The Salvage Sovereign

Shen Raku died at twenty-two — torn apart by monsters on the front lines, forgotten by the world that sent him there. He wakes up at eighteen, three days before the martial arts entrance exam, with the memory of his own death burned into his skull. And something else: the Remnant Eye. An ability born from the sheer force of his dying regret, it lets him see the Origin Blueprint of anything damaged or discarded — the ideal form it was meant to reach. A rusty junk sword is actually a degraded legendary blade. A torn skill page holds a complete saint-tier technique. A crushed herb can become a god-grade elixir. Shen can restore anything to its peak — or push it beyond, evolving trash into treasure. But every restoration shows him the object's violent history, and the foreign memories are piling up. His father is dying from a destroyed martial foundation. His ex-fiancee's family wants him dead. The beast tide that killed him last time is coming faster now — and it might be his fault. In a world of martial arts universities, clan warfare, and apocalyptic monster invasions, the boy everyone called garbage just became the most dangerous appraiser alive.