Kongming Transmigrates into Chongzhen: The Ming Dynasty Rises Again

In 234 AD, autumn winds swept across Wuzhang Plains. Zhuge Liang, Chancellor of Shu Han, breathed his last during a ritual to prolong his life with the Seven Star Lamp. A strand of his loyal spirit, its single-minded resolve undimmed, carried the unfinished mandate to “restore the Han” and all the wisdom of his lifetime across a thousand years of history. At the most perilous moment of the Ming dynasty, on the first day of the third month of the seventeenth year of the Chongzhen reign, just eighteen days before Beijing would fall, it merged with his body. From then on, the body of Zhu Youjian, the sixteenth emperor of the Great Ming, housed the soul of Zhuge Kongming, the peerless chancellor of the ages.