Zhu Mingxuan, a modern history graduate student, unexpectedly transmigrated into the body of Zhu Zhanshan, the son of Prince Xiang Zhu Bai and the sixteenth-generation descendant of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. It was the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu. Currents ran beneath the court: Crown Prince Zhu Biao was dead, the newly appointed Crown Prince Zhu Yunwen had just taken his place, the princes' factions were growing stronger, and Zhu Yuanzhang's suspicions deepened in his old age. Struggling to adjust to his new identity in Prince Xiang's residence, Zhu Zhanshan used his modern knowledge to avoid early dangers and quietly observe the political landscape. His composure and insight, so unlike those of other children his age, caught Prince Xiang Zhu Bai's attention...