"Well I guess I'll be making my way to heaven then…" only our beloved MC finds himself in the Chinese afterlife where he's received almost like royalty.
"Hey I think you guys got the wrong person. I'm Catholic and American."
"You're (MC's Name) who just got run over in the hospital parking lot are you not?"
"Yes that's me."
"No mistake then. You see we get first pick on all tragic and or ironic deaths. Also you have a lot of karma with us. Your daughter will invent some weird science version of cultivation and as her father you inherit a lot of those karmic ties."
"Dude I died even before she was born!"
"Exactly. Your daughter reasoned that if people were stronger then you'd never have died such a tragic death and to save others from growing up without their fathers she invented her system."
"Fine let me drink grandmas elixir or whatever that stuff is that makes one forget and get this over with."
"I'm sorry but you won't be drinking grandmas elixir."
"What? Why?"
"One of your heavens stipulations in releasing you to our system. I think they hope you'll spread Christianity in the world you'll soon be reincarnating into. Also the higher ups are preparing a 'system' for you and most 'system' holders are immune to grandmas elixir anyways so it'd do you no good."
"Can't I just go through the normal process? I don't want to live a life where I'm tormented by the knowledge that my wife and daughter are out there somewhere and that I can't be part of their lives."
"I'm sorry but we've already arranged everything. If you'd like to change things you'll have to become powerful enough to change the our system."
"We'll see about that…"
At this point an official walks over and hands our MC a glowing book. When he grabs the book it is absorbed into his soul.
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I need to do some research into Chinese reincarnation myths and really figure out how I want to portray the afterlife and reincarnation process.
Honestly the above outline could possibly be enough for two chapters but I think I'd like to keep it as one unless in the actual writing of said chapter it becomes so long that it needs to be split into two. I aim to have my chapters stay close to a 2,000 word count when they are all finished.
I also need to figure out what kind of system to give the MC. I'm thinking of making it OP but in a way that's frustrating to the MC.
The system that the MC gets will be dormant until after his rebirth and 'something' triggers it's activation.