The Lost Tea Inheritance

Shen Huan wakes up knowing exactly how he died the first time, and that memory makes every insult hurt twice. He is stuck in a righteous school that would praise his talent if it knew the truth, but his power comes from the one place he can never let them inspect. A dead mentor's talisman strip, a sealed status crystal in his jacket, and a missing tea box hidden at his belt give him a strange edge, and his gift lets him feel the emotional weight of every room he enters. That means every hall, cell, and training yard tells him what happened there before he speaks. Huan keeps his head down while he hides a dark core, studies flaws in other people's methods, and survives the kind of public sham...