My Dad Is Jiajing, and the System Forces Me to Revive the Great Ming

The moment he opens his eyes, Zhu Jie finds himself reborn as an invisible man in Ming Dynasty 1566: Zhu Zaizhen, the Jiajing Emperor's fourth son and Prince Jing.

In history, Prince Jing was a pawn his father used to keep his elder brother in check, a doomed figure who died young. In the TV series, he doesn't even get a single scene.

But now, everything is different.

He binds the "Great Ming Revival" System.

Zhu Zaizhen's opponents? They're all legendary heavyweights: his father, the "Cryptic Daoist" Jiajing, who seeks immortality through the Dao; Yan Shifan, the "weightlifting champion" bearing the burden of two capitals and thirteen provinces; and Zhao Zhenji, the "Teflon man" who always wants the common people to "suffer a little."

And what of his third brother, Prince Yu, the winner of the historical script?

Sorry, the director has changed, and so has the script.

Many years later, seeing an unprecedented surplus in the imperial treasury and an invincible fleet that swept away Japanese pirates and won glory across the South Seas, the Jiajing Emperor finally asks the ultimate riddle:

"Fourth Son, what is it you truly want?"

Zhu Zaizhen bows and answers:

"What your son seeks is for the people of Great Ming never to be told to 'suffer a little' again, and for the fate of Great Ming never again to depend on anyone's 'shoulders.'"

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