An unpleasant trip to Mount Emei sends Zhu Zhansi, an older real-estate salesman, from the modern day to the Chongzhen era of the Ming dynasty, beset by natural disasters and man-made calamities at home and threatened by the Jurchens abroad. He becomes Zhu Zhansi, heir to the Shu Prince's title. Determined to avoid the same fate as his adoptive father, who took his own life by jumping into a well, and to keep this vast Han realm from falling into foreign hands and plunging all of China into misery, he rises to fight, resolved to restore the glory of the Ming dynasty.
