Forest Xu dies in a last, lightning-broken moment that ended his life — and everything he tried to stop. Then he wakes up as a newborn in a sunlit valley, only to learn the impossible: his parents, his grandmother, even the ancient bully who ruined their old life have been reborn too. Worse, the one who once burned the world with him — a terrifying figure he stabbed through the heart to stop — is here again, living among the county’s dusty lanes... as a child. This is not an epic of instant power. It's a domestic, funny, and willful tale about making a family last through a second life, learning farming and old spells, bribing tree-spirits with apricot jam, and quietly keeping a future monster on a short leash. Forest's goals are simple: keep his family safe, grow a long and ordinary life, and—if possible—teach the reborn villain how to become human. Cozy village mornings, stubborn root-spirits, a village run by women and men who stitch for a living, and a boy who remembers the apocalypse: welcome to the Reborn Project. Stakes get higher when memory flickers, loyalties strain, and Forest must decide whether to guard, reform, or end what he once could only destroy.

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