In the sixth year of the Tianqi era, a modern soul unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of the gravely ill carpenter-emperor Zhu Youxiao.
At the time, Wei Zhongxian holds sway over the court, the Donglin faction attacks with their pens, the Jurchen cavalry threatens the borders, and the fall of the dynasty is just around the corner.
Armed with four centuries of accumulated civilization, how will he reshape the realm with modern thinking?
As modern ideas shatter a rotten system, industrial power clashes head-on with feudal scholars wielding their pens like blades, and the sparks of reform face the stubborn strangulation of the old guard, the wheels of history abruptly change course.
Every straight line snapped by a carpenter’s ink line cuts fiercely into the feudal order; every breakthrough in reform echoes the collision of civilizations across time.
Can the flame of civilization from four hundred years in the future ignite the fire of rebirth in a declining empire?
Standing at the edge of history, can this “Carpenter Emperor” defy fate and accomplish the impossible?
