A Poor Scholar in the Great Ming: From the Start, I Choose to Die Opposing the Hongwu Emperor

After transmigrating into the Hongwu era as a scholar dying of plague, Lin Xiao thinks he's somehow gotten the wrong script for his life. Who would have guessed that the God-Tier Choice System would activate, with its very first option demanding that he remonstrate with Zhu Yuanzhang at the cost of his life? He'd planned to quietly take the imperial exams, but now he's forced to bite the bullet and denounce the emperor's cruelty in open court, stunning the entire assembly! Yet before the Embroidered Uniform Guard can drag him away to be executed, his System reward arrives: Crown Prince Zhu Biao gives him a heartfelt thumbs-up! From then on, his fortunes soar, though he has no idea that an even greater crisis is quietly approaching at court…