Great Ming: This Mountain Hunter Is Actually Yongle's Eldest Legitimate Grandson!

After transmigrating as four-year-old Zhu Chen, abandoned in a mass grave during the Jianwen era, he survived thanks to foster parents who found him. For eleven years, he hunted alone in the mountains to make a living. Then one day, he met an "Old Master Zhu" in the mountains, a man with peerless archery skills. They became unlikely friends, and the old man taught him archery by hand and gave him a three-shi strong bow, yet he was always lost in thought as he stared at the wolf-head pendant around Zhu Chen's waist.

When the old man wept and said, "My grandson has been missing for eleven years," Zhu Chen only smiled. What he didn't know was that in the Crown Prince's residence in Yingtian Prefecture, Zhu Gaochi was on his knees at the threshold, weeping for his son. The Yongle Emperor, Zhu Di, had ordered a search of the entire Embroidered Uniform Guard archive overnight, desperate to identify the pendant.

When assassins sent by the Prince of Han burst through the door with knives, Zhu Chen shot one through the chest, sending him flying out of the courtyard. Zhu Di strode over, bent down, and picked up the dead man's waist token. Cold light glinted in his eyes. "One of the second brother's men?" He then turned toward the courtyard and called out in a low voice that shook the whole street:

"Issue the decree. We've found the Crown Prince's heir. Within three days, I want him escorted back to the imperial city with the grandest procession."

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