Zhu Biao (protagonist): A transmigrator, formerly a modern office drone and Ming history enthusiast. His soul enters the ailing Crown Prince Zhu Biao in the tenth year of Hongwu.
On the surface, he is gentle, respectful, frugal, and refined, a persona maintained by the original Zhu Biao. At heart, he is rational and composed, cunning and decisive, a “system assassin” skilled in manipulating people and applying modern management theory. He is Zhu Yuanzhang’s “rebellious son” and everyone’s “eye of the storm.” By “opposing Zhu Yuanzhang with precision,” he triggers the 【Defy-the-Father, Extend-Life System】 and reshapes the Ming dynasty. Opposition is not the goal but the means; extending life is not the result but the motivation. He keeps teetering between courting death and actually dying.
