Uncovering the Emperors' Deaths: The Emperors Start Competing to Be the Worst

Across the fourteen dynasties of China's history, from the Spring and Autumn period through the Warring States period, Qin Zhao gets the System from the start and earns rewards by reviewing how emperors died.

The First Emperor of Great Qin, Ying Zheng: "I began the unification of all under heaven. What? I died suddenly, and someone even dumped a load of stinking salted fish on me after I was dead?"

Emperor Yang of Sui, Yang Guang: "I actually died in a rebel mutiny? Is the Great Sui going to meet the same fate as Great Qin and fall after just two generations?"

Li Shimin of Great Tang: "I rose up at the end of the Sui, fought across the land, and was invincible. Yet in the end, I died from taking pills..."

Emperor Taizu of Song, Zhao Kuangyin: "What a fine case of 'the sound of an axe and shadows by candlelight'! My dear younger brother, you and I had a drink together, and you simply made me drink myself to death?"

The Hongwu Emperor of Great Ming: "I rose from humble beginnings to become an emperor for the ages who conquered the land from south to north. Hmm? In the end, I died of exhaustion after overworking myself? That's not so bad."

Emperor Chongzhen followed close behind, shouting, "I actually died hanging from a crooked tree? Ancestors, save me! I don't accept this, I don't accept this!"

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.