They say the Ming Dynasty had no shortage of bizarre emperors:
There was the cricket emperor, the gate-knocking emperor, the carpenter emperor... and even Taoist emperors obsessed with cultivating immortality.
Yet Chongzhen, the diligent emperor, ended up presiding over the dynasty's fall.
In the eighth month of the seventh year of the Tianqi reign,
Lin Fan, an older internet-addicted loser from the future and a dropout who slipped through nine years of compulsory education,
transmigrates into Chongzhen on the eve of his accession.
With over ten years of experience reading historical web novels, Lin Fan
knows that if he follows the original Chongzhen's path, he'll hang himself from a tree seventeen years later.
To avoid hanging himself, and to save the people of the Ming Dynasty from their dire plight,
the new Chongzhen decides to learn from the great predecessors, carrying on the bizarre tradition of neglecting his duties to the very end…
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
