The Beginning After The End is a eulogy for the person you used to be. It is a story about how growing up twice means you get to make the same mistakes, but with better magic. It will make you cry over a dragon egg, cheer for a stoic king who learns to smile, and rage at a universe that keeps asking a broken man to be whole.

For Arthur Leywin, the answer is a heartbreaking "no." Because happiness requires vulnerability. And vulnerability is the one skill his past life never taught him.

Here is a grown man—a killer, a ruler, a soul corroded by loneliness—trapped in the body of a child. But unlike other reincarnation stories where the protagonist uses their mental age to charm adults or manipulate markets, Arthur is broken by it. He bonds with his new parents, Reynolds and Alice, not as a child, but as a man who finally understands what parental love is supposed to feel like.

Read it. But keep a tissue box nearby. Not for the action—for the moments when Arthur looks at his mother’s face and remembers that in his last life, no one ever looked at him that way.

The Beginning After The End (TBATE) by TurtleMe takes that blueprint, smiles warmly, and then uses it to burn your house down.