Transmigration: I Saved Chongzhen from the Start, but He Wants Me to Be Emperor?

In the sixteenth year of Chongzhen's reign, a great drought ravaged the land.

In the twenty-first year of Guangxu's reign, the Beiyang Fleet was completely wiped out.

By a twist of fate, after Zhu Tian, a sailor in the Beiyang Fleet, died in battle, he was reborn in the Chongzhen era, 350 years earlier.

His first mission after awakening the System is to rescue the emperor?

"This is a keepsake from my father. They say it's been passed down through our family. You say it's jade? It looks like a rock to me."

"That's what your father told you? This jade was left by the founding emperor of this dynasty for the Jianwen Emperor! Every emperor of this dynasty knows the story."

"Back then, the Yongle Emperor seized the throne from the Jianwen Emperor. This dynasty deserves the calamity it faces today. Now that the rightful ruler has returned, I shall support him!"

What? I'm a descendant of the Jianwen Emperor? And he wants me to be emperor?

Zhu Tian felt the world spinning around him. He had studied history in his previous life. In the Southern Ming, whoever becomes emperor is doomed to die!

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