Great Ming: I Meet Zhu Yuanzhang, Only to Discover I’m a Lost Imperial Grandson

Zhu Dafu transmigrated to the Ming Dynasty with no money to his name and only twelve copper coins. By the Qinhuai River, he came across an old man weeping bitterly. Taking pity on him, Zhu Dafu bought him a sesame flatbread stuffed with chicken. The old man burst into tears on the spot: “You look so much like my son who died.”

Three days later, the Imperial Guards opened a coffin at Jiming Temple in the dead of night and found the corpse of a six-fingered infant inside. The midwife, eunuch, and monk from back then were all dragged into the palace. Their stories matched: the imperial grandson born to Crown Princess Consort Chang had five fingers on his right hand and two moles on his lower back, not six fingers!

And Zhu Dafu had a black mole on each side of his waist.

Zhu Yuanzhang finally confirmed it: this poor little cook, who could barely scrape by, was his true eldest legitimate grandson!

Even more absurdly, Zhu Dafu used cooking skills awarded by his System to open a tavern and drove Hongfa Restaurant out of business in three days. When Zhou Ji, son of Marquis Jiangxia, showed up with men to wreck the place, he saw Zhu Yuanzhang sitting inside and immediately fell to his knees, wetting himself.

Zhu Yuanzhang then sent Xie Jin to investigate. Zhu Dafu recited the Doctrine of the Mean backward without hesitation, stunning even the Hanlin academician.

Old Zhu was completely dumbfounded: “Our grandson was lost among the common folk for seventeen years, and somehow turned out ten times better than the ones raised in the palace!”

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