that she forgot to cry, forgot to scream, and just stood there in a daze.

Staring blankly at Brian Carter, who didn’t look like a man crazed by lust but more like someone who had come back from the dead, Linda Bennett finally let out a shrill scream after a long pause: “Ah! A ghost! A ghost! G-g-g-ghost!”

Her scream was sharp and lingering, mournful, and even had a certain rhythm to it.

But after screaming for a while, no one paid her any attention, and the attendant auntie outside the bathhouse was nowhere to be found.

Linda Bennett felt it was pointless and finally shut her mouth, but looking at the ferocious, seemingly deranged Brian Carter, she couldn’t help but tremble all over!

What on earth is going on here?

He was clearly dead, so how is he alive again?

Could it really be the legendary case of coming back from the dead?

Thinking of this possibility, Linda Bennett was even more terrified and kept retreating, and with her panicked, stumbling steps, the two peaks on her chest shook violently, waves surging, dazzling the eyes and sparking the imagination.

“Uh?” Seeing this scene, the splitting headache Brian Carter had suddenly felt a rush of blood from below to above. Maybe his blood-deprived brain was suddenly injected with fresh blood, but he actually felt his head no longer hurt, his vision cleared, his spirits lifted, and even a certain part of his body became aroused, as if even getting his head chopped off again wouldn’t be a problem.

Could a woman’s body really have such miraculous healing effects?

Just looking at it could cure a migraine?

Damn, if he’d known that vixen Yun Fei was going to use her beauty as a trap, he would have just played dumb and gone along with it!

That woman was already in her thirties, but pampered and well-maintained, she was still in pretty good shape. Even if she was secondhand, doesn’t that mean she’s more experienced?

What a pity! If only time could turn back...

Brian Carter shook his head and cursed inwardly, Damn it, even if I could go back, I wouldn’t do it. That flabby body of hers is just too much!

I’m a genuine virgin, why would I want someone else’s castoffs? Besides, I’m a top scholar in both civil and military exams—how could I stoop to such lowly, sneaky deeds?

Brian Carter pushed aside all the wild thoughts in his head and focused his gaze on the woman in front of him. Not looking was fine, but looking again made his blood boil once more.

The campus belle of the police academy—how could an ordinary girl compare? Linda Bennett not only had an angelic face, but her figure was devilishly good: curvy in all the right places, slender and voluptuous, especially those perky, round, full, and high breasts...

Any man who saw this would have a reaction.

Although the real Brian Carter was timid and incompetent, the one who had crossed over was a real man, so at this moment, he was already standing tall and proud!

After a while, Brian Carter finally managed to control his emotions and reactions, and weakly asked, “Excuse me, miss, where is this place?”

“Huh?” Linda Bennett was so scared she was out of her mind, completely forgetting she was stark naked. After a long moment, she blankly asked, “Are you a human or a ghost?”

She had hit the nail on the head. Even now, he wasn’t sure if he was a human, a ghost, a demon, a monster, or a god.

Brian Carter muttered, “Logically speaking, I really am dead, so why am I still alive and well now?”

His words seemed to be answering Linda Bennett, but also talking to himself.

Actually, the real reason... well, it’s really complicated.

Some people are alive, but they’re actually dead. Some people are dead, but they’re still alive.

The real Brian Carter had already died heroically under Linda Bennett’s huanghuali wood basin. The one alive now was a newly appointed top scholar in both civil and military exams who had died unjustly at the hands of the Tang emperor. Maybe his resentment was too strong, so at the moment of Brian Carter’s death, time and space twisted, and their souls swapped...

It’s complicated, really complicated! Even if you asked Yuanfang, he probably couldn’t answer!

But no matter how complicated the reason, the result is just one: the current Brian Carter is no longer the original Brian Carter!

Chapter 002: Fierce Battle

The affairs of the world are just this strange.

Some questions have no answers, and some mysteries can never be solved.

But Brian Carter’s current doubts had already been partially answered by the girl: this place was neither heaven nor hell, but still in the human world. Yet, under heaven, all lands belong to the emperor; to the borders of the land, all are his subjects. If this was still the Tang Dynasty, there’s no reason he wouldn’t recognize it!

Although Brian Carter’s previous self was a top scholar in both civil and military exams, well-read and familiar with the Five Classics, looking at the strange and unfamiliar surroundings, he still couldn’t figure out where he was.