Transmigrating into Wang Cheng'en to Prolong the Chongzhen Emperor's Life!

He transmigrates to the end of the Ming dynasty as Emperor Chongzhen’s personal eunuch. With the help of a System, he helps the emperor live longer and assists the Ming dynasty in reclaiming its strength.

On a bitter winter night, the words in the Compendium of Memorials from the Chongzhen Reign gradually blurred before Wang Hao’s eyes. The 36-year-old scholar, whose specialty was the history of the Ming dynasty’s fall, had spent 72 hours curled up among yellowing historical documents. The screen was frozen on a chilling record: “In the fourteenth year of the Chongzhen reign, the defeat at Songjin destroyed the Ming court’s last elite forces, and the defenses along the Nine Frontiers collapsed.”

As he shakily opened the Palace Museum’s high-resolution scan of the imperial edict found on the belt used by Chongzhen to hang himself, a sudden pain seized his heart. In his hallucination, a bright yellow sash swayed from a crooked tree on Coal Hill, while a sorrowful cry seemed to ring in his ears: “My ministers have failed me!”