Great Ming: Xiongying Slays the Assassins

He transmigrates as Zhu Xiongying, the eldest legitimate grandson of the Ming dynasty’s founding emperor, just as the year of his death arrives in the historical records. At his sickbed, his grandfather, Zhu Yuanzhang, watches with a piercing gaze; his father, Zhu Biao, is overcome with worry; and the medicine brought by palace attendants conceals a deadly plot. In the most exalted and dangerous palace in the realm, an eight-year-old body houses a modern soul. He must escape the early death written into history and find a way to survive amid imperial suspicion and palace intrigue. When, in the body of a child, he declares on the training ground, “An empire is built on arms, but it rests just as much on the people’s livelihood,” the course of the entire Ming dynasty quietly begins to shift...