The Immortal Rogue

01: The Past, The Present, The Future?

In the Ox town of the Coral island, in a rundown hut which could collapse at any given moment the wind came, was built right beside a luxurious manor.
    In the hut a boy no older than 9, could be seen lying on a straw mat, he looked no different than the boys living on the street,
his body looked roughed up in many areas around his body describing his living conditions, his clothes looked no different than rags and his face was tanned and covered with dirt but if one looked at his eyes you would see wisdom far beyond his other peers and shrewdness that would make old people of many families to shame.
The kid's name was Knave, he was an orphan who was brought up in the orphanage of the Ox town. Many people would come to the orphanage to pick up kids for adoption or for the sake of raising them to be servants, if the kids are not adopted by the time they were 14 they would be kicked out and would have to fend for themselves.
He still thought of the day one month ago when his life changed. He still recalls, how he had died in his past world by being stabbed in the heart by his lover. In his world he was a herbal doctor or to be fare enough a criminal doctor, he used to use his expertise to work with the criminals so that he could earn more, he didn't have any problem for doing any kind of job as long as he could earn from it and that had led to him in this condition.
His last job was to make a slow-acting poison in the form of remedy for a rich businessman, when he started everything was going great until he met the person's daughter, Su Xu'er she was the most beautiful woman he had seen so he started to find opportunities to get close to her and with his various means he wanted to make her his, but those idiots who gave him the job thought that he had betrayed them so they told her everything and thus he was killed by her in her rage.
Just when he had thought that it was the end, he was brought into this world in the body of the guy named Knave, he was able to enter the body because the previous kid had died because of the brawl which had started after the mayor had come to the orphanage.
The mayor needed a boy to look after the herbal garden in his yard not only would he stay in the manor he would also be paid 30 coppers monthly in the beginning, so the person he wanted to select was to be determined in one month and the way was to pass the test set by the mayor, for this test the mayor had provided them with books to study from and the age limit was below 10, so because of this reason a kid who was at the age of 8 had his elder brother of 13 beats every other kid in his group so that he could win, but who would have thought that this would lead to a brawl and in it this kid got hit on the head and died.
    When he came to this world he came to know everything that the dead kid knew so, he took the kid's name for himself and from the memories, he came to know the language of this world and the previous world was not that different, so it took him only some time to memorize the herbal book, for the rest of the month he acted in a low key manner and slowly adapted to the custom of this world.
Today was the day when the mayor came for picking the servant, with his memory it was easy for him to pass and thus he was where he is now.

After sorting his thoughts of all this, he knew now he could finally start to learn about this world so as to know what advantages he had, as he was from the modern era and the way all the places and houses he looked while coming here he could tell that this looked more like the ancient era so his knowledge would come in handy so after thinking about the future, he gave voice to his thoughts
'Future?' 'Well! it feels good to be alive!'.