6 Reincarnated

I open my eyes and feel a heavy headache striking my head. It's like I've slept for a very long time and my body feels stiff and aching in every place.

"Where is this? What is this place? What happens to me? Why I use this strange dress?"

Series of questions flooding my minds since the place I just awaken is very different from any places I remember when I'm alive. Huh? When I'm alive? Faintly the memory, when I saw my head chopped from my neck, appears in my mind. Yes, I remember now. I was dead in Dining chamber of Shi Kingdom in the blade of royal guard's sword. Unconsciously my hand touches my neck. Oh, my head still there on my neck, I can feel the heartbeat in my chest. Did I live again?

Wait, this is not my hand. Whose hand is this?

Suddenly a flood of information entering my brain answering all my questions before. Both my hands hold my head to keep my head that feels like almost exploding from so much information coming in such a short time. I try to digest this information flood bit by bit start with the owner of this body.

The previous owner of this body is actually a man with the name similar with me, You Ben. His age is 25 years old also the same age as when I die. He works as a restaurant owner and the chef in the restaurant. His restaurant quite popular in this He Xing City, because the price is affordable and the food tastes good. What makes me can inherit from his body, is because the previous owner of this body dies. He dies in a miserable way after what happened with his restaurant. It all starts when a chain restaurant group want to acquisition his restaurant and put the restaurant under their group. The owner refused because the reputation of this chain restaurant is not good. They often use the low-grade ingredient for their food and put an expensive price on their menu. The reason this chain restaurant still can operate despite all its bad reputation, that because the chain restaurant is part of a big conglomerates company.

This chain restaurant is running by Bao Family and the big company that is their backer is owned by Hong Family. Bao! Hong! Those two names suddenly incite the rage in my heart. I remember their conversation before darkness shrouded me. It's seemed those bad genes inherited from their ancestor.

I clenched my fist. It seems in this world, the current You Ben also become their victim. I start digging further the memories of the previous owner. After the previous owner refusal, troubles keep coming to his restaurant. Start with supplier no longer send ingredient to his restaurant, critics write bad reviews about his restaurant, thugs that make a mess in his restaurant, dog shits that throws in front of his restaurant, health inspector that force temporary shutdown by unhygienic reason make one by one his customer no longer coming to his restaurant.

This series of the unfortunate event make the previous You Ben depressed and turn to alcohol as his escape. His wife asks for a divorce after his restaurant become run down which make him more depressed. Finally, in the night when he dies, he drinks many alcohol and sleeping pills which bring him to his death, and make me, the ancient You Ben, inherit his body.

I sighed and look around my surrounding. It seems the previous You Ben decide to end his life in his precious restaurant. Maybe to make that chain restaurant withdraw their intention to take over his restaurant, he chooses to die here. Well, if someone dies in a certain place, the selling value of that place will decrease, especially if the one who dies is not dead in a normal way. I look around the restaurant, in one of the wall, there's painting of the previous owner with a woman. No, this is not painting, this called portrait in this world. I look carefully at the woman picture, she does not resemble my wife Ming Mei, it seems in this world, previous You Ben married the wrong woman, who can't be lived together is poor and riches. Because when her husband business down, she chose to divorce him.

Ming Mei. When I remember her, my heart feels aching. I remember her last words before she dies,

"Ben ben…sorry…I can't…be with you …anymore"

Ming Er, where are you now? Are you also reborn in this world or are you live peacefully in heaven? Unconsciously, tears start flowing from my eyes. My lovely wife, my unborn child, can I have them again in this second life?