Reignition

Rebirth of the Urban Immortal Cultivator, written by the web novelist Orleans Roasted Sturgeon, is an urban rebirth novel first serialized on Qidian.com. Spanning approximately 2.29 million Chinese characters and over 700 chapters, it was completed in February 2020. The protagonist, Cheng Ran, dies from overwork in his previous life and wakes up to find himself back in a middle school era that resembles his memories but is not entirely the same—the city is called Shanhai, and while some familiar faces remain, others have never appeared in this world. When his snobbish and petty homeroom teacher Li Zhan publicly humiliates him in class, he draws on memories from the future to expose the teacher's past in front of everyone and makes a bet that he will test into the top provincial key high school, No. 1 Middle School. From then on, Cheng Ran throws himself into making up for lost time and preparing for the high school and college entrance exams, while also reexamining the people around him—his parents, his deskmate Yu Xiao, his childhood sweetheart Yang Xia, and Jiang Hongzhuo, among others. He finds ways to help his father through a career crisis, offers development ideas ahead of their time, and attempts to start a business outside of school. Using rebirth as its framework, the novel depicts a young person's growth along two tracks—campus and business—with a light, humorous tone and solid, vivid everyday details. It has been called one of the representative works that "writes sentiment through the wish-fulfillment genre" and was selected for the 2019 Sichuan Online Novel Rankings in the completed works category.