Great Ming: I Beat the Crown Prince Senseless. Am I Beyond Saving?

In the seventeenth year of the Hongzhi reign, Su Tian transmigrates into the past. After binding to the System and receiving a physical enhancement, he is told that the System will need half a year to update.

Planning to wait until the System finishes updating before considering a career in public service, Su Tian uses the knowledge he brought from his previous life to steadily amass wealth.

His family runs a breakfast shop, which is often visited by a father and son surnamed Zhu. The son is pugnacious and loves picking fights, but Su Tian beats him up every time.

The father, meanwhile, keeps asking about the art of governing and matters of people's livelihoods, or else he'll ask:

"What kind of person do you think the current emperor is?"

"The southwestern tribal chieftains rebel every year. Is there any way to deal with them?"

Su Tian gets angry. I'm a top student in both the sciences and the humanities. How am I supposed to have time to answer all these questions every day?

But just as the System finishes updating and Su Tian is thinking about how to make a name for himself,

Old Zhu quietly tells him, "I'm done pretending. I'm the emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.